This year March 1st falls on a Sunday, meaning more people will be able to attend the miscellaneous celebratory events and parades taking place over the weekend in cities, towns and villages across Wales. Helped by some long overdue but welcome financial support from the Welsh government, more events than ever before are planned. As usual I will be joining the march through Cardiff, a rare chance to assert Welshness in a city run by dreadful Labour right-wingers who, like their staggeringly incompetent and corrupt bosses in London, persistently oppose and attack the very idea of Wales.

Here is a list of the larger parades (March 1st unless otherwise stated):
Aberystwyth: starting 1pm Town Clock (February 28th)
Caernarfon: starting 1pm Cei Llechi
Cardiff: starting 12.30pm City Hall
Carmarthen: starting 11am St Peter’s Church (February 28th)
Fishguard: starting 2.30pm West Street
Llanbedr Pont Steffan: starting 11am Ysgol Bro Pedr (February 28th)
St David’s: starting 2pm Oriel (February 28th)
Swansea: starting 2pm Castle Bailey Street
Wrecsam: starting 1pm Queen’s Square

If the weather isn’t too bad, the fact that March 1st is a Sunday should help increase the numbers at the National St David’s Day Parade in Cardiff. This is no thanks to Cardiff’s odious Labour regime, which has refused to provide any funds to enable road closures to assist the Parade for 10 consecutive years now – even though they always obligingly close down roads for any old commercial sporting event and music gig, no matter how minor, low-grade or unconnected to Wales and no matter what chaos and inconvenience is inflicted on the people of Cardiff. It’s like this: anything that might encourage the expression of Welsh identity is stamped down on hard by Labour’s British Nationalist Cymruphobes. In fact it was only after Labour lost control of the Council in 2004 that any recognition of St David’s Day was permitted in Wales’ capital. The Lib Dem/Plaid Cymru coalition approved the inaugural Parade in 2006 and it was such a resounding success that Labour had no option but to grudgingly let it continue when they returned to power in 2012. Instead, malicious, dishonest and cowardly as ever, they have tried to undermine and weaken the Parade by stealth – the refusal to close roads or spend a penny on financial support while pleading poverty being typical tactics from a Council that, for instance, can find £100million to help giant American corporations turn Cardiff Bay into a trashy venue for mainstream US slop yet will always concoct a reason not to fund the fourth Welsh-medium secondary school that there is a huge demand for and that Cardiff desperately needs.

This is all part of the UK Labour Party’s decline and fall. Having spent four decades purging all the talent, intelligence, creativity, principles and values from the Party, there is now nothing left but a cabal of thoroughly nasty and incredibly stupid crooks – epitomised by the inept Keir Starmer, hopelessly clinging to office as he alienates just about the entire UK population with policy after policy devoid of sense and compassion as he lurches from one debacle to the next and u-turns, lies and backtracks on a daily basis while mouthing hollow corporate jargon in his deathly nasal whine. Last night’s sensational victory for the Greens in the Gorton & Denton Westminster by-election was a classic Starmer own-goal, caused by his trademark yellow-bellied refusal to allow Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham to stand because he was scared mildly centre-left Burnham would threaten his position as Prime Minister. Following Plaid Cymru’s equally magnificent win in the Caerffili Senedd by-election in October, if Starmer had any dignity, brains or concern for the Labour Party he would be writing his resignation letter today – but he has none of those qualities, so he is leading Labour inexorably towards well-deserved oblivion. Great!

When Labour implodes in the next year or two another casualty will surely be Starmer’s atrocious far-right Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens. The self-defined ‘Unionist’ (translation: Tory imperialist) should be renamed ‘No’ Stevens, because that’s her answer whenever her Labour colleagues in the Senedd ask her to respect devolution and please stop seizing the few powers over Welsh affairs not already held by those wonderful geniuses in Westminster. ‘No’ is also her answer to all the compelling evidence provided by impartial reports from respected experts that Wales should, for example, control its rail infrastructure (NO!), crown estate income (NO!), policing (NO!), justice (NO!), energy (NO!), tax bands (NO!), natural resources (NO!), statistics (NO!), welfare policies (NO!) and so on. And, of course, the idea that Wales should have the right to decide whether to have a public holiday on St David’s Day, supported by 90% of the Welsh people and unanimously by the Senedd, is always met with a resounding NO! by Starmer’s Cruella de Vil. Show warmth, goodwill, support and empathy towards Wales with a harmless gesture that would only bring pleasure and happiness? NO! That would endorse Welshness – end of discussion! Stevens has the last word and can treat Wales this way because we are just an English possession and the UK government controls over 90% of all Welsh affairs. We must end this systematic, contemptuous abuse and release the crippling shackles these terrible people have imposed on us. This Sunday’s march in Cardiff is the next chance to build a different future. See you there – you can’t miss me, I’m the scruffy, scrawny, haggard little slap-head with a hooked nose and a home-made placard!