Tory promises that they can't and won't deliver!

Who is this about, can you guess?

When he spoke to the Tory Party Conference in Cardiff this year, X said “It’s time for a fresh and coherent approach to economic policy in Wales - and that's just what we Welsh Conservatives have to offer. We would work with, not against, the UK Government to get our economy back on track.”

What his audience probably did not know at that time is that in the space of just one year X had racked up over £650million worth of spending commitments for his own constituency through a series of irresponsible, undeliverable shamelessly populist local press releases. Welsh Labour said today that the revelations had ended any economic credibility the Tories had in Wales.

In the Western Mail's editorial this morning, the paper said Labour was right to expose X's populist wish-list saying "we have serious doubts about the wisdom of making spending commitments in this way."

In the past year, X made 20 separate spending calls without the ability to deliver a single penny of it. Whilst the Tory Government in Westminster makes savage cuts to our schools, hospitals and public services, X has called for extra spending on schools, medical centres, stopping charges for credit card payments by councils, the chance to freeze council tax, the restoration of a pier, snow clearing, improved train services, business rate relief, preventing a library closure, creating a national park, licensing canoeists, improved road maintenance, better flood defences, pedestrian improvements and road widening and re-routing.


Actually it’s Clwyd West's Darren Millar, but the promises and bandwagon jumping sounds incredibly familiar in Montgomeryshire!


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