Not so long ago, Cardiff's Labour council closed my local youth centre. So, now, if you walk around my area, you'll see—[Interruption.] Some people to my right in the Labour group are actually laughing at that statement, which is shameful. If you come—. I'll declare an interest; I'm a Cardiff councillor. If you walk around my community, you will now see youngsters out on the streets when at other times, previously, they would have found themselves in the youth centre, which the Labour Party closed.

If you walk around the city centre, you will see more and more homeless people—more and more. The administration of which I was a deputy leader introduced taxi marshals because of the number of flashpoints and violent confrontations that arise out of disputes over taxi ranks. We hear, this week, that in this city now, taxi marshals will be abolished. The city centre will therefore be a less safe place, and it's going to be particularly difficult for differently abled people to catch taxis, and they already have a very, very difficult time.

Services are more and more squeezed, and what's on offer? More of the same. More of the same—year in, year out. Local government is not respected enough, and it's certainly not funded enough. I look at these debates in this Chamber. I look at how the Government's spending its money. The black routes, making consultants wealthy, almost, with the number employed. The waste from this Government is, and has been, enormous. And yet, councils will suffer.

We won't let councils completely off the hook, because if you look at many of the councils in Wales, they pay huge salaries in excess of £100,000 to officials. Look at commissioners in Wales. The well-being of future generations, for example. That whole department spends millions. On what? I don't think anybody really knows. And there's a whole drive of outsourcing from the Labour Party—especially to private charities—who will not fund local government, with democratically accountable councillors. Every single year. Every single year, this Government condemns councils up and down Wales, and it simply isn't right.