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When the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, Brexit supporters predicted the UK would boom. Three years later and the nation is at breaking point with high inflation, an energy crisis and concerns about a recession fuelling a healthy dose of Brexit regret. No more so than in Wales where something remarkable is happening.
The Welsh are finding their voice, and the famous red dragon is awakening.
This week on Foreign Correspondent reporter Nick Dole explores the new push for Independence and meets the leaders of the movement campaigning for Wales to break up with Britain.
He travels to the city of Wrexham where the locals are riding high on a wave of pride as their football team gains global recognition thanks to the popular tv streaming show “Welcome to Wrexham”. The club was recently bought by Hollywood celebrities Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney - and it’s put Wrexham on the map. But as well as a growing confidence in their team for some there’s also an increasing belief that Wales can achieve much more as an independent nation, away from the rule of Westminster.
With a major push now on to preserve the Welsh language one question is getting louder: A fyddai cymru yn well ei byd ar ei phen ei hun? (Would Wales be better off on its own?)
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@davidbowie5023
@davidbowie5023 Год назад
Long live Wales. Our Celtic brothers deserve attention. Ireland loves you. 🇮🇪🤝🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@sydneylaroche8276
@sydneylaroche8276 Год назад
I'm from Wrexham, it's a friendly, colourful town actually decimated by Westminster and corrupt councils continuously from the 1980s until today. This is not a majority Welsh-speaking town, so if this is happening in Wrexham, I can only imagine the sentiment further west.
@ben_young
@ben_young Год назад
Brilliant documentary. So glad that media outside the UK is even aware of the disparities within the UK, it is very much ignored within UK media
@Chequr_Prostate
@Chequr_Prostate Год назад
The poorest communities are in England. The common theme between all the poorest communities is they are governed by socialists.
@pronumeral1446
@pronumeral1446 Год назад
Well UK media is mostly controlled by English people who live in England and want the UK to remain unitary and dominated by English people.
@isengard1500
@isengard1500 Год назад
@@pronumeral1446 How about you critic people based on their policies instead of their race?
@sharondowney1725
@sharondowney1725 Год назад
Well said Ben.i lived in North Wales for 20yrs in Ruabon. I was treated like there own .if it wasnt for me being ill i would syill be there.i wish you well for Independent. 🤘🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿x
@stiofain88
@stiofain88 Год назад
​@@Chequr_Prostate Actually this isn't the case. West Wales is technically the poorest region in Northern Europe. That's why everyone leaves it.
@ImperialGit
@ImperialGit 11 месяцев назад
I hope the Welsh find their strength and regain their independence. Love from the Netherlands.
@judealdred5237
@judealdred5237 Год назад
Best of Luck to the welsh from Australia!!
@nicholasjones7312
@nicholasjones7312 11 месяцев назад
❤ Yma o hyd, yn wir! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@kennyinliverpool
@kennyinliverpool Год назад
I started learning Welsh during covid, I’m not even Welsh but it’s a wonderful language!
@thebarryhorns
@thebarryhorns Год назад
You sir are a legend
@gwynevans6440
@gwynevans6440 Год назад
Da Iawn but, x
@cuuurlyfries5246
@cuuurlyfries5246 Год назад
I’m Welsh, and I don’t know a single word of the Welsh language. Can’t make the “kch” sounds properly and lack the accent, but it’s cool to have a rare language.
@jthomas7105
@jthomas7105 Год назад
@@cuuurlyfries5246 It's just practice.
@huwinio5973
@huwinio5973 Год назад
Diolch am dysgu ein iaith ♥️
@heatherread5314
@heatherread5314 Год назад
I'm English living in Pembrokeshire 0ast 16 years and I'm all for welsh independence
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero Год назад
a just amongst the livings, you're doing the right thing and it take courages to do so.
@Tazza81
@Tazza81 Год назад
As someone whose family is a mixture of Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Scouse and Australian I really do hope that I will live to see the day when the Celtic nations (and Merseyside) become independent nations.
@raykarena4595
@raykarena4595 11 месяцев назад
Respect to Wales and the Welsh people embracing their history and culture.
@oakguard
@oakguard Год назад
As a Scotsman it makes me glad to know many in Wales are willing to look to new horizons away from the shackles of Westminster
@isengard1500
@isengard1500 Год назад
Away from a powerful Union, straight into the hands of the Anti-West China and marxism. Divide and rule my friend.
@stiofain88
@stiofain88 Год назад
​@@isengard1500 Divide and rule.....now which country have I heard of using that as their default diplomacy tactic? 🤔
@lucindafergusonart
@lucindafergusonart Год назад
Scottish government is corrupt or haven't you noticed
@Marvin-dg8vj
@Marvin-dg8vj Год назад
Wales is one of the poorest regions in the whole of the EU. Once that is sorted then it is realistic to look for new horizons
@lucindafergusonart
@lucindafergusonart Год назад
@@Marvin-dg8vj its not in the EU
@richardjones7984
@richardjones7984 Год назад
The English think exactly the same way. Our government sucks.
@aidandutton3067
@aidandutton3067 Год назад
I am from the north east of England, near the Scottish border and from this video and others all I can see is please push for greater autonomy. There is a huge disconnect between the north and south England. At this point I feel like everyone who is English and lives outside of London wants to be a separate state than be part of a broken Westminster system which doesn’t represent anyone from outside the M25.
@SparkBerry
@SparkBerry Год назад
My Welsh grandfather moved to South Africa and I remember as a kid him speaking the language. I have deep regret of no being able to learn the language of my ancestors, but I am glad to see that it is coming back to life in the place my forefathers are from.
@SuaveWelshy
@SuaveWelshy Год назад
I recommend getting on Duolingo to learn some basic welsh
@D_Marrenalv
@D_Marrenalv Год назад
Start learning your language...a little at a time, but learn it.
@LeafHuntress
@LeafHuntress Год назад
I'm Dutch, no connection with Wales whatsoever, yet i've started learning the language. There are many online sources, like SaySomethingInWelsh & duolingo.
@user-vj7gp3ip9j
@user-vj7gp3ip9j Год назад
They speak it in Patagonia but that's in S America
@xr2kid
@xr2kid Год назад
I learned my people's language you can still learn Welsh ! Don't let the empire win!
