Letters: Wales has been betrayed by Westminster

Woeful Wales

Sir: Allison Pearson succinctly points out the absurdity of the so-called Welsh government and its assembly, now trying to masquerade as a parliament (‘Wales of grief’, 31 October).

For those of us living in Wales it is difficult to talk of the Welsh Assembly without using the F-word: failure. For the past 20 years it has failed the Welsh people at every conceivable level, while building a conceit that it is a true government. The only irony of the current Covid-19 debacle is that for once it has been forced to actually do something instead of talking endlessly around a subject before doing nothing. I have described its failure as the Sadim effect. This is the same as the Midas touch except in reverse: everything of value in Wales that it has interfered with has been reduced in value to the Welsh people.

We have also been betrayed over the past ten years by consecutive Conservative governments in Westminster that have failed to take action on behalf of Wales.