I welcome the increase in the hourly minimum wage that will benefit 50,000 people in Wales including low paid workers in Arfon. I also challenge opposition parties to support the rise.
I am also pleased to see Labour delivering more fairness and real benefits to ordinary workers in Arfon. It is especially important that two thirds of the workers benefiting from this rise in Wales will be women, often holding down part-time jobs whilst grappling with family demands.
Yet I know that on the critical vote on the minimum wage Plaid Cymru stayed at home.
We know the Tories opposed the minimum wage - although no doubt Cameron will tell us he loved it all along.
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David Cameron believe that the minimum wage would make 'unemployment shoot back up' in 1996!
I wonder if his thinking has changed now...
The last increase in the minimum wage helped 80,000 people in Wales. Labour must stay committed to raising this wherever possible...
When Labour attacked the Tories record under Thatcher and used Redwood, Nick Borne was so keen to say 'that was the past, we are different, we are welsh etc', only for Cameron to wade in his speech extolling the virtues of Thatcherism!!!!
We cannot let the tories in the back door, Thatcherism (even with vague environmentalism) will only do harm to Wales...
Exactly - cut through the froth and the noise and there are core issues of social justice which we deliver.
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