@franzderpinand2715
@franzderpinand2715 Год назад
As a welshman, I think this documentary is brilliant and very reflective of Wales currently. You don't have to go far to find poverty in Wales and the more neglect we face, the more it'll bite the union in the future. Well done, Da Iawn. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@missthang4982
@missthang4982 Год назад
❤ Sudbury, Ontario, Canada ✌️
@davidcarter4247
@davidcarter4247 Год назад
My family lived in Wales in the late 19th century but were not Welsh. They were English, Cornish and Scottish doing middle class jobs the Welsh did not do. They were engineers, masons and railway superintendents. They were shipwrights and accountants. The Welsh were labourers, miners and domestic servants. 50 years ago I mixed with Welsh immigrants to Sydney. They had escaped homes with no bathrooms , toilets at the back gate and grinding poverty. None had owned a car before arriving in Australia. Poverty is Wales's normal state.
@amatvkhmer
@amatvkhmer Год назад
You are right
@jrjhughes1233
@jrjhughes1233 Год назад
England also has a lot of poverty. I’m English but of Welsh & Irish ancestry, and it’s like our Celtic neighbours just think the whole of England is Westminster. I’m not against the independence of each country btw. As for brexit, the Welsh voted for it too. I’m not a brexiteer, but this shapes it as if England dragged Wales kicking & screaming
@tomosprice8136
@tomosprice8136 Год назад
​@JRJ Hughes while its true Wales voted by a slim majority for Brexit, Wales never voted for the Conservative party who implemented a hard-Brexit which has decimated Wales' economy
@seanjenkins5860
@seanjenkins5860 Год назад
Brilliant u hav my full support 👍💯🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@JohnSmithNYC
@JohnSmithNYC Год назад
As an American born and raised in New York City, having no connection to the UK. This story touched me. The power of RU-vid to educate and inform.
@luns486
@luns486 Год назад
I think the credit goes to the ABC before it goes to RU-vid
@angelicupstart1977
@angelicupstart1977 Год назад
You are the first American I’ve ever read about who doesn’t try to cling on to another countries history 👍
@Kuwandi
@Kuwandi Год назад
I belive it was in 1632 that Wales came under the English rule …just happen to be watching the historical history of the Wales and England …I belive it was under Edward… just a curious American ….
@alynwillams4297
@alynwillams4297 Год назад
@@Kuwandi indeed. And they try to say “we were United” when really it was invasion, oppression and then annexation. The English twist history so much to suit there narrative and make them look good.
@gwynevans6440
@gwynevans6440 Год назад
@@Kuwandi Hey Welsh historian here, the military conquest of Wales by The Normans finished in 1282 and there was another century or so of revolts and risings (the big one around 1400), this was followed by the Tudor period where Welsh lords favoured by Henry VII led to much anto-Welsh feeling and an "apartheid" system where Welsh people (and even English people who married Welsh men or women) were legally second class citizens. Basically no one was happy! I think your date might relate to1535 when the Laws in Wales Acts made Welsh institutions and laws English. Not great for Welsh language and culture but effective in ending all those revolts. 👍
@kurtishaake4748
@kurtishaake4748 Год назад
Thank you abc, I’m sitting here with tears in my eyes. My little country has been trodden on for years and it’s about time we fought back and gained our independence
@crusader8626
@crusader8626 Год назад
As much as I want independence for us aswell, i genuinly don't think much would change if the Welsh government was in charge
@gwynevans6440
@gwynevans6440 Год назад
@@crusader8626 over a hundred countries declared their independance rom a European nation, sixty of them from Britain. I would imagine none of those countries' citizens would describe their governments as "perfect", but precisely zero of them have come back and asked to be run by Westminster again.
@crusader8626
@crusader8626 Год назад
@@gwynevans6440 I honestly don't think we have enough industry to support us if we went on our own.
@aishalotter9995
@aishalotter9995 Год назад
How about a ban on English only schools ? Make the Welsh language (Cymraeg) a priority, they forced a language on us with beatings , the pen is mightier than the sword , sign it into legislation, If somebody doesn’t like it they can move out !!! I’m not saying don’t teach English just no English only schools, a generation and it would be normalised , only non Welsh speakers would be up in arms about it , and it’s been proven that being bi-lingual helps with maths and other subjects !!! I can’t see it happening but you never can tell !!! Diolch am Ddarllen !!!
@treidchimney
@treidchimney Год назад
don't waste your energy on tears :/ never going to happen ..just a distraction
@magicwandson4219
@magicwandson4219 Год назад
Free Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales!
@user-vc5qk9tg7u
@user-vc5qk9tg7u Год назад
Westminster will never allow it.
@magicwandson4219
@magicwandson4219 Год назад
@@user-vc5qk9tg7u it is not ultimately Westminster's decision
@010Jordi
@010Jordi Год назад
I can see a lot of similarities between Wales and Catalunya.
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero Год назад
The right to self-determination is indeed the right of all nations. How can certain ones have the right to a state but others can't? How can the ones that do benefitted from it and wouldn't ever go back to the way it was yet not all are allowed to get this chance as well? Especially the one dominating you shouldn''t here paternally englishsplains (or whatever is your local equivalent) what you can and cannot do in the hidden name of their interests and empire over you, they're automatically in a conflict of interest and its not about yours. Be proud, Wales, don't be scared to ask what others have, you deserve it as much as they do.
@garethllewellyn6368
@garethllewellyn6368 Год назад
Superb programme. Well done to Nick Dole and ABC for making such a sensitive and insightful documentary that did not resort to tired old cliches that we often seen from broadcasters within the UK when covering Wales and Welsh issues.
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero Год назад
they are english broadcasters, what's so shocking? They go for their interests, their english empire made by and for England.
@juno3254
@juno3254 Год назад
Wow, as a native Cantonese speaker, hearing about the Welsh people's experiences with language assimilation makes me sympathize with them so much. The Cantonese people have also been suffering being a part of China, and the Chinese government has been trying to destroy our language for a long time through assimilationist policies, such as the example that in schools students are prohibited from speaking Cantonese and are forced to speak Mandarin. I will spend the rest of my life defending, preserving and promoting the Cantonese language. But at the same time, I do wish for a day when the Cantonese people can separate from the oppressive Chinese Empire and form our own independent nation-state and drive out Mandarin! So I've also been supporting the independence of Cantonia.
@mew11two
@mew11two Год назад
The difference is the British government has made no attempt to suppress the Welah language for well over 100 years, in fact it's been doing the opposite. As a result Welsh has been slowly making a comeback, you see bilingual signage all over Wales and sometimes even in the border areas between England and Wales. It's even routine to have bilingual English and Welsh government documents mailed to you in ENGLAND as all documents are required to have a Welsh translation available in both England and Wales. The UK supports Hong Kong, do not squander that.
@Clarksville000
@Clarksville000 Год назад
​@lenny Cantonese is Chinese language
@Clarksville000
@Clarksville000 Год назад
@lenny you mean han? Cantonese and mandarin are both hans they're different in terms of language but racially the same
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero Год назад
@@Clarksville000 here comes the imperialist dictating to the locals that they don't exist outside their empire...
