Although we are doing our best for the people of Wales in this Senedd, the failure to integrate policy decisions and fiscal decisions at the highest level has prevented real transformational change. In the context of railways, transport may be devolved for Wales, but whilst Westminster still holds the power for rail infrastructure, we will continue to suffer underfunding of billions of pounds, and a lack of investment in any new infrastructure, in any single piece of new track. I couldn’t put it better than what’s contained within the annual report:

'In Wales, we know best what works for Wales.'

But when we get the priorities right, we don’t necessarily have the powers to deliver. We want to safeguard workers. The UK Government wants to revoke the Trade Union (Wales) Act 2017. We are funding support for our friends from Ukraine. We are innovative in welcoming refugees. The UK Government is taking money without asking towards military aid. I'm not making a comment on what that money's being spent on, but the fact that it is being taken without consultation from health budgets, education budgets and climate change budgets, when Welsh taxes have already contributed to the UK's defence spending. 

We want to innovate in renewable energy, but Westminster Ministers deny us the ability to use our natural resources to generate revenue by devolving the Crown Estate, something that they have done in Scotland. And despite a clear pledge from the Prime Minister that Wales wouldn't be a penny worse off in leaving the European Union, the UK Government is pocketing £1 billion of funding that should have come to Wales. The more the Westminster Government breaks its promises, the more it destroys the United Kingdom, but likewise, the longer the Welsh Labour Government denies that, the further Wales will be left behind in whatever remnants of the UK remain.