Popeth ddywedodd Sioned Williams yn ei haraith i'r gynhadledd flynyddol

Araith Aelod o'r Senedd dros Gorllewin De Cymru, Sioned Williams i'r gynhadledd flynyddol.

Prynhawn da Gynhadledd.  

Wel mae'n braf i ymdeimlo a'r egni sydd yn ein cynhadledd ni y penwythnos hwn. Mae'r awch i wneud gwahaniaeth, yr angerdd dros sicrhau newid - newid gwirioneddol - i Gymru i'w deimlo ond yw e . Mae'n deimlad cyffrous. Ac mae'n llenwi fi â gobaith.  

Achos dwi'n eistedd yna, yn y Siambr yn y Senedd, wythnos ar ol wythnos, yn gwrando ar weinidog ar ol gweinidog - mae'n anodd cadw trac a dweud y gwir ! - er taw'r un hen wynebau sydd yn cylchdroi ac yn cylchdroi ers degawdau - rwy'n eistedd yna yn gwrando ar Lafur yng Nghymru yn addo y byddan nhw yn cyflawni dros ein cenedl.  

Ac mae hyd yn oed gweinidog cyflawni i gael nawr cofiwch gan fod hyd yn oed Eluned Morgan wedi gweld bod angen i rywun atgoffa'r llywodraeth bod y gweinidogion angen cyflawni! - mae'n druenus a dweud y gwir. Yn druenus ac yn destun pryder, ac yn fwy na dim yn destun rhwystredigaeth i ni sydd yn gwybod y gall Datganoli gyflanwi gymaint mwy i bobl Cymru. Ac y gallai annibyniaeth gyflanwi gymaint eto.  

Achos rwy'n eistedd yna, yn gwrando ar y geirau twym, yr aer poeth, ar yr addwewidion i gyflawni ar yr hyn sydd yn hanfodol i sicrhau llewyrch a thegwch i bobl Cymru - addewidion gwag, yr un addewidion ers pum mlynedd ar hugain!  

Rwy'n eistedd yna yn gwrando ar addewidion am wella safonau yn ein hysgolion, tra bod ysgolion yn wynebu toriadau a thargedu i recriwtio athrawon yn cael eu colli flwyddyn ar ol blwyddyn.  

Rwy'n eistedd yna lle yn gwrando ar Eluned Morgan yn rhestru yr holl wariant sy'n mynd ar daclo tlodi plant, tra bod hi a'i llywodraeth yn gwrthod pwyso ar Keir Starmer na Rachel Reeves i gymryd y cam allai dynnu degau o filoedd o blant Cymru mas o dlodi drwy scrapio'r cap ar fudd-daliadau a'r terfyn dau blentyn.  

A phan nes i holi Eluned Morgan a fyddai'n sefyll lan dros blant Cymru, dywedodd nad ei job hi oedd hynny, ac os nag on i'n hoffi beth odd llywodraeth Lafur Starmer yn ei wneud dylen i sgrifennu at fy aelod seneddol!  

Dyw tlodi ddim yn rhywbeth dylem dderbyn fel rhan anochel o fywyd Cymru  - dylai banciau bwyd ddim bod yn rhan normal o'n cymunedau.  Y prif rwystr i wneud cynnydd ar fynd i'r afael â thlodi plant yng Nghymru yw penderfyniadau y  gwleidyddion yn Llundain a San Steffan sy'n dal awenau grym. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi penderfynu peidio â gosod targedau statudol, wedi penderfynu peidio â galw ar Lywodraeth Lafur San Steffan i gael gwared ar y cap dau blentyn a'r cap ar fudd-daliadau, wedi penderfynu peidio â blaenoriaethu bwydo pob plentyn o deuluoedd incwm isel yn ein hysgolion uwchradd, wedi penderfynu peidio â sicrhau bod y plant tlotaf yn cael eu bwydo yn ystod gwyliau'r ysgol. 

And Health and Social Care - well where do I start? The political hits are sadly easy for us when we face the Welsh Givernment across the benches in the Senedd, but the consequences are hitting people so hard. And it's unacceptable.  

I sit there listening to nostalgic paeans to Aneirin Bevan and claims that the NHS is secure - while our Health Boards  are millions of pounds in deficit, and Plaid Cymru’s call for over a decade that the doctors and nurses we need be trained, and given the tools to give the level of care they want to,  have been ignored, and a destabilising recruitment and retention crisis is the result! 

Because there was no change in July whatever the slogans and placards said. The only real change we have felt in Wales since that election was that the people of Ynys Mon now have a true champion for them in Westminster in inspirtaional Llinos Medi and the people of Caerfyrddin have a true force of nature at their side in Ann Davies.  Mae'n codi calon i weld y ddwy yna wrth eu gwaith gyda Ben a Liz yn San Steffan ond yw e.  

No the air in Wales is full of nothing but broken promises from Labour.  

Broken promises that the days of chronic underfunding for our councils and public services would be over.  

Broken promises to the thousands of people in Port Talbot and its surrounding communities that their jobs would be saved, that they would not be thrown on the scrapheap.  

