I have absolutely no idea. All I know is that September 16 is celebrated as Glyndwr’s Day, the date he is said to have raised the banner of revolt.

Too fair by far!

This ban on political leafletting is yet another example of the underhand methods used by the ruling regime and their accomplices down the Bay to disadvantage minority parties. Oh says the prick who advocates this rule, this rule applies to all parties. But he deliberately avoids the point that using alternative channels costs money.

Now Y Senedd can be utterly fair by allocating an equal budget to all parties to meet such expense, a set amount for each constituency and region. Thus a minority party running in 10 constituencies plus 3 regions would get a proprortionate handout compared with one of the bigger parties who would go for the full 40 + regionals. Of course it should then become illegal for parties to secure donations from wealthy backers for the purposes of mass communication. Or is that a touch too fair ?

Drakefors speaking to Shipton attacks Tories in Wales as “doormats” then goes on to say

“Plaid Cymru, I think, has been different to that. Broadly, they have tended to support the thrust of Welsh Government policy. Understandably, they have differences of view on some aspects of it and they challenge the Welsh Government when they think it necessary.

“I have felt that challenge comes at least from a shared understanding of the necessity of responding to this public health crisis with the seriousness it deserves.”

Nice way of saying that he’s assured of their support if and when it comes to the crunch. He’s well aware that their bottle is well and truly gone. No point voting for them whenever the Senedd Election comes around. Vote McEvoy’s WNP or Gwlad whichever contests your patch. Dump Plaid and dump Labour. Tories will always have a hard core of Unionist Loyalist types which will win majorities in a small number of seats.

On the same online edition there is also an interesting article by Niall Ferguson on the power of the Silicon Valley thought and opinion police ( my words, not his).

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-tech-supremacy-silicon-valley-can-no-longer-conceal-its-power

I suspect he doesn’t expect politicians of any colour to muster sufficient cojones to do much about it.

Yes, I’ve read it. It’s well written. I just hope that the impetus for independence has gone too far to be pulled back by what is, essentially, a clash of personalities. It could never happen in Wales because we don’t have anyone approaching the stature of Salmond or Sturgeon.

It says ” But at the same time, they see no risk of confusion at all between “Plaid Cymru” and “Plaid Werdd Cymru”, despite the green logo that the former had for many years.”

Cut the Electoral Commission some slack, Gwlad. They are for once cute enough to see those parties as the 2 cheeks of the same arse, an ugly monstrosity that’s best identified by having 2 similar names.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/now-the-trial-of-nicola-sturgeon-begins?utm_medium=email&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Editorial&utm_campaign=BOCH%20%2020210115%20%20GC+CID_5879fe203f350f133a6ce5de27b83ac6

Worth a scan. The Spectator is a unionist loyalist mag but intelligent enough to smell whatever is in the wind. It’s almost as though they are now relying on the Scots to shoot themselves in both feet, as Boris doesn’t have a clue how to load and deploy any ammunition he might have. Funny old game is politics.

It feeds the suspicion that big corporate retail would love to crush the instinct to grow your own as it suits them to fly in peas from Kenya and all sorts of fashionable fodder from remote corners to satisfy faddish demand patterns. Wokies can only eat expensive veggie type stuff that has loads of food miles attached. Perhaps they should spare a thought for the poor old natives paid coppers for working their butts off in harsh conditions. But they can’t as they are too busy focussing on a slavery regime that got eliminated 150-200 years ago.