An Impoverished Union
The media ‘influencers’ keep on accidentally making the case for independence. Here’s Richard Madley:
Ricard Madeley asks Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald why she’s so keen on Irish unification when, in his words, Northern Ireland is close to being an economic basket case.
“I think the core of that question is, why is the 6 counties consistently in economic difficulties?” #GMB pic.twitter.com/TDjvUVf2nn
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) July 14, 2025
Here’s Lewis Goodall with Eluned Morgan:
“If Wales were independent, it would be extremely poor.”
Welsh First Minister @Eluned_Morgan says the country wouldn’t survive outside the UK – and must grow its economy.@lewis_goodall pic.twitter.com/Zp9cMK8c5U
— The News Agents (@TheNewsAgents) July 11, 2025
As Aaron Bastani puts it: “This just sounds like contempt for Wales when you watch it. The truth is Wales could succeed in or outside the union – depending on the choices its politicians make.”
We’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating: if Scotland and Wales are considered so derelict and impoverished after hundreds of years in the Union, what does that say about the Union itself? Are we to assume that Scotland and Wales are just naturally (and uniquely) hopeless? How can this be? Do we not have natural resources and talented people like anywhere else?
The contempt is so obvious and the completely siloed Anglocentric worldview is hilarious. Not one of these journalists has a clue how stupid this looks. In an odd, way, keep it coming…
Spot on.
The Guardian employs two journalists to tell the ‘progressives’ of England just how bad Scotland is.
Just so. But Eluned Morgan coming out (Swinney-like) with the tired old mantra of growth as thesolution to the challenges Wales is facing is depressing when what we need to be focused on is wellbeing.
No. We need economic growth, as we are too dependent on the public sector and state funding. An independent Wales needs to succeed in a capitalist world, and we must show how that works now. There is a crying need for a right-wing nationalist party in Wales – an awful lot of Welsh speakers are more conservative than one thinks, and one will not win independence without converting present ‘Reform’ voters (who were Labour/Plaid voters until the Brexit debacle) into ‘Yes’ voters. Luckily, now we’ve a leader in Rhun ap Iorwerth who both understands politics and people (Leanne Wood understood people, but not politics, Adam Price understood politics, but not people).
Havers. Wales does not need more of the demonstrably disastrous neoliberal policies of Rachel Reeves.
Tell you the scale of what I’m up against (paraphrasing Eluned Morgan) – Port Talbot – lost the steel works – but me + business partner could deliver green elec as a community energy scheme to 8000 households such that their elec bills would halve. Interest from the LINO Welsh gov – zero. Scheme self funding – no subsidies needed (& the residents own the system). Most of Wales could produce low cost elec to power itself. Action from Cardiff – zero. LINO-in-Wales is not interested. Rinse and repeat for Northern Ireland (nah its not a windy place – snigger), and indeed Scotland. You are ALL being treated like & regarded as serfs by the shitty-of-London – & that is the core problem – the dominance of the city – destroy that (& I am sorry to say destruction is the only option) and we would start to see some sort of normality in Ingerland and the other countries attached to it. Think of what I am proposing as “Radical Normality”.