And broken promises to the children who are growing up in poverty that the cruel austerity measures which punishes them for the size of their familiy, would be history along with the Tories.  

And this winter will be even colder than the last one for the half a million Welsh pensioners who will lose the Winter Fuel Payment, putting their health at risk.  

Yes the self-serving Tories stripped our public services to the bone, trashed the economy, undermined devolution, stirred up division and hatred in our communities, turned their backs those who needed the most support.   

But now we have a Labour government who appoints Downing Street cast off as envoys to Wales, who refuse to reverse Tory cuts and impose some of their own, who are still starving Wales of the funding it's entitled to.    

She's being a bit hard on Labour, I've heard some say.  

We live at a time when the Right is ascendant, the xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-European right at that. So the parties of the centre and the left need to work together.  

I accept that principle and we have, of course in thte best interest of the people of Wales.  

Indeed, where Labour do have have something to shout about – free school meals for all primary children  for instance, - well it was us, Plaid Cymru who delivered that against continual Labour resistance , who achieved it through co-operation and through campaigning.  

But imagine what we could do if we were in power.  

Because that's what I do. When I'm sitting there. in that Siambr in the Senedd. When I see a Labour Government out of steam, out of ideas and out of time.   

Rolling back, - on progressive policies such as making council tax fairer,  

Rolling over, when Starmer says no to giving us the powers we need on policing, justice, gender equality,  - I could go on and on.  

But let's instead think about what real change means. What it looks like.  

There is another election upon us, and we have to be out on the streets making our case, making our voices heard for real change. For change that will bring hope, to the communities all over Wales from Pontardawe to Penygraig, from Rhosllannerchrugog to Rhymni, from Caerdydd to Cwmbran.  

We know what we’ll get from Reform, - immigration, immigration, immigration. A politics that appeals to people’s basest instincts. A politics that divides. Historians of the future will be astonished by the extent to which the Conservative party has followed the far right’s rhetoric and the way Keir Starmer, while distancing Labour from  the right's methods and rhetoric around immigration won't challenge their underlying position.  

Politics is about making the case, persuading people of looking at things in another way. 

And that conference is the strength we have in Plaid Cymru. We know that there is an alternative and we won’t let them divide us. Ours is a politics of bringing people together and sharing a vision.  

Well, we can do that with Labour - some will say. 

I don’t think so. I think so even less having sat in the Senedd. 

Because in the face of the proven unfairness of the way we’re funded, in the face of the obvious injustice of HS2, in face of thousands of job losses in our steelworks, and in the face of an anti-European Right that run roughshod over our history and interests as a people, I’m tired of having to listen to a Welsh government that is too embarrassed, too weak  to make the case for Wales.  

I’m tired of the easy lazy slogans that all the Unionist parties throw at 

anyone who believes in an independent future for our nation:  

"Welsh independence means economic disaster, means separation, means closing our doors to the world” 

And instead of standing up and saying, "Well, excuse me, you British Centralist, 

elitist, anti-devolution, anti-democratic, anti-Welsh language, pro-status quo, longing-for-a-Britain-that-no-longer-exists xenophobe!” we have a government that cowers in the corner and says "Please. Don’t. Hurt. Me, 

“We’ll behave”. “we won't make a fuss”. 

Those days, frodyr a chwiorydd, are surely over. 

Let’s have a real discussion, a real choice. 

(Some of you who love a certain American political drama will know where the inspiration for those last lines came from! ) 

We have another vision for Wales’ future. its bold. It's clear.  

Byddwn yn buddsoddi yn ein plant a'n pobl ifanc - i'w hatal rhag cael eu creithio gan dlodi, i sicrhau eu bod yn cael y dechre gorau mewn bywyd drwy greu system gofal plant o ansawdd uchel, fforddiadwy, drwy sicrhau bod gan eu hysgolion a'u colegau yr adnoddau iw' cefnogi i greu dyfodol llewyrchus i'w hunain ac i gyfrannu at ddyfodol llewyrchus i'n cenedl.  

Byddwn yn sicrhau tegwch - fel bod pob un o'n cymoedd a'n cymunedau gwledig yn cael eu gwasanaethu gan drafnidiaeth gyhoeddus reolaidd a fforddiadwy, canol trefi llewyrchus a bywiog, ble mae'n busnesau lleol yn cael eu cefnogi a'n cymunedau yn elwa'n llawn o'r ynni glan adnewyddol sy'n cael ei greu ynddynt.  

Byddwn yn sicrhau yr hawl i wasanaethau sylfaenol, yr hawl i gartref fforddiadwy, yr hawl i gyfiawnder economaidd - nid cadw i drwsio tyllau yn y rhwyd diogelwch.  

Rwy wedi blino ar wylio llywodraeth flinedig. Mae'n amser i greu y newid ryn ni gyd angen ei weld ac yn awchu ei weld. Drwy gynnig polisiau sydd a buddiannau pobl Cymru wrth ei gwraidd, anghenion ein cymunedau ymhob rhan o Gymru, lles ein plant, a thegwch i'n cenedl.