Apoplectic Welsh First Minister loses it with Tory leader 

No as useless as she is that was Boris Johnson he has spent the last few years destroying his party and the country and now he wants another go

Yes what a state this country is in. There's no Great in Great Britain anymore. Sack the corrupt government and get rid of this idiot Drakeford. Let's look after our workers, pensioners and young children. This is corrupt on so many levels

Child Abusing T*at.

The NHS in Wales is controlled by the Welsh labour government not the Tory’s.

It would be laughable but. NOT funny Never trust a tory!

NHS devolved to Labour in Wales I believe

You SAY Chancellor, but you MEAN Prime Minister.

NHS in Wales is a labour issue.

They are still trying to blame Labour after being 12 years in government! The right always play the victim and blame someone else.

As night follows day.

Hopefully there won't be any.

“I’am afraid there’s no money left” Liam Byrne May 2010

Then we have to scream at them like he did.

Same in the US. Republicans cut taxes to benefit the wealthy when they control the government then complain about deficits and higher taxes when they aren’t.

Hospitals in England have props holding up the roof on wards.

@@dean8282 The English NHS is light years ahead of the Welsh Labour run NHS.

@@agt155 Run by Labour, budgeted by Tories. It's a classic Tory trick; reduce funding to a Labour council, that Labour council cannot afford to fix everything, Tories attack Labour council for the things they couldn't afford to fix.

@@MrMyers758 Wales receives 20% more funding per patient than England and yet our health service is far worse - stop blaming funding.

When he flicked the page I thought "Wait is this scripted?" but I was reassured by the fact that he didn't look down.

No it’s not impressive-they are all clowns like the Westminster clowns.

@@richardjones3112 the Senedd functions rather well, compared to Westminster

@@bannaubrycheiniog1329 it functions well compared to Westminster because the Tories aren’t directly in charge of the Senedd

@@richardjones3112 you are speaking of the tories, of course.

@@mel4856 where does the funding for the Welsh government come from? Oh that's right from Westminster where a Tory Chancellor is in charge and has been recklessly cutting budgets after his predecessor's wanton mismanagement and stupidity. Drakeford is doing his best with the pittance he gets from the Tory government in London.

@@mel4856 clearly you don't live on this planet & didn't even watch the clip

@@mel4856 utter nonsense

@@mel4856 they are nowhere near as bad as each other

We are not here to discuss England we are here to discuss WALES

that's because you suck up all our money as you're too poor to stand on your own two feet.

It is a UK problem, yet the Welsh government are quick to take credit when there was a UK vaccine rollout. They have to accept their part when things go wrong too.

@@solariss452 The DUP got a billion, not NI.

Welsh NHS is devolved to the the Senned and the labour first minister .. its quite right an elected welsh conservative in the welsh parliament can grill the first minister about the state of wales NHS on his watch and his responsibility and when wales gets more to spend per head than england does .....or did an english bogey man do it an run away ....

Disappearing before our eyes.

The floor staff do miracles with the crap they have to work with.

I think it will be sold soon. This is a way for government to claw back money. It's pretty much all there is left to sell off.

Which 'he' do you mean, James?

@@andrewrobinson2565 I must admit that I posted half way through, and thought the older guy was a tory. I think though after watching the whole thing that they are both deluded. The NHS needs more funding but the angry bald bloke is a Tory, so yeah he has no leg to stand on really, given all the cuts are by the tories

This is very similar to the crap Nicola Sturgeon gets from the witless Scottish Tory 'leader'(!!!) Douglas Ross in Holyrood. I'm all for constructive opposition, but Tories spouting in this context is beyond embarrassing. I'm proud of the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales.

Doesn't care.

@@starmersbarber Nicola Sturgeon has absolutely destroyed Scotland all on her own. Ran the country into the ground.

Tory twats!

The guy is a clown. Loves the grandstand but he’s failed at everything he promised.

Then lets obliterate them for rest of time at the next GE ...

FUCK the tories!

Back in the 1980’s the Tories set bout destroying the NHS. I know I was a nurse who, every day had to count the number of bandages and all other vital medical equipment to make sure we only had what the Tories said we actually needed. Meanwhile patients weren’t getting the nursing care they were supposed to because saving money was the most important thing on a daily basis. I left in 1988 and it’s only got worse since then!

The NHS in Wales is a devolved issue. The Labour Party is fully responsible for its running and has been for over 2 decades. It is Labour that has run it into the ground, no one else.