@chrisjones2625
@chrisjones2625 Год назад
I didn't know this. Very good luck to you!
@luxuri5515
@luxuri5515 Год назад
Whoever made the thumbnail needs a raise. That dragon looks fire!
@iangwynne77
@iangwynne77 Год назад
Amazing. Diolch o galon. Thank you so much for shedding light on our struggles as a nation. A brilliant documentary that will inspire future generations to keep believing that there IS a better way for Wales ❤
@elinmorgan8218
@elinmorgan8218 Год назад
Struggles? What struggles?
@iangwynne77
@iangwynne77 Год назад
@@elinmorgan8218 are you one of those boring people who needs to question everything even though the answers are staring you in your silly face?
@D_Marrenalv
@D_Marrenalv Год назад
@@iangwynne77 I believe he is.
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
Aaaaah nationalism. The cure for everything 🙄
@Inquisitor_Vex
@Inquisitor_Vex Год назад
@@mogznwaz when great empires fall, the people revert to national ethno-states. Just look at what happened to the eastern block counties after the Soviet Union fell. It’s almost like that’s the natural state of humanity. Also, consider what happens if the country itself starts to fail.. will foreigners stay and put the work in to fix it, or would they simply move on to another, more profitable host country? There’s nothing wrong with nationalism.
@thecrankster
@thecrankster Год назад
Nice job. Really nice documentary. I’ve just been in Snowdonia. I heard the language often. The landscape is incredibly beautiful and the mountain biking is fantastic. Every Aussie shouldn’t miss it when they’re in Blighty.
@mixodorians12
@mixodorians12 Год назад
It's funny, reading comments here you would think England has been trying to build Wales up, by investing in Wales so one day Wales will be able to leave, not extracting every last resource, human, natural, mineral..cutting every single budget for 13 years, whislt sending us all of Englands pensioners and oddballs..and putting Wales in complete penury to the extent that lots of the people here are thinking " well what have we got to lose, we are using foodbanks for survival now, and there will always be foodbanks".
@maggiepie8810
@maggiepie8810 Год назад
If Wales and Scotland are too small to be sovereign, shouldn't the same be true for the Nordic countries, too?
@maggiepie8810
@maggiepie8810 Год назад
@@liam1561 I just wanted to put it out there that Europe is full of small countries that depend heavily on the EU and that works just fine. As a Scandinavian, I shudder at the thought of a united Scandinavia as one country, I just imagine the amount of infighting it would lead to. With that said, I'm not sure that whatever is going on in Westminster is representing 95% of England, either, so simply blaming the English for everything wrong with the UK government is possibly a bit unfair.
@stiofain88
@stiofain88 Год назад
​@@maggiepie8810 If you're from Northern England it's more than a little unfair but just like the US, England seem to have got themselves into a position where they get to vote between two parties who are ridiculously similar so only have a choice between power through and power through with some attempts at damage control. I feel sorry for a lot of them but it's up to them to change their system. Ironically Scotland and Wales leaving might give them the kick in the arse that's required to change their system.
@maggiepie8810
@maggiepie8810 Год назад
@@stiofain88 It's also worth mentioning that the English high and mighty elite don't exactly have a track record of treating white English people particularly well, either, unless they're part of their exclusive club and compliant with their status quo. Blanket-blaming English people is not something that I think that people should be doing.
@stiofain88
@stiofain88 Год назад
@@maggiepie8810 Generally speaking we wouldn't because it's nasty but eventually someone has to be held accountable for actions and Scotland and even Northern which has 42% Loyalists/Unionists didn't vote for Brexit. Wales is trying to blame it on English pensioners who retired in Wales as it's cheaper but this is a complete cop out and shouldn't have gotten the decision over the line. In the end though they are the cause of their own situation, they could change it if they wanted to but they don't. I would never be rude to an English person if they weren't rude to me first. The worst is half the time they don't know they're being rude. Little put downs like " Ireland is a "British Isle" or everyone here is a terrorist etc. It's not even their fault they don't get taught about what the empire was so get sent off into the world to regurgitate imperialist bs.
@maggiepie8810
@maggiepie8810 Год назад
@SK Getting Brexit done and leaving the single market did throw NI under the bus. There was recklessness and lack of concern for what would happen to NI that's quite disgusting, if you ask me. 'Someone needs to be held accountable for Brext.' I agree, but the people who deserve it the most are the people who decided that leaving the EU is a bit like ripping a plaster off, when it was more like chopping off a limb.
@Thanatar13
@Thanatar13 Год назад
Not Welsh, but I wish all the best for Welsh independence. When they talk of the Welsh-not... indeed, the English (and English-speaking colonials in the US/Canada/Australia/NZ) have a long history of trying to exterminate other languages. My mom never taught me her birth language (typical self-hating minority schtick), and my dad was raised speaking English at home- and spoke anything else terribly so didn't even try (both came from a former colony). To this day as an adult, it's not something I can ever accept- to not pass on the language that is their heritage, is like intentionally crippling the child. As we move to a more multilateral, less colonial world, I hope to see peoples reclaim their heritage that was stolen from them more, across the world...
@petergillingham5762
@petergillingham5762 Год назад
The poverty in Wales is shameful. From not only Welsh Labour but also from Conservative Westminster. And an independent Wales can only be free without the English Royal family or for that matter any Royal family. Im fed up of us being a third world country its time to change this!
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero Год назад
From Québec, fight on, Wales, we're with you! Also learn from our mistakes in trying to change this so you actually can get it in the end unlike us so far :(
@familyseed1555
@familyseed1555 7 месяцев назад
Royal family from Scotland.
@dianeshelton9592
@dianeshelton9592 6 месяцев назад
Yes but remember the Welsh Senaate is only allowed what money Westminster gives it. Which is not proportional to the amount of people
@familyseed1555
@familyseed1555 5 месяцев назад
free without the English Royal family? What kind of joke?
@SuaveWelshy
@SuaveWelshy Год назад
Rhondda Cynon Taff has been deprived and bled dry since the late 1800s. We were criminalized for the Miners Strike of 1910-11 and still today get undermined by Westminster to this day. We really need to push for independence in the next few years.
@tommyhassan3545
@tommyhassan3545 Год назад
Always makes me angry when you see people in former mining communities voting for the tories
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
I think you have a rather selective view of history there.
@SuaveWelshy
@SuaveWelshy Год назад
@@mogznwaz Not like a majority of us from Rhondda had family involved in the strike. How could we possibly know what happened I guess?
