8. Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:14 pm on 26 January 2022.

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Look at the evidence as a whole, at the Tory Government's action on the whole. They want to restrict protest, they want to strip people of citizenship without providing any justification. They want to stop our courts from quashing secondary legislation that is incompatible with human rights. They want to tackle so-called 'rights inflation'—that's too much human rights, to you and me. They want to restrict the right to a judicial review of public body decisions. They want to defund the BBC and, through that, our beloved S4C. And they want to make it harder for people to vote. The Conservatives today would still arrest the Chartists and the Suffragettes for being too noisy in their protest. My grandmother would still go to jail for protesting for S4C and Welsh language rights. They would have stopped my father from travelling on his motorbike from Cardiff to create as much mayhem and noise as possible during the shameful opening ceremony of the Tryweryn dam.