Plaid Cymru leader meets EU ambassador to 'strengthen Wales-Europe ties' 

Ah, the EU, the club we left because of idiots. time to join this club. Brexit proven disaster, lets get it done.

Do wish Plaid would leave the EU stuff until after Indy. It cant change the situation making this little more than symbolism into a massively divisive topic. Plaid Cymru is a political party not a lobbying firm. Rhun getting his picture taken infront of the Union flag and EU flag on another London jaunt doesn't look great either.

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Well done Rhun ap Iorwerth! Being proactive for Wales is better than inactive. Left to Labour & Conservative at Westminster Wales will always be last in the queue and forever holding a begging bowl wanting more. And don't criticise Plaid Cymru for wanting to strengthen Wales ties with Europe or the world. Who else will fight for Wales? Certainly not Welsh Labour. Courting Europe is a far better option than the current status quo of doing nothing for Wales. If they were we would wouldn't be in the position we find ourselves in now. Child poverty rife, NHS in freefall, among other issues caused by both 26 years of Welsh Labour stagnation and 14 years of Tory proxy misrule. At present UK Labour and their complicit self-serving Wales MPs prefer merely to manage Welsh poverty than end it, limit any national aspirations we have as a people & nation , who argue how we are too small thick and poor to run our own Criminal Justice & Policing let alone international affairs as an independent country. As bad if not worse than Labour are both the Conservatives and Reform UK. They not want not only to stop dead any further devolution, but abolish our Senedd in favour of direct rule. They want not only to remove those Wales consult offices around the world put in place to promote our country to would-be investors abroad. But also end any idea that Wales is a nation in its own right in favour of returning us back to being how they see us. A dependent monoglot fringe backwater ripe for the picking that's full of thick untrustworthy Taffys who solely exist to serve and obey their slave master England. Already our voice has been limited in the House of Commons by the last Conservative UK Government who cynically removed 8 Wales MPs in favour of adding 10 further to overrepresented England leaving both Scotland and Northern Ireland alone. Add also into the mix those inactive Wales Labour MPs sellouts, who not only oppose further devolution to our Senedd, purposely vote against or abstain on bills arguing to devolve Policing and Criminal Justice, but agreed with PM Keir Starmer, COE Rachael Reeves and WS Jo Stevens denying billions in HS2 consequential to Wales but agreed with the £10 billion infrastructure funding to link HS2 to Euston Station in London. This is the priority of those lazy workshy Wales Labour MPs who put England first and Wales last. That's why we need a First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth and a Plaid Cymru Welsh Government to fight for our rights and to be our strong voice not only in Cardiff but Europe and the wider world. And to those criticise of Plaid Cymru who say independence should be their priority not photo ops or courting Europe. Yes, Welsh independence is vitally important. But we must not make the fatal error of putting the cart before the horse. If we don't prepare the way would be like building a foundation on sand.

Which rule book is this in?

Time to get associate membership on the table.

Why?

It's a shame the EU ambassador couldn't be bothered to bring out a Welsh flag for the occasion!

There was nothing in the referendum about leaving the single market and customs union. Nigel Farage himself used to be an advocate of a Norway or Switzerland style arrangement. Yet when Brexiteers won the referendum they changed their tune. 'Support Hard Brexit or your against what the electorate voted for'. Has a Hard Brexit been a success? Ask the people of Port Talbot.

Ask yourself what do you consider yourself Welsh obviously but EUROPEAN not British