Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
He won't 'gain' anything but he doesn't believe in drinking and it will suit his quasi puritan ideology and his left wing perception that the population needs to be controlled and told what to do. He has passed all the covid rules into law and there is no sign of them being repealed. They could sit on the statute books dormant for any maniac to resurrect in the future. As a Pliad member said some months ago, it is government by dictat.
I said right at the start of this that he would keep the pubs closed as long as he possibly could and people said I was imagining it and that they would probably open before England.

Let's see shall we?
It doesn't work like that. Even if what you say about Mark Drakeford's wishes were true, he can't just make things up as he goes along. He has to win the support of the elected members on whatever issue is at hand.