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Plaid Cymru unveils plans
Tuesday 13th April 2010, 9:36AM BST.
Plaid Cymru pledged to protect society’s most vulnerable people and protect front-line services from cuts in public spending when it unveiled its manifesto today.
The nationalists, who go into the election with three of Wales’s 40 seats, said they were campaigning on a platform that “reflects the conscience, values and priorities of the people of Wales”.
Plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones, Wales’s Deputy First Minister, said his party would prioritise the needs of Welsh families and communities. Priority areas would be to:
l Tackle the deficit by ending “unnecessary” government spending on ID cards and replacing the Trident nuclear deterrent; raise taxes for the very wealthy and close loopholes; separate high street banks from investment operations to stop a repeat of the financial crisis.
- Negotiate increased funding for Wales’s devolved budget.
- Nurture home-grown businesses with a special venture capital fund.
- Introduce a “living pension”, starting with the over-80s, by replacing pension credits and entitling a single person to an increased basic pension of at least £130 a week and couples to £202 a week.
- Develop an environmental action plan, including bringing high-speed electrified railways to Wales.
- Call on any new government to honour the Welsh Assembly’s request for a referendum on devolving primary law-making powers.
- Bring troops home from Afghanistan.
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