Four councillors argued the council had not fully considered the impact the decision would have on districts and borough councils, given the ongoing work towards local government reorganisation.
Waters said the "recipe for recovery" in Wales was "being presented as a focus on 'bread and butter' issues and better communication, not a deeper challenge to the system of power and inequality".His blog criticised the first minister over comments she made on
Asked about what powers should lie in Cardiff, Morgan said she would not be giving powers back to Westminster but suggested "there are little areas around the edges, things like youth justice" that could be devolved.Waters said Morgan had made "no mention of the Welsh government's long-established policy of devolving policing and justice"."The risk with this approach is that it does nothing to challenge the perception that after over a century as the dominant party in Wales the Labour Party is seen as the establishment and simply seeks to manage the status quo," he said.
David Costa, who is a member of Welsh Labour's executive committee, criticised the former minister on social network Bluesky.He wrote the analysis "would be a lot more convincing had his ham-fisted presentation and implementation of the intrinsically sensible 20mph policy not sparked a hugely damaging populist backlash".
"Democratic politics is about convincing others not just parading your own virtue."
Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru leader, told a news conference the blog was a "realisation Labour is in a very very difficult situation".Early reviews called her music "hackneyed", "lightweight" and "emotionless". After watching her first Australian tour in 1990, the Sydney Morning Herald declared: "It is amazing how successful mediocrity can become."
"It wasn't cool that people were as nasty as they were," she says now, "and it wasn’t some invisible person behind a keyboard."These were grown adults who should have known better."
"To be honest, I don't know what made me keep going," she replies. "But one of the blessings is that I had a job and I had to show up to work."There were definitely times when I would have liked to hide in a cave, so it's good if you have that responsibility [of acting]. You have to show up, and then you're distracted by other things."