That man should write a book … how can we encourage him 🙂

“Dear Sir,

I have found your blogs as a direct result of internet searches I have been doing regarding the odious ‘Lady’ Kate Clamp at Faerdre Fach [Happy Donkey Hill].

I am very much enjoying your writing ~ your style is refreshing and extremely ‘reader friendly’.

Returning to the ‘Lady’ in question: she is an arrogant, ignorant, crude, vile, foul, disgusting piece of human garbage ~ and an asinine cretin into the bargain. She insists on calling herself ‘Lady’, although there is less refinement in her whole body than in my tom cat’s d**k. According to her, the purchase of the title was a birthday gift from her father. Perhaps he was trying to tell her something. Unfortunately, subtlety does not feature in her extremely limited dictionary. My, oh my ~ she even has a certificate to prove it!

She is certainly an unpleasant, lazy individual. A couple of weeks before the Four in a Bed fiasco, the state of her kitchen [where the guests’ food is cooked] was absolutely diabolical. The hob top, worktops and sink were filthy – caked in grease and food residue, and countless dirty pans, plates and cutlery items scattered around. The kitchen window sills were completely cluttered with things which obviously had not been moved for months ~ never mind cleaned ~ hundreds of dead leaves from dead and dying plants, and dead flies and other insects. There were at least two dozen empty wine bottles strewn about the kitchen, and a larger number still unopened. The refrigerator was another horror story. Vegetables which had been left in the ‘fridge so long that they stank, and were at such an advanced state of decay that they were liquefying.

In the room where breakfast is served to the guests, two bull-mastiffs and a smaller dog all had their beds. With the breakfast table laid up in the afternoon for the following morning, there was about 18 hours for dog dander to accumulate on the table, crockery and cutlery. Oh, I almost forgot ~ the only door into the house which is ever used, is the one which leads directly into the breakfast room ~ and [weather permitting] is frequently left open, allowing the ingress of dust and débris from the yard outside.

She, and people like her give settlers from the madhouse that is England, like myself, a bad reputation. I moved to west Wales in April 1998, and to be quite honest, the only people I have ever had any problems with [with one notable exception], are absolutely clueless English people who have moved from towns into the Welsh countryside.”

Although most English people move to Wales and have no idea of the impact that they are having on the Welsh people and their Culture in these areas, it is quite possible that there is in action, another more insidious, political, ‘colonial’ agenda in anglicising parts of Wales.

If Kate Clamp’s father is Michael Gooley of ‘Trailfinder’ fame and fortune, one wonders why he is buying property in Ceredigion? Gooley is a bilionaire and a major donar of the Conservative party, the back scratching works both ways, whether it’s to do with tax, business breaks or as an expectation of a knighthood or to be ennobled, the nepotism is rife. It would be interesting to know how many properties he owns in Wales and where and what type they are? It is also interesting to see, in this context, that Kate Clamp is making a very high profile stand, challenging the sensitivities of the Welsh, on the very issue of Cultural changes, how much of this is actually intentional?

The Consevatives want to change the vote in Lib Dem areas, hence Ceredigion could be a target area. It is easy to see the political impact that English migrants bring, as most are wealthy retirees, who mainly vote Tory. This has no doubt had an effect on election results in Pembrokeshire, Gower, on the borders etc, in recent years. No doubt it is set to continue as more English people move into these areas. There has to be a disincentive to this migration, otherwise the political landscape, will definitely change the Cultural one, the aim of colonialism after all is to ‘divide and conquer’. The Welsh do need to wake up and push for political change, it is a matter of the utmost importance and urgency!

First you undermine intellectual efforts to see through the colonial mindset. Then when you expose your agenda and are seen with clarity, you appeal to emotion and the fear of losing well meaning allies. Seems like a long con to me.

Sadly Wales does seem to offer a cheap easy life to the more wealthy English. They don’t understand or care that for us it isn’t cheap, relationally it’s just as expensive as their and all they do is drive prices higher that we can afford. I don’t think it’s intentional on their behalf (although it is sometimes), they just don’t see the damage they do to. I honestly don’t think they will ever change either, it will take physical events to make them see (Vive la revolution and all that)

How terribly English of you old boy!

“are they simply reflecting the linguistic preferences of their likely customers?”
‘linguistic preferences” – You’ve jumped in with just another rationale that relies on the proviso that the Welsh language is worth less than the English one.
“English and the Welsh road signs are foisted on them by Assembly diktat?”
You wreck your efforts in presenting yourself as someone who’s supportive of the Welsh language when you make a Freudian slip using a terms like “foisted” and “diktat”.

Big Gee, Your analogy of the tree, beautifully sums up the predicament We as a Nation are in and reveals the positive steps the Welsh need to take, to change this seemingly insurmountable situation. You are absolutely right, that if We want to empower our selves as a Nation, to stop this rot, We have to focus our energy and with clear determination, gain control of our education and legal system, the rest, as you say, will follow.