Of Welsh Nationalism & Pride in 2024
It’s 2024 and more than ever we are both progressing and regressing as a society.
We’re one Tory election away from reintroducing workhouses for the poor (though, probably refugees at first), and criminalising LGBTQ people. Not that other political parties are better in some regards Labour is becoming Tory-lite. The Lib Dem’s have been Tory-lite since they got into bed with them and fucked the students over. Maybe longer, my understanding of the history of the Lib Dem’s is lacking somewhat.
Other parties have stood up for trans people, for LGBTQ people as a whole, put out statements, which is reassuring. I live in a Plaid Cymru controlled county, and it’s not a bad thing. When I was a kid, you Plaid were the nationalists, like tiny Welsh terrorists to hear my step-dad’s parents talk about them. Civilised people (re — english) people didn’t vote for Plaid.
Times have changed and those nationalists actually probably understand the fight for freedom and identity we face as trans people more than anyone else. The English tried (and almost succeeded) stripping away Welsh language, culture, identity and freedom. Children were literally beaten and forced to wear a massive piece of wood if they spoke Welsh (called the Welsh Not)
