How Bad Does It Have To Get?

Brava, Ben! The people of Cymru can put an end to this arrant nonsense and incompetence. We must vote for STRONG independence in 2026, and thereafter... Nothing less will do. Sefyll ar wahân fel Cymru ond sefyll gyda’n gilydd fel CymryStand apart as Wales but stand together as WelshAnnibyniaeth is the answer.

Great piece, a pleasure to read

I was actually thinking about this today, that if Wales was to become Independent it would present us with the chance to enshrine in WELSH law the way Government should work rather than how the utterly corrupt Westminster works.

The contempt Welsh & UK Labour has for Wales is pernicious. An independent Wales would be poor, says our lane donkey First Minister Eluned Morgan. What total BS! I'd like to remind our FM that British Unionism has exploited Wales for generations. It they who have caused any poverty not any Welsh Nationalist. In fact. Independence would make Wales prosperous, and she knows it! If independent would cut out cloth accordingly and not live beyond our means like Little Britain. We would benefit finally from our natural resources. Could become a member state of the EU, or just follow our own path in the world. It would be our choice as a people if we were part of the EU or outside not England. As an independent country Wales would have a seat at the UN, not as we currently are, lumped in with Britain (England) who still think of itself as a world power when it's a little fish in a big pond. Wales is a political prisoner. We have never been part of any United Kingdom. We are led like a pit pony to perpetual servitude. Our views and opinions are ignored by an increasingly authoritarian Whitehall governments, who choose to maintain the Welsh Not and Act of Annexation 1535. Welsh Labour along with their English overseers UK Labour and the Conservatives merely manage poverty in Wales. And the only ones who really benefit are these cretins, not us, the longsuffering Welsh public. Eluned Morgan like most Labour Unionists are champagne socialists like to talk Wales down. Take our "Baroness" Morgan. No doubt this career politician stated many times in interviews how , " I came into politics to make a difference, ". Oh sure Eluned. To your bank balance and status as a peer in the House of Lords, more like. It's screw you, I'm alright jack. Kerching!!!! 💸 On one hand she says in that infamous interview that we are too poor to become independent, but then says we are holding an international investment summit in December. Big enough to do that aren't we Eluned. She then proceeds to say she wants to grow the economy to make us more prosperous. Your party has ruled Wales for 26 bloody years? You have nowhere to hide anymore. Your true face has been revealed. Look, Labour prefers a poor Wales. After all, poverty is their business. They have no intention of making Wales prosperous. Why on earth would they? I'll tell you why. It would result in a confident people. And what does confidence breed? Yes, aspiration leading to those independent minded. See, a prosperous Wales is not in Labour's interest. What was laughable too was when she compared Wales with the Island of Malta. Which is as big as Ynys Mon. She then told the journalist that Malta was more capable with the population of 552,747 than Wales. Funny, we are geographically the size of Belgium. Have a population 3.2 million people with an abundance of natural resources Malta could only dream of. Eluned you are a total joke. Really you are. I'm embarrassed that she's First Minister of Wales. It's a priority now. We must kick Eluned Morgan and Welsh Labour out of office next May Senedd election. It's vital we elect a Welsh Nationalist government. Only a Paid Cymru First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth can stand up to Westminster and Whitehall. Plaid power over lame Labour. And we wonder why we lack confidence as a people and nation when our so-called leader has little faith in our ability as a country and people.

Really good article Ben. I think our people need to undertake some deep thinking on many of these topics. What do we want a future Cymru to look like, and how will it act, is a question that should be discussed across our nation. I thought that the seminal work of Evans and Sandry on a proposed Welsh Constitution started to give us some food for thought: 022021-Wales-constitution.pdf Perhaps the politicos and economists should take this, analyse each section, and start to envisage how Independence could operate. Unless we openly engage on these matters, and try to find pathways out of the frazzled UK State, then we are all just talking to the wall.

I think you make a valid point on a very good article. Cymru has been short changed financially; but a great deal of money has also been wasted by third division politicians. I certainly agree that it is in Welsh Labour‘s interest to keep Wales poor; but I am not convinced that independence is necessarily the answer. I get the passion for it; but the economic argument is unconvincing - and the one thing that is near certain is a unionist majority in the Senedd next year. “How bad does it have to get?”. A lot worse unfortunately.

The sort of speech the Leader of Plaid should be making from the rooftops, with earth shaking anger... But you know never will. Why? Because ..."more tea Vicar, we are really quite sensible you know!"

I agree with every word, enough is enough, people being routinely murdered waiting for food in Gaza is beyond words. Ben our Senedd needs people like you.

Re: "how bad does it have to get?" The answer is in plain sight for everyone who honestly looks at the history of 'advanced' people and the horrific state we're in now which shows the perpetual activities of an insane species --- see “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room” ... https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html Yet... "The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduces them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim." --- Gustave Le Bon, in 1895 "There are large numbers of scientists, doctors, and presstitutes who will sell out truth for money, such as those who describe people dropping dead on a daily basis as “rare” when it it happening all over the vaccinated world." --- Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D., American economist & former US regime official, in 2024