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I wasn't going for the cocktails, but I can't look at cider anymore.
Well, I'd just like to chip in on this because, interestingly, potholes is something that Eluned Morgan, the Welsh Labour leader, does talk about a lot.
And she has this figure, which I can't remember off the top of my head, and she quotes this figure for how many potholes have been filled in thanks to Welsh government funding and all of that.
And the pothole issue, it's very inconvenient for drivers and for cyclists, dangerous for cyclists, of course, but...
But not just that.
I feel that for a lot of people, when you go out and talk to them, they feel it's emblematic of what they see as a bit of a almost disintegration of the quality of the public realm, really.
And that it's almost emblematic of what they feel might be happening, say, with other arguably more important public services.
That this is something that you can see and feel on a daily basis that just reminds you that things are not normal.
how they should be and just on the point about issues around roads and drivers and what not being something that really activates people of course in Wales we have this default 20 mile an hour speed limit and that is something that's been fiercely controversial and fiercely contested
And it's still something that Reform and the Welsh Conservatives refer to again and again and again in this campaign and say that they would get rid of.
On the other hand, you have claims from other parties, obviously Labour, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, who say that it's been an important measure for road safety and so on.
But, you know, that just shows how these issues can become totemic, really, and are almost something behind which some of the deeper issues almost stack up or, in the case of the pothole, fall in.
There is an issue with that statistic, as I recall, in that there is a question mark over exactly the accuracy of that statistic and it is disputed.
But yes, they do claim that they have filled in that many potholes for sure, or at least paid for them to be filled in.
I don't think they've personally been out there with the shovels.
I don't know.
Yes, that's right.
So health is one of the biggest issues in this election campaign.
Cost of living, of course, on everyone's minds.
But health is also an issue that I'm told is coming up on the doorstep again and again and again.