We have never voted for them, they couldn’t run a whelk-stall, yet we let the ignorant, venal, corrupt, incompetent, absurd English Tories possess and run Wales. We are their oldest colony: invaded, slaughtered, enslaved, seized by force after a 250-year war of resistance and then illegally annexed. Their long rule has been catastrophic in every regard, and just keeps getting worse and worse. Who the hell in their right mind would want these terrible, destructive far-right thugs to have any say whatsoever in their nation’s affairs?

These are some of the more noteworthy areas of Welsh life controlled by the London government:
● Economic, fiscal and monetary policy
● Exchequer, budgets and expenditure
● Finance, financial services and financial markets
● Banking and currency
● Constitutional matters and elections
● Civil service
● Criminal law
● Policing and public order
● Prisons and offender management
● Courts, tribunals, judiciary, legal proceedings, legal aid, coroners and arbitration
● International relations and treaties
● Defence, security, armed forces and the making of peace or war
● International trade and import and export control
● Electricity, gas, oil, coal and nuclear energy
● Traffic, rail, ports, air, navigation, coastguards and vehicle & driver registration
● Social security, national insurance, child support and pensions
● Employment, unemployment and training
● Industrial relations and trade unions
● Statistics and censuses
● Land registry
● Infrastructure planning
● Regulation of businesses, insolvency and competition
● Regulation of the professions
● Health & safety, consumer protection, product standards and weights & measures
● Drugs, firearms, betting, alcohol, hunting, prostitution, Sunday trading, pubs
● Charities
● Copyright, public lending right and intellectual property
● Broadcasting, film classification, telecommunications and postal services
● Access to information, data protection, personal data and public records
● Marriage, family relationships, child welfare and gender recognition
● Registration of births, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships and places of worship
● Medicines and medical supplies
● Abortions, transplants, embryology, surrogacy and genetics
● Equal opportunities
● Ordnance Survey
● Bank holidays
● Time and calendars

The strictly limited, partial, contingent and perpetually threatened devolution that exists counts for nothing when set against this vast array of basic, integral powers wielded by Westminster. Only independence can unshackle us from the utterly undemocratic and discredited toxic UK. Then, at long last, Cymru could halt the centuries of abuse, create our own society, live by our own values and priorities, set our own trajectory into the future and join the world’s family of 195 nations.

Join Cymru’s ever-growing movement for independence! Come to the independence march in Cardiff on Saturday October 1st!*

*Starts Windsor Place, 12 noon