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The thing people need to learn fast about Welsh Independence is for the majority who support it don’t want independence for independence’s sake.
It’s secondary, just a vehicle for working towards addressing poverty and inequality.
It’s secondary, just a vehicle for working towards addressing poverty and inequality.
Most people living in the valleys are having to travel miles and miles out of their villages for anything; work and school and shopping, everything.
Our villages are virtually empty most of the day, they’re becoming ghost towns.
Our villages are virtually empty most of the day, they’re becoming ghost towns.
They’re forgotten and run down and falling apart and no political party in particular seem to care. So, the result is that the people don’t engage in the political system.
That doesn’t mean they don’t care about politics, they just don’t involve themselves in electoral systems.
That doesn’t mean they don’t care about politics, they just don’t involve themselves in electoral systems.
Because what’s the point? Why bother voting when nothing changes and regardless of who wins your home continues to fall apart?
Independence, as a political aim, becomes a whismy, like a daydream only pursued seriously by people with too much time on their hands.
Independence, as a political aim, becomes a whismy, like a daydream only pursued seriously by people with too much time on their hands.
Above all, people in the dead ends of valleys want community investment, they want security, they want a future for their family, and they know independence alone won’t make that suddenly manifest.
We need a party that gives genuine hope and promise for that future.
We need a party that gives genuine hope and promise for that future.
Central to the ethos of forgotten villages is community, helping each other.
Despite the lack of funding, the lack of external care, people are setting up their own food banks, their kids’ clubs, their own transport and shopping for the vulnerable.
They care about each other.
Despite the lack of funding, the lack of external care, people are setting up their own food banks, their kids’ clubs, their own transport and shopping for the vulnerable.
They care about each other.
We need a party that acknowledges that, that show they genuinely care too, and can demonstrate they won’t just abandon them post-election like has happened so many times before.
Sorry for the rant.
I love the absolute fuck out of my hometown but as a disabled person I couldn’t stay there, I would have died without any fanfare through lack of resources.
It breaks my heart watching it rotting further before my eyes every time I visit.
I love the absolute fuck out of my hometown but as a disabled person I couldn’t stay there, I would have died without any fanfare through lack of resources.
It breaks my heart watching it rotting further before my eyes every time I visit.
