Adam Price yn cefnogi Leanne Wood
From BBC 9th January
Mae’r ‘Mab Darogan’ i nifer ym Mhlaid Cymru wedi rhoi ei gefnogaeth i Leanne Wood yn ei hymgyrch ar gyfer arweinyddiaeth y blaid.
Heddiw, fe gyhoeddodd cyn-AS Gorllewin Caerfyrddin a Dinefwr, Adam Price, ei fod yn rhoi ei gefnogaeth tu ôl i ymgyrch Leanne Wood i fod yn arweinydd newydd Plaid Cymru.
Mae Leanne Wood, 40, yn un o’r pedwar sydd yn gobeithio cymryd yr awennau oddi wrth Ieuan Wyn Jones, sy’n bwriadu sefyll i lawr pan fydd yr arweinydd newydd wedi ei ethol, yn sgil canlyniadau siomedig fis Mai.
Ond mae Adam Price wedi dweud heddiw ei fod yn cefnogi ymgyrch Leanne Wood gan mai hi yw’r “ymgeisydd yn y sefyllfa gorau posib i fynd i’r afael â’r diffygion real yng ngwleidyddiaeth heddiw: y diffyg mewn swyddi a buddsoddiadau, y diffyg mewn gobaith ac uchelgais, y diffyg angerdd, egwyddor, a dyfalbarhad.”
‘Amser am newid’
“Mae hi’n amser am genhedlaeth newydd o arweinwyr, yng Nghymru a’r byd,” meddai Adam Price heddiw.
“Mae syniadau a sefydliadau’r 20fed Ganrif wedi’n methu ni. Yng Nghymru, maen nhw wedi’n gadael ni gyda gwaddol anobaith rhwng cenhedlaethau a ddylai wneud i ni fod yn flin, ond rydyn ni rhyw ffordd wedi dysgu ei dderbyn.
“Mae angen opswin arall arnon ni,” meddai.
“A dyna, i fi, yw dau brif gryfder Leanne: mae hi’n ddidwyll, beth welwch chi yw’r hyn y’ch chi’n ei gael – ac mae’n ddewis amgen i’r ceidwadaeth, gyda ‘c fach’, a welwch chi yn y Gymru gyfoes.
“Yn greadigol yn ei meddwl ac yn gwbwl ymroddedig i gyfiawnder economaidd, Leanne yw popeth sy’n ddiffygiol yn yr hen arweinyddiaeth Lafur.”
Mae’r genedlaetholwraig pybyr a’r Aelod Cynulliad dros Ganol De Cymru, Leanne Wood, yn dweud ei bod “wrth ei bodd” bod ei hymgyrch wedi denu cefnogaeth gwleidydd “hynod” ac un sy’n cael ei “edmygu gymaint” ag Adam Price.
Hefyd yn y ras am yr arweinyddiaeth mae AC Ceredigion, Elin Jones, AC Canol a Gorllewin Cymru, Simon Thomas, ac AC Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Dafydd Elis Thomas.
Heddiw, fe gyhoeddodd AS Arfon Hywel Williams ei fod yn cefnogi ymgyrch Elin Jones am yr arweinyddiaeth.
Leanne is not too bad herself, but Plaid Cymru are a very mixed bunch. Some are a bit ‘lefty’, but many of them are really quite right of centre.
In Swansea council they voted along with the Liberals to close a local secondary school and carry through the cuts.
For many of their members the focus is a sort of romantic nationalism: bards, harps and fairy circles… not socialism.
If Plaid supports Leanne, it won’t be because she is a socialist.
What kind of tokenistic bollocks is this? Why not post items on Iran in Farsi? Perhaps a story on Cuba in Spanish? And, of course, the latest paen of praise to the Chinese Communist Party in Mandarin.
Or, to save us all cutting and pasting into Google Translate, you could post in English.
100s of people across Wales, including myself, have joined Plaid in the last couple weeks to support Leanne. I’ve personally recruited two dozen members in the last week and only joined myself last week. (I’m ex Workers Power, SLP, former treasurer Welsh Socialist Alliance). Most of the people joining are young and on the left. All of them share Leanne’s vision of a Welsh Socialist Republic with legalised cannabis. Also across Wales legalise cannabis campaigners, and medical marijuana users, are also joining Plaid to support Leanne. welsh politics is about to get a lot more interesting!
“Welsh Socialist Republic with legalised cannabis…”
All my teenage dreams come true. Like far out man!
But do we have to like go to work and shit like that?
(Oh, sorry I just linked to your webpage
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Dim Cymraeg !
a short video of leanne wood arguing for drugs to be legalised can be found here http://leannewoodamac.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-war-on-drugs.html
Her Plaid Cymru profile includes her commitment to working “for Wales to become a self-governing decentralist socialist republic.”
She is best known amongst many in Wales for her staunch republicanism and the incident where she was thrown out of the Assembly for insulting the queen has won her many admirers!
I think it will be hilarious to see what will happen when a petit bourgeoise nationalist party has a revolutionary socialist leadership.
“Colin”, yesterday I pointed out that you had been posting here using 8 different names. I asked you to pick one. Yet here we are a day later and you’ve changed names again.
If you want to engage in discussion with people on here, from now on you’d better stick to one name. Like I said, it doesn’t have to be your real one
#7 What is his real name? It’s not Richard Head by any chance?
