Foreword

Original Foreword

I'm a Welsh Nationalist, but this isn't a blog solely about independence, though the cause for Welsh Independence will be a key ingredient. Likewise it is not a blog solely about politics, though politics will play the lead role in it, I'm sure (especially in the run up to the Assembly elections this May). This is also a blog against defeatism, against the idea that Wales is a defeated nation. The Saxons couldn't defeat us. The Normans needed 216 years, the most advanced technology in warfare at the time, and a lot of luck to take away our sovereignty, bankrupting Europe in the process. And still we rose again. Even afterwards our warriors -employed by the Normans because of their experience in battle- were recognised as the most hard assed bastards in Europe. You only had to say the words "Welsh bowman" to make a seasoned French knight shit his armoured breaches back then. A lot of us seem to have forgotten this, and seem to border on being apologetic for being Welsh. Wales is not England's bitch.

I'm also a pro-European, but without being a "Yes-man" to Brussels, so European matters will also pop up.

Revised Foreword

OK, this is a political blog. I'm a Welsh Nat, mostly but not exclusively left-of-centre. I'm not currently a member of any party so I don't have to tow any line, but do I vote and support Plaid Cymru.