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UKIP Wales
Senedd Manifesto 2021
2021 Senedd Election
www.ukip.wales
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CONTENTS
Page Topic
1 Introduction
2 Devolution
6 Immigration
8 Health & Social Care
14 Education
18 Transport & Economic Development
20 Environment, Energy & Rural Affairs
23 Welsh Language
25 The Family
27 Veterans’ Issues
29 Culture & Communities
31 Contact Details
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INTRODUCTION
Neil Hamilton MS
Leader, UKIP Wales
Today, devolution is a one-way revenue amounting to only 25%
process. Despite Government with the funding gap being filled
of Wales Acts in 1998, 2006, by the English taxpayer.
2014 and 2017, the train keeps
on moving in only one direction The time has come to stop
- towards independence. The this runaway train to the
Welsh Government always disintegration of the UK and
demands more power – just institutionalised poverty and
like the Euro-federalists of decline for Wales.
the European Commission.
The Welsh Government now Only UKIP has a full manifesto
wants the devolution of justice of policies to put Wales back on
and to remove limits on Welsh the UK political map, reverse
Government borrowing. institutional economic decline,
transfer power in health and
Fearful of failing to win an education from Cardiff Bay
outright majority in these and directly to the people who
elections, First Minister use these vital services, to
“Only UKIP has Drakeford has been cosying up to
Plaid Cymru to get their support
support strict controls on mass
immigration and end bogus
a full manifesto for continuing the permanent
Labour Government either as full
asylum-seeking, and defend
British history and culture from
coalition partners or through a leftist, anti-British attacks.
of policies to re- ‘confidence and supply’ deal.
invigorate and Recently, he announced that the
UK is ‘over’ and a federal future
WALES FOREVER,
BRITAIN TOGETHER
revive Wales beckons. How this would work is
anyone’s guess, as (i) England has CYMRU AM BYTH,
after decades of 85% of the UK population and (ii)
government spending in Wales
PRYDAIN YN UN
neglect” is nearly 40% of national income
but the Welsh tax base produces
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TRANSPORT
& ECONOMIC
DEVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT
“We are the only party with a plan for Wales to prosper
post-devolution. UKIP would deliver a referendum to
Scrap the Senedd immediately.”
“The current Welsh Labour Health Minister has suggested that it will
take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19.
For UKIP, Welsh Labour’s lack of ambition and dampening of
expectations is unacceptable.”
DEVOLUTION
Devolution promised the people of Wales so much, but after 21 years of the Senedd it is
clear that it has been a good deal for politicians, but a bad deal for Wales. By nearly all
measures, devolution has failed.
Devolution has Not did the reverse and legislated Brown’s Labour Governments from
Delivered More Democracy to devolve all powers unless 1997-2010. The Barnett Formula,
specifically reserved. which significantly under-estimates
For 22 years Wales has been effectively Wales’s needs in public spending,
a One Party State, with a permanent The referendum also ‘guaranteed’ remained unchanged since 1978,
Labour Government, propped up as voters that tax-raising powers would as Wales needs increased relative to
necessary by Plaid Cymru and the Lib- not be devolved without a further the rest of the UK.
Dems. referendum — a position that was
enshrined in law. The ballot paper Wales needs more muscle at
In 2016, Labour won nearly 48% of specifically stated: Westminster – which will only
the Assembly seats on just 34% of happen if the ‘old gang’ legacy
the vote. Labour was able to form “The Assembly cannot make parties are rejected.
a Government only by a backroom laws on...tax...whatever the
deal with Kirsty Williams (the result of this vote.” Devolution has Taken Wales
only Lib-Dem AM). Kirsty joined Backwards
the Labour Government within Yet, the Senedd passed a law
days of her Brecon & Radnorshire giving power to raise income tax as Since the Welsh Assembly/Senedd was
constituency rejecting the Labour much as it wants. It did this without created, Wales has gone backwards
Party by 92% to 8%. requiring a further vote by the compared with the rest of the UK.
people, whom they then redefined Wales has moved down, below
In 2016, Wales voted to leave the to include potential devolution Northern Ireland, in the UK league
European Union. First Ministers supporters, 16-year-olds and tables of prosperity.
Carwyn Jones and Mark Drakeford foreign nationals resident in Wales.
promised to respect the result. This The terms of the 2011 referendum Wales remains very poor. Incomes
was a barefaced lie and they spent have been disrespected. are a dismal 75% of the UK
over 4 years trying to block Brexit. average. West Wales and the
53% of the Welsh people voted to One major consequence Valleys are amongst the poorest
leave the EU. 100% of Labour, Plaid of devolution is the further places in Western Europe. In the
and Lib-Dem AMs defied this vote marginalisation of Wales at 1950s Wales’s GDP was twice
and did their damnedest to keep Westminster. Thanks to devolution, as big as Ireland’s. By 2020, the
us in then EU. They rejected the we will see our representation economy of the Irish Republic was
decisive will of the people in the reduced from 40 MPs to 32. No four times the size of Wales.
UK’s largest democratic exercise Conservative Government at
and tried every trick in the book Westminster is going to give more More than 20% of Welsh people live
to try and reverse it. Thankfully, money to a permanent Labour in poverty, according to the Public
they failed. But their contempt for Government in Wales, which Policy Institute for Wales.
the referendum result proved that constantly criticises and undermines
devolution is a sham. UK Government policy even in The Welsh Government boasted
non-devolved areas. It is a case of that, by 2018, it would abolish
The pro-devolution Establishment ‘out of sight, out of mind.’ Unlike fuel poverty (spending more
called for the 2011 Welsh Northern Ireland’s DUP, which got than 10% of income on heating).
referendum which devolved more an extra £1 billion for sustaining Today, 1 in 4 still have to choose
powers to Cardiff to be respected. Theresa May’s government for between heating and eating.
But they haven’t respected it 2 years, Labour got nothing by Rather than do something about
themselves. The referendum thumbing their nose at the UK it, Welsh Government changed
called for law-making powers to Government over Brexit. the definitions to hide these
be devolved in 20 specific areas. embarrassing numbers.
