model-willem starts off his campaign with a speech in a park in front of the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea

“A very good morning to every single person here today in Swansea, the city I am very pleased to represent in the Senedd this term. Swansea is an important city for Wales and as the second biggest city in Wales it is an important part of our economy. As you all know Swansea is a great place to live in, but it also has its problems and its hardships, which are all unnecessary, in my opinion.

Over the last few years, we have seen different Governments led by leftist parties like Llafur and Plaid Cymru mostly, which have been hurting Wales due to high taxes, high spending, and more bureaucracy in a lot of sectors. These Governments have been the cause for extravagant spending on free tutoring, unnecessary funding for the NHS without results, or devolution for devolution-sake. We, as Welsh Libertarians think that this can be different and should be different, to make the lives of every Welsh person better, easier, and cheaper.

For example, we have seen unnecessary high taxes put on you, the Welsh people, to pay for these leftist pet projects, such as modern theatre or free tutoring for all. We believe that the Welsh people should be able to keep more of the money that they worked very hard for to earn. The Senedd lately acquired the powers to set their own tax rates, which I believe was a bad decision, because we believe that this is something that should have been done by the UK Parliament in Westminster. However, we believe that we should reduce our taxes and to make sure that the tax burdens are lowered for every person in Wales. We could’ve done this already through the WRIT, something that already was devolved, so we didn’t really have an additional reason to devolve this power to the Senedd.

I believe in the lowering of taxes, because in this cost-of-living crisis and through the current inflation levels it is important that we make sure that you, keep more money available to invest and to pay for products and services so you all can continue to improve our economy, which is so necessary. I also believe that we should work with the UK Government to lower taxes, not only income taxation, but also on taxes for businesses, tourism, and for healthy products such as fruits and vegetables. All of this will improve either our health or our economy and who would disagree with either one?

However, lowering taxes is not going to be the only thing that we want to do, we also want to spend money, just on different things than the leftist parties. We believe that we should invest more into research, more money for GPs and nurses, more funding for primary education, and more money for police officers. All these things are essential for making Wales better and safer. By putting more funding towards research and innovation will ensure that businesses across the board can improve their services and their products. By doing this we can make businesses prosper more and thus its employees can thrive and in the end our economy can thrive due to investments in businesses and people.

We as Welsh Libertarians believe that you should be able to keep more of your income, the money you worked very hard for, so you can take back a bit of control over your own business and your own actions.”