English: The premise of this debate today is a Conservative motion that asserts that the Conservative UK Government is failing local communities, or it should be. My communities are great communities. They've been challenged often over many decades, they've bowed sometimes, but they're never beaten, and they're full of great people. I sometimes feel that people from outside the Valleys never quite get the deep sense of belonging and rootedness that keeps us there and keeps us tight through thick and thin. And we've been through really tough times and we've come through. But the failure we see at the moment is a failure of UK Government to empathise with and understand and respond positively to the challenge of these communities. And with respect to Conservative Members here in the Chamber today, on the benches opposite, Conservative Governments traditionally have not been the friend of my communities. We were once described as, indeed, 'the enemy within' by Margaret Thatcher. And the enemy within, of course, was not the miners alone themselves - it was their families, it was their communities, it was the people who were there. And it's forgetting, of course, that this was always, even back then, about people looking for fairness and social and economic justice. But, of course, that's ancient history, isn't it? Times have changed, things have moved on, it's another time, it's, indeed, another century. So, let's fast forward. The faces may have changed, but the attitude, unfortunately, was revealed yesterday from the interview with Prime Minister Boris Johnson - it's the same old same old. His appearance on yesterday's GMTV, after five years' of absence, was instructive. The interviewer asked the Prime Minister a very straightforward question, on what more could be done to help Elsie, who is choosing to travel on the buses all day to keep warm because she cannot afford to heat her home and to eat as well - she has no money left. 'What more can be done?', asked the interviewer. His answer - after fumbling and stumbling to find a straight answer, he then, in a moment of supreme narcissism, took credit for introducing the bus freedom pass that Elsie can make use of. How delighted Elsie must have been that she has a Prime Minister who provides warm, free buses to look after her while her home freezes. After this, the interviewer, shocked at this response, pushed the Prime Minister again on what else could be done for Elsie, who has exhausted all other options available to her. 'Would it be worth taking VAT off heating?', she asked, 'What about a windfall tax on the shocking profits of the fossil-fuel energy companies, who are currently using their proceeds to balance their accounts and pay dividends instead of helping Elsie?' Again, the Prime Minister performed what he might have referred to, actually, as a Chaucerian trick, what Chaucer might have referred to as the oral equivalent of flatulence. He faffed and he fluffed away, explaining there was nothing more he or his Government could do. Elsie is now living in all of our communities. When we say there are people who are making today the choice between heating and eating, that's not a rhetorical device, it's a fact. It's now increasingly commonplace. When we say that there are people turning up in foodbanks in suits and in uniforms after work, it's not unusual, it's the new normal. The UK Conservative Government is now creating, by design or neglect, a new generation of people we've seen in our communities before under previous Conservative Governments - a generation of in-work as well as out-of-work poverty. [Interruption.] I will give way in a moment. A generation of increasing debt, and the first generation, Darren, of many whose prospects are now worse than their mothers' and their fathers' and their grandparents'. Statistically, factually, true. What's happening, Darren?
