Why aren’t you screaming?

We're not screaming because 25 years of incompetent Welsh Labour government has inured us to tyranny. Seeds of tyranny’, President Harry S. Truman once said, ‘spread and grow in the evil soil of poverty and strife. They reach their full growth when the hope of a people for a better life has died. This is Wales.

This article fully expressed how I feel. It's a cosy club for those in their bubbles, in westminster and in Caerdydd, with them all friends with each other irrespective of party — their adversarial display is nothing but pantomime! I wish they had the spirit and sentiment of Aneurin Bevan, "No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the tory party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."

If Rhun ap Iorwerth wanted to make a statement, he would invite the UK media to a press conference, and on camera tear up the cooperation agreement. This would fire a bit of energy into the political discourse and give people hope. However we know that will not happen. Instead will be lead this time by a deeply compromised Labour leader, propped up by their good Green and Yellow servants with democracy ever slowly slipping from our grasp.

Lets be honest. We've failed Wales. And the sad thing is. Unfortunately Wales has got the worst of both worlds. Labour in ruling in Cardiff and the Conservatives in London. And where Labour manages Welsh poverty and limits any aspirations we have as a country , the Conservatives preference is to rule by proxy, repatriate powers , abolish devolution without a referendum , and assimilate Wales culturally & politically into a greater England. And recently we have Welsh Labour, like the English Conservatives in London, who have become so emboldened that even with the shadow of financial scandal over them strut around like peacocks confident the Welsh electorate will reelect them in 2027. And before it's mentioned. Yes , we can blame the opposition parties for not pushing their policies enough to win power. But when you have access to a party machine in London with Welsh Labour does the smaller parties like Plaid Cymru who don't have the sake financial clout or union backing struggle to get their message across, especially when we don't have our own broadcasting media. Sadly the Welsh public are very fickle and easily led. Just look at Brexit as a fine example of self-harm on a mammoth scale that's not only affected our economy but also interfered with devolution. And out of all the home nations Wales has suffered the most. Tragic. And with Vaughan Gething's election as first minister recently he only has two years before the Senedd elections where by this time Welsh Labour would have been in power for 27 years? And how on earth can Welsh Labour campaign during the Senedd elections in 2027 while claiming they have fresh new ideas for Wales being in power by then for a quarter of a century when they accept the continuation of Conservative policies and hostility toward further devolution to Wales by Keir Starmer if & when he's elected later in the year as PM. We all know what the Welsh Conservatives think of Wales. They happily watch on as Whitehall and the Welsh office interfere with Welsh devolution. Dissolve Welsh law. Cynically steal £4 billion in HS2 consequential from our Senedd. Cut £1 billion from our Welsh block funding. And send back to the treasury £125,000 of unspent funding aping another anti-Wales Welsh Secretary John Redwood who did similar in the 90s So we in Wales have a stark choice to make. We can keep on voting Welsh Labour and accept we'll never achieve anything as a country. Destroy ourselves by giving Welsh Conservative idiocrat Andrew RT Davies the reigns of power in Cardiff where he will asset strip the Senedd within an inch of its life, or give Plaid Cymru the opportunity to prove itself. Because when Plaid have influence they have changed Wales for the better. Imagine what Plaid could achieve on its own as Welsh Government if we not only believed in them but our own ability as a people. Also don't forget. We wouldn't have a Senedd Cymru if it were not for the Welsh Labour-Plaid Cymru coalition. UK Labour fought tooth and nail for this not to happen. I can remember WS Peter Hain's attitude to the 2011 legislative Assembly referendum. We won't win it he said, it's too close to call, only for Labour to be voted out of office in 2010 leading to 14 years of Tory rule. And imagine if the Plaid-Labour coalition never occured, meaning no Queen speech passing legislation agreeing to a 2011 referendum. We'd still have a 60 seat talking shop Assembly with no powers ruled by the New Labour LCO system scrutinised by four layers of government which means one piece of legislation took four years to become Welsh law. Sobering thought. Will we take that leap of faith? Honestly, I don't know. As an abused people you get used to suffridge and dependency. See, we finally broke the chains that bound us to Westminster 1997, perhaps the next step is breaking the Labour umbilical cord that's wrapped around tightly our neck.