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
@@SuaveWelshy Selective about the whole of Welsh and British history and how they intertwine. One thing at one time from one point of view - is a very selective view - as I said.
@SuaveWelshy
@SuaveWelshy Год назад
@@mogznwaz Ofcourse we are selective because the treatment we've had obviously hurts. There's been a lot of stuff in recent history which really shows nothing has ever changed. As much as I would like independence I truly believe if the right people got into westminister then we'd really have a United Kingdom. The tories have really outstayed their welcome and just keep damaging the entire isle as a whole at the moment so it's only realistic people want independence. We've had a Tory government for bloody years now
@dumdumbrown4225
@dumdumbrown4225 Год назад
Goooooooooo Waaaaales!! Gooooooooo Scotland!! Gooooooooooooo Ireland!!
@ferriswalcc
@ferriswalcc Год назад
welsh people are lovely and their culture, language and history is very unique and intresting i had a welsh teacher when i was in year 6 and he is still my favorite teacher ive ever had love from thailand 🇹🇭🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@mariannehancock8282
@mariannehancock8282 Год назад
Diolch.
@finfondler998
@finfondler998 Год назад
gotta say, the presenters go at ordering a beer in welsh was really cool! thank you for raising awareness
@pamplemoussejus7583
@pamplemoussejus7583 Год назад
Great story! Beautiful country!! The Welsh connection with country and importance of preserving /reclaiming their language and culture is a story that should be more widely known.
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
The English allowed it. They could have just gone in and slaughtered everyone and stamped it all out like Genghis Khan would have done. They didn’t.
@user-vj7gp3ip9j
@user-vj7gp3ip9j Год назад
Half the blacks in the W Indies have welsh names, Is Wales going to give them their culture back?
@bannaubrycheiniog1329
@bannaubrycheiniog1329 Год назад
@@user-vj7gp3ip9j stay off the brandy
@bengarrionphoenix4207
@bengarrionphoenix4207 Год назад
Cymru am byth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️ Annibyniaeth nawr! ❤
@raquetdude
@raquetdude Год назад
Give independence! Also give the regions of England more independence from Parliament while at it.
@elinmorgan8218
@elinmorgan8218 Год назад
Yeah... that'll work, we'll just have an island of great and honest politicians
@raquetdude
@raquetdude Год назад
@@elinmorgan8218 would mean the north is actually represented by politicians not representatives of firms. Same in the south west as that’s looking to flip liberal. The whole M25 area would be represented by representatives of the people not mega corporations.
@WalkingCWild
@WalkingCWild 11 месяцев назад
One thing, it’s not just Wrecsam. It’s been ongoing since Tryweryn, 60’s onwards
@mothermovementa
@mothermovementa 3 месяца назад
Remember Tryweryn
@goattm2
@goattm2 Год назад
Fair play to the Aussie guy, his pronunciation is pretty good.
@BS-qj3ec
@BS-qj3ec Год назад
We English's feel like our government no longer represents us and has not for a long time both parties . So i understand just how the Welsh feel .
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
@@liam1561 So it’s really just ethnocentric hatred then. Nice 🙄
@jjharson7344
@jjharson7344 Год назад
@@liam1561 I'm calling BS on that, I would say the reverse is true from the Welsh folk I have known - I love Wales as an Englishman. Governments are crap, I'd support Wales in it's quest to go it alone if that's what they wanted. I've never felt truly welcome in Scotland, but always have in Wales. Caernarfon is truly a beautiful place.
@amandalewis3898
@amandalewis3898 Год назад
My ancestors came from Carmarthenshire and settled here in Middlesbrough in the north east of England when the town was developed in the mid 1800s, a lot of our sayings are welsh. But don’t believe that here in England we are treat any different. In the north we are ignored by Westminster.
@teviottilehurst
@teviottilehurst Год назад
Even many of us English want to leave Tory Britain. Republic of Brighton and Hove sounds good.
@lancyr_2009
@lancyr_2009 Год назад
Peoples Republic of South Yorkshire ✊
@waynevaughan9325
@waynevaughan9325 Год назад
Dear Welsh people I agree the English are pissed off with Westminster as well all real British should get rid of them they have sat long enough and made a giant mess.God Bless.
@Sten111
@Sten111 Год назад
Reality check. The majority of Welsh voted for Brexit. The Nationalist party electorally has got nowhere for years and most of country closely tied economically with rest of UK.
@ugh4387
@ugh4387 Год назад
it's been proven that the english people living in wales swung the vote to leave but don't let facts get in the way of your wrong opinion
@PhoeniX199777
@PhoeniX199777 Год назад
@@ugh4387 Love to see a source for that
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero Год назад
closely tied economically to England for now, you gotta render your conquests submissive and dependant on you so you can better control them (even better if you erase them as an identity). Nations fighting for their rights to enjoy what others have will end such disposition like with Ireland a century ago, and it's not like the rest of the Britannic Isles will go away or stop trading.
@ronnieharford3326
@ronnieharford3326 9 месяцев назад
@@ugh4387let’s see the facts, not to mention the thousands of Welsh that moved to England both in the past and now, I suppose they didn’t vote did they? I live in Wales and it’s so stuck in the past too much that’s what holds Wales back.
@wakeupcoffeeandjuice
@wakeupcoffeeandjuice Год назад
I am from Adelaide but my girlfriend is from Wrexham and I visited her family last Christmas with her. What a great town and it's on the up! Great coverage ABC
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
So if somewhere is doing well it’s thanks to Wales if it’s bad it must be the fault of the English. Right.
@WendyJoseph-ww8ws
@WendyJoseph-ww8ws Год назад
I'm from NZ but live in Oz. My great grandfather, (Maternal,) was Welsh. He would have been delighted at this move towards regaining Welsh Sovereignty. Stuff Westminster. The sun has finally set on their damned "empire."
@WendyJoseph-ww8ws
@WendyJoseph-ww8ws Год назад
@@mogznwaz That's a pretty shallow remark..
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
@@WendyJoseph-ww8ws Not really, that is EXACTLY the attitude we’re dealing with. What did you want, a 100 page essay?
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
@@WendyJoseph-ww8ws BTW I can’t think of anything more shallow than your comment about the ‘damn Empire’, the one without which your comfy Oz/NZ lifestyle would never have existed. Complain all you want but you ARE children of the British empire. Which included Wales and Welsh regiments, engineers and more. You should be a bit more damn grateful frankly.
@pablo19136
@pablo19136 Год назад
Didn't a majority of Welsh vote for Brexit?
@alynwillams4297
@alynwillams4297 Год назад
Brexit and independence are two separate issues.