Welsh: Cynsail y ddadl hon heddiw yw cynnig gan y Ceidwadwyr sy'n cadarnhau bod Llywodraeth Geidwadol y DU yn gadael cymunedau lleol i lawr, neu dyna a ddylai fod. Mae fy nghymunedau'n gymunedau gwych. Maent wedi wynebu sawl her dros sawl degawd, maent wedi plygu weithiau, ond nid ydynt byth wedi cael eu curo, ac maent yn llawn o bobl wych. Rwy'n teimlo weithiau nad yw pobl o'r tu allan i'r Cymoedd byth yn deall yr ymdeimlad dwfn o berthyn a gwreiddiau sy'n ein cadw ni yno ac yn ein cadw gyda'n gilydd, doed a ddelo. Ac rydym wedi bod drwy adegau anodd iawn ac rydym wedi goroesi. Ond methiant Llywodraeth y DU i ddeall a chydymdeimlo â'r cymunedau hyn ac ymateb yn gadarnhaol i'w heriau yw'r methiant a welwn ar hyn o bryd. Ac o ran yr Aelodau Ceidwadol yma yn y Siambr heddiw, ar y meinciau gyferbyn, yn draddodiadol, nid yw Llywodraethau Ceidwadol wedi bod yn gyfaill i fy nghymunedau i. Cawsom ein disgrifio unwaith, yn wir, fel 'y gelyn oddi mewn' gan Margaret Thatcher. Ac nid y glowyr yn unig oedd y gelyn oddi mewn, wrth gwrs, ond eu teuluoedd hefyd, eu cymunedau, y bobl a oedd yno. Ac mae'n anghofio, wrth gwrs, fod hyn bob amser, hyd yn oed bryd hynny, yn ymwneud â phobl yn chwilio am degwch a chyfiawnder cymdeithasol ac economaidd. Ond wrth gwrs, mae hynny'n hen hanes, onid yw? Mae amseroedd wedi newid, mae pethau wedi symud ymlaen, mae'n adeg arall, ac yn wir, yn ganrif arall. Felly, gadewch inni symud ymlaen. Efallai fod yr wynebau wedi newid, ond cafodd yr ymagwedd ei datgelu ddoe, yn anffodus, yn y cyfweliad gyda Phrif Weinidog y DU, Boris Johnson - yr un hen stori. Roedd ei ymddangosiad ar GMTV ddoe, ar ôl pum mlynedd o absenoldeb, yn addysgiadol. Gofynnodd y sawl a oedd yn ei gyfweld gwestiwn syml iawn i Brif Weinidog y DU, ynglŷn â beth arall y gellid ei wneud i helpu Elsie, sy'n dewis teithio ar y bws drwy'r dydd i gadw'n gynnes am na all fforddio gwresogi ei chartref a bwyta hefyd - nid oes ganddi unrhyw arian ar ôl. 'Beth arall y gellir ei wneud?', gofynnodd y cyfwelydd. Ei ateb - ar ôl ymbalfalu a baglu i ddod o hyd i ateb plaen, mewn eiliad o hunanaddoliad llwyr, fe gymerodd y clod am gyflwyno'r tocyn bws am ddim y gall Elsie ei ddefnyddio. Mae'n rhaid bod Elsie wrth ei bodd fod ganddi Prif Weinidog y DU sy'n darparu bysiau cynnes, rhad ac am ddim i ofalu amdani wrth i'w chartref rewi. Ar ôl hyn, fe wnaeth y cyfwelydd, a oedd wedi'i syfrdanu gan yr ymateb hwn, holi Prif Weinidog y DU eto ynglŷn â beth arall y gellid ei wneud ar gyfer Elsie, sydd wedi dihysbyddu'r holl opsiynau eraill sydd ar gael iddi. 'A fyddai'n werth cael gwared ar y TAW ar wresogi?', gofynnodd, 'Beth am dreth ffawdelw ar elw syfrdanol y cwmnïau ynni tanwydd ffosil, sy'n defnyddio eu henillion i fantoli eu cyfrifon a thalu difidendau yn hytrach na helpu Elsie?' Unwaith eto, perfformiodd Prif Weinidog y DU yr hyn y gallai fod wedi cyfeirio ato, mewn gwirionedd, fel tric Chauceraidd, yr hyn y gallai Chaucer fod wedi cyfeirio ato fel torri gwynt ar lafar. Bustachodd a phaldaruodd, gan esbonio nad oedd unrhyw beth arall y gallai ef neu ei Lywodraeth ei wneud. Mae Elsie yn byw ym mhob un o'n cymunedau yn awr. Pan ddywedwn fod pobl yn gwneud y dewis heddiw rhwng gwresogi a bwyta, nid dyfais rethregol mo honno, mae'n ffaith. Mae bellach yn dod yn fwyfwy cyffredin. Pan ddywedwn fod pobl yn mynd i fanciau bwyd mewn siwtiau ac mewn iwnifformau ar ôl bod yn y gwaith, nid yw hynny'n anarferol, dyma'r normal newydd. Mae Llywodraeth Geidwadol y DU bellach yn creu, yn fwriadol neu drwy esgeulustod, cenhedlaeth newydd o bobl yr ydym wedi'u gweld yn ein cymunedau o'r blaen o dan Lywodraethau Ceidwadol blaenorol - cenhedlaeth o dlodi mewn gwaith yn ogystal â thlodi ymhlith pobl ddi-waith. [ Torri ar draws. ] Fe ildiaf mewn eiliad. Cenhedlaeth o ddyled gynyddol, a'r genhedlaeth gyntaf, Darren, o lawer y mae eu rhagolygon bellach yn waeth na rhai eu mamau a'u tadau a'u neiniau a'u teidiau. Yn ystadegol, yn ffeithiol, mae'n wir. Beth sy'n digwydd, Darren?