The North/South Divide in Wales

Now I don't expect this blog post to go down well with supporters of Plaid Cymru but I think there should be 2 Plaid Cymru. One for North Wales and one for South Wales. Having been born in the South, raised in the North and spent the last 25 years back in the South I have come to the firm realisation that Wales is two countries. What does a man in Holyhead have in common with a woman in Cowbridge or Abergavenny? I'm sure that Scotland has the same problem. The Capital, Edinburgh is as far removed from the Highlands and Islands as Cardiff is from Amlwch. We are aware of Anglesey because Prince William and his Mrs and his aeroplane were stationed there. Many, better qualified than I have bemoaned the A470. Personally I don't want a Motorway between North and South Wales, this will be another threat to the 'Mother Tongue'. I believe that if Wales were flat like the Netherlands that 'Cymraeg' would be extinct. It is the 'tirlun' that keeps it.

I was thinking today as I travelled through 'Mwynder Maldwyn' the beauty of Montgomeryshire, passing the signs that screamed 'No Wind Turbines' here, what these people would say if Wylfa became the next Fukushima. It could have happened at Trawsfynydd. People seem to have implicit faith in Nuclear Power over any form of sustainable energy. These Nimbys appear to be more concerned about the aesthetic of Wind Turbines on the countryside than the possibility of a Nuclear Meltdown.

http://www.clickonwales.org/2013/08/nuclear-argument-exposes-plaid-dilemma/

'As long as we are all right' appears to be the motto of many rural Welsh. A Conservative MP, all be it one who has learnt the Welsh Language represents this area. I suppose if you are a land owner it is difficult to think in wider terms. Where were the Farmers when the Miners were on strike eh? eh? My first experience of canvassing for a General Election was in 1992 supporting the Plaid Cymru/Green Coalition in Ceredigion under Cynog Dafis. I was Plaid Cymru then but I am Green now because I believe that if the Global Climate is affected adversely then Wales' problems will be largely insignificant. I supported Plaid when it was a Protest Party. It rather fancies itself now as a Party of Government. It appears that like the other Parties, its members sleep in their suits. For a nationalist, socialist, republican party it has 2 elected members to the House of Lords. Maybe 'Plaid y Cymoedd' might be a better name for it nowadays!
We will have to see what happens in Scotland come September. I hope that it becomes Independent, if anything to give the Metropolitan Elite in London something to keep them up at night. Tacticians of which there are many believe that Independence for Scotland will be bad for Wales.

"If you vote like this, it will let this lot in".  
"Well so effing what would be my reply, I vote with my conscience".

Naively, my politics has always been one of protest. When bods start taking themselves seriously, we have problems. The only thing we need to take seriously at the moment is the long term future of our planet upon which Wales, North & South, sits. If this 'Progress' at any cost continues apace, we'll all be building an ark on Rhigos Mountain in South Wales and on Mynydd Parys in North Wales.