YOU CAN DO IT WALES!

There are other parts of these islands that would be better off making their own decisions about what is right for them, instead of being kept down so that the South East of England can prosper. Northern Ireland, Cornwall and Wales all come into that category. This article from "The Daily Wales" makes a number of good points... and proposes a rally.

Incidentally, has it ever occurred to you that Wales and Cornwall share a prince/duke. Charlie is Duke of Cornwall and Prince of Wales, but to the best of my knowledge neither he nor his "wife" live in either of these countries. Why not? They spends vast amounts of money every year... Why is it not spend in either of his two fiefdoms? Why is it spent in London, or in her case, wherever she's on holiday?

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By Siôn Jobbins

So when was the last time you went on a march in support of independence for Wales?

Never.

Because there has never been one. We’ve been cowards.

I’m not talking about ‘self-government’ or ‘Wales in Europe’. No, I’m talking of a no nonsense, we want to be an independent European nation state rally. Or, at the very least, a rally in support of Welsh as well as Scottish independence.

If the marginalised, brutalised, humiliated gay community are men and women enough to march and come out proud to declare their sexuality, what’s our excuse as Welsh nationalists? We have been cowards and we deserve to be ignored and ridiculed.

Since 1914 Europe has seen the rise of some 20 new nation states. Nations which were poorer than us, weaker than us, whose languages were smaller than ours a hundred years ago and who’ve seen wars, civil wars, deportations, communism on their land.

They are now free whilst we suffer the indignity of being ruled by a Government and Assembly which owns an airport but can’t even raise the puny air-duty tax. Run by a party which is happy to keep Wales poor as they vote with the Tories to deny the Welsh Assembly the power over Welsh water. 

We’re poor because we don’t have the power to use taxes and laws and control our own resources to our advantage.

Independence will make inter-dependence work for Wales. We are poor because we are not free.

Are we not proud enough to keep Wales’s dignity? The forgotten peoples of Europe – Scotland, Catalonia, Basques – are marching with dignity and strength, where are the Welsh?

In the year 2020 Wales could be one of the few historic European nations which isn’t an independence nation state.

If we are not brave enough to proclaim that we wish to be a nation-state then who are we to blame the British media and politicians if they only refer to Wales when they patronise us with rugby and the ‘and finally’ slot?

And what if only 500 turn up? That would be 500 with dignity. They will be a beacon of hope and strength. It will be 500 who’ve decided to stop apologising and being only 80 minute rugby game Welshmen and women.

It’s time to be brave. Let’s do it.

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THE ENGLISH TEA PARTY? MORE LIKE THE COLD TEA PARTY

Have you ever been to one of these parties where you were expecting a houseful and only 4 people turned up, and even they left early?

Well today there was one such do in London. The rally against debt, organised in response to the March rally against cuts when hundreds of thousands took to the streets, had been promised around 1500 adherents on Facebook, but in the end only about 350 people bothered to turn up.

Even some of its most ardent supporters found that they had other engagements.

Speakers included Paul Staines (Guido Fawkes to you and me), Nigel Farage (UKIP leader), Matthew Sinclair of the Taxpayers’ Alliance and Tory MP Priti Patel. At one point the “crowd” chanted “What do we want? Cuts! When do we want them? Now!

They complained bitterly that they want cuts now so that their children and grandchildren don’t have to pay, but of course most of the protesters were people who wouldn’t actually “suffer” from cuts. They want rid of libraries that they never use; parks that they have no need of; public transport that they shun; benefits they wouldn’t be seen dead collecting and health services that people like them simply don’t need.

And of course they are entitled to these views. I can’t help but wonder if I were a millionaire paying 50p in the pound on my earnings over £150,000 a year, would I not think it was a bit steep that I had to subsidise buses so that poor people could go places; libraries so that they could read; parks for their children to play in, or benefits that their likes are forever trying to get their hands on?

I’d like to think that I wouldn’t mind. I’d like to think that, having more than enough myself, I wouldn’t object to paying just that little bit more so that they could have a little. I’d like to think I’d have a bit of compassion for people who weren’t as lucky as me.

Anyway, it is cheering that only around 350 people from all over the UK thought it worth turning up... and that, as it was so dull, they all went home early.