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LFIG FRINGE MEETING
AT THE 2007 WALES LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE
Helping to build industrial partnership & sustainability in Wales
Said Geraint, "It is important that LFIG continues to
help to build strong links between Labour Ministers in Wales and England
and the business community.
As a GMB delegate to this year's conference, I will
ensure industrial partnership is centre stage. I'm also keen, as Chair
of Flood Risk Management Wales, that economic policy is set within the
framework of sustainable development.
I'm sure that with Douglas, Andrew and Carwyn,
we'll have a lively and constructive discussion that moves us forward in
Wales in the run up to this year's Welsh Assembly Elections."
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LFIG SEMINARS
AT THE 2007 WALES LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE
"LFIG's Vice President Geraint Davies hosted a series of
successful seminars with the business community on behalf of Welsh
Labour at their Llandudno Conference.
First up was Welsh Secretary Peter Hain and Assembly Minister Andrew
Davies who stressed the importance of a partnership approach with
business to get the best for Wales. An outward looking confident Wales
providing investment in the physical and human infrastructure is key for
Wales to continue its growing success. An extra 130,000 jobs in Wales
since 1999 with employment, wage and output growth higher than elsewhere
in the UK was due to a focus on skills, education, transport investment
and providing the environment for business success.
Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for Transport stressed the need to
confront difficult issues of sustainability and congestion. Air travel
needs to pay its environmental cost through inclusion in carbon trading
and congestion charging is an important part of the debate.
Environment Minister Carwyn Jones stressed the need for sustainable
development in the context of climate change. This means a realitic
spacial plan for Wales avoiding building on the flood plane and using
forestry land as necesary to enable affordable housing. Cooperation
across the farming community and a focus on growing niche markets was
necessary to build a sustainable and profitable future for farmers.
Health Minister Brian Gibbons stressed the success of health investment
doubled in Wales since 1999 with 8000 more nurses and 500 more
consultantants enabling waiting lists to be driven down. 7 new hospitals
are the result of capital investment up three fold. Meanwhile,
partnership with industry has meant an IBM supercomputer at Swansea
University as the basis of the Institute of Life Sciences, a Gene Park
and Cancer Bank. Clusters of R&D and human capital means new opportunity
for Wales to be at the forefront of bioscience innovation." |
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CHILD POVERTY
LFIG Wales Chair and GMB delegate Geraint Davies
stressed in his speech to conference growing employment and wages, plus
training and flexible working for all the families of Wales was a key to
eliminating child poverty in Wales.
At the same time as creating industrial partnership to
enable economic success and social justice the party must stand up for
fair trade and cheap drugs to support developing nations.
In addition preschool advertising to children encouraging
obesity and lowering life expectancy highlights the need for
Government to intervene to protect the citizen and more broadly to
ensure social justice and sustainable development where the market fails
to do so.
"As we speak today parents, of literally millions of
children, are watching their children die of avoidable malnutrition and
disease in front of their eyes.
Why? Because
their countries are denied fair trade and cheap drugs and are too often
crippled by debt and war fuelled by foreign banks and arms.
Meanwhile in
Wales, in stark contrast our children face the prospect of dying younger
than their parents due to obesity as multi nationals like MacDonalds and
Coca Cola cultivate an addictive habit to junk food through pre-school
advertising.
Our mission,
in the Labour and Trade Union Movement is to put equality and
opportunity at the top of the political agenda….
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To improve
the life chances of all our children nationally and internationally |
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To
eliminate debt, enable fair trade, to make poverty history abroad |
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To ensure
full employment, growing wages, training and flexible working for
all the families of Wales….. |
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and, in so
doing, to eliminate child poverty for good |
These changes
don’t happen by accident.
They don’t happen by chance.
They occur by design, by the design of the Labour & Trade Union Movement
working together, by the hard graft of a Labour Government, a Labour
Government that has given Wales our own Assembly Government
So never again
does Wales vote Labour for 18 years and still end up ruled by a
Thatcherite Government
So in Wales we
now take Leadership in eliminating child poverty, in championing
industrial partnership, in promoting sustainable development,
AMs and MPs working together for investment in jobs,
schools & hospitals in Wales to create a stronger, smarter, greener
Wales through the leadership of GMB…..…Gordon, Morgan & Blair
So let’s keep
our focus, let’s hold our nerve and champion our successes & ambitions
for the people of Wales in the weeks ahead, and never foget that the
children of Wales are relying on our success for their opportunity to
help create a better future for all to share,
For all our
tomorrows, let’s raise the scarlet standard high and make sure the
next Welsh Assembly Government is a Labour one!
Llafur Am Byth
Geraint Davies,
Llandudno Welsh Labour Party Conference
24.2.07
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