Online Articles
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Southern Cross, Four Seasons, and now Terra Firma
- June 22, 2012
- Posted by: Mark Drakeford AM
- Category: Online Articles
No CommentsAn article published for the Institute of Welsh Affairs where Mark argues that the current system of regulating care homes is palpably incapable of defending the public interest: Following last year’s collapse of Southern Cross, 140 residential care homes – including seven in Wales – in that company’s possession were transferred to another private sector provider,
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Labour advances west of the Loughor and the Clwyd
- May 11, 2012
- Posted by: Mark Drakeford AM
- Category: Online Articles
Mark Drakeford says the challenge for all parties is to drag democracy into the world which today’s voters occupy May 10th, 2012 Last week’s county council elections were outstandingly successful for Welsh Labour, meeting and beating the Party’s own expectations. Not only did the party resume its dominant position in its traditional heartlands, it also
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Politicians with hinterland
- December 23, 2011
- Posted by: Mark Drakeford AM
- Category: Online Articles
Mark Drakeford looks back at the lives of two Welsh socialist leaders who offer lessons in humanity for our own era December 23rd, 2011 The final stretch of 2011 was a cruel one for those involved in Labour politics in Cardiff. Within a few weeks, we witnessed the deaths of both Caerwyn Roderick and Bob
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‘Following Rhodri will be a challenge’
- October 13, 2011
- Posted by: Mark Drakeford AM
- Category: Online Articles
New Assembly Member Labour candidate for Cardiff West Mark Drakeford has some big shoes to fill. He writes about running for the job This is the first in our series introducing new Cardiff candidates running in the Assembly elections next year. Meet Mark… I’m Mark Drakeford. Born and brought up in Carmarthen, I moved to
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Contagion threatened from NHS in England
- October 7, 2011
- Posted by: Mark Drakeford AM
- Category: Online Articles
Mark Drakeford warns that privatisation of the English health service will impact on Wales October 7th, 2011 Early on what was to be the hottest October day on record, I boarded a train for York, to take part in the annual conference of the National Health Service Consultants’ Association. Now, York is a very long
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