I know the site. Have met with some involved. Contact me via editor@jacothenorth.net.

Not that I’d dare speak for Jac, but I take him to be a nationalist blogger first, his compelling latter-day blogs on what’s going on in the wider world notwithstanding.

You throw some heavy terms around. ‘Hate’ is probably best reserved for example for what the Nazis felt towards the Jews. It is the ultimate expression of dislike and disgust from one entity to another. There has never been, in modern times to my knowledge, a race hate-motivated murder of an English settler by a Welsh nationalist. I think that’s a simple disproof of your histrionic claims.

Dislike, resentment, bitterness, envy even – certainly. The holiday home argument is in no way an exclusively nationalist one; consider how many English folk in coastal villages resent City of London wideboys buying up properties and driving up prices, only to leave them deserted most of the year – the same old tale as here in Wales. Negative sentiment towards such blow-ins is not arbitrary and does not exist in a vacuum.

I do realise it’s not a simple ‘us vs them’ equation, and no doubt many Welsh people have seriously cashed in on the English holidaymaker/settler influx – who could blame them in making a tidy profit in a legal transaction? One can dislike general trends in society or demography without holding anything against individual people going about their business, and realise that it is ultimately the system we exist within that is to blame.

I ultimately believe, being rid of the Senedd (aka Puppet Parliament) and London rule will allow us to grow our economy as a fully grown-up sovereign nation, run in our own interests. At that point, it will be a more even playing field between local people and incomers for property. At the very least, there will be no longer any justification for finger-pointing and blame outsourcing, if things continue as they have done.

To return to my earlier point, I do indeed resent the large English presence in Wales and the cultural homogenisation and assimilation into the far larger eastward neighbour it veers us towards. Much as I resent the ‘diversity’ foisted upon us across Britain at large. However, I am of enough sound mind and good will towards my fellow man to be able to judge any one person as I find them, and as such I’ve never had a problem with anyone solely because of where they’re from.

Ok..Newport Pembs is a wealthy seaside town where a small tiny cottage will cost you half a million.Back in about 2010 they started to roll out decent broadband speeds and Newport was the first to get it…next Fishguard as its a port and on it went and I was part of a team to get Broadband and wifi rolled out in rural Wales to boost the economy. The Wgov had a lotta dosh to spend. So local people who were born and bred in that area cannot afford to buy there.There is a whole missing generation in Pembs that have left as no work, cant afford to rent or buy. Rent because they have to cover what a property would rent for in the summer season. We had this prob in the 70s as holiday lets were what supported the tourist economy and we could only get winter lets and if we wanted summer accommodation then the cost of our rent reflected that..I owned 2 properties in Pembrokeshire and lived in them both not at the same time. The one I bought in 2002 for 90K recently sold for £450K as did the other property with a 200K markup on my purchase price in 2012…locals in the village I live in can no longer afford the property and there are no council properties left all in private hands…and so it goes…

“Newport in Pembrokeshire is the home of BBC Wales and the Wgov and property prices there are out of the reach of ordinary ppl.” What exactly do you mean?

I am glad u see my point. Have a good weekend…

Indeed.

Hi David, sorry didnt have time yesterday. Yes I keep parroting on about it because I see ppl I have known since a child becoming more and more hostile and full of anger and hate and the world we live in atm isnt an easy one. Esp in Holiday destinations along the N Wales coast and my experience is from Conwy to Prestatyn and relatives and friends on Ynys Mon who see a rise in this sort of hatred. I saw it all in the 60s and I had hoped it had diminished somewhat but now its different. Newport in Pembrokeshire is the home of BBC Wales and the Wgov and property prices there are out of the reach of ordinary ppl. I worked in the Estate Agency business in 2004 helping a friend out and I did learn so much. Then if you were selling your council house that you had bought if you wanted to sell it it should be to a local person but 22 years ago the Local Authority allowed you to buy out that clause for £4K so that meant that a lot of council houses in ideal by the sea locations became second homes. We live in a very divided society atm and under the blessed welsh govt we have seen our standard of living drop in Wales. Across the border in England the NHS is a different story. They may moan about it but really it cant compare to 48 hours sitting in a Chair in A&E in Glan Clwyd and the Maelor. So yes I can rant on. I would love to live in an ideal world where wealth is shared and on it goes and no I am not a hippish sorts, plenty of those in Pembs lol…I just wish…:-)

I grew up in Denbighshire. Too many years ago lol.