European – Jac o' the North

The Silence Of The Lambs & The Greater Silence Of The Establishment Controlled Media

Big Gee — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:00:11 +0000

Guest post by: Gwilym ab Ioan In the early Monday morning hours, the Catalan Government issued statements saying that about 2.3 million Catalans, (42.3% out of 5.3 million eligible voters), of those, 90% cast a ‘yes’ ballot for Independence. Without the violent interference of the ‘national’ Spanish police and civil guard, the Catalan Government estimated …

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EU Referendum: Why I Want OUT!

Jac — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 16:30:09 +0000

As the title suggests, I am voting for the UK, but more especially for Wales, to leave the European Union. There are many reasons for this decision, some of which are set out below. And while my primary interest is Wales my concerns over the EU encompass wider, even global, issues. THE BIG PICTURE There …

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YESCymru Launch Rally 20.02.2016

Jac — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:45:07 +0000

While I’m getting myself sorted after the enforced lay-off (and also watching PSG v Chelsea), here’s something to be going on with, something I’m happy to endorse and promote. Happy because I have argued for many years that devolution is a dead-end or, as the press release below refers to it, the “crumbs of constitutional …

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Euro Elections: Picking Through The Bones

Jac — Tue, 27 May 2014 18:45:58 +0000

Now that the dust has settled let’s see who’s still standing, who counts as walking wounded, and who might be deserving of a coup de grâce. Below you’ll find a table I’ve compiled giving a breakdown of the results. (Click to enlarge.) For comparison, the 2009 results can be found lower down. (Again, click to …

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Free at Last!

Jac — Fri, 23 May 2014 21:35:58 +0000

I didn’t vote in the European elections yesterday. In fact, this was the first time ever that I failed to vote in an election. Previously, I had always voted Plaid Cymru at Assembly, Westminster and European elections (there’s rarely a Plaid candidate for local elections). I got a bit twitchy as the ten o’clock deadline …

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Nathan Gill, Ukip No 1 in Wales

Jac — Mon, 19 May 2014 12:45:56 +0000

I don’t want anyone to think I’m picking on Ukip, or indeed, Nathan Gill; but as the BBC and other media have been making clear, these European elections are most definitely about Ukip, and as Mr Gill is the lead candidate, and therefore almost certain to be representing us – we Welsh – in the …

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Wales Euro Election 2014: Runners & Riders

Jac — Thu, 15 May 2014 07:38:32 +0000

Standing for election on May 22 to Wales’ four European Parliament seats are no fewer than eleven ‘parties’ (I use the term loosely), each putting up the ordained four candidates. Though looking at some of those candidates it becomes clear that their parties have not so much scraped the bottom of the barrel as gone …

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Ukip Should Copy Sinn Fein

Jac — Mon, 05 May 2014 16:06:56 +0000

It’s been difficult to avoid the UK Independence Party lately, the media loves them and has been promoting them so enthusiastically that one could easily forget that Ukip doesn’t have a single MP, does not control one local authority, has no representatives in the Scottish Parliament or the Notional Assembly for Wales, and is just …

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Spinning on the River Dniester

Jac — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:12:28 +0000

Since the recent events in Ukraine and, more importantly, Tsar Vladimir’s response to those events by invading rescuing the Crimea, politicians, journalists and others have been looking around the region at other countries with Russian minorities and asking which might be the next to be invaded rescued. Here’s a good piece from the BBC website.The …

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