@janetmalcolm6191
@janetmalcolm6191 Год назад
Paul Allen....yes they did.
@alynwillams4297
@alynwillams4297 Год назад
@@janetmalcolm6191 52% for and 48% against. Not a big majority, especially when you consider that it was the English that have moved to Wales that swayed the vote. which Oxford University discovered and did an article about it.
@pablo19136
@pablo19136 Год назад
@@alynwillams4297 about the same percentage vote in England. I'm proud working class English life long socialist and in fact pro independence if the Welsh and Scottish people want it. I would to escape Westminster and the English working class fawning to their masters lol voting for the Tories for crying out loud. Any sane country would want to escape . Hopefully one day Ireland will be united as well. Cheers.
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero Год назад
Now they majoritarily regret it.
@raynor4797
@raynor4797 Год назад
In the future i definitely think the UK will sadly break apart into independent nations. For the other nations like Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales they can escape Westminster and the ridiculous politics going on in London while England have no escape from it.
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero Год назад
sadly? It'd finally be the end of the English/British empire with all the legacy that comes with it. National self-emancipation is not a beautiful thing?
@familyseed1555
@familyseed1555 8 месяцев назад
@@Game_Hero English/British empire? Welsh and Scottish are British Empire. Not only English.
@familyseed1555
@familyseed1555 8 месяцев назад
@@Game_Hero Welsh are the British Empire.
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero 8 месяцев назад
@@familyseed1555 started by and for England, Wales being its first conquest.
@familyseed1555
@familyseed1555 8 месяцев назад
@@Game_Hero Wales are the British Empire. Many Wales and Scotland are profits from Slavery of British Empire.
@FLYINGSHEEPRALLY
@FLYINGSHEEPRALLY Год назад
To learn more about the village that was flooded its worth watching the film THE WELSHMAN.
@lliamjurdom9505
@lliamjurdom9505 Год назад
Wales deserves its own Sovereign ...
@user-vc5qk9tg7u
@user-vc5qk9tg7u Год назад
Not a chance. Westminster will not allow it. Just look at Scotland same thing.
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
It has one already. King Charles III who served faithfully as Prince of Wales for many decades as does his son now.
@Inquisitor_Vex
@Inquisitor_Vex Год назад
@@mogznwaz illegitimate though.
@MrBurtonshaw
@MrBurtonshaw Год назад
We don't want or need a "royalty"!!! No vote, no power
@spidos1000
@spidos1000 Год назад
@@user-vc5qk9tg7u Scotland was given a referendum. What are you talking about?
@welshcowboy306
@welshcowboy306 Год назад
The question of whether or not Wales becomes an independent country really depends on what happens in Scotland. If they vote to leave the UK and Ireland reunifies then there will not much of a union to be part of. A union of just England and Wales? What would be the flag, the anthem of this lopsided union? Would we really want to be the only country in the British Isles without a the ability to govern ourselves, or a seat in the UN? I notice that a lot of people comment here about the incompetence of the current Welsh government. Whilst I share their concerns that's not an argument to oppose independence or devolution but more of an argument to vote them out.
@user-vc5qk9tg7u
@user-vc5qk9tg7u Год назад
except that Westminster will never allow that to happen and if they try, the iron fist of England will return to Ireland.
@angussoutter7824
@angussoutter7824 Год назад
They might not be great but they aren’t as woeful as the current Tory Government and you’d get to pick your own Government rather than the one foisted on you
@hobbabobba7912
@hobbabobba7912 Год назад
​@@user-vc5qk9tg7u the iron fist of England?? What century are you living in?
@stiofain88
@stiofain88 Год назад
​@@user-vc5qk9tg7u Tell your boys to bring their own body bags this time as we're not providing them.
@user-vc5qk9tg7u
@user-vc5qk9tg7u Год назад
@@stiofain88 Don't mess with the english, we did it once, we can do it again mate.
@seanfavouritesongswithkayb9868
I have lived in Wales since 93 and I have come to realise Welsh independence is the way forward for Wales
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
Why? Really? Wales hasn’t been an independent country in at least 1000 years. It’s like Brittany trying to separate from France. And they talk like that sometimes. It’s nuts.
@ktu668
@ktu668 Год назад
Don't talk dull.
@petarnovakovich240
@petarnovakovich240 Год назад
We don't have the industrial base anymore - how would we be able to support ourselves? The steel industry is gone, so are the coal mines (thank god), we don't manufacture much of anything. I wouldn't mind being independent if we could support ourselves. We don't even own our water, most of it goes to supply England.
@cmg1819
@cmg1819 Год назад
I can't see how wales could support itself. It's by far the smallest of the home nations and with the world moving on from fossil fuels it has no real export opportunities. Its economy is far too small. Maybe if it made itself some kind of tax haven?
@Inquisitor_Vex
@Inquisitor_Vex Год назад
@@cmg1819 Luxembourg is the smallest nation in Europe and has the highest GDP/capita and I don’t see anyone saying they are too small to be independent.
@noahtylerpritchett2682
@noahtylerpritchett2682 Год назад
Merlin prophesied the Britons (that means Welsh Celts) will liberate Britain from the Anglo-Saxon English.
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
🙄
@MrRolandgent
@MrRolandgent Год назад
The Merlin who never existed ?
@grahamfleming8139
@grahamfleming8139 Год назад
@@MrRolandgent marlins grave is at drumelzier by peebles, in the Welsh part of Scotland. Although Scottish I am proud of my Cymbrian bloodlines. We always support Scotland but after that Wales, at rugby. Come on boyos.
@timjones9962
@timjones9962 Год назад
Wales should go it alone, vote plaid cymru and get rid of Westminster for good
@familyseed1555
@familyseed1555 8 месяцев назад
plaid cymru are the Westminster.
@pyeman6819
@pyeman6819 Год назад
It won't be an independent Wales Going alone, it will be the poorest and weakest country in the EU. With no military defense.
@stiofain88
@stiofain88 Год назад
The only ones likely to attack them are you lot.
@dorientjewoller113
@dorientjewoller113 Год назад
"Cenedl heb raith, cenedl heb galon"! Ewch Cymru.
@jamiegrey4363
@jamiegrey4363 Год назад
The presenters pronounciations are brilliant!. Thanks for raising awareness of this topic! DA IAWN!
@turtledove4728
@turtledove4728 Год назад
Yes, full respect to Nick Dole for actually taking the time & effort to learn how to pronounce Welsh properly. More than any lazy, arrogant reporter from England has ever done. A truly professional approach.
@gwynevans6440
@gwynevans6440 Год назад
I thought that! Great effort, and he learned how to order a pint so he's made.
