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Welsh Affairs

I am just being objective and honest and telling the truth according to what I heard and saw with my own eyes, which is what we all know to be the reality. What is more, at a crucial time when bids were being made, the president of Plaid Cymru not only failed to support the bid, but undermined it. On 29 November last year in a BBC Wales radio interview, Dafydd Iwan said categorically that he was against a military presence in Wales. If that is not undermining the defence training rationalisation programme bid, what is? That speaks volumes. It tells us exactly where Plaid Cymru really stands on the defence of this country and defence investment in Wales. At the election on 3 May, the people of Wales will have the facts before them. They will know that the Labour party in government in Cardiff and in London is transforming the Welsh economy. They will realise that although the work has begun, there is much to do, and I believe that they will look at our record and come to an objective decision about what is the best way forward. I have no doubt that when the people of Wales have a clear choice between a rag-tag coalition made up of odds and sods of the Opposition parties, or a Labour Administration with coherent policies and a vision for the future, they will vote Labour.