For many, deep in the Valleys of South Wales, poverty is the grim reality of daily life.
Utility bills rise, school transport is cut, shops in the high-street close down and inflation bites. Austerity has done a lot to decimate the coalfields of Wales, leaving the population reeling in it’s wake.
These people are scared, poor, confused and unsure how to dig themselves out of this hole. Snake oil salesmen like Nigel Farage have opportunistically seized this shared plight in an attempt to elevate themselves materially and politically.
Absolutely - I think it would go some way towards building back the trust that has been lost with politicians in Wales. Unfortunately, though, I think that alone won’t be enough to bring people back into the fold, so to speak.
We need greater communication, easier to understand bills and political action, and I would imagine it would also help if we had some kind of legitimately progressive innovation in Welsh Government. We’ve been stagnating for years now, simply ‘un-doing’ whatever disastrous things the dreaded ‘Past governments’ did, is no longer enough.