Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:48 pm on 8 November 2016.
I cannot stand here in all seriousness and listen to a man with his history lecture me about standing up for working people. This is somebody who sat there in Parliament in the 1980s and waved through the greatest act of industrial vandalism that the UK has ever seen: the destruction of jobs in the steel industry, the erosion of the coal industry, communities having their livelihoods destroyed by a Government that did not care. The enemy within—the enemy within—is what the party opposite called the very working people of south Wales and the United Kingdom. We stand up for working people. We stand up for energy sources that are safe and we will continue to make sure, first of all, that people don’t forget what the parties opposite did to them in the 1980s and we will continue to ensure that people have jobs, they have secure energy and fairness, replacing what the parties opposite took away from them.