The Welsh Political Autumn...comes on
As a child and for most of my 59 years I have always seen September as the start of the year. I am one of those people like the ancient Celts who saw Autumn as true beginning and the end of summer as the final part of the year. Time is episodic and not narrative
I reflect on the political episodes coming in those Autumn months. Neil McEvoy shot across the bows of Plaid Cymru gives us much to speculate about and to ask questions about. Marcus Aurelius made the simple point that we should not ask about what someone says they are , we must ask instead what to they do?. The questions abd criticisms aimed at Leanne Wood from sources as diverse as Jac o the Deep South and on Nation Cymru have a strange parallel to many of the criticisms aimed at Corbyn prior to June 2017. Jac o the Norths blog moaned about Feminism, left-wingers and Greens . Lets imagine that somewhere within Wales a head of steam is building up in certain quarters for Plaid to follow a moderate approach, a Welsh Liberal democrat trajectory for Plaid
community political and populists approach so beloved of the early years of Peter Black CBE. Peter spent all those years building and building and the Liberal Democrats finished supporting a Tory government, and r being used they were slaughtered like Oxen.
One cannot doubt the achievements of Neil McEvoy electorally, one cannot doubt there effects and yet the central question that a McEvoy/ Black approach helps its creator in many ways, however without a political ideology of redistribution of power it creates patronage and does nothing to change the dynamics of power, does nothing to change class, privilege and alienation. It does nothing to challenge prejudice and enable power, knowledge and access to be spread.
In the North of Wales we have Prince Rhun awaiting like a Welsh Nick Clegg. He said in an interview I found what a nice person was the Queen, he has just the right moderate view and took an expenses made trip to Japan paid for by that nice Japanese nuclear company. He would appeal to the right, likes the market and has all the potential. If the clamour starting to build eventually led to a leadership election I do not doubt that the Prince in the north would have much to say and a market approach to take. So come on Neil are you preparing the way for an approach that does not really serve the people of Wales are are you tempted by high office yourself. In an election with Rhun you would be overwhelmingly defeated and your community politics would end by making possible a right wing Wales, beloved of Neil Farage and Neil Hamilton.
Plaid`s only realistic way forward is to maintain the strategy and philosophy of Leanne Wood. Welsh Labour has not reformed on a Corbynista model. Perhaps it must experience a melt down like Scottish Labour did before that is possible. The only way this can happen is to maintain Leanne Woods strategy...wake up Neil and smell the coffee......you can only come at Welsh Labour from the Left. Over to the Stones.......eh Neil?
As a child and for most of my 59 years I have always seen September as the start of the year. I am one of those people like the ancient Celts who saw Autumn as true beginning and the end of summer as the final part of the year. Time is episodic and not narrative
I reflect on the political episodes coming in those Autumn months. Neil McEvoy shot across the bows of Plaid Cymru gives us much to speculate about and to ask questions about. Marcus Aurelius made the simple point that we should not ask about what someone says they are , we must ask instead what to they do?. The questions abd criticisms aimed at Leanne Wood from sources as diverse as Jac o the Deep South and on Nation Cymru have a strange parallel to many of the criticisms aimed at Corbyn prior to June 2017. Jac o the Norths blog moaned about Feminism, left-wingers and Greens . Lets imagine that somewhere within Wales a head of steam is building up in certain quarters for Plaid to follow a moderate approach, a Welsh Liberal democrat trajectory for Plaid
community political and populists approach so beloved of the early years of Peter Black CBE. Peter spent all those years building and building and the Liberal Democrats finished supporting a Tory government, and r being used they were slaughtered like Oxen.
One cannot doubt the achievements of Neil McEvoy electorally, one cannot doubt there effects and yet the central question that a McEvoy/ Black approach helps its creator in many ways, however without a political ideology of redistribution of power it creates patronage and does nothing to change the dynamics of power, does nothing to change class, privilege and alienation. It does nothing to challenge prejudice and enable power, knowledge and access to be spread.
In the North of Wales we have Prince Rhun awaiting like a Welsh Nick Clegg. He said in an interview I found what a nice person was the Queen, he has just the right moderate view and took an expenses made trip to Japan paid for by that nice Japanese nuclear company. He would appeal to the right, likes the market and has all the potential. If the clamour starting to build eventually led to a leadership election I do not doubt that the Prince in the north would have much to say and a market approach to take. So come on Neil are you preparing the way for an approach that does not really serve the people of Wales are are you tempted by high office yourself. In an election with Rhun you would be overwhelmingly defeated and your community politics would end by making possible a right wing Wales, beloved of Neil Farage and Neil Hamilton.
Plaid`s only realistic way forward is to maintain the strategy and philosophy of Leanne Wood. Welsh Labour has not reformed on a Corbynista model. Perhaps it must experience a melt down like Scottish Labour did before that is possible. The only way this can happen is to maintain Leanne Woods strategy...wake up Neil and smell the coffee......you can only come at Welsh Labour from the Left. Over to the Stones.......eh Neil?
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