The recent Government Expenditure & Revenue Wales Report (GERW) published by the Wales Governance Centre indicated that Wales is currently running a large and unsustainable budget deficit. However, within the detail of the report it is clear that our devolved Wales is being forced to carry costs that an independent Wales would not need to carry. Read More
Month: August 2019
One year down the tracks
IT’S exactly a year since a new pro-independence party for Wales was launched. It’s thus a good opportunity to take stock of the year that has gone by since GWLAD,… Read More
The Greens’ Red flirtation
WITH Brexit fast approaching and the exact shape of that event still so unclear, dramatic predictions and pronouncements from politicians are now ten a penny. But none as astonishing perhaps… Read More
Party prepares for Wales-wide pitch
An interview on the Eisteddfod Field with Gwlad’s leader, Gwyn Wigley Evans. Read More
Balancing the Books
The biggest challenge that we are faced with when talking about an independent Wales is how we can pay our way. Accurate data is difficult to obtain, but in August… Read More
Repurposing the DVLA
An independent Wales would need all sorts of government data to be processed, not just driving licences, but including for example registration of births, death and marriages; passport and visa applications; customs and excise duties; value-added tax; corporation tax; etc. All of these activities are currently managed at different data centres across the UK, but in the future we would need to do this ourselves. The obvious solution would be to redesignate the DVLA as the central data processing centre for all Welsh government activity. The IT infrastructure is already in place as are the highly trained staff. Read More
Twin Dragons
Last weekend I visited Slovenia. A small independent country that is often compared to Wales as it is virtually the same size (20,270 km2 compared to Wales 20,760 km2) but which… Read More
Lost opportunities – let’s not keep making the same mistake
The Welsh economy can only really prosper with independence. This is the great dilemma of Welsh politics: it’s hard for us to prosper without independence, and yet independence is hard to achieve without a measure of prosperity beyond where we are today. Hence it’s in the Unionists’ interest to keep us poor for as long as they can. The only way to break this vicious circle is to throw out the Labour Party and elect a Welsh government which is serious about independence, serious about economic growth, and has the nous, experience and determination to do what’s needed. Read More