It doesn't surprise me one bit that Labour MPs are today moaning about the amount of LCOs that we are asking the Welsh Affairs Committee at Westminster to scrutinise.
David Cornock reports that they have sent a memo to Paul Murphy requesting that we limit what we do to 5 LCOs a year, and that the LCOs are not so broad( specifically referring to the ensuing Welsh Language LCO, no doubt). The cheek! Surely if more of them attended the meetings in the first place they could catch up with the efforts that we put into legislation at the Assembly?
We work really hard on any of the legislation proposals coming forward- I know this from sitting on the Mental Health LCO committee.
Stop complaining, stop trying to get out of doing the work, and get on with it is my message to Labour MPs. After all, it is your system to defend. If you don't like it,then campaign with us for a Parliament so that we can do all the work in Wales.There will be nothing to complain about then....
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It occurred to me that the Plaid group could condemn the whole unworkable system of LCOs. I don't know who dreamed up the idea but inevitably it causes problems in the speed and efficiency of getting Welsh laws enacted and ratified. I don't know if this was the hidden intention, but it works against devolution and not with it.
The answer is undoubtedly a Welsh Parliament and Labour should understand this and if not Plaid should confront them with some cogent arguments.
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