The Welsh Government and Plaid Nor were things much different
under Tony Blair and Gordon
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The Senedd has Not Brought that devolution itself has failed. In vaccination.
Politics Closer to the People practice, things are even worse than • Was disadvantaged by the
that. apparent administrative
For most, especially in North Wales, lethargy of our devolved NHS.
Cardiff Bay is as remote as Westminster. North Wales’s Betsi Cadwaladr • We also lose out because
Before the Covid pandemic, 50% of Health Board has been one of the powers to define priority groups
people still didn’t know that the NHS is worst in the entire UK. It was in for vaccination are devolved.
devolved to Cardiff. Special Measures for over 5 years, The Welsh Government
before being removed for political decides how to distribute a
The Welsh Government pays reasons in the run-up to this year’s population share of vaccine
lip service to democracy and elections. It was put under direct but we are getting the vaccine
consultation but ignores public ministerial control in 2015, after the into people’s arms less quickly.
opinion if it goes against their Tawel Fan dementia ward scandal. If the UK Government were
‘woke’ obsessions. The so-called An inquiry reported patients in charge in Wales as well
‘smacking ban’ (removing parents’ forcefully restrained using furniture, as in England, with the same
right of reasonable discipline of assaults by staff, people left lying in vaccine categories, we would
children) had little public support their own urine and others allowed benefit not just from their faster
and was overwhelmingly rejected by to wander naked and unsupervised roll-out, but a greater-than-
consultees. But Welsh Government around the ward. population share, because we
bull-dozed it through anyway. have a higher proportion of
The last 5 years have seen many older people.
Mid Wales’s majestic landscapes other scandals of incompetence,
and seascapes are being wrecked waste and neglect A Referendum is Long
by forests of windmills in the Welsh Overdue
Government’s pointless virtue- Half a million people in Wales are
signalling on global warming, currently on an NHS waiting list. When Wales voted against devolution
despite Wales producing a minute That’s 20% of the adult population. in 1979, it was asked to vote again in
fraction of 1% of the world’s CO2. In North Wales, the typical wait for 1997. Despite voting for it then by the
Local opposition is ignored, as at an orthopaedic operation is 2 years. narrowest possible margin in a very low
Hendy (near Llandrindod Wells). poll, we are now told that devolution is
Planning consent was rejected Before the pandemic: the ‘settled view’ of the Welsh people
by local opinion, Powys County and no chance has ever been given to
Council and even the independent • Waiting times had trebled for reconsider the decision.
Inspector appointed by the Minister, those waiting more than 36
who imposed her pre-ordained weeks for treatment. UKIP agrees that such a referendum
will, making a farce of the planning • The 95% target for patients should be no more than a once-
process. spending a maximum of 4 hours in-a-generation event – although
in A&E had never been met. we had to wait for two generations
Little Democratic Mandate • Cancer waiting times targets before forcing the Brexit referendum
had been missed for a decade. on the unwilling political elites.
• The target of patients waiting
Devolution has failed to win mass
a maximum of 26 weeks for After 24 years it is quite legitimate
acceptance – voter turnout in
treatment hadn’t been met for to ask the Welsh people: “What do
Assembly elections never reached
10 years. you think of it so far?”
50%
• Mental health services were
struggling with a backlog of Wales would Benefit from
A Disaster for the inquiries. Wales had the third
Welsh NHS highest rate out of English and Scrapping the Senedd
Welsh regions for female suicide
Devolution has been a disaster for and the fourth highest rate for Scrapping the Senedd would save
the Welsh NHS. 5 of the 7 Health male suicide. us £65 million a year to start
Boards have been or remain in Special with. Not to mention the huge
Measures or Targeted Intervention – During the pandemic: infrastructure of jobs-for-the-
run directly from Cardiff by the Health boyos created by Welsh Labour
Minister. • The devolved NHS in Wales which hangs like an entangling net
failed to deliver mass testing, over the Welsh economy. Useless
before finally seeking help from quangos, Commissions, ‘Third
The NHS accounts for half the entire
the UK Government. Sector’ hangers-on and the rest of
Welsh Government budget. If NHS
• It is now behind in mass the taxpayer-funded support for
Wales fails, that is tantamount to saying
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the Leftist Establishment which control. education can be imposed in the
reinforces Wales culture of face of the strongest parental
dependency and decline. UKIP wants the NHS to be opposition, as at Llangennech.
democratised so priorities reflect
Westminster is perfectly capable of local needs and wishes. Health UKIP believes that education also
making legislation specific to Wales, Boards should be elected and NHS needs to be put in the hands of
as it did for Scotland for over 100 executives should be answerable local people, with ‘free schools’
years before the Scottish Parliament. to them, their ‘customers’ and their developed, as in England. Schools
The Welsh Grand Committee of ‘paymasters’. The current system need to be de-politicised. Parents
all Wales’s MPs could have an has resulted in catastrophes and should be given the democratic
enhanced role in the governance of cover-ups. Elected Health Boards levers to ensure that they decide
Wales. That model allowed Wales would give a real voice to patients what sort of schooling their
specific Education Acts and the and their families. It would also children get, not politicians with
development of Welsh language make officials publicly accountable their own agenda whether it be
policy. It led to the disestablishment for their decisions and stewardship. ‘woke’ obsessions like ‘racism’ or
of the Anglican Church in Wales as linguistic authoritarianism. School
long ago as 1920. It also allowed Scrapping the Senedd and giving boards should be elected, with
a different approach to Sunday power to local people would also Head Teachers and others publicly
closing from 1881 to 1996. make it clear who is responsible answerable to those whom schools
for the decisions affecting our most serve.
Scrap the Senedd - What vulnerable people.
