Close Menu
    Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething quits
    United Kingdom

    Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething quits

    Share.
    View 13 Comments

    13 Comments

    1. ConsciousStop on

      Unfortunately, most of rest of UK isn’t aware of what’s happening in Wales and NI. So here’s a quick summary:

      – Vaughn Gething, the current First Minister, accepted £200,000 in donations from Dauson Environmental, owned by David John Neal, during the Welsh Labour leadership contest in March, following then-First Minister Mark Drakeford’s resignation.
      – Gething won narrowly and became Welsh First Minister and the first black leader of any European nation.
      – Prior to this, David John Neal was loaned £400,000 by Welsh Government owned bank. The bank is under the control of Economy’s Minister, Vaughn Gething at the time.
      – David John Neal was given a suspended sentence in 2013 for illegally dumping waste and again in 2017 for not clearing it up. He also has ongoing criminal probes and the donation might have been to secure his future.
      – No rules were apparently broken.
      – Still left over money from this donation after the leadership contest was apparently even refused by UK Labour.
      – On D-Day Getthing had to be in Wales, and lost a vote of confidence in the Senedd (official name for Welsh Parliament).
      – Gething refused to resign citing 2 Labour members couldn’t vote because of absence. Labour holds 30 of 60 seats in Senedd, and rules don’t require him to resign.
      – Some of Gething’s WhatsApp messages screenshot during covid leaked. In it he acknowledged deleting messages incase it would be revealed during a Freedom of Information request in the future.
      – During UK Covid Inquiry, Gething concealed the fact that he deliberately deleted records of conversations with other ministers.
      – Gething accused his senior minister Hannah Blythyn for leaking messages and sacked her without any evidence or giving her a chance to defend.
      – The website who leaked the messages came out and said Hannah Blythyn is not their source.

      I may have missed stuff that has happened after and in the last 2 weeks. So someone please fill me in.

      ## **Fast forward to today- Vaughan Gething Resigns**.

    3. Popeychops on

      Yeah, he needed to go quickly. Feels like a day for burying bad news! But just like the England job, there’s no clear abundance of good candidates to succeed him.

    4. PoshFedex14 on

      Should of done it on july 4th. Could of gotten independence from all corrupt bastards.

    5. Nic_The_Cage_Cage on

      This morning’s actions definitely led to this but no doubt in my mind knowing the sort of person he is that the Southgate news dominating the media means that he’s done it now to try and slip out quietly.

    10. Charming-Potato4804 on

      So he gave Neal £400k as loan from Welsh bank and Neal gave him £200k.

      Nothing to see here!

    12. ChaoticChatot on

      It’s so weird how many party leaders recently have lasted so short a time.

      Off the top of my head, we had Edwin Poots last 3 weeks as DUP leader in 2021, Humza Yousaf made it about a year as SNP leader, Liz Truss as Conservative Leader and now this.

      I really don’t understand how these people get so far only to be immediately found out as incompetent.