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Wales’s receding ‘clear red water’ – why we are launching a hunger strike
Welsh-speaking communities are under grave threat as the government kowtows to developers. Drastic action is needed, writes Jamie Bevan

ED MILIBAND recently made a powerful case against a housing system which serves big corporations, saying: “It’s not working, because large developers have a stranglehold on the market” and promising that “the next Labour government will get to grips with it.”

During the election campaign, it’s possible no-one will notice that the Welsh government, under Labour Party control, is acting at odds with his words.

In 2002, then first minister of Wales Rhodri Morgan outlined a more left-wing tack for his devolved government in his “clear red water” speech. But that tide of “red water” now seems to be receding.

  • Jamie Bevan is chair of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg.

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