Mae’n bwysig cofio bod gan Lywodraeth bresennol y DU hanes gwarthus o gynnig hyd yn oed y gyfran deg o wariant y DU i Gymru, heb sôn am y math o gyllid sydd ei angen i ‘godi’r gwastad’. Dau o’r prif ysgogiadau ar gyfer codi’r gwastad yw buddsoddi mewn Ymchwil a Datblygu a seilwaith rheilffyrdd, sy’n parhau i gael eu cadw’n ôl i San Steffan. Yn y ddau faes hyn, mae Cymru wedi cael bargen wael yn gyson. Pe bai Llywodraeth y DU o ddifrif ynghylch ei hagenda i godi’r gwastad i Gymru, byddai’n canolbwyntio ar wneud iawn am ei methiant hanesyddol a buddsoddi’n ddigonol yng Nghymru. Ond yn hytrach, mae Llywodraeth y DU yn mynd ati’n fwriadol i gymryd arian oddi wrth Gymru a chychwyn brwydr gyfansoddiadol ddi-angen er mwyn gwanhau pwerau datganoledig ynghanol pandemig byd-eang.
It is important to remember that this UK Government has an appalling record on providing Wales with even a fair share of UK spending, let alone the kind of funding needed to ‘level up’. Two of the main levers for levelling up are investment in Research and Development and rail Infrastructure which remain reserved to Westminster. In both areas, Wales has continually been short changed.  If the UK Government were serious about their levelling up agenda for Wales, they would focus on redressing their historical failure to invest adequately in Wales. Instead, the UK Government is going out of its way to take money away from Wales and pick a needless constitutional battle to weaken devolved powers in the middle of a global pandemic.