PLAID PANTS COME DOWN IN A DASTARDLY DEFECTION DISASTER! Bit of a laugh really but who will have the last laugh?

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Below I republish material in circulation regards this asshole Ashgar. Yes I said he is an ''asshole''. might be a clever dick in certain areas but politically he is dumb as they come, or should that really read 'DILETTANTE'. However, Plaid ditched out on Nationalism to be a reformist cultural pacifist party with theory and strategy that can be changed as frequently as wished to suit time and place (see Plaid on Fox Hunting, Nuclear Free Wales and Windmills etc). A party appealing to one and all has for many years been open to all forms of 'DILETTANTISM'. so that it now gets egg on it's face is not spilled milk I will cry over. Just surprises me that Plaid in constituency concerned has not organised a Petition to get 'Asshole Ashgar' out of Welsh Politics altogether. I am rather amazed that Cambria Magazine has not already got a petition on the go, they are very good at that sort of thing as example of their Investiture No! petition, by way what became of that? Anyway read on, stuff below from alunindyfed:

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Considering that the Labour Party put a ban on folk standing on both the list and constituency for the Assembly, which is questionable... perhaps there is a better case for disallowing list AMs/MSPs from changing parties. While constituency AMs/MSPs/MPs are all elected on their personal merits (supposedly) rather than the party, list AMs/MSPs and MEPs are all elected for the party in question, a key distinction. Ashgar clearly saw Tory success in the Euro elections as being his meal ticket in the near future.Both PC and the SNP can claim to have selected the first Asian/Muslim representatives to the devolved legislatures though. I think an important point here is even if someone comes from either/both of these groups, it doesn't make them a good politician necessarily - e.g Mohammed Sarwar MP, Labour crook based in Glasgow. On the other hand, the SNP was lucky to have the late Bashir Ahmad, who was a genuinely pleasant and decent person that I had the privilege to meet in the Glasgow East run-up - he provided a decent counterpoint to the nutters who attacked Glasgow Airport. It's a shame that Ashgar couldn't be such a good ambassador for Welsh Muslims/Plaid etc.--- On Wed, 12/9/09, Alan Jones wrote:
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Let Defectors Depart and the Cause is Strengthened.

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People have freedom of choice. They are free to switch their allegiance from one country to another, from one political party to another, but can their integrity or their character be trusted? Plaid Cymru is more than a political party. It is an umbrella organisation whose members have various shades of view across the political spectrum; they have been welcomed whatever their ethic origin, their colour or their religion, but the difference is that they all demand self-government for Wales and their hearts are true to the principles upon which the movement for self-determination stands. Their interest and their allegiance are with their nation, with unwavering devotion, and their efforts are directed to achieving their goal. By failing to inform Plaid Cymru officials of his intentions and by joining a unionist party Mohammad Asghar has revealed his true motives and has shown that he is not worthy to be a party to the cause of freedom for Wales. In that sense he may be closely compared with Peter Hain. In the case of Moh. Asghar Plaid Cymru was just the first rung of the political ladder on the ascent to a personal political career in a unionist state. In fact he has proclaimed his support of the Union. Yet his welcome into the Conservative ranks is somewhat muted.The A.M.'s departure, some say betrayal, is no loss to Plaid, as the Party for Wales needs no such political turn-coats in its ranks. Allegiance to the cause of independence must be indisputable and absolute if solidarity and purpose are to be maintained. It is a question of hearts and minds, and the heart must be true and the mind firm and uncompromising however difficult and steep the path may be, and however many set-backs are encountered on the way. Without this kind of unswerving loyalty from all its members and sympathisers the cause for which so many people have struggled over the centuries is doomed. Whether or not the AM for South Wales East stands down he is likely to have taken the road to political extinction, if not now at least in the longer term. alanindyfed Asked why he had stood for Plaid Cymru when he was opposed to independence for Wales, he said his voice had been that of "a little parrot in a jungle", with little chance of changing Plaid's stance on the issue."It is has come as a shock that he has now decided that he shares the same values as those held by the Conservative and Unionist party." Plaid Cymru assembly group chair Dai Lloyd said it would be wrong for Mr Asghar to remain in the assembly as a Conservative. "We now call on Mohammad Asghar to take the honourable decision to resign his seat as a Plaid Cymru AM," Mr Lloyd said. "The people of the South Wales (East) region did not want a second Tory AM to represent the area - they elected a Plaid Cymru AM. "Mr Asghar does not have the political mandate to sit in the assembly as a Conservative member..."A wolf in sheep's clothing no less. An interloper in the ranks.alanindyfed
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CILMERI COMMEMORATION 2009: A Patriotic Call For a LAND and LIBERTY Campaign.

