News reaches me that an English Conservative MP has laid an amendment to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill that would move Welsh devolution backwards and render the voting system unfair.
Under new Conservative plans, proposed by Daniel Kawcynski, MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, they would abolish the regional lists, which would also mean that the Welsh Conservatives would lose half of their Assembly Members, including their leader, Nick Bourne.
As Kirsty Williams says the Tories obviously don’t have a clue about what goes on in Wales and they clearly don’t understand the fairer system of voting we have of making Welsh people’s vote count in Wales, flawed as the d’hondt system is.
Under their own plans, the Conservatives would lose half of their Assembly Members and their leader in the National Assembly. Kirsty comments that “Given that Nick Bourne has never won a constituency assembly seat, I am very doubtful that the Welsh leader was consulted on this issue. This shows that the Welsh Conservatives take their orders straight from London without question.”
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