@RabbitTeaPot
@RabbitTeaPot Год назад
I’m Welsh, I live in Scotland though. Here’s the problem, Wales voted for this. Don’t give me that rubbish that “This wasn’t what we voted for” because it was. It’s why Scotland didn’t vote for this.
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
A million Scots also voted for Brexit
@ralfgroh2719
@ralfgroh2719 3 месяца назад
For what it's worth, I'm 100 percent behind your cause. Press on and don't back down. Your cause is a righteous one.
@ahuddleston6512
@ahuddleston6512 Год назад
When this American country bumpkin first moved to the UK I moved to Cardiff. I fell in love with Wales from previous visits. Castles on every corner and nature. I'd move back to Wales in a split second if I could.
@user-vc5qk9tg7u
@user-vc5qk9tg7u Год назад
things have changed, it would be like moving to Gary IN. years of neglect by Westminster
@ahuddleston6512
@ahuddleston6512 Год назад
@@user-vc5qk9tg7u Nooooo!!! Thanks for the warning. I'll keep my magic fairyland image also for Chepstow and Caerphilly especially after a few months of clubbing back in '97 in Especially after a rugby win!😜 This is a lady's opinion. I'm not sure of others view
@ComeRee
@ComeRee Год назад
Diolch yn fawr! Thank you very much! Annibyniaeth rwan! Independence now!
@adamlee3772
@adamlee3772 Год назад
There are plenty of people in England who want to see the break up of the Union too, a lot of those people want to have nothing to do with Westminster and the conservative party. Good luck to Wales, Scotland too. However, in Wales, and I’ve worked in various places, in Wales and find that South Wales less likely to support independence. It’s good to see Brexit getting mentioned too. I’ve always wondered why people voted for Brexit when the EU have done so much more for Wales, Yorkshire etc than Westminster has ever done. But they were warned.
@mixodorians12
@mixodorians12 Год назад
English immigrants here pushed brexit over the line. English people who come here because they hate foriegners, and think England is a Foriegn country to them...(I know). Many academic studies have shown this to be the case.
@Cantbearsed447
@Cantbearsed447 7 дней назад
So they should stick around in Birmingham for their children to be "assimilated" rather than flee to wales? Youre hating the wrong people, as usual.
@sandrapaterson8678
@sandrapaterson8678 Год назад
Beautiful country and it's people deserve their independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 like us Scots do 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@vodaredhill1704
@vodaredhill1704 Год назад
I agree and I'm English.
@user-ir1lu1ei4n
@user-ir1lu1ei4n Год назад
The obsession of trying to break up the uk is embarrassing
@sandrapaterson8678
@sandrapaterson8678 Год назад
@@user-ir1lu1ei4n Only for the deluded!!
@xr2kid
@xr2kid Год назад
FREE WALES!!!
@SantiagoGeffen
@SantiagoGeffen Год назад
It's time for Wales to wake up. End Westminster rule! Cymru am byth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Y Wladfa supports Wales ❤ 🇦🇷🤝🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@kria9119
@kria9119 Год назад
The Welsh are lovely people, nothing but good things to say about them. Loyal to the bone as friends
@elinmorgan8218
@elinmorgan8218 Год назад
As are probably a huge percent of people across the known world, thats not a unique characteristic to the welsh !
@transittramp51
@transittramp51 Год назад
And they vote for the likes of drakeford the Welsh are not the brightest spark in the fire . I live in Wales 30 years ago it was a special place to live in now it's a mess and rapidly getting worse thanks to people who vote with there hearts and not with there heads
@Inquisitor_Vex
@Inquisitor_Vex Год назад
@@elinmorgan8218 they never said it was unique, just that that’s their experience. Why’d you have to be such a negative Nancy about it?
@kria9119
@kria9119 Год назад
@@elinmorgan8218 where did I say that was a Welsh-only characteristics? Aren't you a ray of sunshine..
@amandalewis3898
@amandalewis3898 Год назад
My ancestors came from Carmarthenshire and settled here in Middlesbrough in the north east of England when the town was developed in the mid 1800s, a lot of our sayings are welsh. But don’t believe that here in England we are treat any different. In the north we are ignored by Westminster.
@bethscammell4202
@bethscammell4202 Год назад
Great Documentary! Thank you
@Derekconlon
@Derekconlon Год назад
Great report. Wales is a country and a people I’m very fond of. I’m Irish and so they’re kin. It’s not my place or anyone else’s, to tell the Welsh people what to do. My own opinion is that independence is the way to go but whatever they choose I wish them all the best. Cymru am byth!
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
And why are they ‘kin’? Oh yeah because of generations of inter Celtic warfare between clans and raids across the sea
@lindaweaving8917
@lindaweaving8917 Год назад
Ces i fy ngeni a ces i fy magu yn Awstralia a dw i'n byw yn Awstralia nawr, ond dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg. I was born, brought up in, and now live in Australia, but I'm learning Welsh. It's not because I have any prospect of ever living there - I don't. As a middle aged Ausie, that's impossible. Rather, my reasons are partly to honour an ancient culture, partly to connect with my ancestors, partly because it's so unique, but mostly in order to do my bit to help revive an ancient language that was almost extinguished, and lost forever. I do hope that more Welsh people can learn to value themselves and their country more. Instead of listening to the derogatory jokes and condescension that come out of England even to this day.
@Luredreier
@Luredreier Год назад
From what I've heard Wales is using "the alternative vote" (a form of the mixed member proportional electoral system). If so then yes, Wales would probably run itself better then the UK, simply because there would be more variety in the views represented in the parliament.
@AmandaTroutman
@AmandaTroutman Год назад
No Welsh ancestry AFAIK but some Celtic. In general, I support whatever let's people prosper. Fight on, Y Cymry!
@adventussaxonum448
@adventussaxonum448 Год назад
"They look at Brexit" Well, the Welsh voted for it. As for Westminster, they should sort out the shower in Cardiff first
@ugh4387
@ugh4387 Год назад
it's been proven that the english people living in wales swung the vote to leave but don't let facts get in the way of your wrong opinion
@adventussaxonum448
@adventussaxonum448 Год назад
@@ugh4387 Where was that proved ? Don't English people living in Wales get a vote, then? 😅 Nobody asked me where I came from when we had the Referendum.
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero Год назад
Vote for Plaid Cymru, I know from experience people all about loving your own nation and therefore its wellbeing to push it to a country are a right choice for that.
@kienhwengtai8113
@kienhwengtai8113 Год назад
Scotland already wants out of that mess. Wales was forcefully taken by England it has to be noted.
