Vaughan Gething’s impending nightmare and why child poverty in Wales will never be fixed
We don't even measure child poverty correctly, how can we hope to abolish it?
Hello!
This is the first of two scheduled newsletters as I am away on leave. If something crazy has happened in the last seven days please forgive the omission.
In this email I am going to break down the huge obstacle facing Vaughan Gething as he tries to become Welsh Labour leader and First Minister (spoiler, it is his previous actions) and then will look into why Wales’ child poverty problem is not likely to be solved any time soon.
Vaughan Gething did not have a good pandemic
Though Mr Gething is basing a lot of his leadership campaign around the idea that he was at the sharp end during Covid and is therefore experienced, he had a poor pandemic. Not the most important thing but probably the most memorable was the fact he never managed to master Zoom.
Twice he failed to turn his mic off and was heard laying into fellow Labour members.
The first was when he was heard swearing about Jenny Rathbone (a response I suspect some of her colleagues and constituents can sympathise with):
The second was when he said that Aberavon Senedd member David Rees had asked a “ridiculous question”:
Vaughan Gething’s upcoming nightmare