Owain Glyndwr, if given the vote in today's circumstances would not be voting for either Corbyn or May, he would be fighting for his country, for a unified and independent Cymru/Wales.

Is Glamorgan really bigger than Wales; it says something for the Welsh mentality that Scotland & Ireland are cricket nations, whereas Glamorgan is a secondary county while Wales is a minor county, notwithstanding that the game of cricket is not really Welsh but it seems to be the second sport of many Welsh rugby backs.

Etymological: Old English = Teutonic/German/Scandinavian; Architecture: Old English = Old French; Weather: Western European (Northern France, Cymru, Scotland, Ireland); English breakfast = non-indigenous British breakfast; English oak !!!!!! (considering that the oaks were there before England); English Channel = British Sea; Bristol Channel = Severn Sea; I'm sure that there more, such as English love of dogs and perhaps English gardens, but I haven't got time. What is the point? Why is everything English? when in fact its self glorification and we are being dragged in! P.S. No such thing as an English Christian/first name either, nor French come to that. I nearly forgot the biggest joke of the lot: 'ENGLISH TEA.'!!!

Neither the Scottish nor the English are indigenous peoples, the Scots crossing the Irish Sea and the Germans crossing the North Sea; although we were tribal and didn't really have a name for ourselves, the German invaders (eventually to refer to themselves as English as their respective kingdoms united in the 10th century, before their selves in turn being conquered by the Normans in the tenth) named us 'Welsh', meaning them over there, not us, foreigners in our own country, we as the indigenous Britons, in an act of solidarity called ourselves the 'Cymry' today's 'Welsh' people; Cymru the land of the Britons, the compatriots, at that time south of Lake Lomond, today our western peninsular. The Cornish don't use the term, neither do the Bretons. The Bretons speak Brezhoneg, which transposes Brythoneg, the common language from Glasgow to Nantes (ignoring dialects). The word 'Welsh accepted as it is is an insult, yet so many people, basically because of the invasive language of England see it as a compliment and are proud to be. Rugby the so called 'national sport carries the feathers of the eldest son of the queen who has absolutely nothing to do with Cymru/Wales, the reason why Cymru/Wales is no longer treated as a principality, but rather a constituent country, as Charles has no responsibility whatsoever in the running of the country. Cymry am byth.

A miner is a miner is a miner, at least he was until Thatcher closed down our mines; but I don't like the British/English nationalist argument that within their idea of socialism British internal borders don't exist; sAneurin Bevan said that there are no Welshproblems, only problems, much as I admired the man, it's plainly ridiculous. Somehow the English idea of socialism encompasses Scots, Welsh and English but excludes foreigners. Somehow miners from beyond the English/Scottish/Welsh borders are exempt from their idea of socialism; the French/German/Polish/Chinese miners can go and f*** themselves. The one time anthem of the working class, the International has been dropped by with the Kinnockites, the Blairites, and any other of the same, I won't call it ideology, but the rich have to rule, whether Labour profiteers who endeavour to have or Conservative who already have. There's a new man on the block who with his truly socialist ideas is scaring the pants off everybody on the right, pity he's English, which is good for them, and I hope that he forms the next government, unfortunately whatever is decided in westminster, it's never beneficial to this little country on the western peninsula, so we have to wake up, work for the betterment of Cymru/Wales and stand behind someone who will, I'm sure, as in days gone past, fight for our little corner of this island. We may need Jeremy Corbyn in England, but we need more Adam Price in Cymru/Wales.

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.