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Listed below are comments made by Jack_Wilkinson between Friday, 20th November 2009 and Wednesday, 25th November 2009.

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The Cardiff Concordat 11:36pm on 25 Nov 2009 Thing is dai7900,
loads of us are willing to register with The British Broadcasting Corporation, but those of us implacably opposed to the sectarian cesspit of Welsh devolution, wouldn't even sign in to.....'Funky Dragon'!!
Peace in our time? 9:03pm on 24 Nov 2009 From Phil Williams, we know who wears the trousers in the Plaid/Llafur marriage made in Heaven? And it isn't Llafur.

“Is it possible for a single-minded, uncompromising Plaid Cymru to create the conditions whereby other parties deliver self-government, albeit step-by-step and with some reluctance?”

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Stoney,
IWJ stood his ground and Labour blinked first.

Phil, was right, a single minded, uncompromising Plaid Cymru, does seem to get the better of Rhodri's hapless Llafur.
If you're happy to be a citizen of Britain, living equally with other folk of the delightful British Isles, is it safe to vote for Llafur?
Game on, not game over. 10:16pm on 23 Nov 2009 From Phil Williams, we know who wears the trousers in the Plaid/Llafur marriage made in Heaven? And it isn't Llafur.

“Is it possible for a single-minded, uncompromising Plaid Cymru to create the conditions whereby other parties deliver self-government, albeit step-by-step and with some reluctance?” He says that the evidence from the past forty years, and especially the establishment of the National Assembly, suggest that this is the way forward.
Game on, not game over. 9:53pm on 23 Nov 2009 http://www.iwa.org.uk/news/press_releases/pr_distance.htm

Of course Lyn, Plaid wouldn't like Welsh Labour/Llafur in league with the Conservative and Unionist party, would they?
Plaid see Llafur as like minded nationalists, who're easily led by a much more intelligent and righteous Plaid.
As Phil yer boots Williams ( Cardiff message parlour) said...Plaid's Destiny to Influence Labour!!
Sigh....Who'd of thought that?!!!
Merry Christmas 10:53pm on 22 Nov 2009 Also...Sudbrook, Blackrock, Goldcliff, Chepstow, Nash, Langston, Caldicot, Grosmont, Peterstone, alway, Somerton, Bishpool, Redwick, Newport, Ringland, Ringwood, Wentwood, Beechwood, Barnard town, Christchurch, Malpas, Victoria, Ridgeway. Eveswell, Baneswell....Et cetera...In the whole of Monmouthshire, how many pubs and hotels have got English names? How many have got proper Rhodri Morgan type, proper Welsh names?
Yes, probably. 9:24pm on 22 Nov 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/434738.stm
And earlier this year, the Conservatives sparked a row when their leader in Wales at the time, Rod Richards, himself a Welsh speaker, denounced the policy of compulsory Welsh which he had earlier supported when he was a Welsh Office minister.

He said he had changed his mind and now thought that making the subject compulsory was counter-productive.

By the Way,that exchange between David Davies and John Griffiths was televised on S4C, it happened. BBC, could you check this before posting my post? If compulsory Welsh lessons were in force throughout Wales, why would David Davies make his request to the Welsh assembly?
Merry Christmas 7:59pm on 22 Nov 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7354446.stm

RE 25 Neo wrote,

For instance Pembrokeshire was an English stronghold at the time of Owain Glyndwr.

Please spare a thought for English folk trapped behind Llafur lines in in once English Monmouthshire.
Yes, probably. 7:20pm on 22 Nov 2009 Re 72
Dewi_H wrote.
Jack - it was the Tories, bless them, who introduced compulsory Welsh.

The Conservatives did order compulsory Welsh Language lessons, but only where Welsh was widely spoke. Most of Wales was exempt, even where it was compulsory it was never pushed vigorously. In fact compulsion was quietly dropped in all areas, Rod Richards was at first in favour of compulsory lessons, but like others found such lessons were counter productive. The Conservative were completely against the compulsory welsh lessons ordered by the assembly.

David Davies, the Conservative MP for Monmouthshire, whilst he was an AM, requested on several occasions that Monmouthshire pupils be exempt from compulsory Welsh lessons, as it is for them a completely alien tongue. John Griffiths Llafur AM for Newport east responded to one such request.....''It's because of the fact that the standard ofWelsh is so dreadful in Monmouthshire's schools. And considering the increasing importance of the language, Welsh lessons must not be dropped but intensified''
The Big If 11:31pm on 20 Nov 2009 Have you not noticed all the parties warming more and more to the new reality? Even the Tories - perhaps especially the Tories!

No, I have not noticed any such desire amongst Conservatives to be ruled by a Rhodri Morgan type Welsh speaking elite, either in Newport or Monmouthshire.
The Big If 10:32pm on 20 Nov 2009 Sorry FoDafydd, a sure sign of juvenile behaviour is denying the nasty realities of life. Ever since that dreadful referendum in 1997, the vote share of of the prime mover for devolution ( Llafur ) has gone down and down. Yes, Labour (Llafur) living within the imaginary hard and fast Cymru border, have lost vote share faster than elsewhere in the British Isle.
Does any nationalist honestly think that British Labour will carry on indulging a vote losing Rhodri Morgan type, semi-nationalist, Welsh speaking elite?
The British Isle, I love being a native of this wonderful land.

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