No, I won’t, thank you, Joyce.

The ultimate woolly aspiration—your promise to hold a wider conversation about local government reform. So, are you saying that, despite the months of effort, and tonnes of wordage produced by the Williams Commission, and the First Minister personally championing local government reform in the last Assembly, this new programme for government firmly places local government, their elected representatives, the officers and the thousands of people involved in delivering services throughout Wales in limbo land?

I’ve mentioned the lack of vision, I’ve mentioned the woolly aspirations, I’ve mentioned the conflicts in policy and I’ve mentioned the endless fudging. So, let me finally touch upon the great con. The Welsh Government plan to drive forward investment, innovation and the creation of new jobs by providing more support for businesses, including a tax cut—a tax cut that is really a promise to keep the current business rate scheme for a further year; a scheme which could ultimately result in the uniform business rate in Wales increasing by 10 per cent as a result of next year’s rvaluation.

In fact, David Melding touched upon another area—housing—where one statement appears to mean something entirely different. When I went to school, I have to say that the word ‘additional’ in the context you use it in your document meant ‘extra’. Obviously not here in Wales.

Leader of the house, you, your colleagues and your teams have had plenty of time to plan where you want to go. You’ve had 146 days. You’ve got thousands of civil servants plus the endless promises in your manifesto, not to mention, Gareth Bennett, the much-vaunted and into-oblivion delivery unit. And yet we have a document that you, First Minister, try to defend as a strategic road map, which doesn’t even mention the Brexit landslide that could block your way. I do find it astonishing that there’s no mention of how you intend to tackle this issue, one that has to be the most important facing us today. I cannot help but wonder if your programme for government document is shaped because in May 2021, we, the Welsh people, business leaders and civic society will be able to challenge and hold your performance to account—because it is almost impossible to evaluate that which you cannot read about, that which you cannot measure and that which is not being implemented.