Conclusive evidence this morning on Page 7 of the National Newspaper of the West of England that Wales is not a nation. <Drum Roll> Boom Tish.
May I at this juncture Mr Chairmen/Person offer a theory as to why people in Wales are unhappy or not as happy as they should be. It is because our national comic refuses to see us as a Nation. If we were a NATION with full NATION status then we might be able to walk around Merthyr and Torfaen with our heads and our shopping held high. Instead we are that insignificant little Principality the size of...well the size of Wales. The Western Mail which for over a century has sent our boys and girls packing to foreign wars that have nothing to do with us but everything to to with Westminster and Elizabeth Regina. They have waved them goodbye at the Train Stations of the Principality and have listed the names of the fallen which lie in stone and marble and then get dusted by the Prince of Wales feathers every few years.
The Western Mail sees the Nation as the United King Dong, Team Great Balls of Fire. So the miserable Welsh have dropped 4% and the happy English have risen 16% in their happiness levels according to the Fail. Is this because they have led us to the promised land of Brexit? Who Knows? You would think that Merthyr and Torfaen would be the happiest places having voted in such numbers for UKIP, those mirth makers, those happy hand standers of sovereignty and ethnic tolerance but no, lack of jobs and opportunities are making people unhappy. Perhaps the people of Merthyr and Torfaen should get on their bikes as they did in the last century and move en masse to Slough and Cowley and just let the immigrants move in.
my mum and dad caught a train from cardiff to paddington in 1947 and never went back ... but what if the english had deported them ? i'd have ended up as your neighbour !
ReplyDeleteCardiff stock eh Tristan? I should have known it. I thought that there was something Roald Dahlish about you.
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