Happens Next? It needs to be said in the strongest
Removing the artificial bureaucratic terms and in the loudest voice:
middle-man in Cardiff will bring children belong to their parents, not
Scrapping the Senedd is a positive government closer to the people. the State.
move, not a reversion to what was there It’s no surprise that the worst-
before. UKIP’s vision is to give power performing Health Board is the
to the people and not revert to the one furthest from Cardiff, in North
arrogant out-of-control politician-driven Wales.
system at Westminster that was there
before. Democratising the NHS,
which spends half the Welsh
75% of the Welsh budget goes Government’s budget would be
on the NHS and Education. Our a massive advance in grass-roots
policy wants people to have more democracy and release the palsied
powers in these areas, not less. grip of the Cardiff-Bay-cosy-club
NHS Wales has largely been run politicians.
from Cardiff with decisions imposed
by the Minister or appointed Health
Boards. The people who use the Education: A New Model
NHS get no say in how their local
NHS is run even though it is entirely At the moment, Labour’s national
funded by their taxes. If wrong Education policy is imposed from “Real devolution is not the
choices are made, no-one is held to Cardiff by a Minister whose own
constituency rejected Labour by 92% current sham where politicians
account, however great the disaster.
to 8%. Anyone opposing her ‘woke’ at Westminster devolve power
There was limited participation of agenda (e.g. prioritising ‘Black history’ to other politicians in Cardiff
over Welsh history or making sex
patients via Community Health
education compulsory in primary Bay or County Halls. Real
Councils (CHCs) in each NHS
area. But even that has now schools against parents’ wishes) democracy means transferring
been abolished by a centralising gets short shrift. Brecon & Radnor’s power to the people directly -
bossyboots Senedd Member doesn’t
Welsh Labour Government which
think she knows best; she knows she
making people, not politicians,
always thinks it knows what’s best
for people they see and treat as does. Anyone objecting is ignored or the real decision-makers.”
ignorant peasants - the voters. insulted as backward and ignorant.
They abolished the local CHCs and
replaced them with one CHC for Local schools administration and Neil Hamilton
policy is controlled politically by Leader, UKIP Wales.
the whole of Wales, appointed by
County Councils and parents are UKIP Candidate for South Wales East
the Minister in Cardiff. This is the
ignored. Hence, Welsh-medium & Islwyn
North Korean model of democratic
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TRANSPORT
IMMIGRATION
& ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
“Mass-uncontrolled migration has put an unprecedented strain on
school places, housing and healthcare. Competition for jobs has
suppressed wages, leaving many struggling to earn decent wages in
some of Wales’s poorest communities.”
“The current Welsh Labour Health Minister has suggested that it will
take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19.
For UKIP, Welsh Labour’s lack of ambition and dampening of
expectations is unacceptable.”
IMMIGRATION
UKIP believes in firm and fair immigration control. Migrants coming to Britain must have
desired skills, pre-arranged employment and financial security, enter legally and should
not displace British citizens from employment. Wales and the UK should always remain
welcoming places for those who want to integrate and contribute to British society
provided that they have entered and remain in the UK legally.
Net Migration taxpayer £1.2 million in policing costs, for migrants once they have
proved that Wales is ill-equipped to be worked in the UK for 10
In 2020, 715,000 people came to a “Nation of Sanctuary”. 1 in 4 people continuous years and have
Britain – the highest on record. Net in Wales live in fuel poverty and UKIP fully integrated into society.
migration stands at 313,000 - that’s a believes charity must start at home.
city the size of Cardiff added to the UK
population every year. UKIP pledges to:
Mass-uncontrolled migration has put an • Scrap Welsh Labour’s “Nation of
unprecedented strain on school places, Sanctuary” for illegal migrants
housing and healthcare. Competition and only award asylum to
for jobs has suppressed wages, genuine refugees proven to be
leaving many struggling to earn decent fleeing war torn countries who
wages in some of Wales’s poorest have arrived in the UK and
communities. Wales legally.
• Refuse asylum to migrants who
UKIP pledges to: have entered the UK illegally
from a safe country like France,
• Reduce net-migration to below Belgium or the Netherlands.
10,000 per year. • Repair the UK’s broken asylum
• Limit the number of migrants system which costs the British
who are awarded the right to taxpayer nearly £1 billion a
permanently settle in the UK. year, by establishing an effective
• Stop access to public housing or border force.
benefits until new arrivals have • Invest in the UK border force,
been a tax-paying resident in creating jobs for veterans who
the UK for five years. have left the armed services.
• Deport all foreign criminals
Illegal Immigration from the UK. “UKIP believes that
Illegal migration has sky-rocketed Non-Citizen Voting Rights Wales is ill-equipped for
under the Conservative Government Labour’s virtue signalling
in Westminster. In 2020, more illegal In this Senedd Election, Labour and
crossings were made than in 2018 and Plaid have awarded the right to vote for ‘Nation of Sanctuary’
2019 combined. non-British citizens. UKIP believes in the policy which aims to house
democratic principle of “no citizenship,
Worse still, the Labour-led Welsh no vote”. The right to vote is a privilege illegal migrants in Wales.
Government has designated Wales a and should be awarded to those who Charity starts at home -
“Nation of Sanctuary” for all illegal have made a long-term commitment to
migrants. The Senedd’s dangerous the United Kingdom. we must look after our
virtue signalling has encouraged own people first.”
more people to attempt the perilous UKIP pledges to:
journey across the English Channel in
• Reverse legislation that
Paul Campbell
inadequate small boats and dinghies. UKIP Candidate for
awards non-British citizens the South Wales Central &
Illegal migrant camps like Penally vote in Wales. Cardiff South & Penarth
Barracks in Pembrokeshire, costing the • Make citizenship obtainable
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HEALTH &
SOCIAL CARE
“The current Welsh Labour Health Minister has suggested that it will
take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19.
For UKIP, Welsh Labour’s lack of ambition and dampening of
expectations is unacceptable.”HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE
Devolution has caused catastrophic failure in the health service in Wales. Patient
outcomes, patient waiting times, ambulance waiting times are all worse. There has
been long-running financial mismanagement and incompetence. COVID-19 has
exacerbated many of these pre-existing problems. UKIP’s principles are to ensure that
our NHS remains free at the point of delivery; puts patients and families at the heart
of decision-making; is protected from any ‘health tourism’ by those who have not
contributed; solves long term health problems and conditions in an efficient way; and
is better prepared for future health challenges and virus epidemics, using British and
Welsh expertise and equipment.
