Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:42 pm on 17 January 2017.
It is odious—I use that word again—to suggest that those people who are dealing with autism and who are dealing with and caring for those people with autism should be set against people who want to have their rights as workers. Isn’t it typical that the Tories’ attitude, as it always has been, is, ‘Set people against each other. Divide and rule.’ We will do all that we can to help those people with autism and those people caring for people with autism. We’ve done that through previous legislation. We have done that through the funding we have put in place. We haven’t cut social services spending by 6 per cent as he has and his party has in London. Delayed transfers of care—up in England, and the disaster of the NHS in England at the moment were all caused by a lack of spending on social services. I make no apology at all for standing up for the rights of workers in Wales and their representatives, and if he doesn’t like that, he can go and explain to voters in Wales why he wants people to be in a position where they no longer have the ability to exercise their democratic right to strike. He yaps away, doesn’t he? He yaps away like an untrained dog in the back of the Chamber there—