WALES/CYMRU - IN THE HEART OF EUROPE
It is not inconceivable that some day in the future the EU will have a Welsh president. The European Union is made up of diverse countries, some large and some small. Belgium has a population of 10 million + and other nations in Europe are smaller but are no less capable of producing statesmen who may rise to high office in the EU.
Subject: Lawmaking powers - Evening Post Poll
There's an online poll in the South Wales Evening Post at the moment asking if we are in favour of lawmaking powers. If you go on the main page, scroll half way down, it's on the right hand side. Why not go on there now and click "YES!!!". Wales First is now up to nearly 2,500 members, and the EP is the biggest selling daily in south wales.
Let's make it clear what we want - in no uncertain terms! Here's the link:
http://www.facebook.com/l/04f72;www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/home
From Dafydd Iwan, President of Plaid Cymru...
Time for a proper Parliament.
Today, we learnt that Emyr Jones Parry and the All-Wales Convention have come out in favour of moving to a referendum.
You can guarantee that certain anti-devolution politicians and so-called 'True' Wales will be doing everything in their power to stop any further progress and devolution to Wales . Make no mistake - they will be very vocal in their opposition during today and over the coming months.
So, now is the time for YOUR voice to be heard. Today, and over the next few days and weeks, we are asking you to play your part in shaping our Country's future.
1. Make a point of talking to your friends and colleagues about why Wales needs its own Parliament
2. Make sure people understand why we should not be treated as second class citizens.
3. Make it clear that what’s good for Scotland is good for Wales .
4. Write to your local newspaper, phone your local radio station and tell them that Wales deserves a proper Parliament. Radio Wales will be asking for your views on programmes throughout the day. Make sure your voice is heard by phoning 03700 100 110 or texting 811012. You can also send a message to the programmes online by clicking here. The news programmes on BBC and ITV this evening will also be asking your views. Make sure you have your say!
5. Use twitter, Facebook, blogs and any medium available to you to spread the Word!
6. Sign Tomorrow's Wales' petition for a proper parliament
7. Donate to Plaid today and help us campaign for a proper Parliament.
Just get people talking - but above all make sure that they are hearing the right side of the story, and not the excuses of those who want to hold Wales back. I hope you will join me in doing everything we can to spread the word.
For Wales
Dafydd
Comment:
Preseli said...
All who wish Wales well must now rekindle the spirit of the '97 Yes Campaign and get stuck in. Do we want Tory government from London or Welsh government from Cardiff? Its a no-brainer really!!
18 November 2009 16:34
Syniadau makes an appeal to Labour politicians :
"Now that the report has been published, there is no need for any division between Labour's AMs and MPs in Wales. Surely you all want what is best for Wales? True, your idea of "best" may not be the same as ours in Plaid, but they're close enough for us to be able to work together in a common programme for government in Wales. Of course it would be better to have a Labour than a Tory government in Westminster ... but with only 40 MPs out of more than 600, Wales doesn't get to have much of a say in the outcome of the Westminster election, does it?"
Read what Helen-Mary Jones has to say......
http://www.plaidcymru.org/content.php?nID=14;ID=1613;lID=1
...and that is:
Will Syr Emyr Jones Parry be sacked for producing a report which highlights the deficiencies of the LCO system and comes out in favour of holding a Referendum for a Welsh Parliament?
(harking back to the sacking of Professor David Nutt)
http://allwalesconvention.org/getinformed/thereport/thereport
BREAKING NEWS!, Click here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/wales_politics/8350333.stm
After considering over 3,000 pieces of evidence the All Wales Convention has come to the same conclusion as Tomorrow's Wales - our present system of governance is unclear, complex and needs to change. The Convention calls for a referendum, but can't guarantee a YES vote in favour of primary law-making powers in the 20 devolved areas.
What can you do to help secure a YES vote in the referendum?
