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My grandfather was a politician, | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
very involved in traditional Labour values and politics | 0:00:10 | 0:00:14 | |
in the valleys of South Wales, so that dominated my upbringing. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
He opened the library and the library is where I did my study, | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
the library is where my mother worked, | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
the library is where I got my education. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
You know, the famous song of The Manic Street Preachers, | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
"Libraries gave us power". You know, it was seen as something, | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
that knowledge, together with the exercise of political choices, | 0:00:30 | 0:00:35 | |
would together give power | 0:00:35 | 0:00:36 | |
and I think that's still true for politics now. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
We have a unique set of circumstances here. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
We're a bilingual nation, we have a great interest in culture | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
and the wider sense of self-improvement and education. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
Ready? Do it together. Ready? | 0:00:48 | 0:00:49 | |
Un, dau, tri, pedwar... | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
Every time we invest in a young person in Wales, | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
we're making a statement that says we believe in the future, | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
we believe that things can get better | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
and we believe that if we give people the skills and the energy | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
and the ideas and the knowledge, | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
they can shape the future for themselves | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
and be part of shaping our own future then, as a nation. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
I lost my mother a few months before the opportunity arose | 0:01:26 | 0:01:30 | |
to go into politics and she'd always worked very, very hard | 0:01:30 | 0:01:36 | |
for community and for Wales. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
So losing her made me realise | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
that the time to talk, | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
the time to think, | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
had to come to an end and that it | 0:01:47 | 0:01:51 | |
had become a time to take action. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
When you lose somebody close to you, | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
that makes you see the world in a different way. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
Now, we've had a look at what we've put together with | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
Welsh businesses... | 0:02:04 | 0:02:05 | |
'We need to help small businesses, | 0:02:05 | 0:02:07 | |
'through cutting their business rates.' | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
It's confident, it's ambitious... | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
'We need to invest more public money with Welsh companies, | 0:02:11 | 0:02:15 | |
'give more contracts to Welsh companies. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
'These are some of the ideas that can' | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
form the start of a new chapter in Wales's economic history. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:25 | |
Change that culture within Wales, bring that confidence back, | 0:02:25 | 0:02:29 | |
bring that joint ambition back, | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
that we can go places if we put our minds to it. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
I remember being concerned about political issues | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
when I was quite young. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:58 | |
My grandmother in particular was a very strong character | 0:02:58 | 0:03:02 | |
and she'd experienced quite severe difficulties growing up | 0:03:02 | 0:03:06 | |
in the 1930s, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
and she was also quite moral. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
She wouldn't be fazed or persuaded to do something | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
that she didn't want to do. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:17 | |
It certainly helped shape a lot of my early thinking, politically. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
Well, when they first done the first procedure, we didn't know | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
and we were told initially that everything's fine... | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
We've put together a programme which tries to tackle | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
some of the problems that we have within our health system. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
Our contract for cancer will give a diagnosis or the all-clear | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
within 28 days, and that will make a big difference | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
to many people for whom cancer is a big problem. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:46 | |
We're going to end the postcode lottery in new treatments and | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
diseases and we're going to end the anomalies between | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
health and social care, where people have to pay for some elements | 0:03:52 | 0:03:56 | |
of social care, where they get other aspects for free. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
These are some of the challenges that we face in the health service | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
that can be put right with a Plaid Cymru government. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
There's nothing inevitable about the next government. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
It's in people's hands, and it's in people's control. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
If people want to do something differently now, | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
they have an opportunity to do so. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 |