This is typical of the ruling Labour clique’s duplicious attitudes on almost every matter. They are very sanctimonious about the environment when it suits them – crap like some sort of levy on cars accessing the centre of the city – yet the reality is that they are wedded to a fixation with clerarance. Witness the steady gentrification of parts of the city filling those areas up with aspiring toffs who do nothing other than drive up house prices. Lot of work to be done sorting that city out so that normal people can live there in harmony.

FFS, we haven’t even got a decent representation yet for our own history – something more detailed about what we are, where we came from, and what it was like to be on the receiving end of Roman occupation, Anglo Saxon aggression and Anglo Norman invasion and slow assimilation into the post Plantagenet Greater England. Thereafter we experienced the Industrial Revolution ( where Kinnock’s awareness of history starts !) and the more modern version of colonial exploitation up to the present day.

Indeed there are many parallels with the aggressions and exploitations experienced by the various homelands of BAME and POC communities. Perhaps the real time bomb is contained in the teaching of a comparative history where those communities now domiciled here in Wales can see that by adopting an Anglophonic identity and its superficial gibberish they are now betraying their new homeland in much the same way as their countries of origin were screwed by the Anglo Brit colonists of earlier centuries. That’s a prospect that could give a lot of Unionist wankers down the Bay a bad case of the bilious.

On the one hand, I can see the point he’s making – Saunders Lewis and Dafydd Wigley were born outside of Wales. A century or so ago, across the water, Eammon De Valera was born in the USA to a Spanish father, James Connolly was born and raised in Edinburgh.

So it’s not really about place of birth of degrees or consanguinity, it’s surely about commitment.

It’s also an issue affecting all parties, just think of Owen Smith and Stephen Kinnock in Labour. But as you say, Dafis, this seems to be more of a Tory problem at the moment.

Turning specifically to the MP for Ynys Mon, she keeps banging on about her miner grand-dad from the Rhondda. Which is fine, and to be commended, but I fail to understand how that prepares her to serve a largely rural constituency at the other end of the country. It’s clutching at straws.

Something Brooks fails to grasp, it would seem, is that it’s not just Virginia Crosbie’s tenuous Welsh links and her ignorance of the island that go against her. It’s also the business she’s in, and the company she keeps. For example, jumping in to defend Jake Berry when it was obvious that the MP for Rossendale and Darwen was breaking lockdown to stay at one of his Anglesey properties. (With her reportedly using another Berry property as her constituency base.)

What Seimon Brooks has tried to do is take a rather complicated story, simplify it, and then use it to have a moan about the reception he’s had from certain quarters. But it doesn’t work.

https://nation.cymru/opinion/why-attacks-on-anglo-welsh-tory-mps-show-the-dark-side-of-civic-nationalism/

I don’t disagree with Seimon’s contention which boils down to an acceptance that newcomers to our country should have every opportunity to embrace the identity – not all of it at once obviously but to be seen making an effort. In the case of politicians I think this is essential. The practice of parachuting some “promising” Tory boy or Socialist clone is a serious insult to the very concept of representation, unless that person is seen to be integrating in something more than a superficial manner. Some of Seimon’s examples of those shabbily treated by rival politicians and/or media leave something, indeed much to be desired. Newly elected Tory M.P’s have shown a distinct willingness to toe the line despite some of the issues voted upon being clearly not in the interests of large segments of their constituency.

Right now this is manifestly a “Tory problem”,but in the event of the next UK government being Labour led we will no doubt be visited by a similar attitude from that party’s elected representatives here in Wales.

So I conclude that those behaviours to which Seimon refers are not a “dark side” per se. They are more of a reminder to these parachuted candidates that a sincere commitment is now expected rather than some kind of exception. While we’re at it we can remind candidates from within Wales for both the Westminster and Y Senedd that they too are pursuing a serious mandate that cannot be treated flippantly without risk of constant comment and criticism.

Being an M.P is meant to provide unlimited opportunities to represent the interests of constituents when holding government to account. Nowadays it has become an opportunity for chancers to grab any old deal doing the rounds mostly just representing the interests of those businesses willing to dole out moneys to “influencers”. We have 40 M.P’s and 60 A.M’s and most of them willing to grab money and/or goodies from any source.

Also consultancy fee of £15k per annum to a company developing a home Covid 19 testing kit.

https://biggeesblog.cymru/index.php/a-running-journal-of-written-correspondence/#45%20Enquiry

https://nation.cymru/news/cairns-becomes-vice-chair-of-westminster-taxi-group-just-months-after-new-job-as-advisor-to-taxi-company/

Fill yer boots while you can boyo.

I think you have contradicted yourself, Jac.

You are right that most people are easy going about trans issues, as you say. Then you go on to say Hurcum is not an asset to Plaid Cymru. He is evidently not a liability, as you’re ‘easy going’ comment confirms. Question arises as to whether there are some communities of Wales where he is an asset, a connector. Undoubtedly so. As long as he stops the teeny bitchfest on social media.

HMJ on the other hand, is a liability. There are people in Wales, evident in the support of the independence movement, who are alienated by her vitriol. There suggestion that her stature is an asset, and probably why she’s on the preferred candidates list. This is misguided. Anyone remaining committed to voting PC in Llanelli, would do so regardless of the candidate, but she has alienated sections of the community.

I’ll be using my vote to get Gwlad elected. The type, and possession or otherwise of reproductive organs, or claimed gender, or outward appearance, plays no role in my decision. Why should it?

I have reported it to Twitter.