What? Does he mean the negative perceptions his own party has of Wales?
Wales can do anything he says - well - except for becoming an independent European state that is!
Seems some "outmoded negative perceptions about Wales" will never get dumped by the British nationalist Welsh Labour party.
An online petition in support of a New Welsh Language Act was launched this week, please take the time to sign it.
Despite the propaganda of the Brit Nat parties, centuries of denigrating Welsh identity, and the attractions of the global mass culture (or maybe because of it), 57% of young people in Wales felt Welsh as compared to 27% who felt British.
Britain is dying!
People will continue to cross the border for work and love. English people will continue to move here. We'll continue to watch Eastenders and Coronation Street, but when it comes to identity, then Welsh comes first.
Some may see the 50+ as a small percentage. But when one considers that some 25% of the Welsh public were born outside of Wales, when one considers the opposition held by many Brit Nats to symbols of Welsh nationhood, lack of Welsh history in schools, availability of the British media, lack of status to Welsh identity in many spheres where 'Britishness' is the norm and default, then this figure is quite remarkable.
It shows a tenacity in the appeal of Wales and Welshness which has wrong-footed the class jingoist Brit Nats like Neil Kinnock, the socialist realists of so-called 'international socialism' which saw no need for (small) nations.
And, this has all been achieved with no bloodshed or murder as compared to many other aspirant nations, which surprisingly (or not) are supported by Brit Nat left.
Maybe the Welsh aren't so divided as we sometimes think?
They're like teenage boys fingering their first porno-mag. The Welsh Rugby Union, which at times shows the very worst traits of 'Welsh' Labourism, does it again.
It's all so pathetic. Grown men, palms-sweating as they imagine themselves climbing another rung to get their OBE for services to arse-licking of the British establishment. God, it all just reminds my why I hate the WRU!
No personal offence William (and yes, I do mean that) but I hope you get thoroughly booed when you do bother to patronise Welsh rugby. And please, do patronise the boyos - they won't even notice, and if they do, they won't say anything, serfs don't.
British nationalism - it's so demeaning!
PS. If you're wondering about the picture, that's Prince Harry, the other son of the Prince of Wales (and William's brother) celebrating England's victory over WALES at the 2003 World Cup!! There's more pictures on princeofwales.gov.uk
Here's a few letters that appeared in today's Western Mail:
Any Welsh Williams?
SIR – So, yet again the WRU looks across the border for patronage, in the form of a certain English William. Whether or not you agree with his appointment, the questions loyal Welsh rugby supporters – indeed, Welsh citizens – should be asking are:Can the WRU explain the need for a vice-patron, or even a patron, from outside Wales?
Who made the decision to ask William?
Were any other people considered?
Why weren’t Welsh rugby supporters asked for their opinion?
Will William openly support Wales against England?
Will he learn the Welsh National Anthem?It really is high time we grew up as a nation and democratically appointed our own people to represent our major institutions. Surely, there is an ex-Welsh rugby international or some other well-known Welsh person out there with a son called William.
JD GRUFFYDD
Oakfield Drive, Crughywel, Powys
Hanger-on as patron
SIR – I see that one of the many royal hangers-on has been appointed vice-patron of the WRU. I have two questions.
Was this because throughout the whole of Wales not one suitable Welsh candidate could be found?
Or was it because the WRU leadership is riddled with forelock-touchers who pray nightly that their pathetic sycophancy will soon be rewarded – as it most surely will be – with gongs galore?It’s bad enough that Welsh rugby players are forced to wear the badge of our supposed conquerors upon their shirts.
SUE DAVIES
Whitchurch, Cardiff
Westminster Home Office Minister, John Reid, said recently that he wanted to change the culture of the debate and end the "daft, so-called politically correct notion that anybody who talks about immigration is somehow a racist".
We believe that it's time we had a clear, sensible debate on movement of people in to Wales. That includes the English who have, over the last few hundred years, failed as a community to 'integrate' into Welsh life. In fact, Welsh people have been forced to integrate into English norms - especially language.
In any case, I look forward to the debate. It seems that Labour's fear of losing seats to the BNP (a nod that their core-voters are institutionally racist?) has got them thinking.
I live in hope. Discussing the laughable idea that Poles and and people from Pakistan are a threat to English/British culture is 'sensible' but discussing that English is a threat to Welsh is racist.
Labour listens to BNP voters, shakes hands with Irish terrorists but will never, ever, admit that Welsh nationalists like Simon Glyn or Glyn (Big Brother) Wise have a point too. Maybe the Valleys boyos and English AMs and MPs who love Wales for the life-style but not the culture would feel a bit foreign here then, eh?
Watch Glyn's final interview on Big Brother, where he pronounced his love for Wales, the Welsh language and Cymdeithas yr Iaith, and said that he wants to be the 1st Welsh Prime Minister. (OK, Lloyd George was Welsh, but give him a break, he's only 18!)
He also claimed his full support for Plaid Cymru on an earlier episode. Will Glyn be the 1st Plaid Cymru First Minister for Wales? He has this blog's full support!
If you only want to see the above mentioned bits, fast forward to the 4th minute
Not surprisingly Rhodri Morgan has congratulated Glyn on raising the profile of Wales. Morgan is right to congratulate Glyn; after all Glyn's done more for the Welsh language than Morgan's done, and Morgan's the First Minister of Wales!
When was the last time you heard Morgan stick up for the Welsh language? Where was the windbag when his own party was throwing insults at the language and Welsh-speaking communities? Talking shite about rugby no doubt!
Glyn Wise is the very epitome of the kind of Welsh-speaker his Labour attack-dogs were libelling at the height of the Simon Glyn affair. As Cymuned say, Morgan's hypocrisy is breath-taking.
The Welsh language is safe with people like Glyn Wise - not so with hypocrites like Rhodri Morgan. Policies not PR please Morgan - that's your job.
I think you may have something to say about this. I'm incensed, but sadly I don't think it will even raise many eyebrows in apathetic Wales.Thanks for your email. Couldn't agree more Sam! Here are a few more comments by angry Welsh people from the welshrepublicandebate forum:
Sam.
I see Liverpool are as irreverent and arrogant to Wales as they have ever been in the past, how they can have the temerity to try something like this after Tryweryn, AND after aplogising last year for that beats me. They are literally taking the piss out of us.
Catweazle
This is disgraceful. The frigging trouble is that for the most part the Welsh will just take this lying down.
Owain
I am absolutely furious!
How many more times can this type of thing happen before the majority of Wales wakes up and smells the coffee!
I cannot believe in this day and age, that these situations are still arising.
The sooner Wales is Independent and can actually have a say on these matters the better!
Cadi
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