Immediate Priorities meet targets in the areas of planned and Emergency in Wales was the
hospital treatment; A&E waiting times; highest on record in January 2020
UKIP pledges to: and ambulance waiting times. They at 6,882 patients, completely
are still failing to meet targets in these missing the Welsh Government’s
• Ensure without delay that areas in 2021. UKIP accepts that some then targets.
families are reunited with loved of these performance metrics may have • Only 70% of patients have been
ones in care homes, as a mental been skewed by COVID-19, partly seen within 4 hours of being in
health and wellbeing priority, owing to radically increased use of A&E, 25% below the target.
by proportionately assessing Personal Protective Equipment, new • The current target that 95% of
the reduced risk this poses in protocols and challenges. However, patients should spend no longer
light of an expected successful many performance targets were not than four hours in A&E, has never
vaccine roll-out programme met by Welsh Labour well before been met since it was introduced in
and an improved public health COVID-19. Our goal is to strike the 2010.
outlook. right balance between safety and • Only 53.7% of emergency
• Create an NHS recovery plan to effectiveness. responses to immediately life-
get all treatments back on track threatening calls (Red Calls) arrived
after disruption from lockdowns. Details of current under performance within eight minutes on figures
• Ensure the Welsh NHS detects include: released in 2021, failing to meet
cancer, or gives an ‘all-clear’, the 65% target.
within 28 days of referral. • Over 73,500 more patients were • The 65% target for life-threatening
• Pay Welsh NHS staff properly: on waiting lists for planned hospital calls for an ambulance arriving in
no cap to be set on pay treatment in early 2021. 8 minutes has not been met for at
increases; funds to be re- • The number of people waiting least five months in a row.
directed from paying pointless more than nine months for planned • Ambulances spent more than
bureaucrats and management hospital treatment in February 11,661 hours (an equivalent of
consultants excessive sums. 2021 was eight times higher than 485 days) outside emergency
• Continue to ensure that the full early 2020. departments waiting to transfer
course of the vaccine rollout is • 231,722 people have waited more patients in late 2020.
there for those members of the than 36 weeks for treatment to start
public who choose to have it. (almost half of all patients waiting UKIP pledges to:
• Oppose the introduction of for planned treatment).
‘Vaccine Passports’ in any form, • In February and March 2017, at • Support long-term investment in
and will immediately halt any least 22% of patients waited 27 staff and resources for a better
‘reviews’ of such proposals. weeks or more for treatment. NHS, no pay-cap for frontline
• Ensure free prescriptions in • The Welsh Government target of staff.
Wales remain, UKIP’s ambition treating 95% of patients within • Ensure, where possible, services
is to make this happen UK-wide. 26 weeks and having no-one are moved closer to people’s
waiting to begin treatment within homes and communities,
NHS Performance six months has clearly failed well e.g. support and in some
before COVID-19 and in 2021. circumstances (re-)establish
The Welsh Government has failed to • Those waiting 12 hours in Accident cottage hospitals.
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long-term plan for training • Ring-fence mental health
and developing the health and The number of patients referred funding at a higher level than is
social care workforce Wales for cancer treatment in April 2020 currently the case.
needs. dropped by more than 51% compared • Incentivise local authorities
• Review, with an aim of reducing, to March 2020. On figures this year, to protect the mental health
the number of self-standing on the urgent cancer pathway, 70.2% services they provide and to
organisations within the Welsh of patients started definitive treatment reverse cuts in community
NHS which receive tens of within the target time of 62 days. This is mental health services.
millions of pounds every year, below the target of 95% and is a fall on • Support provision of evidence-
despite a lack of evidence previous months. based psychological therapies,
about their impact on patient e.g. CBT within 28 days of
outcomes. UKIP pledges to: referral.
• Provide social care for elderly • Introduce formal and
people who find themselves • Ensure the Welsh NHS detects comprehensive data collection
unnecessarily confined to cancer, or gives an ‘all-clear’, on the relative success of talking
hospital. within 28 days of referral. therapies as compared to drug-
• Enable better collaboration • Establish ’one stop’ cancer based treatment.
between health boards and diagnosis and treatment • Improve psychological therapies
social services to allow care regional centres to lead the for children and young people
packages to be put back in fight against cancer and across Wales.
place more quickly once people improve patient survival rates. • Invest in the assessment and
are fit for discharge. • Assign a specialist cancer nurse treatment of ADHD, autism and
• Be rigorous about collecting to everyone who is given a other neuro-developmental
data. cancer diagnosis as their key conditions, including more
• Promote wiser use of the Welsh worker in the acute stages of severe conditions where young
NHS and encourage the public treatment. people develop psychosis.
to use minor injuries units • Ensure every person with cancer • Promote Child and Adolescent
where possible, given that there has a full needs assessment and Mental Health Services as an
is a much swifter treatment and written care plan. avenue for the most severe
discharge time. • Enable each person diagnosed cases.
