Did I hear correctly this afternoon? The Shadow Foreign Minister asked for those Labour members who support the Arabs in defence of their lands, against the Israeli government, to be expelled for being ant-Jewish and therefore racist, but this is nonsense, as not all Jews are Israelis. What they are fighting is Israeli State policy denying them their civil rights, and not's let us forget that Israel won its freedom through acts of terrorism. The state of the Israeli and Palestinian Arabs is understood to be unacceptable by all fair minded people; they are a badly treated minority, the defence of which the Labour Party is all about. I think it is she who should be thrown out!

I was brought up Labour Party and proud to be so, Aneurin Bevan on the Left against Hugh Gaitskill on the right, what you ask, right wingers in our socialist party? Get real. The enemy was and still is the Conservative Party, when Bevan said that they were lower than vermin we all agreed, then when he said that there were no Welsh problems only problems, I had to think, then when Harold Wilson, another man whom I admired took the Aberfan Fund to clear the tips that was the end. When Emrys Roberts came to Merthyr to stand for Plaid Cymru there was no way back, he was a socialist who stood for Cymru/Wales and minorities worldwide. I got to know him and his wife Margaret, went to their house, wonderful people. He nearly got elected to Merthyr as M.P. but narrowly lost. I became a member of the Merthyr executive and as such went to the counts as a scrutineer, often I caught the employees of Merthyr council cheating, putting one Labour Party vote over many opposition votes, giving the impression of a Labour majority, they also fiddled with the ballot boxes, so it is possible that Emrys in reality won the election. Now that the Labour Party has a socialist leader the right wing forces will do anything within their ability to deny him power, ironically in the same way that the corrupt Labour rule in Merthyr denied the socialist Emrys Roberts.

P.S. Merthyr in the 20s and 30s was ruled by predominantly the founders of the movement, but with few exceptions such as Tal Loyd and Albert John, Trades Union activists, in the sixties Merthyr council was controlled by the Irish catholic community. As with the Communists infiltrating the Labour Party, the catholics in Merthyr infiltrated the Town Hall. I stood agains Terry Mahoney who became the first Chairman of Mid-Glamorgan, but he wasn't Labour, he was a Liberal who married into the McNamaras, then Plaid Cymru took over with Emrys Roberts as its leader, so there had to be a rethink. Plaid didn't last long for whatever reason, then Bill Morgan the newly elected leader was a Church in Wales vicar. Then I left Merthyr to come to Brittany. I've learned since that the Labour Party has lost its majority on the council. Although I've moved away, I'm keeping an eye on things. As with Joseph Parry, bachgen bach o Ferthyr erioed erioed.

P.P.S. When canvassing up the mush, predominantly Irish community, I used to get the doors slammed in my face, then one day I was up the road in Sunnybank an old lady came to the door and told me she was Irish, so as I turned away she said 'we Irish & Welsh have to stick together.' Took me aback, but very welcome.

Although Keir Hardie founded the Labour movement which led to the Labour Party as we know it he was never at ease at the way it was going and stayed in the I.L.P. which was often at odds withe Labour Party; since when although it is commonly referred to as the 'Socialist party it's always kept socialists at arms length. My local M.P. S.O. Davies, an old miners' leader was always in trouble with them; the last leading socialist, Aneurin Bevan, (with the exception of Tony Benn and Michael Foot) was always in trouble with the right wing Hugh Gaitskill, there shouldn't be right wingers in the Labour Party. We had Kinnock who distrusted left wingers, probably afraid that they would question the fortune that he built up, he led to Tony Blair who admired Margaret Thatcher, I suppose he's become a millionaire by now. Now that the Labour Party has a socialist at its head everyone, including the Parliamentary Labour Party, is scared stiff that this will lead us to socialism and the so called English ideal of fair play and rights for the disadvantaged. Perhaps it's because that in practice the Labour party was never voted for for its socialist ideals but moreso as a tool for the working class to selfishly move on, nothing to do with equality, more to do with the old song,'the working class can kiss my a***, I've got the foreman's job at last.

I have a regular loss of Hemoglobine which no-one can figure out, so yesterday I went into hospital to have a chest bone punctured to test the marrow in order to find out why.

The Germanic invaders of Britain, later to be called the English, did everything in their power to retrieve a lost language; conquered by the Normans who'd introduced their own dialect, which was soon replaced by Occitan; common Germanic words became swear words, a new English was discovered from a mixture of Latin & Greek that became the lingua franca of 2 thirds of the world. Good on them, an example for we the Welsh, Cornish & Bretons to follow, we should be respected for trying to defend our cultures, Cornish/Welsh/Breton, not to be abused by our own who prefer to look for the greater good elsewhere.

