A letter from the ashes of shamed Britain

Welsh independence isn't a panacea for the ills of Britain, but I believe it is our only option, our lifeboat to escape an increasingly right-wing England.

You powerfully express the feelings of many people, particularly disillusioned former Labour supporters.

Well written and well put, Two tier Kier will get his come uppance in future electionz that are closing fast on him and his ilk. First to go will be the branch offices in Cardiff and Edinburghp

Westminster was originally a club of wealthy landowners set up to protect the interests of wealthy landowners. This morphed into a command and control centre to exploit, grow and control a global network of resource colonies. It's never been properly reformed as the annual state opening of Parliament demonstrates. Why is anyone surprised then that we have a central government incapable of running a modern state without exploiting the poorest, gas lighting the masses and protecting the wealthiest. Because that's precisely what it was set up to do and this won't ever change until it's rebuilt from the ground up.

Truly inspirational. The article of the decade born of many decades of our suffering and clearly advertised government maintenance of the ways of old and to think we are being threatened with the ultimate finish next. No more! The meek shall inherit the Earth but we can’t just sit and wait for it to arrive because same and worse is all that is available.

The only problem I have with this article is describing Labour as "centre-right". That's far too kind to them. Every few months, Labour promises to turn Britain into a superpower in something or other. First it was renewable energy, then it was AI, now it's the war machine (sorry, the "defence industry"). What's next? I hear there's a gap in the market for vulture food.

The Fat Shanks Effect...as seen on the BBC...

Extremely well written, this should be put in front of politicians of all sides . You don’t have to agree with every point that democracy but 99.% is spot on.

I find it rather sad that a supposedly left wing commentator above and others below are parroting the far-right's "Two-Tier Keir" line.

Excellent article. If only it's sentiments could be put into action

Labour - left wing? You must be joking

Excellent article. Starmer's Labour is a complete preservation of the status quo and offers nothing, in any way, different to the Tories. For those who erroneously think that "at least Labour will be better than the Tories", think again. In many ways, they are worse. Just look at the disastrous policies his lot has inflicted on Wales with his attack on the disabled and poor. What's even worse is that Welsh Labour, as the past week has shown, is complicit in all this. It can't even get a concession on control of the Royalty estates. Yet, Welsh Labour loyally serve terrified to say a word out of place. This is not good for democracy, Wales or Britain. But the charade of unity continues whilst everything deteriorates because he doesn't dare to take on the powerful causes of our problems - such as finding a better Brexit settlement or taxing the super-rich. This Starmer project is doomed to fail. One last point, beware Starmer has destroyed opposition in his party, with MPs fearful of holding dissenting views. The same applies to peaceful protest in the country, which is now very much in danger under Starmer like never before,

How do you expect it to go, when London holds the purse strings, and dictates our spending based on the needs of England, as in health budgets, and limits the devolved countries ability to spend on infastructure, where even areas outside London fair equally as bad as the devolved countries, some areas even worse.

"Make Britain Great Again" , says BritNat Keir Starmer while draped in a Union Flag that doesn't represent us. No thank you. England's empire grew obese from the suffering & resource rape of others, but it was we in Wales who were its epicenter, ground zero, England's first trophy nation, before it expanded outwards turning half of the globe pink caking Wales in blood, our blood, that was then washed away with our water resource to hide the signs of traumer. But it's still there. All around us. The signs of physical & mental abuse still remains. In our people , on our landscape.

I think most people have always been able to recognise that it takes a special kind of weird to be a politician, but those very weirdos have always been able to control the narrative until now and set the norms. I don't think people had as much of an idea about how crooked and unhinged these characters were. There was a vague understanding of it but it wasn't staring people in the face like it is in the digital age. The personality type of these 'leaders' are the very last people who should be running a country or have any power and control. They're harmful, dangerous and incorrigible. What's amazing is that they are so delusional, self-assured and have such a low opinion of the average person on the street that they don't get that the public are neither buying it or playing along. These people aren't used to the word no, so they just ignore it and carry on regardless while the public is watching slack jawed at the more and more deranged stuff coming out of their mouths and getting angrier and angrier about it. In a way this oblivious nature is good. They're not actually great, Machiavellian manipulators. They're just rich dolts who give themselves away continuously. On the other hand, it's very much not good because these people are our leaders ... Yeah. There's going to be a breaking point I think. The number of people who are weak willed enough to go full into revering these creatures is far outweighed by the people who just kind of feel quite sickened by all of these players and the state of the world they've created.