First Minister at Royal Welsh Show

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
I'm with the First Minister mark track for the MS
at the Royal Well Show. First Minister, great to be
back to have the show up and running again three
year absence, jam packed. You couldn't be better apart from
extremely here maybe audio views on the show being back
in action.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well, it is great of course to see everybody back here,
and it's interesting. This is one of a series of
events I've been to where people say, until you get
back together again, you don't remember what you've missed. But
when you're suddenly back and you're able to meet people
and see it, it all comes back to you. And
people are very glad indeed to be home here in
Final Wealth and.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
You've had a good look around. I imagine this morning
some of the stores, the food, looked at the machinery,
what's keeping wheels going agriculturally?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
So much to see. You could spend a whole day
here and still have half the show to visit. So yes,
we're on a bit of a gallop from one place
till the next, but it is very important because the
next couple of years are pivotally for Welsh agriculture. Leaving
the European Union means that change is absolutely inescapable, and

(01:07):
we as a government are very committed to working hard
with our colleagues in the rural economy, active farmers to
make sure we design the future which is good for
the planet. And the only way you can get a
good future for Welsh farming is if you attend to
those climate change things. At the same time, and we
heard from.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
The President and some of the young men that were
looking at a different venture, joint venture, different ways of farming, diversifying,
and there were slightly critical work comments late this in
Well maybe it was a bit of nanny and going on.
Maybe they were for the wild thing. They weren't too
happy with that. But I'm guessing you're listening, you're in talks,
and you're constantly negotiating.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
With their Yeah, of course it has to be a
co constructed future, a future in which we rely on
collaboration and cooperation. I thought it was hugely encouraging to hear.
But what the young men said at that opening ceremony
full of optimism for the future. And one of the
reasons they're full of optimism is is that they see
themselves shaping that future. They're not asking themselves, what is

(02:12):
somebody else doing. Their first question is what can I
you do? And when you do that, you take your
future back into your own hands. And I thought that
was hugely encouraging.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I couldn't let you go without talking about Boris Johnson
and certain times, obviously some would describe it as a
disgraceful and dignified exit from Downing Street. You're looking to
get on with this now, hoping that the Conservatives would
get there, up together, get somebody in that you can
have a real dialogue with.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well, we do definitely need a different sort of future
with whoever wins. The last couple of years have been
the most difficult ever in the history of devolution because
we simply didn't have a government or a leader of
a government who was serious about the future of the
United Kingdom. Now what we need is somebody who will,
in a respectful way, get people around the table and

(03:02):
act together, because the interests of people in Wales are
in so many ways the same as people in England
and Scotland and Northern Ireland. And unless you have a
government at Westminster that's prepared to recognize that, we'll have
the troubles we've seen for the last two years.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
But amentized raising as we speak. So I'm gonna let
you get out to the sunshine. I'm out to dick Ford.
Of many times you speaking us today.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Old thank you very much. That's great, dim problem, thank you.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
I know