Vaughan Gething has won the contest to become Labour's next leader in Wales, inheriting the role of First Minister in the process. Gething narrowly defeated his opponent, education minister Jeremy Miles, with 51.7% of the vote. Welsh Labour are very secretive about their membership numbers, so the exact number of votes was not released. This was Gething's second punt at the leadership, having contested the previous leadership contest, in 2018. Gething finished second of three candidates and some way behind the victor, Drakeford.
There was little to choose between the candidates, with both dedicated to the net zero plan to enslave humanity. Both acknowledged the widely despised blanket 20mph policy during the campaign, but both stated they would not reverse it. The war on the motorist in Wales will continue with pay per mile technology, to be implemented by the end of the decade. There is nothing to suggest Gething will waive this policy either.
The media heralded Gething's victory as 'the first black leader of Wales', or 'the first black leader of a European country'. Racist twaddle, which ignores the fact that Gething is the product of a Welsh father. Born in Zambia and raised in Dorset, Gething joined the Labour party in 1992 and later studied law at Aberystwyth University. Despite qualifying as a barrister, Gething decided to follow a career in politics. He was an unsuccessful Labour candidate in the first Welsh Assembly (as it was then known) election in 1999. He later became a councillor on Cardiff City Council, before successfully entering the Welsh Assembly in the 2011 election.
Gething would become a mainstay of the Welsh government, under the leadership of Carwyn Jones and Mark Drakeford. He was minister for health during the scamdemic and recently appeared before the UK Covid Inquiry, where he described missing WhatsApp messages as a 'real embarrassment'. Like their Scottish counterparts, Welsh government ministers - including Drakeford - could not provide their WhatsApp messages to the inquiry. As for Gething, he claims that his messages were 'wiped' when he handed his phone in for maintenance in 2022.
Gething's missing WhatsApps are far from the first controversy to afflict the minister. During the first lockdown in May 2020, he was photographed with his family eating chips at a picnic table in Cardiff. This act contravened Gething's own lockdown rules, but Drakeford's government defended him and declared that as this was a 'takeaway meal' it was permissible.
During the same period, Gething was also caught swearing about one of his own colleagues, MS Jenny Rathbone. Gething failed to mute his microphone during a video call and was heard to say: "What the f*** is the matter with her?", much to the amusement, bewilderment and horror of the participants (video below).
In 2017, Gething was being interviewed by ITV Wales and walked away after the reporter asked him about his failure to hold an inquiry into allegations that a hospital worker had sexually abused vulnerable patients. Background checks had not been carried out prior to the man's employment and he would later go on to murder his next door neighbour.
More recently, Gething was found to have received a £200,000 donation towards his leadership campaign from controversial businessman David Neal. Neal had been convicted twice of illegally dumping waste and Gething had earlier lobbied on his behalf, namely to get regulators to ease restrictions on Neal's company, Atlantic Recycling. The whole affair stank of more than just waste.
Gething Walks Away Mid-Interview
Gething Swears During Video Call
Vaughan Gething is expected to be sworn in as First Minister next week, but will not face the electorate until 2026, when the next Senedd elections are due to be held. With all three of Great Britain's main political leaders now from a non-white background, it remains to be seen whether the hysterical left will continue to portray our nation as 'institutionally racist'. Of course they will!
