With apologies to E. J. Thribb (aged 17½)
So.
Farewell
Then
Lord
Elis-Thomas (don’t forget the hyphen)
Of Nant Conwy.
Across 50
Years of public service
You went from an idealistic Welsh radical
To a rightwing,
British,
Royalist.
Keith’s mum
Reckons you were so patriotic
You had a Union Jack
Tattooed
On
Your
Cheek.
Now you can
Genuflect to
Mrs Windsor
In the
Afterlife.
E. J. Thribb? DLT certainly strayed from the path of righteousness, but I never saw him as a bigot.
Master Thribb agrees with you Robert and has persuaded me to delete the word ‘bigot’.
That said, the man accepted a peerage, crawled to royalty, ordered the Plaid leader out of the Senedd for referring to the monarch without sufficient deference, attacked those who defend the language and disowned the struggle for independence, so surely there have been quite enough sickly tributes to someone who treacherously shifted allegiance to side with the British bigots, imperialists, colonists and Cymruphobes hell-bent on eradicating Wales?
Inclined to agree, sadly.