@WalesTheTrueBritons
@WalesTheTrueBritons Год назад
Nope! The Occupation of Wales any England ended in 1409, then A Welsh Man by the name of Harri Tudor conquered England at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, His Son would then go on to annex Wales to The Kingdom of England in Peace time around 1536-1542. Another worlds, Wales isn’t a part of English law because of Conquest, well, it is, but not England to Wales…but Rather Wales to England.
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
Umm the English as we know them now didn’t really exist back then, they were a nascent combination of Anglo Saxons, Normans and Vikings who invaded. Norman French drove the native Celts back into Wales and went across the sea to Ireland, taking Catholicism with them and kickstarting centuries of tit for tat wars and conflict. The Irish used to invade England and Wales too. To me all of this us just interesting footnotes of history, this obsession with victimhood is just more ethnocentric tribal nonsense.
@neilsaunders6009
@neilsaunders6009 Год назад
I am English. If the Welsh people really want to secede from the UK then I think that they should be perfectly free and able to do so (I'd be quite happy to see England do the same, as it happens), but if I were a gambling man - which I am not, as a matter of fact - I'd rank such a secession to be about as likely as Rhode Island electing to become part of the Russian Federation.
@alynwillams4297
@alynwillams4297 Год назад
That’s because for some reason you believe that Wales is for some strange reason, the only country in the world that can’t survive being independent? Even tho there are smaller country’s in Europe and the rest of the world.
@neilsaunders6009
@neilsaunders6009 Год назад
@@alynwillams4297 No it isn't. I do not believe that. Why are you attributing opinions to me that I have not expressed?
@alynwillams4297
@alynwillams4297 Год назад
@@neilsaunders6009 so do you believe that wales could be independent?
@neilsaunders6009
@neilsaunders6009 Год назад
@@alynwillams4297 I can see no practical reason why it cannot.
@bobbod8069
@bobbod8069 Год назад
@@alynwillams4297 He didn't say that. I believe an independent Wales would do fine, but accusing someone of saying something that they didn't is not on.
@battfinkz
@battfinkz Год назад
We've been under the boot for generations, the EU did nothing for us, Westminster has done nothing for us, the shared wealth didn't reach any part of Wales I have ever lived. Cymru Am Byth! 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@andrewelphick2304
@andrewelphick2304 Год назад
Welsh Independence. The joke with no punchline.
@WalesTheTrueBritons
@WalesTheTrueBritons Год назад
Yma O Hyd Andrew! Are we Scared?
@commonsense9176
@commonsense9176 Год назад
EU did nothing? Have you seen how many buildings were built with EU money
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
Cardiff does pretty well though, it’s had a lot of investment in recent decades. I guess all the money the Welsh get went there, thanks to your devolved left wing government
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
@@commonsense9176It’s not EU money it was OUR money coming back to us with an EU flag on it
@EvilerManx8
@EvilerManx8 Год назад
From england and support the uk, but we need a change of leadership and improvements to be made in the post-brexit era or the kingdom won't be so united and wales would be better off independent
@NxDoyle
@NxDoyle Год назад
If someone had asked me a decade ago whether Wales or Scotland should become independent, I'd have probably said no. But now? As for Northern Ireland, they'd be well and truly justified in leaving the UK, given how shabbily they've been treated.
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
Because they’d be treated so much better under the thumb of Republicans…
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
@@mariamerigold No I just don’t like petty divisive tribalism. I’d say that’s far more negative.
@John-sp9kw
@John-sp9kw Год назад
Bout time this country of ours got some fire in its belly
@paolosantiago3163
@paolosantiago3163 4 месяца назад
I really hope all the best for Wales, Welsh people deserve way better than being left behind by so many.
@IngerPercival
@IngerPercival Год назад
Good luck to Wales on their way to Inderpendence with a good football team and a lot of good singing . And the steelworks a lot of sheep, so no financial support from Westminster. GOOD LUCK
@strangeknight3751
@strangeknight3751 Год назад
I'm Welsh and there's no appetite for independence, we've had the Welsh government since 1999 and what a waste of time and money that is, Wales voted out of the EU these people need to get in touch with the majority. Born in Wales British first 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@jillybe1873
@jillybe1873 Год назад
You. Are. Not. Welsh.
@strangeknight3751
@strangeknight3751 Год назад
@@jillybe1873 why? Because I believe in something different.lets look at the stats. Leave EU, Welsh majority voted yes. Abolish the assembly, let's have a referendum and find out. Pro Welsh independence, last pole was around 20%. If your beliefs determine your nationality, then I say Your. Not. Welsh
@saturdayplayer2492
@saturdayplayer2492 Год назад
Billions and billions of pounds were taken out of Wales by coal masters, iron barons etc.. Then with the collapse of these industries in the 70s and 80s Wales was abandoned especially the industrial south and it hasn't recovered.
@dunnvlad721
@dunnvlad721 Год назад
the language is different, obviously the Welsh culture is different too ... if it was to be Welsh, I would fight for independence
@Squimple
@Squimple Год назад
It's always interesting to hear an outsider's perspective. Da iawn [well done] especially for including so much Cymraeg! Yma o hyd!
@paulgriffiths8803
@paulgriffiths8803 Год назад
As much as I love my Country I have major doubts that the south Walian council has the ability to govern us. They've wasted 250 million pounds (increasing every day) on Caerdydd airport just to satisfy a few thousand people around south Wales whilst we have third world NHS and education systems. 150 million just reclaimed by Westminster because Welsh labour didn't use it. Shambolic
@bannaubrycheiniog1329
@bannaubrycheiniog1329 Год назад
And the tories in westminster waste far more
@dafinger
@dafinger Год назад
Typical to hear the 'the English aren't native' rhetoric.
@anglosaxon4571
@anglosaxon4571 Год назад
I don't think the Welsh are native either because there were folks here before the Celts.
@Cantbearsed447
@Cantbearsed447 7 дней назад
Its just stupid. Were genetically the same. Its like northern ireland. Put 1 million actual foreigners over there and theyll forget about fighting each other quite quickly
@greencoffee8224
@greencoffee8224 Год назад
Let’s go independent 💪🏽
@amatvkhmer
@amatvkhmer Год назад
ok
@scrittle
@scrittle Год назад
A second BREXIT will do you no good, it'll end in more economic recession
@facebookmary7502
@facebookmary7502 Год назад
​@@scrittleI'm sure you say that about Tibet in China also
@facebookmary7502
@facebookmary7502 Год назад
​@@scrittleI'm sure you say that about Tibet in China also
@MabDarogan2
@MabDarogan2 Год назад
Well made doc and a much better attempt at Welsh than most English ever do
@chrisjones2625
@chrisjones2625 Год назад
Ond dw i'n bod i Lerpwl ac dw i wedi bod yn dysgu Cymraeg am tua dau mis rŵan. Yr iaith Gymraeg mae'n dfyddol. Sorry for all the errors!
