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As one of the more deprived parts of the EU, Wales used to get quite a bit of European Regional Development funding which was used for this sort of thing, infrastructure etc.
That money of course dried up a few years ago and hasn't been replaced by Westminster. I always told my neighbors that they'd be kidding themselves if they thought that Westminster would put that level of funding in. But still the good people of Wales majority voted for Brexit, so yeah, now there's no money.
(Having been born in Cardiff I have the right to complain).
Jameo
Absolutely - by global standards Wales is outrageously privileged.
What happened here yesterday is just a symptom of the fuck-you trickle down of our established climate denialism, just like we saw at COP 29 just now with the wealthiest nations bullying the global south into accepting a reparations settlement that condemns them to disaster at the hands of others, basically.
So yeah - nothing here is on the scale of suffering we’re seeing elsewhere (yet) but it’s all part of the same problem of those in charge willing to sacrifice the lives and homes and livelihoods of the worse off to avoid having to do anything expensive or hard that would mean them having to change their own ways. So nothing new under the sun.
Okay I’m sad now - off to watch videos of dogs being reunited with their owners cos that’s the opposite of being sad.