Welsh Lobster Syndrome?

So true. Wales out of all the other nations of the UK have given the most but received the least in return, but still we defend the status quo. A United Kingdom that omits. England's first trophy country and blueprint to their subsequent empire, Wales although absent from symbols of state like the Union Flag & Royal Standard for 489 years, but still we sing their bloody anthem, wave the flag, fight & die for a Union that doesn't even recognise our nation. We had our native laws of Hywel Dda dissolved, codified in the 10th century, even before England & English existed as a people & country. Experience ethnic cleansing where our language & cultured were banned by an act of parliament in 1535. Our children were beaten for speaking Welsh with the Welsh Not. But still we took up arms and fought numerous wars against those not our real enemy to please our English masters at great cost. Today still we do nothing as our natural resources are usurped by the English state. We hemorrhaged billions to English water company barons & London Treasury as our country suffers cuts & austerity. And what's our response? We voted with the English for Brexit that's robbed millions in EU funding, damaged our economy, and allowed forces hostile to Wales & Welsh devolution the ability to steal, repatriate & interfere with impunity. How stupid are we? Recently we had the Tories insult us by robbing £4 billion in HS2 consequential when they put the £65 billion infrastructure build as an "England & Wales" project even though not one inch of track comes anywhere near Wales. We again do nothing,even after hypocritical English Labour stuck the knife in too. Our response? Did we didn't come out to protest in our thousands like normal people would. No! We chose to damaged 20 mph road signs instead, put there to protect our children from harm at our expense because the English right-wing press said we should be angry. The Welsh are sheeple who willingly go to the slaughterhouse then we cut our own throats. And why Wales is the way it is sadly. We are our own worst enemy. Yes, the English state are to blame for the damage done over the centuries. But so are we too. See, the reality is that we have our destiny in our hands. We just are too afraid or unwilling to stand in the sun opting to stay in the shade.

Add it to the 'Funny Yellow Metal' ...yellow copper! not even 'Tanners' let alone ' the currency of Slavery the 'Guinea' (1663-1813)...

The trick is to see the pot for what it is and swim/paddle on by? Mind you the sea bed scraping Russian trawlers will get you in the end!

The problem is that we have to change our attitudes on more than one level. On a Wales level, yes, GG is spot on. But many of us are beginning to see that we need to fight on other cultural/political levels as well. We are losing rights we took for granted, like free speechWe can no longer take for granted the post-WW1 and WW2 UN idea that nations should be sovereign (on which Wales depends to make an argument that Wales should be sovereign)Rationality is no longer a given.We need to dig deeper now to get the idea of Wales/nationhood going.

The story of the Welsh lobster—that ambitious little crustacean who nearly scrambles out of the pot only to be yanked back down by his fellow lobsters—is told in every corner of the world, by every nation with a hint of mischief. Some say the Welsh have a knack for pulling their own down to earth, but honestly, we’re no more begrudging than the next country. Like the Irish and Scots, we just can’t stand a dose of self-importance. Of course, there are a few who take the train to London and come back convinced they’re a cut above, with a freshly polished accent and a title that could fill a page. But to us, they’ll always be Harri from Splott Star-y, no matter how many syllables they squeeze into their name.

Different ideas all mixed up here. The Welsh Lobster story is about stifling ambition, or being resentful of high fliers. It isn’t about ‘cancel culture’, which is what GG starts off criticising. The idea that other nations and cultures aren’t suffering from a fear of people speaking their minds, or losing the jobs/positions based on personal or political beliefs just isn’t true. Has he not heard of women like Jo Phoenix or Denise Fahmy, or Jenny Lindsay? hounded out of jobs because they don’t believe a man can be born in a woman’s body? Perhaps there is a uniquely Welsh flavour to it. We are a small nation. A certain class of person tends to move from job to job between political organisations, third sector, arts and media companies and of course Welsh government (who partly fund a lot of the above anyway). They won’t rock the boat much. I do agree with GG that a reluctance to discuss difficult or controversial issues publicly is very damaging to public life. A culture of being hauled over the coals by the eagle eyed purity police on Twitter doesn’t help. But in the end, it hands power to the more maverick or radical voices who can claim, with some legitimacy, to be saying the things out loud that others dare not. Which is a difficult place to come back from.

We so easily "Cofiwch Dryweryn" but rarely "Cofiwch (neu dathlu) Llangydeyrn

Paid â bod yn gimwch…