Have you to agree. Drakeford is just deflecting the fact that, like transport and education he is responsible for the mess in Welsh healthcare. He is the on who should be ashamed

Drakeford is useless in wales. He and the senedd are just as bad as Westminster. All lining their pockets...look at the state of wales. What has Drakeford done?

Performance, he couldn’t give a damn as long as it leads to the sale of the NHS at some juncture. The only cornerstone of the UK left worth fighting for. Tories are enemies to it.

That's why he's Kier Charmer..

Saint IKEA Starmer is about as exciting as the bottom of my slippers.

@@dragonfly6908 I think you mean Sir IKEA Charmer and soul of your hobnail boots...The boyos in the Chamber need Lloyd George and Thomas-the-Tank-Engine...You'll win tonight's star prize if you can identify JPR. Tom Foolery rules, OK?

@@rogerlephoque3661 Yes, that's him.

It is called *"gaslighting"* and MPs who behave in this way should be SACKED immediately.

Labour and the Tories (and the Lib Dems too) constantly play this game - and very often with issues they know are jot even devolved responsibilities. They make a big production of it, and the mainstream media uncritically pick it up. And so it filters down misinformation to the population. Hence with covid, a million clueless people blaming the devolved governments for pandemic planning - which was specifically a UK responsibility that Downing St devolved instead to private corporations. As soon as the devolved governments did get some control, things changed within weeks.

@@solariss452 Austerity was of course inflicted on the sick and unemployed in NI just the same as elsewhere. But yes, there is an enduring mystery as to where the DUP disappeared that billion to. Nobody has every explained it.

"Solely caused?" That's really odd, see I remember Labour fattening the pig the last time they were in power with useless positions and process (middle management and admin) before the tories came in and cut the front lines leaving an expensive over staffed organisation with to few people on the front lines

A Tory councillor here in Vale of Glamorgan knocked on our door before the last local election. After a little discussion, I raised that Tories we’re going back on their funding promises, and can’t stand forever hearing “levelling up” claims when the opposite is true. I expected some sort of defence - but no - a resigned shrug with nothing to say. You’ve just got to confront these con artists. Sadly it’s taken til they’ve wreaked yet more misery for enough people to at last notice it. Btw - there’s not a jot of interest from Tory UK govt to democratically elected devolved parliaments.

They aren't even Tories they are just a coopted party at this point that have had their Russian oligarch funding taken away and now they need to downscale I don't like any of the current parties it's a real shame

Canadians too. (Should detest our Tories, I mean.)

@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 - EVERYONE should detest a tory.

@@piccalillipit9211 Damn straight. They sound like the same party in both countries, pretty much the same policies.

I totally agree but there are many who won’t which I find staggering!!

Tories are deluded.

So there's absolutely no problem with the Welsh run NHS

Which "dude" do you mean, dude? Bill & Ted 🤣

@@richadam4010 yeah the problem is wales doesn’t have enough money or staff to run it because of the Tories in Westminster taking all of the countries cash for themselves and their banker mates.

@@user-ku1jd5gi4o It's not that simple. London basically has a devolved admin. Quicker ambulance time and Scotland for that matter. Like it or not some of it will be choices that Welsh labour have made its the easy option to blame Westminster.

They do it in England too. They give tory boroughs more money than Labour. Even in the tory boroughs the more affluent postcodes get all the money. Then they move immigrants into the poorer areas & blame the lack of funding on the immigrants.

The Welsh government have the power to raise taxes and fund the NHS - they chose not to.

@@agt155 Only limited tax powers.... not the full fiscal powers necessary to run the country.

@@bobinscotland Thank fuck for that.

@@bobinscotland They can raise income tax as much as they please...guess what they never have.

Yeah Lockdown lover Dreakford is all about passion and caring 🙄🙄🙄

@@jamclear we have the oldest population in the UK mate and one of the most overrun healthcare system due to Tory cuts in budgeting. Idiotic comment 🤣

@@franzderpinand2715 Lockdown was a disgrace. He personally was 100% in favour of it and he bears responsibility for the very obvious mental/physical/domestic ramifications that it quite clearly brought. You just carry on believing it's been done in your interest.

You are joking he pure vile.

He's a Marxist who is fully onboard with the WEF's depopulation agenda. Do you not know whats going on? I genuinely feel sorry for you people who have not only been lied to on a grand scale, but have no idea you're in serious danger.

Amen.

It will certainly be an uphill struggle whoever is in charge, but once the tories are reduced to 4 seats it'll feel like at least some justice has been done after these hellish 12 years of incompetence and jingoistic nonsense

I really hope so...and that this is also the case here in Scotland. As much of the UK as possible should be rid of this Tory menace.

