The Second Coming
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Slouching
towards Bethlehem ...the next Seven
Weeks and on to 2017
I
awoke yesterday and began to put my thoughts together on the Assembly
Election, I am appalled at the second rate Assembly members that UKIP
provides. It seems that they will be led by Neil Hamilton, the
rejected Tory former Mo, a group comprising Mark Reckless and
Caroline Jones fills me with horror. I can only hope when the scenes
we have seen in the European parliament from UKIP members are seen in
Wales in Cardiff Bay then perhaps people will wake up to the fact
that in a country like ours we have elected more Assembly members who
are to the right of the Conservative party. Speculation is that
perhaps Caroline Jones will be one of the shortest serving ANs in
History. It is likely that she will be Nathan Gills replacement in
the European Parliament, leaving the place in South West Wales to be
filled by Martyn Ford. Mr Ford once described Mid Wales as I quote a
“Clump of Land” I suspect that within a few Weeks the UKIP
Assembly group will have fragmented, some will have resigned and we
will be left with the debris. Let us remember the tensions within the
group...will Nathan Gill be happy serving under Neil Hamilton whose
lovely wife Christine described as a “Third rate General”. Will
Gareth Bennett survive the rough and tumble of Welsh politics, Will
Mark Reckless be able to connect with the electorate?. I think not.
In 2017 we will find that the absence of real UKIP activists will be
seen in the council elections of next tear. It was fascinating at the
Neath port Talbot Count how few Kippers there were.
For
the Liberal Democrats the story is over. They have retreated to
Brecon and Radnor. The victims of the snuffing out not means the loss
of Assembly members it also means the emasculation of their
activists throughout the regions of Wales. Next year in Swansea they
will be driven back in Swansea for example to the first council seat
they ever won in Cwmbrwla. They will not hold Dunvant, Killay North
and Killay South. In Sketty they were carried in on June Stanton's
coat tails and will find it even more difficult to retain the seat.
As for Gower their representative is the quixotic Richard Lewis. For
them they are on the way to extinction. I know just the right young
man to help them now he has been around a bit but he is very
enthusiastic. And then there is the lovely Anne Pastry she could try
them too. I wonder how long it will take for her to allege bullying
allegations against someone in Plaid......they are both so
predictable.
For
Plaid Leanne Wood is now powerfully in control. The succession battle
between Rhun Ap Nuclear and Adam Price is still born. Plaid had
severe disappointments last week but it is clear now who leads them
and and will not be challenged anymore. She can now face down
Daffyd Ellis Thomas
The
Greens will go back to their roots they will begin the long journey
through Local Government elections. Its quite clear though that they
are here to stay. The electorate is now used to Greens being on the
ballot papers throughout Wales. At last the leadership of Alice
Hooker Stroud and Hannah Pudner offer the only way forward. There are
more Green parties through out Wales than there has ever been, there
are activists throughout Wales digging in. The narcissists have gone
and the Wales Green party can honestly look itself in the eyes. Its
no longer ashamed to exist or worried about its existential validity.
It challenge is now to get real on Community politics and must
develop the target to Win Strategy. Twelve years ago I went as the
first Leader of The Wales party to the Scottish Green party
Conference. I was told a story about the moment the Scottish party
was down on its luck. It debated whether it should rejoin the English
Green party and by a majority of one it remained independent. Look at
the Scottish party now who would ever have thought that now. But it
is quite clear that the Welsh party should prove its Welshness, it
has the leadership to provide that Welsh identity and it must decide
once and for all its attitude on an Independent Wales and the
implications it has. There are too many fuzzy lines in Plaid for
there to be no reason for a Welsh Green party. We must be Welsh, pro
independence and to critique both Plaid and Labour from the left.
"Our
aim is to create an Independent Welsh Green party. We seek an
independent socialist and green Wales. A Wales where power is
devolved to the lowest possible administrative unit. A Wakes that is
diverse, tolerant, open to all that does not judge or impose
conformity on lifestyle, beliefs or identity. A Wales where its
people are aware of it culture, history and language and which is
fully bilingual and multi cultural. A Wales that supports workers
rights, public services and a comprehensive welfare system. A Wales
that protects the rights of animals to be free from exploitation. We
are opposed to Nuclear Power and seek a Wales powered by renewables
that are owned by the communities of Wales. We seek a Wales that is a
non-aligned, neutral republic and which is free from the arms
industry
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