JUST LISTEN TO ALUN JONES (ALUNINDYFED), the guy is talking sense but what's to do about it? Up to Plaid Members really, and me? well I am getting soft on Plaid. The below aside, I think all nationalists should call for an election now!, and that all Nationalists fully back Plaid this once but on condition it does quit the 'Coalition Conspiracy' asap, and that in it's election manifesto is a declaration that 'uno numero' priority will be the call for the Welsh Assembly to carry out a referendum on more powers for the Welsh Assembly with also a question on Welsh Independence. At the moment, I do not particularly trust any politician, and Plaid might be just better at faking sincerity but whatever, as far as I am concerned this is just one last final push for Freedom and Independence or bust! After that I go far left, as an Inter - Nationalist Libertarian Anarchist towards ADFYWIAD GOCH in perpetual struggle which includes demanding devolution all the way down to Peoples Community Communes. Until then I suggest everyone get out on the street now, today and tomorrow in a real struggle of National Liberation and not just play at 'Patriot Games'.
.SUNDAY, 31 MAY 2009
Departure from a Political Position
The time has come in my opinion for a re-evaluation of Plaid's position in the political line-up at the Welsh National Assembly. Whatever the major parties in Wales may say to the contrary they are British parties dedicated to the maintenance of the Union. Plaid Cymru, in this perspective, is the only party of Wales, a party formed for the aim of severing the connection with the United Kingdom and esttablishing an indaependent social and democratic republic as Ireland has done. Saunders Lewis and his fellow republicans followed in the footsteps of Padraig Pearse, Eamonn de Valera and other patriots who saw England as a brutal colonising power which did not respect the rights of other nationalities to govern themselves and live in a free society.In northern Ireland the Unionists are in coalition with Sinn Fein. In the Welsh Assembly Labour is in coalition with Plaid. With a General Election in the offing this is an unhealthy situation for both Sinn Fein and Plaid Cymru. The public will associate both nationalist parties with the failed and discredited policies of the Labour government and these parties could well be damaged by the association. In recent polls support for Labour has collapsed and the party is becoming increasingly seen as a party of spin, sleaze, deception and incompetency. Leading figures have been exposed and discredited and their slick words are no longer believed. Labour has fallen to third place beneath the Lib Dems for the first time in 22 years, and in the European context they have fallen beneath the UKIP party.Therefore it would seem that the interests of Plaid and consequently the interests of the Welsh nation are not well-served by remaining in coalition with Labour. It may well be in the strategic interests of Plaid to pull out of the tenuous political association. Thus Plaid would be enabled to pursue its own unadulterated policies unencumbered by restraints and as a result would gain stature with the electorate.It would reinforce the party as a party with principle and purpose, focused on a campaign for a Welsh Parliament leading to independence, while at the same time attending to more pressing and immediate concerns, both social and economic and of great public concern, and subsequently the fundamental reformation of Welsh society. Comments welcomed...!
POSTED BY ALANINDYFED
Alan Jones (yn Iwerddon)
