Plaid Cymru leader in the Welsh Assembly, Ieuan Wyn Jones, has attracted considerable ridicule by “pledging to spend an extra £20bn a year on providing a ‘living pension’, as the party focuses on the general election”.
The problem, of course, is that Plaid are not going to win the next general election, unless they have plans of which I am unaware to put forward candidates in seats such as Orpington, York Outer and Glasgow Pollok and seek to persuade voters there that it would be in their interests to vote for a Welsh separatist party. Even then, it would be a bit of a tall order.
If Mr Wyn Jones had said that in the event of a hung parliament, Plaid Cymru would require an increase in the state pension as a quid pro quo for supporting the governing party, people might have listened to him.
As it stands, however, he has simply made a twit of himself.
I fear it is you that has made a fool out of yourself. There is nothing wrong with a politician that wants to change the system and help out those most vulnerable in society. Get over your snobbery self.
You don’t mention if you agree with him or not…..Do you believe in a ‘living pension’? Or do you wish to forget abour the poorer people in society? I suppose your beloved leader with £30m in the bank wouldn’t know the first thing about poverty or working all his life and not having enough to get by after he’s 65.