POWERS ON THE CONSTITUTION
Over the last week the position of powers for the National Assembly has loomed large.
Barry Morgan, the Archbishop of Wales, whom I greatly respect and like, has entered into the fray. I must say I do share the views of some that Barry is possibly overstepping the mark in speaking as Archbishop on these issues. Clearly he can have a view but it shouldn’t be a view from the pulpit as it were.
That said, I do tend to agree with his analysis that the position that we have got at the moment is untenable. It may not be a constitutional mess but Wales is being treated as if it isn’t to be trusted with these extra powers as if we are some far flung colony that can’t be allowed to put forward our own measure on recycling or mental health or whatever the topic is. The present process is a very time consuming one and I think that sooner or later we are going to have to come back to the basic choice offered by the Richard Commission.
I strongly suspect, as time goes on and the polls seem to bear this out, it will be an incoming Conservative government that has to sort out the constitutional future of Wales and the ‘English question’.