You can JOIN Tomorrow's Wales. You can set up a LOCAL BRANCH. You can hold an event to raise awareness locally. And you can encourage more people to sign the Declaration for Welsh Democracy.
JOIN US TO SECURE A PROPER PARLIAMENT FOR WALES!
http://www.facebook.com/l/52b56;www.tomorrow-wales.co.uk
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Ghandi
"UK debt is a higher percentage of GDP than other countries’ and it’s accumulating at a rate of more than £6,000 a second. A fighting SNP might respond to such figures with a slogan such as: “Can Scotland afford to stay in the Union?”
Note: Britain did not come into being until after AD 1603 (ratified into law 1707). Before that date Scotland was a separate kingdom. Once united with England it suffered deprivation, land enclosure, banning of national dress, persecution and exploitation.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6917223.ece
People of Glasgow are so mired in poverty, negativity and depression that they cannot see the way forward for Scotland, and even the hope of a better future does not inspire them. People in this condition, if they vote at all, are inclined to vote Labour.
Anti-Welsh sentiments from Don Touhig and David Davies and "True (Untrue) Wales".
Their aim? Not to work together for a Welsh Parliament but to scrap the Welsh Assembly!
"A TORY MP has accused the Archbishop of Wales, accusing him of “arrogance” in his lead role with a body campaigning for the National Assembly to get full law-making powers."
"The Monmouth MP and former AM warned a 'Yes' vote would "drag Wales down to Soviet-style poverty".
From a string of Unionist Welsh MPs of all three parties now sitting in Westminster (the "imperial parliament"), reeling off some names of anti-Welsh-progress politicians... Touhig, Davies, Hain, Murphy, Howells, Bryant, Opik, Irranca-Davies, Michael, Kinnock, George Thomas ......
all of them "yesterday's men" ..... may the Lord preserve us!
Read this:
http://cambriapolitico.com/2009/02/untrue-untrue-untrue-thats-all-we-get-from-true-wales/
Liberate Pontypool - pentref fy nhadau....and now
A Message from "AN INDEPENDENT WALES."
Maelgwn Ap Cadwallon
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Subject: Make some noise
By the end of this week, we will all learn what Emyr Jones Parry and his All-Wales Convention will be proposing for the referendum on a Welsh parliament.
You can guarantee that certain anti-Welsh politicians such as Peter Hain will be doing everything in their power to stop any further progress.
So make sure that we make more noise than him - make a point of talking to your friends and colleagues about why Wales deserves its own parliament - why we should not be treated as second class citizens compared to Scotland - why cant we be trusted to govern ourselves a bit more?
Write to your newspapers - phone your local radio station - saturate the internet. Get people talking - but make sure that they are hearing the right side of the story, and not the excuses of Labour MPs and the lies of Untrue Wales.
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From "Secretperson" blog:
Cameron will not bring an end to the Union, but if he agrees anything like this suggested deal with the SNP he will move it on its way to dissolution. It seems unlikely any major political party will support an English parliament, but as more powers drift to Scotland, with Wales close behind, Westminster will become the English parliament. If we get EVoEL, any more power passed to the devolved bodies means less work for their MPs until they are simply pointless. If the Union finishes it will be through this gradual process, not a dramatic event. Until it is simple and easy just to stop MPs from Scotland and Wales turning up at all, and there we have it. No more Union.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
"Britain’s luck may be on the wane. The political and legal problems associated with its half-in, half-out status are growing."
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From: "British Nationalists in Wales - Watch" blog
What's the Point of Britain?
Interesting article in The Times by Rachel Sylvester on 1 September. Now that Britain is just a medium-sized state why stick with it? Whatever your view on the Lockerbie Bomber decision it's interesting to note two facts. It took a Scottish Parliament Minister to stand up to the Americans in a way the 'Brits' never would, what Blair called the 'Love Actually moment' and related to that, the general increasing irrelevance of, or irritation with, Britain which the US feels.
