Wales Air Service
Yesterday in the debate on transport initiated by Plaid Cymru, we were supportive of the Plaid Cymru motion and also voted for various amendments that were put down by the Liberal Democrats.
One amendment which didn’t seem to find favour with Plaid Cymru or with the Labour Welsh Assembly government concerned the North/South air service. My own view of this is that it is going to cost an enormous amount of money for little benefit, and given the environmental concerns of flights these days, I would have thought that the money could be more wisely spent on improving public transport in terms particularly of rail improvements.
I know that Peter Hain has been very much in favour of this on the Labour side, but I can’t find anyone else on the Labour side who seems to be speaking up vociferously for it, and yet they opposed this, seemingly to me, sensible amendment. Is Peter Hain calling the shots?
