Supporters (which are dwindling by the day) of Wales’ incumbent First Minister Vaughan Gething claim the recent attacks on his character are because he is black.
In a statement released by Welsh Labour’s BAME group said that attacks we’re recially motivated and nothing about Gething taking cash donations from a twice-convicted environmental offender who was awarded tens of thousands from the Development Bank of Wales (which Gething was in charge of at the time) and that he lied to the COVID Inquiry claiming he didn’t know who deleted WhatsApp messages, even though he sent a message to the group saying that HE was going to delete the messages as they could be obtained through an Freedom of Information Request.
A really important statement from @WelshLabour BAME Committee 👇 https://t.co/tyQOJUTjxu
— Lynne Neagle (@lynne_neagle) May 18, 2024
Perhaps the motivation for their baseless claims about race are that Gething is highly likely to face a no confidence vote following the withdraw of Plaid Cymru from the co-operation agreement they had with Labour.
Will he survive the vote? With exactly 50% of the seats held by Labour they would just have convince one other person, probably Lib Dems Jane Dodds, to vote for Gething to win but there are also a lot of Welsh Labour MS’s who are unhappy with the way he has acted and where they were previously silent and toeing the party line, critics have become more vocal of late.
Gething has come out and said that he wants MS’s to be held to account more and will introduce a mechanism for recalling minister, but not until after the 2026 elections when he will have hoped this will all have gone away.
But unfortunately for Gething, it seems this one is unlikely to go away and by getting his minions to try and play the racism card he now has the hallmarks of a desperate man clinging on to power despite being found to be openly corrupt.
The fact there is evidence that he lied to COVID inquiry alone puts Gething at risk of criminal charges, it is an offence in England & Wales to knowingly lie to an inquiry and the fact he told them he dint know who had deleted the messages, and even pushed the blame onto the Welsh Government IT team, the message is clear that he was in fact the one who not only deleted them, but also took the decision to do so.
He then, in a revenge attack, sacked female minister Hannah Blythyn claiming she leaked his message, despite having no evidence to back up his claim and her emphatically denying doing so.
Its clear that Gething is out of control at the top of Welsh Labour’s food chain and he is unlikely to do the decent thing and resign, lets not forget he isn’t an elected Leader by popular vote, just scraped through his party elections go get the top job, so a no confidence vote is perhaps the only way to get rid of corruption in the bay but will Labour MS’s vote with party or morals.
But claiming its about race is an insult to every single Welsh voter.
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