Now that Britain can't offer the glory which always attracts a type of person who just like to be on the winning side, then what does Britain offer? Unlike a Welsh or Irish or Estonian state which are there to foster and promote weaker cultures and languages, the most appealing parts of British identity - comedy and popular music are independent of needing a state. After all, would the independence of four Britannic nations undermine 'British' comedy or pop music? Hardly ... it would probably strengthen it if anything. So, why stick with Britain?
Basically, there's nothing a British state can do which a Welsh or Scottish one can't do just as well or better. Now that the glory and prestige once attached to it is fading it will lose the affection of those fickle people who want to associate themselves with it. There is no point to Britain!
Posted by Nicholas Michael Morgan 0 comments
Bedtime reading.....
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2007/04/welsh-language-wales-england
Comment: the obvious solution to the invidious state of Britain is for the nations of Britain to rule themselves, which they would do far more effectively and a good deal more democratically. The other alternative is for Wales and Scotland to colonise England ;-) and govern the country from Edinburgh. I have no doubt Alex Salmond would oblige.
From the" Telegraph".co.uk
Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser
Labour threw open Britain's borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a "truly multicultural" country, a former Government adviser has revealed.
By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor
Published: 6:42PM BST 23 Oct 2009
Quote:
The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and "rub the Right's nose in diversity", according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.
He said Labour's relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to "open up the UK to mass migration" but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its "core working class vote". As a result, the public argument for immigration concentrated instead on the economic benefits and need for more migrants. Critics said the revelations showed a "conspiracy" within Government to impose mass immigration for "cynical" political reasons.
Mr Neather was a speech writer who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett, in the early 2000s. Writing in the Evening Standard, he revealed the "major shift" in immigration policy came after the publication of a policy paper from the Performance and Innovation Unit, a Downing Street think tank based in the Cabinet Office, in 2001. He wrote a major speech for Barbara Roche, the then immigration minister, in 2000, which was largely based on drafts of the report. He said the final published version of the report promoted the labour market case for immigration but unpublished versions contained additional reasons, he said.
He wrote: "Earlier drafts I saw also included a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural. "I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended – even if this wasn't its main purpose – to rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date." The "deliberate policy", from late 2000 until "at least February last year", when the new points based system was introduced, was to open up the UK to mass migration, he said.
Some 2.3 million migrants have been added to the population since then, according to Whitehall estimates quietly slipped out last month. On Question Time on Thursday, Mr Straw was repeatedly quizzed about whether Labour's immigration policies had left the door open for the BNP. In his column, Mr Neather said that as well as bringing in hundreds of thousands more migrants to plug labour market gaps, there was also a "driving political purpose" behind immigration policy.
He defended the policy, saying mass immigration has "enriched" Britain, and made London a more attractive and cosmopolitan place. But he acknowledged that "nervous" ministers made no mention of the policy at the time for fear of alienating Labour voters.
"Part by accident, part by design, the Government had created its longed-for immigration boom.
"But ministers wouldn't talk about it. In part they probably realised the conservatism of their core voters: while ministers might have been passionately in favour of a more diverse society, it wasn't necessarily a debate they wanted to have in working men's clubs in Sheffield or Sunderland."
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the Migrationwatch think tank, said: "Now at least the truth is out, and it's dynamite.
"Many have long suspected that mass immigration under Labour was not just a cock up but also a conspiracy. They were right. "This Government has admitted three million immigrants for cynical political reasons concealed by dodgy economic camouflage." The chairmen of the cross-party Group for Balanced Migration, MPs Frank Field and Nicholas Soames, said: "We welcome this statement by an ex-adviser, which the whole country knows to be true. "It is the first beam of truth that has officially been shone on the immigration issue in Britain."
A Home Office spokesman said: "Our new flexible points based system gives us greater control on those coming to work or study from outside Europe, ensuring that only those that Britain need can come. Britain's borders are stronger than ever before and we are rolling out ID cards to foreign nationals, we have introduced civil penalties for those employing illegal workers and from the end of next year our electronic border system will monitor 95 per cent of journeys in and out of the UK."