Hopefully the House of Commons will barely have a Tory presence for the foreseeable future.

Lucky Wales....

Totally agree.

When we had a PM in Westminster saying let the bodies pile high and it’s carrying on by a failed government of Austerity by a Tory called Hunt

Let’s all clap to guilt them into risking their lives and treat COVID. Pay rise? Oh no, you saved the country, but you must be crazy to think you are worth a few grand more…

There's still a postcode lottery when it comes to the NHS in Wales but it has vastly improved since 1997 when there was a referendum on devolution. Patients were treated like ignorant children and prescribed medicines without leaflets in them warning of contraindications and side effects. You got them with over the counter medicines but only more recently with prescribed medicine.

Agreed

from a cumbrian lad a true red dragon welshman.

mark drakeford should be our next prime minister.

David Lloyd Gorge look him

I am sorry but you really do not have a clue. I have dealt with the man, he is a very nasty dictators that shits on the Welsh people from a great Height. A record petition over 450,000 people have signed a petition, he has openly stated he will ignore it. He has openly lied and misled the assembly and breached the ministers code. He knows he can do whatever he wants as the Labour party and Plaid work together and stop all opposition. It is a dictatorship. Sad you just can not see it.

What was that slogan "come home to a real Welsh fire" 🔥

Imagine voting with the tories for Brexit in Wales.

Imagine being the family of J.Small...representative of Pfizer in the ongoing inquiry. An ENGLISH woman born and raised in the UK with UK values... SHILLING FOR PFIZER.

@@donaldv13 Many people did, as they were promised solutions to all the problems that they had. None of those solutions came, obviously, and most Brexit-voting Welsh people (A significantly large portion of them were farmers in the South, and I will say that it is by no means their fault. Like many Brexit voters, they believed a stack of lies. They were deceived.) turned against it when the EU's money stopped coming.

Worse for them here in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 look the balloon who leads them ,what a prick!

It’s not the same in England.. ENG has to pay for prescriptions and thar extra cash goes nowhere to help 🤡

@@siobhanconnor1101 England also doesn't have anything other than sh*tty Westminster politicians behaving worse than children on the daily. It's great that Scotland and Wales can talk about their specific issues in their NHS services In their devolved parliaments. England desperately needs a devolved assembly to stand up to Westminster too.

Same my son has autism waiting 3 years for assessment

They're weakening the pound sterling so their mates can gather up more commodities.

It's a labour government in Wales. Health is a devolved matter.

And putting Therese Coffey in charge of anything health-related is beyond satire.

@@tonyjones9442 UK gov still allocates the budget, if Welsh gov needs to make budget cuts it tends to be because the National gov cut their budget.

@@spikey_104 yes, but my point still stands. It doesn't matter if its £10 or £20b its still the government of South wales who eventually distribute it and forgets there's a wales North of Brecon. It does sound like you've never been to wales or at least wales above the valleys

Why the feck not?

@@bk1147 because Aneurin Bevan was the FATHER OF the NHS. He would be absolutely SPINNING if he knew what a mess his brainchild is in under the hateful tories.

Em....Bevan was Labour Party,and da bhrith sin/3 dots/ therefore if first Minister is Labour...and the Tory MP reminds him...they set up NHS,and should fund it 🤷

@@cabaroigcostablanca truth

@@bk1147 Because Bevan helped found the Health Service and the Tories have done everything they can to destroy it.

He has one big ball the trouble is his ears are stuck on it

Drakeford is the ultimate liar and betrayer of us Welsh. Instead of looking at what he's done (very little), look at Labour's promises that he has rejected. The Senedd has had the Welsh NHS budget for 23 years, our Welsh NHS is in a worse position now than in the last century. The front line staff are as committed as ever, there are too many "mangers, bean counters & diversity officers" that drag the direction of the real NHS money away from where it is required. ex NHS worker

He is just the same as the Tories. Wales is in a terrible state

He is a good first minister to be fair

Did you like covid fear mongering bullshit and lockdowns for no reason? This insane old coot was all for both.

He's often referred to as "The Headteacher", so this is a bit of a shock to see him so riled up. This isn't his style at all.

@@howareyou857 he isn't

@@cwm6203 he is

tories in scotland and wales are pretty useless, especially scotland. they exist as purely opposition to SNP, nothing else. they contribute nothing

You absolute sap! The man is a disgrace and a Vile human being. He can't raise a son who doesn't sexually assault a woman who then went to jail for rape. ✌🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@@terptv710 You don't even believe what you are saying. I hope you told every one of your friends that the queen's a bitch for raising a pedo and every time anyone you know does something bad you blame the parents as it's all their fault. If you stop being a snowflake and take your emotions out of what you are saying it doesn't stand up to logic.

