tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post8240329028515317387..comments2023-08-19T16:44:23.150+01:00Comments on National Left: C'Mon Wangland. An end to our Identity.glynbeddauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09933352430631144936noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-8917034696342566292016-06-30T14:55:17.405+01:002016-06-30T14:55:17.405+01:00There's every reason to be disappointed with w...There's every reason to be disappointed with wales political trajectory at the moment - after last weeks vote permanent union with a right wing tory england beckons while scotland and even northern ireland consider a future outside the 'union'. But there's no reason to think wales existence on the international football field will disappear any time soon. We are after all among the oldest football associations in the world, were among the founding members of fifa and our performance at euro 2016 has certainly quelled those who used to question the existence of the welsh football team on the basis our record didnt merit wales having its own team.<br /><br />But perhaps therein lies the drawback with how many people see their welsh identity, in that it's only on the sports field that many people recognise welsh nationhood.<br /><br />I was reminded of this again when watching the wales report last nite - a thoroughly depressing edition of the show i must add - when the show ran a vox pop of the views of people in pontypridd on last weeks result, and why they had voted leave. As well as the usual ill informed bigotry about 'immigrants' more than one respondent referred to 'this country' in their replies - it's a fair bet when they spoke of 'this country' they didnt mean wales they meant 'great britain'. <br /><br />Doubtless some of those interviewed - and many others like them - will be clutching their hearts in those embarrassing public displays of faux patriotism when the welsh anthem starts tomorrow nite but ask the same people to see wales as a 'country' beyond that and heaven forbid a country that could actually its own affairs and you draw a blank. <br /><br />And until such perceptions begin to change wales political future is likely to remain as depressing as it was after last thursday's vote. Perhaps a certain UKIP Senedd member had it right when apparently telling a welsh guest at a st george's day shindig at his witlshire abode that the relationship between england and wales was one of was "irreversible anschluss".Leigh Richardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10598475954140926742noreply@blogger.com