"The British people can be confident that immigration is under control."
Comment:the government was not merely incompetent in enforcing its immigration policy.
It was a deliberate attempt to transform the complexion of British society. This government has performed a grave disservice to the people of Britain. Labour's social engineering ploy is doomed to backfire.
of the public who attended the meeting were so affected by the proceedings that they convened a meeting themselves to discuss what they had witnessed.What kind of a government sets up an Advisory Council of eminent people to investigate and advise on the scientific evidence (on drug-taking) and then rejects its advice and sacks its chairman?
UNBELIEVABLE!
New procedural changes will see advice being made public at the same time as it is received by the Home Office. In the past, statements rejecting ACMD advice have been issued within minutes of it becoming public.
If the Home Secretary thinks he is going to reject the advice, he will meet with the ACMD chairman before making a final decision. And if he does reject it, his reasons for doing so will be made clear to the ACMD in writing.
Speaking at a lecture organised by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Prof Nutt the concessions made were "only moderate". "It's the old rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic," he added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8335189.stm
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/let-scientists-write-drug-laws-says-fired-british-expert/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18099-david-nutt-governments-should-get-real-on-drugs.html
.....but it is also a fundamental human right.
See this: http://swlibertarians.blogspot.com/
"Britain is not in the Euro, and has not taken part in Schengen. It has deliberately turned itself into a marginal, offshore island, irrelevant to the concerns and future of the European mainland........Britain is no longer an asset to the EU, if it ever was. It’s a pain in Europe’s fundament. Monnet had the right attitude to Europe’s British problem. Continental Europe, he thought, should go ahead with its integration without Britain; the British would then have to stew in their own juice; and sooner or later they would realise that they can’t get along on their own, and apply to join. That, of course, is exactly what happened. If the mainland Europeans had the guts to treat us like that again, that is what would happen again. The truth is that the extraordinary media hoo-ha about Blair’s supposed candidacy is merely one more sign that our political and media classes are living in a time-warp. They still think Britain matters. It doesn’t."
David Marquand: Our Kingdom
Comment: Britain is engrossed in a cloud of illusion, "living in a time-warp" and divorced from reality; believing that it is still a major power which does not need Europe, while accepting the benefits of membership and denying the rights of its own member nations within the UK. The realistic way forward is for the nations of Britain to become independently member nations within the European Union.
The candidates who will contest the Glasgow North East by-election are:
Charlie Baillie, British National Party
Willie Bain, Scottish Labour Party
Eileen Baxendale, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Mev Brown, Independent
Colin Campbell, The Individuals Labour and Tory (TILT)
Ruth Davidson, Scottish Conservative and Unionist
David Doherty, Scottish Green Party
Mikey Hughes
David Kerr, Scottish National Party (SNP)
Louise McDaid, Socialist Labour Party
Kevin McVey, Scottish Socialist Party – Make Greed History
Tommy Sheridan, Solidarity – Scotland’s Socialist Movement
John David Smeaton, Jury Team
The SNP by-election campaign rooms will be open during the following hours - Mon to Fri 10.30am to 8pm, Sat 10.30 to 6pm, Sun 12 to 5pm. At all of these times there will be work available whether you want to canvass or leaflet. If you want to work INSIDE, give us a call on 07504 830227 to check there's enough indoor work for you first. To find us click here 10 Angus Street, Springburn, G21 1DN.
Concerning the coming General Election:
"a vote for any of the three major parties is a vote for the status quo." (Peter Hitchins).
Do you favour change..... or more of the same?
The Youth of Wales will bring about Independence for Wales. Cymru X and the colleges and universities will be the breeding ground where the spark is ignited and Wales will become Cymru Fydd, a Once and Future Nation where people live in harmony and equality and where everyone is accorded honour and respect as a citizen of a vibrant and united nation state in Europe.
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