@MabDarogan2
@MabDarogan2 Год назад
@@chrisjones2625 no need to be sorry. Two months is nothing. Do you mean "...byw yn Lerpwl..." or "...dod/dwad o Lerpwl..."? If you're from Liverpool, you'll definitely have Welsh ancestry anyway. And you're name's Jones, which is a bit of a clue. Da iawn am ddysgu.
@Ian-bq7gp
@Ian-bq7gp Год назад
Good on those chapels and kind people helping the poor. Support the farmers and buy directly from them your eggs, meat veg not those greedy foreign supermarkets
@martindavies74
@martindavies74 Год назад
Excellent. We just don't get this degree of honest representation of our situation from British television channels.
@DafyddHedd
@DafyddHedd Год назад
We were the people running Gigs Cefn Car, the event for welsh music day at 7:30 :) Thank you for covering us and massive thank you for celebrating our culture and showing the amazing story behind the drive for Welsh independence :)
@Inquisitor_Vex
@Inquisitor_Vex Год назад
Diolch I ti for keeping the culture alive. 💪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🐉
@davidwilliams573
@davidwilliams573 Год назад
Poor buggers, it maybe time to go it a lone. Best wishes from Australia,
@theodorebaker3399
@theodorebaker3399 Год назад
I don't understand Why is a lot of people's solution to the crisis to just leave the union (quit) and hope things get better without any viable plan and fueled by hate for the Tories. By quitting they just make things worse for themselves and everyone who remains. England is in the same boat as everyone else; ruled by incompetence.
@missthang4982
@missthang4982 Год назад
If you don't stand up for what you believe? Then it doesn't much matter what you believe. I support the Welsh people. Feel horrible for the situation that was rammed down their throats. Brexit is a black eye that seemingly will never go away. My heart to your country and the suffering you all have gone through and continue to go through. Sudbury, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 ♥️✌️
@andrewelphick2304
@andrewelphick2304 Год назад
Wales and England were the two regions of the U.K. which returned a majority in favour of “Brexit”.
@WalesTheTrueBritons
@WalesTheTrueBritons Год назад
True, however, C4 proved that it was the English retirees who reside in Wales who contributed to Wales voting 51% in favour.
@amatvkhmer
@amatvkhmer Год назад
Welsh people
@elinmorgan8218
@elinmorgan8218 Год назад
I wouldn't t trust channel four they're not known for their truth before opinions and anyway ... The Welsh Government is massively pro-immigration... no problem then
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
The Welsh voted for Brexit
@pouwakaruwhiu8349
@pouwakaruwhiu8349 Год назад
I have totally respect for Wale's take your territory back you have my support from Australia 🦘🇭🇲
@eileenpritchard9154
@eileenpritchard9154 Год назад
​@@ffffffffffffffs ABSOLUTELY. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@user-vc5qk9tg7u
@user-vc5qk9tg7u Год назад
Westminster will never allow it.
@elijahclubb4097
@elijahclubb4097 Год назад
​@@user-vc5qk9tg7u So?
@BusyAndySings
@BusyAndySings Год назад
It's fantastic to see Wales more and more represented around the world, and being a part of the independence movement it's energising to hear conversations and see references to an independent Wales more and more. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cymru am byth! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@phoebsc5993
@phoebsc5993 Год назад
Cymru am byth from an Ebbw Valley Welsh witch.)❤
@BusyAndySings
@BusyAndySings Год назад
@@phoebsc5993 Bore da, Phoebs
@crispyhoover8880
@crispyhoover8880 Год назад
There's been a independence party for many years and apart from a few areas have very little support. In the South, the main population, industrial and economic areas, there is no popular call for independence because its dumb. We couldn't survive. I'm Welsh and British. Equal and indivisible.
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
Well said. This idea of reinstating ethnic or cultural purity on these small islands after so many hundreds of years seems nonsensical to me. I bet these same anti English nationalists proclaim to love ‘diversity’ and ‘socialism’ though.
@OwainOwine
@OwainOwine Год назад
Love that evidence ‘I said so so it must be true’ get with the times gramps
@crispyhoover8880
@crispyhoover8880 Год назад
@OwainOwine but it's true. PC have been around for donkeys. Outside West and North rural type areas they have very little real support. Every so often they'll ebb and flow. Seats in RCT etc but the Welsh Gov with its electoral system means smaller parties get a larger slice of the pie. I believe Germany has a similar to ensure no single domination. So PC, Greens and Uncle Dai gets a seat. Westminster is different and unionist parties overwhelmingly win. Further south and east, the further into the population, educational, sporting, financial, transportation, industrial centres you go and ideas of independence are but mere wisps of nonsense in the subconscious of the good decent Welsh people who aren't a bit innit, that's facts baby doll.
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero Год назад
you're acting like a colonized person gloryfing their occupier and its empire, like Ireland before independence. Have some self-respect to see yourself with dignity like others nations in the world can.
@mogznwaz
@mogznwaz Год назад
@@Game_Hero Grow up
@thefuneraldirectorsdaughter84
I can trace my family back to the 1600s on both sides in Wales, and while I would love an independent Wales, I'm a realist. It's not going to happen now or in the near future. What we need to get is more power given to The Senedd. Completely agree with that 👍 And that report was commissioned by Plaid Cymru and has since been looked at and called into question. I'm sure the UK government will happily just let us walk away with water and electricity with zero resistance or repercussions 🤦🏻‍♀️😂. And don't get me started on what a 💩 show the Welsh NHS is, which is run by the Welsh Government. My husband and in-laws all work in it. It's a mess 🤦🏻‍♀️
@Clarksville000
@Clarksville000 Год назад
Kingdom against kingdom Nation against nation 🥠🔮
@celtspeaksgoth7251
@celtspeaksgoth7251 Год назад
Wales has its water stolen by England and there is plenty of coal, nuclear power in the North and a deep water port in Miford Haven. Wind + the potential for tidal power.
@jwasterp
@jwasterp Год назад
Sat at home on the North Wales coast watching this. Diolch, ABC. Yma o Hyd. Cymru am Byth. Big up Launceston. Born in Wales, raised in Ravenswood.
@jwasterp
@jwasterp Год назад
That's the beauty of opinions cariad. Right or wrong you're entitled to it. Don't call me English though cos that's just offensive. ✌️ and ❤️
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