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EDWINA’S CALL TO ACTION
Edwina Hart set out her radical, powerful vision for Wales, at her Labour Leadership campaign launch today in Cardiff. As a Minister she says she has already made a real difference to the lives of the people of Wales since devolution began.
“I feel I have already proved myself as a woman of action and ideas in Labour governments and the union movement. As First Minister I would continue to deliver and get things done. As people know, I’m someone who is prepared to roll up my sleeves and get on with it.”
Three major achievements in her career as Finance Minister, Social Justice Minister and Health Minister have proved this:
· Removing the internal market in the health service
· Setting up Communities First to revitalise disadvantaged areas
· Setting up the Post Office Development Fund, protecting vital services in the most disadvantaged communities in Wales
There are many other achievements, but Edwina wants to build on them with a radical new agenda for her party and Wales. In her manifesto, which combines the personal and the political, Edwina has laid out a powerful vision.
This includes:
· Public service reform, ‘Voice not Choice' - how to deliver publicly funded services the 'Welsh Way', with the voice of the Citizen at its heart
· The setting up of special public service improvement bodies to develop leadership, innovation and the interchange of ideas and workers between the various public services in Wales
· Reforming the way the Welsh Assembly is funded by Westminster so that the Welsh block grant is based on need
· Supporting further powers for the Assembly following a successful referendum campaign
· Tackling child poverty and youth unemployment through improved strategies
· Establishing a Citizens’ Bank to make sure that access to finance is available to individuals, groups and enterprises
· Explaining why we can't afford another “lost generation”
· Developing further the work of the Climate Change Commission
· Reviving Welsh Labour from top to bottom
· Working flat out for Labour in the General Election and a majority in the next Assembly elections
18 October 2009
