Plaid Cymru has welcomed today’s second quarter GDP results, but said that they wanted to ensure a recovery for all.
Plaid Cymru Treasury spokesperson Jonathan Edwards MP said that Wales must benefit from the recovery to transform itself into a high skilled, high value economy, creating more and better jobs – and that only Plaid Cymru was genuinely ambitious and wanted to see a successful Wales, standing on its own two feet.
Plaid Cymru Treasury spokesperson Jonathan Edwards MP said:
“It is good news that the recovery is finally taking place, even if it has taken at least extra two years of austerity to reach here.
“Plaid Cymru is ambitious for Wales and wants to make sure that everybody enjoys the improved economy, not just those who are already rich. We want to see Wales become a high skilled, high value economy creating more and better jobs across Wales
“It is good to see a decrease in unemployment, and more jobs being created, but still 250,000 jobs in Wales pay below the Living Wage, there are three times as many long-term unemployed young people as three years ago and our economy isn’t improving as fast as we would like.
“Plaid Cymru would create an extra 50,000 jobs in Wales through our Welsh contracts for Welsh companies plan, a youth guarantee scheme to end long-term youth unemployment and develop skills and training so that we can create a more successful Wales, standing on our own two feet.
“It is a shame that we don’t have our own Welsh GDP figure so that we can compare progress of our own economy.”
