Today I’m in Llandudno for the Wales TUC conference.
It’s clear from talking to friends and colleagues here that there are grave concerns amongst Welsh trade unionists about the potential risk to our NHS from Brexit in just a few weeks.
The NHS in Wales has been a battleground in recent years, and now elements within the Conservative Party and the political fringes want to put the Welsh NHS on the line again by taking us out of Europe.
Of course, the Leave campaign claim that they want more money for the NHS, but dubious figures and fairytale claims that there would be more cash for the NHS in Wales if the UK were to vote leave next month should not take anybody in.
The reality is that the already precarious finances of the NHS would be placed in ever greater jeopardy as a result of the economic uncertainty which would result from a sudden break from Europe. And the health service in Wales would not be immune.
The leave campaign’s loudest cheerleaders Boris Johnson and Michael Gove don’t even support a publicly funded NHS. In the past, they’ve backed introducing charges for patients and opening up more of the health service to private firms who will put profit ahead of patient care.
Voters in Wales should treat the Brexiters new-found faith in the NHS with extreme caution.
