Zoomchat with Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales - Wednesday 30th April, 2.30pm

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Hi all,

We’re pleased to announce a Mumsnet Asks Zoomchat with First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan MS on Wednesday 30th April at 2.30pm. Please post your questions below, and we’ll put a selection to the First Minister via Zoom.

You’ll be able to watch live by registering here but we’ll also be recording so you can catch up if you can’t make it. We won’t be able to take questions during the chat so please do make sure you post on the thread if there’s something you’d like to ask. We’ll be closing the thread to questions on Tuesday.

If you join the Zoomchat, your camera will be turned off by default. Your screen name might be visible, so consider whether you’re happy to use your real name or want to use your MN posting name - or something else entirely.

Please stick to the usual guidelines - one question per user, keep it civil, and if one topic is dominating, please don't continue to post what's effectively the same question or point (we'll be deleting questions that are repeated multiple times). We'll be limited for time so do keep questions as short as possible so that we’re able to ask more of them - as always, we'll try to make sure we cover the topics that we know are important to Mumsnet users.

Thanks,
MNHQ

tbf a wet dishcloth has more presence and charisma than drakeford

@tanstaafl that does seem an insane stat to me, also not sure exactly how it would be counted tbh. I can't think of many of my family or friends who would have monthly contact with the NHS and it seems weird nearly everyone I know would be an outlier

even if it is being defined very loosely, e.g. anytime someone gets a repeat prescription (such as the pill or hayfever tablets) or a dentist appt or gives blood that still seems too high.

@Ritasueandbobtoo9 I do feel that, particularly since the pandemic, Wales has followed Scotland in basing their policy decision making on = whatever England are doing, we'll do something different...

It will be interesting to see what they blame now the favourite excuse of 'the nasty conservative govt not giving us the money' isn't available.

Yes, a lot of doing something different for the sake of it. Some of the things she championed at the end like Higher threshold funding in Wales for care and limits on £100 per week contribution are breaking local councils. There will be no services except social services soon because of it. That’s why arts and culture are decimated. When I was young there were youth clubs in every village, you could learn music for free for at least a year and the roads didn’t have pot holes. You could park for free in towns and the towns were thriving. Now nothing is free, you pay to park in towns with very little to do in them, no youth clubs and leisure centres cost a fortune. 22 years of labour and Wales is worse off but never mind we can create more MS politicians and spend £££ on waving the Draig Coch!