
Ben Wildsmith
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Columnist @NationCymru, musician, support worker. 🏴 linktr.ee/benwildsmith New book here cambriabooks.co.uk/product/flags-…
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05-02-2014 12:16:22
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It seems likely that a Plaid Cymru led government will be installed next year and its radicalism needs to extend beyond social justice and the advancement of independence as the cure to all ills ✍️Ben Wildsmith buff.ly/aYfWMvz


If Plaid Cymru do manage to beat back the encroaching tide of British nationalism, then their governance must be rapidly transformational if it is not to lose goodwill amongst an electorate whose patience is as thin as its savings ✍️Ben Wildsmith buff.ly/cFkonE4

Having voted for the Not the Tories Party last year, the nation finds itself being governed by a Labour Party that remains ideologically all over the shop, whilst lacking the charisma or presentation skills to cover it up ✍️Ben Wildsmith buff.ly/oM5ROnu


The ‘Welsh launch’ was nothing more than a press conference to move the news agenda on from the clearly fractious state of internal politics in Reform UK ✍️Ben Wildsmith buff.ly/7UgTMpq


So, what was on offer at Reform’s ‘Welsh launch? Well, Nige came armed with two policies: one of which is impossible, whilst the other is illegal ✍️Ben Wildsmith buff.ly/7UgTMpq

We are nowadays plagued with a class of politician whose chief skill is to plausibly excuse people from their responsibilities. Anything that is inconvenient can be waved off as ‘woke’ ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-11bF

I’m on record here as supporting this legislation when the argument over it threatened to tip into civil disobedience. So, now I was on the wrong side of it, I had no viable position but to suck it up ✍️Ben Wildsmith nation.cymru/opinion/life-i…

My belief is that Wales is overwhelmingly against this war. If our politicians will not express that, then we must do so ourselves and never forget that we were so obliged ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-11q2


It has become a routine experience over the last few years to look at the headlines and have difficulty forcing yourself to accept that they are real ✍️Ben Wildsmith nation.cymru/opinion/no-to-…

If Cymru is to signal its distinctness next year by electing a Plaid Cymru-led government, then we should find the independence of spirit that has characterised the Irish response to events in the Middle East ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-11yj

The UK is a busted flush on the international stage. It does as it is told whilst clinging to a fantasy of influence that long ago evaporated ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-11yj

The broader the brush Farage brings to paint his disingenuous fantasies across our nation, the finer the pencil we should use to expose them ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-11Ok

Nation.Cymru Ben Wildsmith ❌Reform are not Welsh. ❌They are an English nationalist party. ❌They have no Welsh leader. ❌They have no idea about Welsh issues. ❌Nigel Farage loves Trump and Putin. ❌Nigel Farage is a Thatcherite, Maggie Thatcher ex Tory PM sent in the paramilitary police to crush


When Labour’s vote collapses at the Senedd election next year, you can point not only to the party’s disloyalty and callousness in Westminster, but also to its blundering incompetence ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-11Y6

Anybody who can be performatively bullied for the benefit of potential Reform UK voters is fair game. Starmer has become beholden to everyone, and beloved of no one ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-11Y6