Just had a sudden vision of a nation of paranoid Welsh alternating between guaching on the couch and bouncing of the walls on the way to the kitchen with the munchies.
as they say in Googalees
dro ar, gwrandewch ar, rhoi’r gorau.
Hope wholeheartedly that Leanne wins. As Adam Price comments, she’s in the best possible position to address the real deficiencies in current politics, the lack of employment and investment, the lack of hope and ambition, the lack of passion, principle and perseverance, and also an alternative to the small ‘c’ conservatism prevalent in (political) Wales today. Hope that the Welsh left/socialists will emulate the Basque ezkerabertzalea (left patriots) and be unafraid to stand up against centralist, neo-liberal, London and their acolytes in Caerdydd/Cardiff.
Quite. I agree with every word in this piece.
I suspect that Andy is moving into Welsh nationalism in order to dissociate himself from the abject performance of the England cricket team, who I am delighted to see have been humiliated for a second time.
I haven’t been to the SU website for a long time, but I thought perhaps there might something about the Sheridan gagging order.
However, nothing has changed, because the first article I see is one promoting a party that wants to see the Welsh-speaking children of middle-class English people have employment preference over English-speaking Welsh people.
cwyggl aird lythhe gin ethydd arlle cyn felynn tadgh fach ohff!
13# The gagging order has basically just hit the newspapers, so a bit unfair. I am sure SU will mention something after the press conference on Monday. Pay more attention to Amwar than McBride any day. Apologise for not using name but cant be bothered with past wars.
So Denzil (13) thinks that Plaid Cymru supports giving the Welsh-speaking children of middle-class English parents job preference over English-speaking Welsh people?
Firstly, Plaid Cymru’s record in promoting the Welsh language is not that good.
Second, what does it take for ‘English’ people (middle-class or otherwise) to qualify for the same status in Denzil’s concerns as ‘Welsh people’? Should there be a residency qualification, say, and a pledge not to allow their children to learn Welsh?
Thirdly, doesn’t Denzil realise that the greatest demand for Welsh-medium education is in (a) Welsh-speaking areas where much of the working class already speaks Welsh; and (b) areas like the south Wales valleys where ‘English middle-class’ residents are scarce to non-existent?
I suggest he go to the pubs and clubs of, say, Ammanford, Treorci or Aberdare and tell all those non-Welsh speaking parents of Welsh-speaking kids that they are part of an ‘English middle class’ elite. PS – Denzil, take a good pair of daps with you for a very quick getaway.
I used to run a Welsh learners’ class for unemployed adults in Newport. It was full of local people, mostly working class. Then, one day, a dentist came into our room by accident. On seeing that it was a Welsh learners’ class, he gave us the benefit of his wisdom on the subject (not dissimilar to Denzil’s, I suspect):
“Why do you all want to learn a dead language, just because everyone in West Wales goes around speaking it?”
#16
My neice and nephew were educated in Wales, and although coming from an English speaking familly, both were eduated soley in Welsh at primary school, and my neice chose to go to a Welsh speaking comprehensive at 11.
They both thought this was a completely positive experience, as did their parents. If you move to a Welsh speaking area, then surey this is what you expect?
#17
When my brother first moved to Pembroleshire, some 25 years ago, the farmer nextdoor was an old guy who could not speak English fluently(I think this is a phenomenon that died with his generation) But he still used to talk to his horses in English. My brother asked him about this, and he said that Horses don’t speak Welsh.
There is no political point to this story, except that some foolish people think that Welsh speaking is just a “lifestyle choice”, or evidence fo people being difficult. No, it is the language they speak at home, and some people even today may rarely hear spoken English
Isy Suttie was on the radio the other day, explaining why she is learning Welsh – it’s her boyfriend from Caernarfon’s first language, and his gran doesn’t speak much English. I have certainly met middle-aged as well as elderly people in Wales whose English is not fluent.
Here’s a different clip of Isy, with her Welsh-language song (there’s a funny twist at the end – although Welsh speakers will suss it straight away).
http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/three_at_the_fringe/videos/2816/charlie_baker_and_isy_suttie/
Andy’s right – for many Welsh speakers, speaking the language is no more a ‘lifestyle choice’ than speaking English is in England. For a minority, it is a cultural and/or political choice, but most Welsh-speakers attach very little if any political significance to it. Having said that, many speakers are also aware that they are – while doing something natural – also doing something different, bearing in mind that even in many Welsh-speaking areas, there is plenty of English all around them (signposts, advertisements, most of the TV and radio, non-Welsh speakers, most of the papers etc.). That sometimes breeds a certain stubborness and determination to continue speaking in Welsh even if though it might be easier, in some circumstances, to turn to English. That, of course, is especially true in predominantly English speaking areas. In my town, for example, if I talk in Welsh to my children while shopping, or friends at a rugby match, we immediately draw attention to ourselves without wanting to. Even more so when using the phone on a train!
It’s hardly the greatest oppression to have no choice but to use English, whether speaking or writing. But it’s unpleasant when bigots claim that we use Welsh in order to ‘get on’, secure privileges for our children, use up public money that could be spent on something else, or because we are narrow-minded, anti-social, nationalists or anti-English. Still, such ignorant remarks reveal far more about those that make them.
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