Annex Cardiff

As somebody who has lived there for thirty years I am prepared to go along with Alun Cairns idea and annex Cardiff. It is time for people to fess up, Cardiff is not Wales. Cardiff is more British than it is Welsh and it always has been. I mean what Welsh person would call its National Sporting Stadium 'The Principality Stadium'. I'm sorry if this upsets some people but the Welsh really are a nuisance scurrying along the pavements and roads on match days with their Prince of Wales Feathers (WRU) Rugby Jerseys, munching a burger and singing Calon Lan. We already have the Western Mail which calls itself the National Newspaper of Wales so the Western Powerhouse is surely just an extension of that. What's in a name? An awful lot, The 'Prince of Wales Bridge' ring any bells? Wales has become an American Tourist's version of what the Land of Your Fathers was meant to be. The Capital City is so British that you cannot tell your Goat Major from your Owen Glendower. Welsh Speakers are tolerated because the working class cognoscenti knows that the young Welsh League of Health & Beauty (The Urdd) will not carry on speaking Cymraeg once they have finished their education because like a flower, without feed and nourishment, it will die out and there is no food and nourishment on the cold concrete mean streets of Kairdiff. I mean take the 'Hen Llyfrgell' as an example. It was meant to be the place to go and siarad yr hen iaith but it is withering like that flower because it cannot recruit Welsh speaking staff and is the butt of Welsh middle class complaints. I use the term Welsh loosely because yn Gymraeg we have 'Y Cymry Cymraeg' the Welsh Welsh, the Welshest of Welsh, those that speak the Welsh. In the English we just say Welsh.This might sound like just another self hating Welshman writing but I am not as self hating as Alun Cairns. I mean, he must really hate himself and Wales to be pursuing the political path that he is. He reminds me of the character from the film the Last Days of Dolwyn played by Emlyn Williams who vows to wreak revenge on the village that branded him a thief as a young man. The film that was Richard Burton's first screen role and in which he speaks Welsh like a native or rather a Cymro Cymraeg.