Wales can be better. Small EFTA countries like Iceland, Switzerland, Norway, even tiny Lichtenstein, are some of the world’s most prosperous. Inside the EU, Luxembourg, Ireland and Slovenia outperform Wales for income. Slovakia and the Baltics match Wales but are faster growing. Given the substantial intellectual and industrial capital Wales still has, this is dismal performance. Wales has had socialist rule for 100 years. Red-Green parties promise more socialism. Statist Reform even plans to return to the industrial policies of Tony Benn.
Wales is a net exporter of goods. Our services exports such as education, tourism and software are more like goods than financial services. They are just as suppressed by exchange and interest rates designed for London to invest overseas. We will prosper when independent.
I went to school in Builth Wells and Brecon. I served an engineering apprenticeship and gained degrees in Engineering Science and Management Science. After a few years in Power Engineering mostly for nuclear, I worked on new product development, mostly managing Research and Development in electronic materials. I sometimes found the chance to work in Industrial South Wales at Pontarddulais and Brynmawr but opportunity in Wales is scarce, not just in rural areas. For the last 30 years I have run my own consultancy on Innovation and Trade which I moved from Cambridge to Wales. A project to review 120 inventions from the Russian Academy of Sciences led to a focus on trade with Russia with clients from across the world. I can provide a much higher level of insight into industry, exportable services and trade than a typical Senedd candidate. I can help Wales to be rich with the resources to build a modern welfare state.
I joined Gwlad as Brexit made it clear that the UK economy was going to be managed for the benefit of the City of London.
You can’t have more than one priority.
Gwlad has one. Make Wales prosperous.
Building prosperity means a focus on:
- Infrastructure,
- skills,
- investment,
- building the tax base,
- a rational energy strategy (no more on shore wind turbines),
- ending the patronage and profusion in the Governance of Wales, not just in the Senedd but in the councils, health boards and other public bodies. Better run public services allow a focus on growth.
Wales can be better. A vote for Gwlad is a signal that you want improvement.
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2 thoughts on “Philip to fight Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd”
‘Pob lwc Phil’. Good luck Phillip for GWLAD. We desperately need someone like you in the Senedd to sort out the fantasy Milliband type Wind Energy Policies that link old Labour and new Plaid Cymru in bondage – all Wind and fantasy.
Diolch Ioan