• Ensure that all those travelling with cancer to receive timely
to the UK for work or pleasure and accurate information and Finance
from abroad maintain adequate support.
travel insurance arrangements Health boards amassed spending
to reimburse the NHS for any Mental Health deficits of £600 million by the start of
treatment received during their the COVID-19 crisis. £470 million of
stay. Mental Health treatment should have taxpayers’ money was used to partially
• Review the use of NHS facilities been on par with physical health care pay this off. If the boards were more
for private practice. prior to COVID-19 but it was not. competently managed in the first place,
• Be proactive in public health After COVID-19, there is even greater they would not have fallen into debt;
campaigns to encourage people urgency to drastically improve mental that £470 million could have been
to take responsibility for better health services and treatments, not least spent directly on the many treatments
care of their health so that, in the case of NHS staff, care workers, which have drastically fallen behind
where possible, we can prevent those providing palliative care and since COVID-19.
ill-health occurring in the first those suffering from bereavement who
place (education on nutrition were not able to say goodbye to loved One of the boards with the largest
and healthy lifestyles should be ones. deficit, Betsi Cadwaladr in North Wales,
a compulsory part of the school was controlled directly by the Welsh
curriculum). UKIP pledges to: Government until recently. Pointless
• Continue to ensure that bureaucrats we paid £5 million,
hospital car parking is free and • Charge one elected member including the infamous ‘Marbella
implemented UK-wide. of each local health board man’ £2,000 per-day-management
• Actively consider the to champion mental health consultant. This is a damning
reassessment of critical and provision. indictment of the Health Minister
emergency care hospitals for • Direct patients diagnosed with a and, more generally, politician and
people who live in central and debilitating long-term condition management-consultant abilities to
rural Wales. or terminal illnesses to mental protect our NHS.
health professionals when
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services are given parity with
• Stop all Welsh Health Boards physical health services and • Train the required number of
building up colossal financial that this is reflected in staffing doctors and nurses that we
deficits by insisting upon and budget allocations, and need in Wales and the UK.
governance parameters which investigate the causes of • Dramatically increase the
do not allow the build-up of increased mental health issues number of training places for
such large deficits. in order to tackle them at British doctors, nurses and
• Remove big devolved source. paramedics.
government and bureaucrats • Charge one elected member • Prioritise training our own NHS
from complete financial control of each local health board workers, rather than relying on
of the NHS, by involving directly to champion mental health recruiting medical staff from
elected health boards more. provision. abroad or paying extortionate
• Ensure that £2000-per-day • Better prepare for virus agency costs.
Spain based management epidemics with protective • Ensure low-paid NHS staff, who
consultants, and suchlike, do equipment provided by British use their private cars for work,
not preside over the Welsh companies, using objective are reimbursed in full for their
NHS again, by assigning decision making, and not mileage.
reasonable and proportional favouring crony-contractors. • Encourage the recruitment of
pay to managers from the start hospital doctors and GPs by
via the elected health boards’ UKIP’s elected health boards will: waiving repayment of tuition
mandates. fees while they work in the
• Cut the top-heavy size of local NHS, and ensure that there are
Power to the People: A Better health boards from 18-20 adequate student bursaries for
Way of Managing the NHS people in many cases to no nursing and midwifery students.
more than 11. • Ensure that students receiving
The seven Local Health Boards in • Have six elected non-executives NHS bursaries for university
Wales oversee hospitals and community constitute the majority of each courses work for a 3-year
services, as well as GP and dentistry local health board and one of minimum term within an NHS
funding. They are responsible for these would chair the board. setting following graduation.
deciding which treatments and services • Have up to five full-time • Introduce the equivalent of
are available and are also meant to executives who would constitute State Enrolled Nurses, and
ensure that hospitals meet waiting time the remainder of each local encourage more trainee nurses
targets. health board, potentially halving to enter the profession by this
the number of senior managers method.
UKIP will introduce locally elected getting six figure salaries. • Ensure that students receiving
health boards, putting patients and • Have the six non-executive NHS bursaries for university
families at the heart of decision- members elected by Single courses work for a 3-year
making and to ensure that our NHS Transferable Vote at the same minimum term within an NHS
never again becomes a Welsh-Labour time as council elections take setting following graduation.
monetary black hole. place in Wales.
• Invest savings from Dementia Care
UKIP’s elected health boards will: management costs in patient
care. Dementia is the leading cause of death
• Further refine UKIP’s NHS initial among women over the age of 55
recovery plan for future years Recruitment of Medical and a significant cause amongst men.
according to local needs. Professionals Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease were
• Cap senior management and the leading cause of death in the UK
advisor pay to be within a NHS staff on the frontline were in 2018. It can often be very difficult
reasonable ratio to the pay of facing significant strain as a result of to get help even after diagnosis of the
frontline staff. severe recruitment difficulties prior condition has taken place.
• Create a staffing strategy that to COVID-19. Since COVID-19 that
takes account of peaks and strain has further increased. It does UKIP pledges to:
troughs in demand, future not make sense to cut our own training
population and demographic programmes in the NHS to save money, • Improve carers’ access to
changes, to ensure that then recruit health professionals from support by sharing information
taxpayers are not forced into abroad, thus draining other countries of on benefit and social care
paying ludicrous overtime bills highly skilled professionals. entitlements and support groups
to maintain basic services. across all public services.
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Page 11• Train health staff to identify, end of life care, particularly in Lockdowns
support and involve carers of areas where Welsh is widely
people with dementia as well as spoken, so that first-language UKIP opposed the use of national
to enable quicker diagnosis. Welsh speakers with dementia lockdowns to combat the COVID-19
• Allow carers the right to or at end of life are able to epidemic which have caused a national
access wards, to participate in communicate comfortably. mental health crisis and plunged our
treatment decisions and to stay economy to the worst state it’s been in
with those that they care for in Cross Border Health Services in 300 years. We have always believed
hospital. & Devolution that there are better alternatives to
the suspension of civil liberties. The
Improved Use of the For those who live in Wales and are lockdown policy is directly responsible
Pharmacy Profession registered with an English GP, or who for many avoidable deaths from
live in England and are registered with untreated cancer and heart conditions.
The pharmacy profession offers a Welsh GP, disparity of waiting times No country has ever got healthier by
significant opportunities for patients to and unequal access to medication has making itself poorer and less free.
access pharmaceutical care, without become a major source of contention.
needing to join long NHS waiting UKIP pledges to:
lists. We acknowledge that long-term UKIP will Scrap the Senedd, subject to a
conditions, such as diabetes, affect referendum, and wants to implement its • End lockdown measures
acute hospital care through emergency policies at UK-level in an elected health and restrictions immediately,
admissions and readmissions. board managed integrated NHS, which particularly in light of the
does not sharply distinguish between successful vaccine rollout.
