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Legislative Programme and Budget Statement (Wales)

That is an obvious example of what can go wrong when politics becomes mixed up with policing. We can think of American examples and there is the question of priorities, as the hon. Member for Swansea West rightly said. I sincerely hope that the Government will pause and think about the way forward, and ensure that we do not go down that road in the interests of us all. We can build on the green agenda put forward by the Government, and it would be useful to do so. As for high-speed railways, unfortunately we are not likely to have electrification of the line from the border across Wales. When things improve in the medium term, I hope that we shall have electrification of the south Wales main line as well as the line in north Wales. It is absolutely bizarre in this day and age that a country does not have some electrified lines, which unfortunately is the position in Wales.