National Interests v. Party Political Interests

It does not require to be spelled out - it should be apparent to all and sundry, that for the British political parties their own political self-interest comes before their concerns for the people of Wales and their allegiance to their country. Make no mistake, Wales is their country, and the manner in which the Welsh people have been hoodwinked into believing that they are British, or that there is such a thing as a "British nation" is appalling. We have constantly to remind ourselves that there cannot be a British nation if there already exist the nations of Scotland, Wales and Cornwall. These entities are not regions of England or regions of Britain - they are nations in their own right. Thankfully there are many in Wales who now accept this to be the case, and they refer to their country as the "Welsh nation". This has come about partly through the growth of a national consciousness over the years of the past century, and the efforts of Plaid Cymru and other nationalists led by immortals such as Saunders Lewis and Gwynfor Evans, whose bronze statue will one day stand before the gates of a Welsh Parliament House.
The British political parties, which inherently do not hold the rights and interests of the Welsh people at heart, but place the interests of their party uppermost in order to grab power and exercise it in what they consider to be for the sake of their own ideological policies, ride roughshod over the needs and opinions of the electorate and squander public money or mismanage funds in behemoth projects which often end up as white elephants. We can think of a number of examples - the Millenium Dome being one that comes to mind, along with prestige projects such as the Olympic Games - used as a cover to rehabilitate a large area of East London. There is a lack of true democracy which is not apparent to many, who have grown up with the ideal of democracy and have missed the reality, which is that there is little real democracy at the grass-roots. Policies and decisions are foisted on a reluctant people who can do little to influence events, so that before they know it the housing estate is built or the trees chopped down in the name of "progress".
As we have constantly reiterated there is only one Party of Wales. The British parties are in disarray and speak with two voices, one favouring further devolution, another adamantly opposed. The Labour Party falls into two camps, the Conservative Party also. The Lib Dems flounder without stable leadership and appear to be rudderless and indecisive. Without the means to make a difference in the quality of their lives the people of the Welsh communities can only look to their own national politicians, those who represent Wales and not Britain, to guide them towards their destiny.