During the [[Chinese Communist Party pandemic]], Drakeford bought PPE from [[China]]<ref>[https://twitter.com/ITVWales/status/1256185807465074691 First Minister Mark Drakeford announces 500,000 pieces of PPE are being delivered to Wales from China this afternoon.]</ref> and introduced blatantly [[authoritarian]] policies which earned him the description of "tin-pot [[dictator]]".<ref name="tinpotdictator" /> Such policies included banning the sale of non-essential goods in supermarkets in October 2020,<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54662795</ref> helicopters guarding the Anglo-Welsh border earlier that year,<ref>https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1286590/uk-lockdown-Wales-question-police-cost-npas-helicopter-patrolling-welsh-border</ref> and the introduction of vaccine passports for various venues in September 2021. | During the [[Chinese Communist Party pandemic]], Drakeford bought PPE from [[China]]<ref>[https://twitter.com/ITVWales/status/1256185807465074691 First Minister Mark Drakeford announces 500,000 pieces of PPE are being delivered to Wales from China this afternoon.]</ref> and introduced blatantly [[authoritarian]] policies which earned him the description of "tin-pot [[dictator]]".<ref name="tinpotdictator" /> Such policies included banning the sale of non-essential goods in supermarkets in October 2020,<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54662795</ref> helicopters guarding the Anglo-Welsh border earlier that year,<ref>https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1286590/uk-lockdown-Wales-question-police-cost-npas-helicopter-patrolling-welsh-border</ref> and the introduction of vaccine passports for various venues in September 2021. |