I don't like saying this, but the working class, outside their self-taught political leaders has never been socialist, the Labour Party was their way to get out of their rut, to get on, no way they could have joined the Conservatives, and for people such as Kinnock for self-agrandissement and riches. Now Plaid Cymru is abandoning its traditions searching for the Socialists in the Valleys, I've got news for them, I'm from there, the vote in the Valleys was not for Socialism it was for Labour, which led to corruption & nepotism, who you knew worked for you. Gradually people are seeing through this therefore fewer local authorities are being governed by Labour. Please don't try looking for something that's not there and never has been. You won't win votes by insisting on socialism, you wtll only split the nationalist vote leading to the formation of a new party, which is what has just happened, the way to win votes is to fight for what benefits people in Cymru/Wales, such education, the Health service, wages, working hours, not forgetting the culture, history and language of the country. Before voting they ask themselves what they can gain. The argument has to be for all people living in Cymru/Wales for the future of the country. There's no difference in condemning the Party to Welsh speaking areas than limiting yourself to a non existent Socialist philosophy; people want to get on, they don't want to share. Give us hope, give us our country back with the right  to decide our own future; not lost every time as an anti-democratic English majority rule rump. Fight for the whole of Cymru/Wales.

I have to say something, these attaques on Jeremy Corbyn for defending Arab minorities, attacking him for being anti-Semitic are absurd; have people forgotten that the State of Israel was built on terrorism, that they elected a President who was a member of the Stern Gang, a terrorist organisation that  murdered British soldiers under the Palestinian mandate? Now it appears that having gained their government through terrorism, the displaced Arabs have no right of protest, that now that any actions of theirs, no matter how extreme have become legitimatized under their own laws, they appear to see themselves above criticism, and God help anyone such as Jeremy Corbyn who doesn't necessarily take their side in the present conflict that they themselves created. There is a real argument in support of the Arabs if only because of its unevenness Where is the so called British sense of fair play?

England is our Israel, after centuries of conflict, even after some success during the 6th century, there's no longer any conflict, only the ongoing search for the right to decide.

Because I live in Brittany in the canton of Huelgoat, Uhelgoat in Breton, and on some old maps as Huelgoit, I thought that some people might be interested that the historical pre-Roman invasion British/welsh name for Exeter was according to some annales Kaer PenHuelgoit.

History.—Exeter was a town of the ancient Britons long before the Roman invasion; and it has made a conspicuous figure in every subsequent age. It was called by the Britons Caer-Isc, "the city of the water, " from its situation on the Exe, -anciently Isc, signifying "water;" and Caer-Rydh, "the red city, " from the colour of the soil around it. It was called, by the Romans, Isca et Legio Secunda Augusta, from its having been occupied by the Augustan legion; and Isca Damnonioum, from its having belonged to the British Damnonii, and to distinguish it from Isca, afterwards Usk, in Monmouthshire. It was called, by the Saxons, Exan-Cestre or Exacestre, signifying "the castellated city of the Exe;" and that name passed, in course of time, through the forms of Exceaster, Excester, and Exceter, into the modern form Exeter. It is called, by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Caer-Penhuelgoit, signifying "the prosperous chief city in the wood;" and by the writer of an old, local, legal document, Pennehaltecaire, signifying "the chief town upon the hill." It likewise bore, for some time, the descriptive name of Monkton, from the existence in it of many monasteries; and was described, by Henry of Huntingdon, as "Excestria clara metallis"- Exeter famous for metals-probably from its vicinity to the Dartmoor mines. It was the chief city of the Damnonii; it must, from the evidence of relics, have been an important station of the Romans; and it has ranked, in later times, as the capital of the south-west of England. Ancient roads went from it to Totnes, Stratton, Molland, and Collumpton; traces of camps are discernible in its vicinity; and many Roman coins, small bronze statues, tesselated pavements, fragments of columns, and other relics, have been found within and near its site.

Get with it people, attacking Netanyahu and the Israeli government for its policies towards its Arab minority is not anti-Semitism, anymore than attacking Theresa May for her policy of selling arms to Saudi Arabia massacring the Yemenis is racist towards the English. To attack a government for its policies is legitimate politics, this is right-wing press propaganda frightened that Corbyn will lead the next left-wing government. Just listen to him, and not the press, his arguments are clearly not anti-Semitic, but logical and anti-right wing, pity about his stance on Brexit. He's almost too honest for politics.

The idea of a 'Great' Britain began its death throes during the fifties, Theresa May & her right wing cohorts believe they can bring it back, but the 'great' has nothing to do with power or influence, it was the (not so) new name for the union of Scotland & England, originally it referred to the Britons/Welsh on one side of the channel to distinguish them from their compatriots in Brittany. It will be back to England & Wales after Scotland gains its independence. Bearing in mind that there's no such thing as real independence, only the political right to decide, we're all interdependent, yet the Tories are trying to push back the tide.