Drakeford bullcrap. He is the same as the rest of these corrupt useless dictators. Broke his own rules during Con-vid too, while others were stupid enough to be rounded up..🤪🐑🐏

I completely agree with this. It's hard to fathom just how angry we should be, at ten years of mismanagement, mendacity, arrogance, division as a deliberate policy.

Problems in NHS all stem from lack of funding from Westminster - it’s time for wales to vote for self determination #indyWales well said PrifWenidog ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

It's a pity.... But Scotland will leave the union because of the majority of the English voter who keep voting tory

No pity. No UK. It's an outdated left over of the Empire.

@@peterah7957 True facts. It also doesn’t help that the SNP totally splits/absorbs the progressive vote which reduces Labour’s chances even further.

@@methanedirigible Yes well I guess Labour hasn't been a strong enough voice there and their stance on the EU now is ludicrous but I guess they believe tactically they have to shut up about it because of the red wall.

Unfortunately you won't see anything from Northern Ireland, as the DUB refuse to attend the assembly.

@Nature Of The Beast Yes, my friend who went blind in her twentie should just have healed her duff kidneys. She could have chanted, HEAL, HEAL, HEAL RESPONSIBLY and it would have happened. She should have ordered different parents and another set of genes.

@Nature Of The Beast bollocks. My point is the Conservative Government in Westminster have destroyed the NHS across the United Kingdom. I’m not sure what tree you’re barking up…

@@eh1702 I absolutely agree with you they should've been born into a family that has all the wealth, money and riches. Not into some posh family making meets end and living from one paycheck to another just to survive. What a complete tosh I can't even fathom how these people even dare to breathe the same air.

Same mess? In Wales there are 70k waiting longer than 2 years for treatment in the whole of England there are 1k. Only difference between the two is 23 years of Labour control in Wales.

The difference is Tory budgets, they determine what resources Wales have access too, plus Tories have stemmed free movement and immigration so the work pool is lower hence less staff to drive abundances or provide care. Tories in Westminster, take our water take our taxes give us pittance in return then scream “YoUr NHS iS WoRSe” like a dribbling idiot. Tossers, the whole rotten lot.

Drakeford's ruined our NHS - it's scandalous how it's never reported.

@@agt155 what is it that you don't get!! Westminster hold the purse strings. You need give your head a feckin wobble.

@@THENDER1000 Our NHS if much worse than England's despite getting 20% more funding per person - work out the reason why rather than shouting out your ignorance.

Talking garbage. I work for the NHS in England and have a family member that's a GP in Wales. Tories running it into the ground but you carry on with the blinkered rubbish.

Oh please 🙄 Drakeford what has he done for Wales and the people? It's all show with him just like the Tories...they are all the same

Always .🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✌🏼 But dripford is an embarrassment his son is in jail for a violent sex crime against a woman who trusts a man as head of state when he can't raise a son who knows right from wrong...... Pathetic excuse for a human being IMO.......

@@terptv710 you don't know the half of it butty completely irrelevant

Love the Welsh. Dreadful leader though absolutely abhorrent how he treated everyone through covid.

@@Bighandsdown yep, hes an absolute tosser

Bechod lol. There is a public funded bus service for both North and South Wales that picks these rich losers up and takes them to and from the Welsh Assembly offices. It's an unmarked service but it's open to the public. I encourage all Welsh people to jump aboard so they can see just how pathetic and English their own puppet government is 💀

It's often open to the public - the gallery exists specifically for public viewing of proceedings and they often hold public arts and similar events in the building.

Thats what we need from Starmer.

Were you watching a different exchange? Drakeford was wrong footed and rattled.

@@Grahamponting It certainly sounds like I wasn't watching the same thing as you 😂

@@Grahamponting He's under a lot of pressure due to Andrew's party. Drakeford cares highly for the people let down by the service, being an ex social worker. It's the hypocrisy and gas lighting that would fuel anger in anyone

@@Grahamponting in fact a better way to put it, it's the problem itself questioning you, telling you things aren't okay and then having the gall to say they're the solution. Andrew RT says all this and then supports the reasons these problems exist by sticking up for Boris and Truss. Andrew and his party are the problem and have proven over many many years that they would ravage Cymru.

It was great to see! I very much doubt it'll be down on the BBC!

