What we can learn from Welsh socialism

Wales serves as a sorry example of what a Labour-governed Britain would look like.

"Recently I suggested" that anyone who wanted to know what life under a Miliband Labour government might look like could "look across the Channel at France," writes Trevor Kavanagh in The Sun. The French are leaving in droves for the UK, as taxes and unemployment under President Hollande rocket.But now there is a better example: "the great socialist experiment which is going pear-shaped in Labour-led Wales".

Labour is the most successful party in the country, having won the biggest vote at every general election since 1922. But a revolt is brewing. After the death of her husband due to "shoddy" NHS care, Welsh Labour MP Ann Clwyd is campaigning to highlight the Assembly's "calamitous" health record. Some 15,450 cancer patients crossed the border last year for treatment in England, from 3,471 in 2003.

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