UKIP pledges to: the Wales-England border. • Oppose any notions of domestic
vaccine passports.
• Support the establishment In the meantime, UKIP pledges to: • Discourage the use of national
of a pharmacy-led Chronic lockdowns for future pandemics,
Medication Service to improve • Promote cooperation between instead looking into alternative
health outcomes for patients, the Department of Health approaches such as the
reduce pressures on GP and the Welsh Government to one proposed by The Great
services and help people live establish a single performers Barrington Declaration: shield
independently. list for GPs across England and the vulnerable - including
• Integrate pharmacist expertise Wales. through the use of vaccinations
into NHS Multidisciplinary • Support direct employment of - but do not chastise or imprison
Teams. GPs by local health boards for those not deemed at risk.
under-served areas.
Commitment to End-Of-Life • Seek to equalise the availability
Care of drugs for Welsh patients.
• Support integral national health
With an ageing population, a growing service provision along the
number of people will need access to border and to exchange best
palliative care. Patients with terminal practice.
conditions other than cancer, such as
those with dementia, heart failure or
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
are currently much less likely to get the
right care.
UKIP pledges to:
• Ensure that everyone who needs
palliative care has access to it.
• Develop community services
for those living with a terminal
illness.
• Conduct a bi-annual survey of
bereaved people to give a fuller
picture of end-of-life care.
• Improve Welsh language
provision for dementia and
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Page 12Social Care
UKIP believes that social care should
not put a person’s home and savings
in jeopardy if they have paid tax and
national insurance all of their life. We
will ensure that this principle is applied
in Wales.
UKIP also pledges to:
• Integrate the NHS and adult
social care and place the
combined service under the
remit of elected local health
boards. “I am passionate about
• Undertake a thorough review
of how to fund the increasing helping people with
demand for social care and disabilities, however
will consider supporting it via
a Sovereign Wealth Fund, or with Health Boards in
supporting it in other ways, such constant special measures,
as by reviewing government
spending of National Insurance unacceptable waiting
revenues. times and outrageous sums
• Support good quality, reliable
and affordable care services, being given to bureaucrats
including respite provisions, people find it increasingly
to enable families to have
a life alongside their caring difficult to get the help
responsibilities. that they need. It is clear
• Reduce the practice of
arranging home care visits in that politicians have failed
short time-windows. the Welsh NHS. It’s time
• Develop centres of excellence
for social work. to put our health service
• Provide support to return to in the hands of us - the
work when caring comes to an
end. people.”
Jeanie Barton
Health Professional.
UKIP Candidate for North Wales &
Clwyd West
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Page 13EDUCATION
“Whilst UKIP does not believe that education should be
devolved, we will do everything in our power to ensure that
high quality, responsive and politically neutral education is
provided for all learners in Wales.”EDUCATION
As a direct result of devolution, Wales has remained consistently bottom of the PISA
rankings in the UK on reading, maths, and science and continues to perform below
the OECD average. In some instances, education in Wales has been used as a tool for
political propaganda rather than learning. This must end.
School Funding their journey through education. studies. Over time, we would
also seek to fund a broader
Recent reports have found that out UKIP pledges to: range of languages such as
of £2.5bn allocated for education Russian and Mandarin at
in the Welsh Government’s budget, • Ensure that all primary schools secondary level.
£450m was never seen by schools, in any given local authority • Support the introduction
instead being kept by regional school have regular access to maths of mandatory ‘Citizenship’
improvement consortia or local and science specialists from lessons to teach students what
authorities. UKIP believes that this is universities and other schools it means to be a citizen in
unacceptable and funds would be who can visit, take some classes wider society and help them
better spent on frontline services rather and provide support to tackle develop applicable real-life
than quangos. current problematic standards skills such as an understanding
of literacy and numeracy. of basic economics and political
UKIP pledges to: • Increase the number of institutions, developing critical
study hours dedicated to the skills to discern fact from
• Dismantle the 4 schools development of literacy skills. propaganda and appreciating
improvement consortia in Welsh and British culture.
Wales and redirect their annual Curriculum • Give parents the right to
£150m budget directly to exempt their children from
schools, many of which are now It is crucially important that the Welsh language lessons in
in deficit. curriculum in Welsh primary and the schools they attend at the
• Order a transparent review secondary schools puts students on the age of fourteen. Nonetheless,
into where the rest of the right course to obtain employment or every school should aspire to
£450m is being spent and further education. UKIP believes that the provide Welsh lessons up to
where appropriate cuts can be curriculum should be oriented around GCSE and promote bilingualism
made to reduce bureaucracy these subjects and lessons, rather than between English and Welsh
and redirect funds to frontline mandatory teaching of less useful as a springboard for learning
schools. subjects. Some (such as the Welsh other languages, not as an
• Restore data comparison Baccalaureate) have been implemented alternative.
between England and Wales as a form of political propaganda. • End political correctness in
which was stopped by the schools and introduce a specific
Welsh Government in 2012 so UKIP pledges to: Act to prevent damaging
that important comparisons on political propaganda being
standards and funding can be • Scrap the Welsh Baccalaureate passed off as fact. Indoctrination
made. which is more time consuming of young minds is wrong. What
than equivalent qualifications, we must give them is the desire
Primary Education not valuable for future careers, and capacity to think freely for
not useful in applications for UK themselves.
A child’s introduction to education is universities and only serves to
vitally important, particularly now that negatively affect achievement in Sex Education
many have missed out on over a year other more relevant studies.
of education as a result of COVID-19. • Introduce the mandatory study Parents should have the overriding
This is when the pattern for learning of French, German, Spanish, influence over their children’s
is laid down and when literacy and or Italian in the first year of upbringing. However, the Senedd
good social skills are established, so primary school and ensure has taken unprecedented steps to
it is crucial that the primary education continuity between primary and interfere with how we raise our children
system in Wales sets our children up for secondary school language by making lessons on relationships,
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Page 15sex and religion mandatory for all the best possible career opportunities. UKIP supports the return to traditional
primary and secondary schoolchildren examinations in 2021. We see no
throughout Wales. UKIP believes that We aim to expand the thriving Welsh reason that exams - which are socially
the sexualisation of children must stop higher education sector with an distanced by nature – cannot take place
now. emphasis on teaching STEM subjects with the appropriate precautions.
and quality of research, whilst
UKIP pledges to: defunding degrees such as Gender Grammar Schools &
Studies that only act as cash cows for
• Allow parents to withdraw their universities and do nothing to improve Technical Colleges
children from RSE classes. the employability of students.
