Welsh and UK Governments at odds over St Davids Day bank holiday

I am fed up of being treated as a second class person in my own country by a foreign government. Could we take the matter to the E C Of Human rights? On the basis of being treated as inferior to the Scots and Irish

St David's Day and St David's Channel...

Cymru continues to have no real voice. Requests for HS2 money, Crown Estates control, March 1st a bank holidays, and numerous other issues, (remember the fight against a flooded Valley, for instance) all ignored. Westminster doesn't give a toss. It never will. There is so much Cymru could do to improve things for it's own people if only it were independent.

The vast majority of English MPs (and many English people) have inherited the profound colonialist mentality of their ancestors towards Scotland and, especially, Wales their first colony conquered 7½ centuries ago and virtually all unionist Welsh MPs ascribe to this mentality. As such they are able to maintain a disparaging, contemptuous and mean disposition towards the people of Wales as currently Wales poses no threat whatsoever to their precious and beloved United Kingdom. Until this situation changes Wales will get as little as possible as late as possible (if at all) from any UK government.

As I've stated in the past. Labour are as anti-Wales as the Conservative party were and still are. Welsh Labour were naive to think if & when UK Labour won Westminster power, a party who tried to scupper Welsh devolution in 1997 by the way, would be more sympathetic to the Senedd when it came to the simplest of devolution requested, such as the power to create a bank holiday seeing both Scotland & NI were afforded the right to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day ( a Welshman) and Saint Andrew's Day ( an Israelite & Apostle) on march 17th & November 30th. Why do we accept these double standards. #WelshNot Ask yourselves this question. What's so contentious that Wales is continually refused the power to celebrate its patron Saint David with an official bank holiday? There a pattern forming here. When we ask for more powers. Either the Tories or labour reject it. This proves one thing. We have no rights as Welsh people, well unless we accept our place at the bottom. This is classic Act of Union (rape) Wales 1535 ideology where after our annexation we were assigned English overseers to watch our every move like the Russian KGB. Only difference today is. Those English overseers proxy rule us from Westminster and they have the likes of Wales answer to Lord Haw Haw Jo Stevens do their dirty work, no doubt with one eye on the House of Lords and a peerage as a reward.

The solution is simple: The Senedd should legislate to make St Davids Day a Public Holiday and not a Bank Holiday. Whilst Bank Holidays are not devolved, there is nothing that suggests that Public Holidays are not.

Would there be a cost to Wales? I think not. There should be a St George bank Holiday as well as St Andrew and St Teilo.

Hard by any calculation to defend a status quo which results in Wales being treated differently from Scotland and Northern Ireland in a matter of this sort.

Why can’t we make our own rules for St David’s day?

England is the only country on earth that doesn't really identify with, and celebrate, their National Day or Saints Day. People in England have no interest in St George, and many have little interest in English national identity, above hyped-up sporting events. They identify themselves with the catch-all 'British', and therefore seem amazed that we wish to identify as Welsh and celebrate St David. We are trapped here, as in so many other ways. We are the butterfly in the Anglo-British jar. So, how do we fly out of that jar? First, Welsh Government should immediately announce that March 1st will be a Day of National Celebration, so that people, organisations and communities can mark this day, and are actively encouraged to do so. Many people would soon climb on board and there could be a variety of novel ways to celebrate Cymru and St David. After that, there needs to be a vigorous campaign - led by Welsh MPs of all colours (fat chance, I know) - to exert pressure on Starmer's UK Government. Remember, this is the man who will be licking the cream off Donald's shoes in a few hours time in order to get some crumbs of comfort, (and who will be shoulder-to-shoulder with the US President as he fawns over the Windsors at Ty Buck). So, our nation shouldn't be scared of the Lawyer-in-Chief in Downing Street. Finally, let each and every one of us who reads Nation.Cymru pledge to educate our children, grandchildren, friends and neighbours in what Cymru and St David stands for and represents. Let us inject some greatly needed pride in our people and help to foster a culture where no one in our nation is afraid to challenge the diktats from London.

Wel mae problem yw dyn ni wedi derbyn Eluned Morgan fel arwainwr newydd, ond llawer o gwerin erioed wedi clywed o hi cyn yn cael SWYDD! Ydy mae'n dim ond swydd mae'n ymddangos. Dwi ddim wedi clwyd unrhywun siarad iawn amdana hi? Mae hi'n hawl bydd hi ymweld bob rhannau o Gymru i ofyn bobl beth mae'n nhw eisiau? Mae hi'n mynd i ymchwil y marchnad dyna i gyd! Mae hi'n smwddio y 'Undeb' taclus fel arfer - tan gyrru-gwerthu nesa o'r Cadwaladwyr - mae ddim yn newid o Plaid Lafur! Well the problem is, we've been given Eluned Morgan as leader of the Senedd, but alot of folk had never heard of her before she got the JOB! Yes it's just a job by the looks of it. I've never heard anyone speak well of her? She says she's going to travel around Cymru to ask folk what they want? She's going on a Market-Research trip that's all. She's smoothing the 'Union' over until the next Marketing-drive from the Tories as usual - nothing changes from Labour!