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This post outlines the conclusion to my short pre Cilmeri Commemoration contribution, in which I did some ranting populist rhetoric to remind that today one must now more so than ever before be of an Internationalist Welsh Republican position. It really is quite rediculous for those who even just consider themselves to be so called 'Welsh Republicans' to be attending an event that remembers a Welsh Aristocrat oblivious to fact that these Welsh Princes were land grabbers and had their own bond population that were as much oppressed and exploited by they as any English Serf by their own Kings. Being some what a 'Devils Advocate' here but within there are 'home truths' patriots need to keep in mind. Sure most of my adult life has been active in promotion of medieval Welsh history and it's commemoration but, to be honest I have been involved in such largelly for patriotic political reasons. As far as Cilmeri Commemoration is concerned my main interest has been in using it as an anti - Investiture and thus anti - English Monarchy platform but hence being mindful of the contradictions I shall move to other commemorative platforms to advance this much more Radical Internationalist Welsh Republicanism.

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Sadly in recent years the Cilmeri Commemoration has drifted away from a sound anti - English Crown patriotic purpose, largelly via the sad pathetic alchaholic patriotism of ''Good Ole Boys'' (see Gareth ap Sion on Cilmeri in Cambria magazine of some years back) plus some careerism by crachach cronies and other such fence sitters and rediculous republicans who cannot make up their minds if they should be members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith or Plaid Cymru as often as not. However, it seems as if this years Rali Cilmeri owes it's successful organisation more to Adam Phillips and Balchder Cymru than the opportunist Fforwm Hanes Cymru aka so called Welsh Battlefiels Society aka Abaty Cwm Hir Trust et al? So it just might get back on track and rediscover the Patriotic Plot it lost in recent years, we shall see? I have not had much time for BC in the past but when 'push came to shove' they were more up for protest against Investitures than silly petitioning, as per Cambria Magazine nonsensical ploys to garner more subscribers to their magazine. BC however, still has a long way to go before they are the 'Barrio Warriors' our country needs and deserves but they are getting there, slowly!

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Just maybe considering all the poverty visited on the poor and weak by corrupt regimes throughout the World, be they Capitalist or Communist, then just maybe our Welsh Causes could be a vanity? When one considers the millions killed in wars, not just in Iraq and Afghanistan but particularly in Africa, not least the Congo where in 10 years five million people have been killed in genocidal wars our problems are insignifigant. Then of course there is Darfur and many, many other countries and regions that are kept off the front pages by our over bloated self centred Western & Northern hemisphere liberal concerns or greedy consumerism and celebrity-ism fed to people constantly. Of course the British media is controlled media, so thankfully we can acess other World media, and become more aware than we would be other wise. As for our home media, that in Cymraeg is stuck in some Cymric grant funded never, never land whilst the English Language media is more and more in existence to be so banal and neutrally 'British' it's enough to make one vomit, give me the BBC World Service and even BBC Radio Four for better World Coverage than what comes out of BBC Wales and it's Sports Wales never, never land.

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One cannot fail to see our own Cymric self centered cultural or other concerns as some what over self centered as regards 'more powers for the Assembly'. What? more powers to perhaps become more corrupted by family favouritism, regional clannishness plus the usual Taffia and Crachach lobbying and consultancies. Not least a Devolution Dilletantism that favours self careerism and personal economic advancement. In main made more possible because the people of Wales are ill served by it's media or suffer from being fed up with politics. The ''Masses'' not least the Welsh mini - masses are not even aroused into anger and thence radical action by the massive mess the Bankers put us all in, it seems that nothing can move the masses to action, other than advertizing which at moment is prompting them down to the nearest Super Market to fill their shopping trollies up with loads of Xmas goodies whilst most of the Worlds population are starving to death.