@@MrSpanks ah yes, the "left wing" BBC with a board full of Tories. I think the people who think it's left wing now would only be happy if it showed the speeches of Hitler.

Than*

That a Carmarthen accent 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😊

I worked with welsh colleagues for many years and they were a joy to work with and great story tellers into the bargain. A lot of welsh steel workers and heavy industry personnel transferred to Ireland in the mid 1990's as Irelands tech industries began to ramp up and South Wales smoke stack industries and mining began to wane. Very colourful, diligent and engaging people.

It's a very specific area of Carmarthenshire people speak like that. My geography teacher had the same accent

@@stephrichards4611 welsh is the first language in Carmarthenshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@@justinquinn8921 I know. I've worked there and speak Welsh as a 1st language 🙃

🤡

He looked like a boiled gammon after ranting and raving

Welsh Tory and labour gammons...all useless

There's also a doctor shortage which got worse after Brexit which nobody mentions. Carmarthen and Llanelli hospitals have 1 doctor per ward and a load of nurses regularly, which is what drives up the waiting times. It's not entirely a funding issue, but a lack of trained staff. Although you will find there is an increase in private hospitals popping up in Carmarthenshire, had to visit one for an MRI due to the hospital not having enough staff, which obviously pay more than the NHS so attracts more doctors onto their staff. The NHS then has to pay them a larger fee to perform the job they are incapable of.

Drakeford is a mediocre administrator. The tories are useless but thats no defence for Welsh Labour's incompetence

Drakeford couldn’t kill a fly 😂😂😂

@@chrispenn715 You are the weakest link goodbye

You clearly missed the ending where he was shaking with rage.

Didn't think he had it in him? His sons a rapist ffs. Power mad rage likely goes with the territory

Please explain how the Tories have been 'dismantling the NHS on the quiet' in Wales when they have never held power in Wales? Labour have run the Welsh NHS since devolution 15 years ago.

Tory scum working O/T on this thread?

@@1chish It's a national problem. And for proof you only have to look at the number of nurses and GPs we are short of. I live in Kent, and an elderly neighbour had to wait over six hours for an ambulance. In the words of our lame duck PM, "This is a disgrace."

@@motosnape Quote: "Tory scum working O/T on this thread?" No Soft Lad just me asking someone to defend their incorrect statement and expressing a different point of view. Which of course to you Liberal Lefties means I must be abused and cancelled. How very illiberal! 😂😂 You people are so pathetic you cannot defend your own political position so you attack those who disagree.

@@Geffo555 Well living in Suffolk I have great sympathy with your position. However the thread is about how Drakeford went into Virtue Signalling overdrive to deflect from the even MORE parlous state of the Welsh NHS for which Labour have been responsible for 15 years. In fairness to all 4 NHS areas they are still facing the fallout from COVID with reduced staff, staff not returning to work at all and large peak demands. Its not a disgrace its a fact of life.

That is sublime. You can be my DM any day.

Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

"EW EN PASSIN BUTT!"

"FYDDECH CHI DDIM YN BASIO!"

@Sonification It's not as if devolved budgets are entirely beholden to Westminster... Especially if you factor in the loss of EU funding into Wales (which Westminster promised to match and didn't); the public purse has been redirected from the NHS into subsidising areas that used to recieve that EU funding. Redirect your anger at the Tories and their economic incompetence.

Ultimately it's Drakeford in charge here in Wales. His watch, his fault.

@@strangemagic5502 I have one thing to say. Barnett formula (that’s two)

No he doesn't!

Clywch, clywch!!!

And why is that ? The tory tax cuts cost the UK taxpayer £50b in income that's the entire cost of the NHS workforce, we could of given every NHS worker a pay rise , we need tax money to invest in our public services like free healthcare, free education, higher NHS staff wages ect , in turn these tax cuts has effected the budget of the NHS like drakeford said , our taxes are not fully devolved the Tories have control of the budget, the Tories want to privatise healthcare like the USA which costs thousands per year, in wales we have free prescriptions under labour england doesn't under the tories , sajid javid a conservative mp said a few weeks back that UK citizens should start paying for A&E & GP visits , why should we have that in Wales when we didn't vote for the tory party ? Countries like denmark, Switzerland , Finland ect pay much higher taxes than us but they have a much better quality of life , better healthcare and other public services they all rank in the top 5 according to the index in 2023 for quality if life while the UK ranks 17th , it baffles me that tory voters are protecting their right wing politicians 6 digit bank accounts by helping them evade taxes while our public services like the NHS suffers.

The pointing from the tory MP from the beginning was infuriating. It's incredibly rude.