The annual Queen's Speech sets out lawmaking topics for the following 12 months of government. This is what it would say for Wales in a more hopeful world:
“The Queen’s Speech will clear away years of obfuscation and dithering, by committing to clear financial investment into the infrastructure and energy needs for the future of Wales.
Wales can produce more than twice the energy it needs in clean renewable energy. Wales will have the freedom to harness wind, tide and solar on a large scale, and empower and equip communities to generate their own energy. This will provide energy security, fuel price security, jobs and manufacturing. Wales will be financially helped to take advantage of this exciting approach in the short term. In the long term Wales will be exporting energy and expertise, and will pay its own way.
Wales’s emergent economic activity will be unconditionally financially supported by the Westminster government through electrification of the rail network to Swansea, the Valleys, and the North, and the money made available immediately.
A total ban on fracking in Wales. Industrialisation of the countryside by yet another form of polluting fossil fuel is not desirable for Wales. Valuable investment and subsidies which would have gone to fracking, will be diverted to improving energy storage capabilities.”