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Unfortunatly it appears most of our people want no more than the X Factor, Jordan and lots of binge drinking hedonism and kicking heads in by a younger generation increasingly boozed and drugged up into being pathetically unconcerned about their own futures let alone that of their children and communities and country......... Quite a rant, of course I did not say all that at Cilmeri cenotaph, I have enlarged upon my thoughts as penning out this post, the main matter I spoke on was along the lines of what point Independence, if much of our land is still owned by Anglo - Norman Lords, native large estate land owners, if any left? and by continuing cheque book conquest and colonialism be it by capitalists or Green Imperialists with their 'Wind Milling' of Wales that makes profits from use of our land for Wind Mill Plantations by Foreign based companies.

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Of course there is the British Army, Forestry Commission and Water Companies as well, to consider, they have a long history of expropriation of our land for their profits. The amazing thing is that Nationalists are not too concerned with all this unless culture and pacifism comes into it, but of course in main it is a Social and Economic matter central to the well being of our communities and people in the years ahead. All of which will be further deliberated more in due course in this blog but, in the mean time I hope my ranting gets you up to some Discussion and Debate on the matter, of course with purpose of stirring you into some really Radical Patriotic Action, maybe?

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TRECH GWLAD NAG ARGLWYDD
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Gethin Gruffydd.

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LAND & LIBERTY Lets Get Back To Basics! but beyond the usual and expected Cymru Cymraeg Concern of Land = Culture = Pacifism ???

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Land Issues as regards ownership and use is a major part of Welsh History from 16th century period of the Reformation and the Tudor Gentry Land grab (see Forest of Snowdon Affair and troubles in Cwmwd Caio) to the 18th century period of Romantic Cultural Renaissance (see Before Rebecca on Enclosures etc) up to 1826 and Rhyfel Y Sais Bach and beyond to the Tithe Wars of the 1880's. In this long post medieval period, these land issues are very much about social and economic matters but in the 20th century land issues became central to the advance of Plaid Cymru and then such is dominanted by its cultural nationalist roots and later pacifist politics. Such is much seen in a splendid issue of Y Faner Newydd Rhif 21 Haf 2002 with a special feature on early Plaid Cymru Protests on land issues revolving around campaigns regards the use of land near Abergeirw during WW II up to 1948 for Military training by the English Army.

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Also see via web search: The English Military and seizures of Welsh Land on the Epynt Mountains, Preseli Mountains. South Penfro and Pembre area near Llanelli, not least of course look up Penyberth 1936.

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Later the protests at Abergeirw would evolve into Plaid Cymru protests against building of a Nuclear Power Station at Trawsfynydd, for much of it's existence Plaid Cymru has been not only a Cultural Nationalist Movement but also a Pacifist Party but recent support for a new Nuclear Power Station on Ynys Mon as kind of undone Plaid stance on a so called ''Neclear Free Wales''. In present times, some potential Plaid BGE candidates have been writing to Western Mail supporting 11 November Remembrances and of Welsh Soldiers in the British Army in Afghanistan, all very ambivalent to say the least.
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In our own times Plaid Cymru land protests have in main been on seizure of Welsh Land to build Reservoirs to serve English Cities, as Vyrnwy, Elan and Clywedog but most famously Treweryn. One thing that has been consistent throughout has been the links between the Land Issue and the Welsh Language (threatened way of life etc) and much imbued with pacifism that found bombing campaigns by FWA and MAC against the building of reservoirs an anathema to Plaid's Cultural Pacifist Patriotism.
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The above is highly interesting stuff, one can sympathise with the Plaid Cultural stand whilst having mixed opinions about the Plaid Pacifism, the important thing is to see a Nationalist Party leading a Nationalist Direct Action Movement. This is what we need more of, on a number of issues in Wales today and is something the Peoples Council in North East Wales will have to consider if their petition against the WAG Spatial Plan to sell out the North East to English domination from across the border fails.

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I have all ready wrote of the growing need to consider the building up, based on Peoples Councils an all Wales MOVEMENT AGAINST COLONIALISM (see Adam Price recent talk to IWA on Wales a Colony). But I digress, back to my proposed LAND & LIBERTY CAMPAIGN, I take heart from Plaid Land Issue Campaigning in the past, but the one I propose, sets aside the pacifism although such campaign I envisage would be non - violent. However, taking aboard the Culture & Language, I see the campaign I am proposing be as much, if not more concerned with the matter of national & popular sovereignty plus issues that reflect Social and Economic concerns on a platform of Hand Back & Hands Off Welsh Land all most definitely under an Anti - Colonial Umbrella with a Banner that reads large SAY NO TO CHEQUE BOOK CONQUEST TOO!

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Gethin Gruffydd.