English: Two things happened this week that should give everyone pause for thought when it comes to the prospect of a shared prosperity fund designed by this current UK Government. The first is the report from Communities in Charge, already referred to by my colleague Alun Davies. Those stark figures - a £200 cheque for every Londoner, a £700 bill for every Welsh person - show what awaits this country from a Whitehall-managed scheme. The fact that these numbers are based on current economic development spending by the UK Government merely underlines how far we are away in Wales from getting a fair deal from the Tories. You can be sure that if the deal is bad for Wales it will be worse still for the south Wales Valleys, the area that benefits most from current structural funds. The second development, which happened almost simultaneously to the Communities in Charge publication, was the decision of the Secretary of State for Wales to back Boris Johnson in the Tory leadership campaign. Now, we can argue that this contest shouldn't matter to the debate, but it does. It matters hugely. The person who has asked us to trust him to be Wales's voice at the Cabinet table made his decision on who to support after Boris supported tax cuts for the better off, a move that would see nearly £200 million put into the pockets of the richest people in Wales, whilst nearly £500 million would be lost for Welsh schools and hospitals. Does that really sound like someone looking after Wales's interests? Tax cuts for the wealthy is anathema to the aims of the European structural fund programme, which is about economic solidarity and support for those who need it most. So, it is the Secretary of State, who has already overseen the loss of the tidal lagoon, rail electrification and Wylfa Newydd, who is asking us to trust him to deliver a shared prosperity fund that will be fair for Wales - a Secretary of State who would rather back Bristol Airport than Cardiff, and who claims we should look on economic development spending in England as a godsend for Wales. There is nothing in the track record of this UK Government that gives credence to their claims that devolution will be respected in the development of a new fund. It has from the start been a naked power grab by the Secretaries of State in Wales and Scotland in a desperate bid to exercise relevance in a world that has passed them by. We are not talking about a shared prosperity fund, we are talking about a shambolic, preposterous fraud. Indeed, the only rationale on which a new, centralised scheme is being defended by the Tories is what they see as inefficiency in how the latest rounds of European funding have been spent, and yet the evidence to the contrary is here for all to see.
Welsh: Digwyddodd ddau beth yr wythnos hon a ddylai roi rhywbeth i bawb ei ystyried o ran y posibilrwydd o fod â chronfa ffyniant gyffredin wedi'i chynllunio gan Lywodraeth bresennol y DU. Y cyntaf yw'r adroddiad gan Communities in Charge, y cyfeiriwyd ato eisoes gan fy nghyd-Aelod Alun Davies. Mae'r ffigurau moel hynny - siec o £200 i bob unigolyn yn Llundain, bil o £700 i bob unigolyn yng Nghymru - yn dangos yr hyn sy'n wynebu'r wlad hon gyda chynllun a reolir gan Whitehall. Nid yw'r ffaith bod y ffigurau hyn wedi'u seilio ar wariant cyfredol Llywodraeth y DU ar ddatblygu economaidd ond yn tanlinellu pa mor bell i ffwrdd yr ydym yng Nghymru o gael bargen deg gan y Torïaid. Gallwch chi fod yn siŵr, os yw'r fargen yn ddrwg i Gymru, y bydd yn waeth byth i Gymoedd y de, sef yr ardal sy'n elwa fwyaf ar y cronfeydd strwythurol presennol. Yr ail ddatblygiad, a ddigwyddodd bron ar yr un pryd â chyhoeddiad Communities in Charge, oedd penderfyniad Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru i gefnogi Boris Johnson yn ymgyrch arweinyddiaeth y Torïaid. Nawr, gallwn ddadlau na ddylai'r gystadleuaeth hon fod yn bwysig i'r ddadl, ond mae yn bwysig. Mae'n bwysig iawn. Gwnaeth y sawl a ofynnodd inni ymddiried ynddo i fod yn llais Cymru wrth fwrdd y Cabinet ei benderfyniad ar bwy y dylid ei gefnogi ar ôl i Boris gefnogi toriadau treth ar gyfer pobl gwell eu byd, cam a fyddai'n arwain at roi bron i £200 miliwn ym mhocedi'r bobl gyfoethocaf yng Nghymru, tra byddai bron i £500 miliwn o golled i ysgolion ac ysbytai Cymru. A yw hynny'n swnio'n wir fel rhywun sy'n gofalu am fuddiannau Cymru? Mae torri trethi ar gyfer y cyfoethog yn anathema i nodau rhaglen y cronfeydd strwythurol Ewropeaidd, sy'n ymwneud ag undod a chefnogaeth economaidd i'r bobl hynny sydd ei angen fwyaf. Felly, yr Ysgrifennydd Gwladol, sydd eisoes wedi goruchwylio colli'r morlyn llanw, trydaneiddio'r rheilffyrdd a Wylfa Newydd, sy'n gofyn inni ymddiried ynddo i ddarparu cronfa ffyniant gyffredin a fydd yn deg i Gymru - Ysgrifennydd Gwladol y byddai'n well ganddo gefnogi Maes Awyr Bryste na Maes Awyr Caerdydd, ac sy'n honni y dylem ni ystyried gwariant datblygu economaidd yn Lloegr yn fendith i Gymru. Nid oes dim yn hanes Llywodraeth hon y DU sy'n rhoi coel ar eu honiadau y bydd datganoli'n cael ei barchu wrth ddatblygu cronfa newydd. O'r cychwyn, bu'n ymgais amlwg i gipio pŵer gan yr Ysgrifenyddion Gwladol yng Nghymru a'r Alban mewn ymgais anobeithiol i arfer perthnasedd mewn byd sydd wedi mynd heibio iddynt. Nid ydym yn sôn am gronfa ffyniant gyffredin, rydym yn sôn am dwyll anhrefnus, hurt. Yn wir, yr unig resymeg sydd gan y Torïaid i amddiffyn cynllun newydd, canolog, yw'r hyn y maen nhw'n ei ystyried yn aneffeithlonrwydd yn y ffordd y mae'r cylchoedd diweddaraf o arian Ewropeaidd wedi eu gwario, ac eto mae'r dystiolaeth i'r gwrthwyneb i hyn ar gael yma i bawb ei gweld.