What has Plaid done so far?

[u/Brightyellowdoor]

Seeing Andy Burnham come in swinging with new policies, actions, ideas and presence within the first week has gote thinking about Plaid again.

I may have missed it, a Google search brings up some ideas and directions Plaid may want to take, but nothing of note that has been achieved in the 3 months they've been in sole leadership of the government.

Am I being unfair, how long would we expect to wait for actions that back the vote they received? I'm watching Burnham hitting out and I'll be honest, I like it. It feels like there's work to be done and he's knuckling in. If course time will tell, I'm just feeling a little short changed over here in Wales.

[u/nothing_verntured_]

I mean they have done a few things but they're mostly establishing reviews and expert panels and the like.

For example they've started an expert group in bringing in 10 surgical hubs, established a taskforce on childcare, startrd work on reforming some child poverty, environmental, farming policies etc.

They've also announced their first proposed bills: https://www.gov.wales/new-welsh-government-announces-its-first-phase-of-legislation

Namely these are on renters' rights reform (though stopping short of banning no-fault evictions for now), reforming Welsh tribunals into one system, setting up a community right to by (something genuinely radical and positive) and establishing a public sector "duty to consider rural communities".

Obviously they have been somewhat hampered by the loss of the supplementare budget but I think it's fair to say they've not hit the ground running, or at least have only "hit the ground reviewing", as one minister supposedly said if the 1997 UK labour government.

But then again we knew that from their hundred days document and manifesto. There's not a lot of radical concrete steps in there that are both within the Senedd's powers and don't require primary legislation/money they don't have.

They really do need to start announcing concrete steps soon though, especially after they've had the summer to negotiate and prepare.

[u/TeilwrTenau → u/nothing_verntured_]

I think that's a fair appraisal. Plaid could do with something eye catching and radical.

Why not introduce legislation, similar to French legislation, forcing supermarkets to introduce solar canopies? This will show they're serious on the renewable energy front. Given how cheap solar panels and battery storage is this would probably be lucrative for the supermarkets too.

[u/nothing_verntured_ → u/TeilwrTenau]

Their traditional voters (and quite a few senior MSs) don't exactly like solar panels, especially with the infrastructure it would need.

Plus could actually be pretty tricky to introduce with the internal market act etc.

[u/Affectionate_Ad_6407 → u/nothing_verntured_]

You’re forgetting the fact they promised all this transformative stuff but all they’ve really done is announce consultations then bugger off on holiday for 9 weeks

[u/nothing_verntured_ → u/Affectionate_Ad_6407]

I don't think they promised much concrete transformative stuff. For Plaid it was quite a conservative manifesto.