Plaid Cymru call for 'fresh start' for Wales

Plaid Cymru's director of elections Helen Mary Jones says only the Welsh nationalist party can provide a change that is needed. . Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/itn_news .

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[taffiadon]

Monmouth is a Welsh county (the new one and the historical one) However, due to how the English legal system is structured it came under Oxford legal circut and therefore legally was treated as an English county after annexation (meaning it sent two MPs to parliament rather than one). The campaign for an English Parliament is a stunt more than anything, the Welsh have greater claims to the land on the English side of the border than vice versa (but that is ignored).

[elamite66]

As a foreigner from New York City I am courious about the question of Welsh independence is that what Plaid Cymru ultimately wants? or is 'devolution" acceptable? I saw on the internet that there is, I'm sure a very small group, a party calling for "self determination for Monmouth" is that for real and what do they want to become part of England as they were for centuries or independence or autonomy within Wales?Curiouser and Curiouser! Independence for the Basque Nation, Corsica, Flanders etc

[TheMyVew]

I HAVE ALWAYS VOTED OF PLAID CYMRU- UP UNTIL NOW!!!

I AM NOW A ''FREEMAN-ON-THE-LAND'' IN COMMAN LAW & I DO NOT RECOGNIZE ANY STATUTORY ACTS PUT IN PLACE BY THE UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENT!

DO NOT THINK PLAID.. ''THINK AS A FREE HUMAN BEING'' AS A ''FREEMAN-ON-THE-LAND'', WHO IS UNDER NO CONTRACT WITH THE GOVERMENT TO PLAY TAX OR INSURAENCE!

PEACE

[colin2100]

@ColossalCollapse I totally agree with you ColossalCollapse, Wales cannot be independent without the entire population wanting it. As long as major decisions about our countries future are decided by westminster the Welsh people will continue to suffer under second rate health services, bad roads etc. Bottom line, Welsh People, Welsh Decisions.

[ColossalCollapse]

@MegaLolburger megaman I agree with u. Im jus saying it would be grand for Wales to decide its own affairs rather than it being decided by foreigners in London with a few Welsh included. I cant see Wales becoming fully independent state unless the whole population wants it and im sure ye wud get it. The last great push for small sovergintys was after the USSR fell and before dat twas b4 or after WW2. But look to the world Britishness is Englishness i cant say anymore. Cymru Am Byth.

[MegaLolburger]

@ColossalCollapse Nope Its a principality, we have about as much power as an American state, near enough. School system? What about it? Our average IQ is 100 and something so I'd say our schools are doing well, Involvement in Iraq, the British army pulled out last year or the year before cant remember, I intend to join the army anyway, Currency The pound is doing very well, worth more than the Euro and the American dollar.

[ColossalCollapse]

@MegaLolburger last time i checked wales was a nation. Personal freedom and human rights and all that crack ya sure but Wales as a nation at the moment dosnt control its own destiny. imajine a welsh republic or free state you could decice on anything you want to do, involment in Iraj, School system, Currencyect. Wales puts a lot more into the big UK than it gets out budget and finance wise.

[MegaLolburger]

@ColossalCollapse Principality** Keyboard is running out of juice.

[MegaLolburger]

@ColossalCollapse Sure and include the times during the potato famine and before, I have even heard some Irish say 800 years ago, which is ridiculous we were under a different rule back then,. Whats there to benefit from either way? History is history, Wales isn't a country, s a pncpalit and has ben for hundeds of years, but either way under British rule we have freedom, the same we would have if we weren't unde Brit rule.

[ColossalCollapse]

@MegaLolburger bitch and whine? We won the most of Ireland by force and hardwork. Hundreds of years ago? 90 actually and if you want to include the Troubles in N.Ireland less then a decade. I agree too much blood yes.Too many Welsh and Scots are like you. You have to see the bigger picture. What benifits Wales in being British? We have a shite goverment in power now but at least they are Irish. Globalisation isgoing to fast small countrys like Wales are vital in my opinion.