• End the teaching of sex UKIP wants Welsh pupils to be
education in primary schools truly given the chance to become
UKIP pledges to: the inventors, engineers, scientists
altogether. Any form of sex
education in primary schools and technicians that this country so
• Remove tuition fees for UK desperately needs. We must develop
is wholly inappropriate – kids domiciled undergraduates
should be allowed to be kids. 21st century skills in manufacturing,
taking degrees in Science, engineering and digital expertise. We
• Ensure that all parents are Technology, Engineering,
made fully aware of sex therefore believe that existing secondary
Mathematics and Medicine schools should have the opportunity to
education teaching materials (STEM) subjects in Wales on the
before they are used. develop into vocational or grammar
condition that graduates remain schools.
• Repeal the recently passed in the UK and continue working
Curriculum and Assessment in their relevant fields during
(Wales) Act. UKIP pledges to:
the loan repayment period.
• End taxpayer funding of • Encourage the establishment of
Further Education ‘social justice’ degrees with new grammar schools, which
limited job prospects (such as are a proven path to social
Further education offers a springboard Gender Studies) by making mobility for working class
for people who wish to improve their them ineligible for financing children.
skills in order to get back into the through Student Finance Wales. • Encourage the establishment
workplace. This is a sector of education Universities will still be able to of ‘free schools’ to depoliticise
that has been overlooked by successive provide these courses, however schooling in Wales.
Welsh Governments. UKIP believes that students will need to find
the further education sector needs to be alternative ways of funding their
protected and expanded to offer more fees. Teachers’ Conditions
quality courses and apprenticeships. • Retain the quality-related (QR)
budget that underpins world Too many teachers are bogged down
UKIP pledges to: leading research in Wales. in paperwork, working excessive hours
• Support part-time provision and struggling to find an acceptable
• Protect the future further of courses to widen access to work-life balance.
education budget in real terms. higher education and to help
• Promote a local approach for up-skill the Welsh workforce. UKIP pledges to:
the integration of skills with
economic growth strategies, • Decrease the amount of
Exams during Coronavirus paperwork teachers deal with,
adapted to the particular needs
of each individual community such as unduly elaborate
As a result of the coronavirus individual lesson plans,
across Wales. pandemic, there have been dramatic
• Recognise that people gain excessive data collection, overly
changes in the way assessment of prescriptive internal assessment
economically and socially useful qualifications will take place in Wales.
skills through learning. and dialogue-based marking
UKIP believes that the current proposal schemes.
that grades will be determined by • Radically overhaul teacher
Higher Education their school or college based on an training courses and refocus
assessment of the learner’s work is the training of educators to use
According to the Office for National wholly inappropriate. This method successful traditional teaching
Statistics, 40% of Welsh graduates of grading is unfair, particularly methods that focus on facts and
are in non-graduate jobs. UKIP will on students who have spent years excellence rather than post-
encourage students to choose courses developing skills to excel in the modern, deconstructive and
and careers that will help to fill the traditional exam component. This relativistic methods.
current skills gap, both to benefit Wales, system may also put students at a
the UK and to give our young people considerable disadvantage later in life.
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Page 16Home Schooling
UKIP supports the rights of parents who wish to educate their children at home and would encourage annual assessment of
the home schooled child’s wellbeing by the local authority.
Special Needs Support
Many young people in Wales with learning disorders are disadvantaged by late recognition of their specific difficulties, with
many waiting for years from referral to diagnosis. UKIP believes that early diagnosis followed closely by appropriate support
results in a better experience for the child and fewer problems for the school. In our view, investment at an earlier stage can
save money in the long term.
UKIP pledges to:
• Tackle the unacceptable waiting times for diagnostic assessment.
• Support the implementation of an ‘autism curriculum’, which captures not only children’s learning
requirements but also seeks to address social, emotional and communication needs.
• Reverse the policy of closing schools for special needs children.
• Introduce special educational needs modules in all teacher training courses.
• Allow time for staff to be given access to expertise and to be trained and work jointly with speech and
language therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, dyslexia assessors and mental health and social
care professionals.
Dan Morgan
UKIP Candidate for South Wales West
& Swansea East
“As a father, I believe parents should always have the final say on what
is taught to their children. UKIP has pledged to review the existing
curriculum, halting overtly sexual lessons, scrapping sex education in
primary schools and putting power back into the hands of parents to opt
their children out of sex education classes before the age of 16.”
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Page 17TRANSPORT
& ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
“The current Welsh Labour Health Minister has suggested that it will
take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19.
For
“TheUKIP, Welsh
Welsh Labour’s
economy haslack of ambition
struggled andwith
for years dampening
outdatedof
expectations
infrastructure and transport isnetworks.
unacceptable.”
Modernisation of our
transport links are long overdue.”TRANSPORT & ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
UKIP will renovate outdated transport networks and build the M4 Relief Road which
will attract more investment into Wales. We will create tens of thousands of new jobs
for local people whose livelihoods have been wrecked by lockdowns through the
designation of freeports and other tax-free zones across Wales.
M4 Relief Road services. The Beeching Cuts, as put • Oppose the devolution of Air
forward in the 1960s, devastated Passenger Duty.
