Welsh Labour is doomed

Adam James Pollock has an interesting Critic piece on the Senedd election on 7 May and a strong possibility that it will be disastrous for Welsh Labour. 


Welsh Labour is doomed

New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance

Last Thursday, Nigel Farage and the Leader of Reform UK Wales, Dan Thomas, took to the stage in Newport to launch the party’s Welsh manifesto ahead of the Senedd elections on 7 May.

The manifesto outlines policies tailored specifically to Welsh people, from a commitment to building specific motorway relief roads and fixing crumbling expressways, to ensuring that Welsh men and women are prioritised for social housing.

While Reform UK are campaigning in the hope to win the Senedd, Farage has been open about the fact that the Welsh campaign is about more than that. Speaking at the manifesto launch, he said the Senedd election “doubles up as a referendum on Keir Starmer’s premiership”, who has been “the worst Prime Minister any of us have seen in our lifetimes.”

The whole piece is well worth reading because -


The Labour Party does not exude stability anywhere, but perhaps least of all in Wales. It is difficult to say whether or not Reform will win at the Senedd; if polling is anything to go by, they will not. But if there is anything to be certain of, it is that Labour will lose. The extent of their losses, not just in Wales but across the other elections on the same day, could well spell the end of the Starmer premiership. It has been a long time coming.