South Wales Evening Post column, March 14, 2025
STUDENTS of rock music will be familiar with Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s 1970s hit You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet. You can start humming the tune if you like; it may come to be the theme music to the changes afoot in the Welsh Senedd (Parliament). In the political world (where nothing is certain), one thing is certain - the Welsh Senedd of 2026 will be substantially different to what it is today. You’ll start to notice the changes next month, when work starts to kit out the Senedd chamber for an additional 36 new members. Did we ask for 96 Senedd members? I can’t remember submitting a request. How much is it all going to cost? Er . . . we don’t really know. The last bit seems reasonably important as the most recent bits of mail dropping through the letterbox here at Lloyd HQ have been about coughing up more money. County council tax increases, water bills up by 20 per cent, energy bills still heading north . . . even our local community council decided on a 30 per cent increase in its ...