The M4 through South Wales clearly railway services in Wales. We must
needs relief and improvement, most prioritise the electrification of key routes
urgently at the pinch approaching to bring Wales’s transport network into Economic Development
the Brynglas tunnels and particularly the 21st century.
considering the expected 38% rise in Following over a year of devastating
traffic along the M4 over the next 30 UKIP pledges to: lockdowns, the Welsh economy is on
years. its knees. Our once proud hospitality
• Support the plans for the and tourism sector is in ruins. UKIP
UKIP strongly opposed the Welsh electrification of the South is proposing a strong package of
Government’s decision to axe the Wales mainline to Swansea economic stimuli to get the nation back
vital relief road on unsubstantiated which were scrapped on the on its feet.
environmental grounds, thereby wasting grounds of over-inflated costs.
£150m already spent on the project. • Review the Beeching Cuts and, UKIP pledges to:
We believe this is a missed opportunity where appropriate, reopen
for economic development in Wales. train stations and railway lines • Save the Pub by cutting VAT
to improve travelling across on alcohol served in licensed
UKIP pledges to: Wales. We have recently seen premises from 20% to zero,
this with the reopening of Bow which we are free to do as a
• Support a regional referendum Street, however there are many result of leaving the EU.
on the M4 relief road. more existing lines that could be • Freeze business rates at zero for
• Support the building of the M4 reinstated. at least 12 months to help small
relief road. The ‘black route’ businesses recover.
proposal has already undergone Air Travel • Create a £100m recovery and
thorough investigative work. refurbishment fund for the
UKIP will also review the ‘blue We do not believe that government Welsh tourism industry.
route’ proposal, and take into should own or operate airports, as • Support the designation of tax-
account the future and overall this breeds inefficiency and stymies free zones and freeports which
cost of the proposed project. competition. We opposed the Welsh will create tens of thousands of
• End the years of gridlock on the Government’s decision to squander new jobs and revive our coastal
M4 – the main thoroughfare £52m of Welsh taxpayers’ money communities.
into Wales. on buying Cardiff airport and then • Call for an investigation on
• Trust the rigorous independent providing them with a further £28m in where a new motorway from
inquiry which concluded that loans after the airport posted losses of the Birmingham transport
the project was a good use of £18.5m in 2019. hubs into Wales could be built.
public funds, that environmental This new transport link would
objections were overstated and UKIP pledges to: not only increase connectivity
that it was in the public interest. between Wales and England but
• Sell Cardiff Airport immediately provide many thousands of jobs.
Railways to mitigate any further loss • Ensure more provision of bus
to Welsh taxpayers so a new services in rural and isolated
Wales has struggled for years with owner can operate it on a areas of Wales, particularly in
outdated and inadequate railways proper commercial basis. Mid and North Wales.
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Page 19TRANSPORT
ENVIRONMENT,
& ECONOMIC
ENERGY &
DEVELOPMENT
RURAL AFFAIRS
“The current Welsh Labour Health Minister has suggested that it will
take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19.
For UKIP, are
“Farmers WelshtheLabour’s lackofofthe
custodians ambition and dampening
Welsh countryside of
and the
heart of Wales’sexpectations is unacceptable.”
rural communities. As a direct consequence of
urban-centric Labour Party policy, farming is one of the most over
regulated industries in Wales.”ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY
& RURAL AFFAIRS
Farmers are the custodians of the Welsh countryside and the heart of Wales’s rural
communities. They play an irreplaceable role in the rural economy and wider society;
from rearing internationally acclaimed produce, like Welsh lamb, to the management of
land and pollution control. As a direct consequence of urban-centric Labour Party policy,
farming is one of the most over regulated industries in Wales.
Agriculture financial support for economic, Zones, which are for vital
social and cultural reasons to hatcheries and fish stocks.
UKIP believes the agricultural industry support the rural economy.
should be allowed to seize the • Strive towards greater self-
sufficiency. On average, the Animal Welfare
opportunities brought about by Brexit,
free from burdensome and ineffective UK is only 65% self-sufficient in
regulations passed down from the temperate agricultural products. Now Britain has left the EU, the UK can
Senedd. UKIP will implement a “Buy regain total control of animal welfare
Welsh Campaign”, targeted at issues. UKIP believes that best practices
consumers to purchase locally must implemented during rearing and
UKIP pledges to: sourced and reared produce. slaughtering to safeguard the welfare of
• Abandon re-wilding schemes animals.
• Overturn Welsh Labour’s and prevent farmland from
decision to designate all of reverting to scrub. UKIP pledges to:
Wales as a Nitrate Vulnerable
Zone (NVZ) and implement Fishing • Ban non-stun slaughter in all
a localised, evidenced-based slaughterhouses.
approach to tackle nitrate Brexit should have liberated the British • Increase the maximum jail
pollution in collaboration with fishing industry. UKIP stands with sentences for animal cruelty.
farmers and stakeholders. Welsh and British fishermen against • Install CCTV in every
• Launch a new and balanced the Conservative’s Brexit Deal betrayal slaughterhouse in Wales.
Bovine TB Eradication which surrendered the fishing industry • Ensure the UK Government fully
Programme. The Bovine TB to the EU for a second time. implements UKIP’s policy to ban
pandemic has plagued the beef all live animal exports.
and dairy sector for decades, UKIP pledges to: • Ensure all meat products are
resulting in the slaughter accurately labelled to include
of more than 10,000 cattle • Take full control of the UK’s the method of rearing and
every year. UKIP’s Bovine TB entitled Exclusive Economic slaughter.
eradication programme will Zone with exclusive access for
promote effective biosecurity British boats within 12 miles of
measures, review the stringent the coast.
controls on cattle movements • End European Court rulings
and directly address the that allow foreign ownership
transmission of the disease from of British flagged vessels and
wildlife to cattle by tackling ownership of UK quotas.
the disease in the wildlife • Achieve total independence on
population. future quotas and whether to
• Uphold Basic Farm Payments allow foreign vessels access to
for a minimum of five years. British waters.
Subsidies must focus on re- • Land and process a minimum of
equipping farmers and improve 70% of the UK’s catch in Britain.
land management. Upland • Establish Marine Conservation
farms will continue to receive Zones (MCZs) and No Take
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