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British Prime Minister Johnson on his visit to Wales
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If you want to support Welsh independence, you can donate for it.
For example, £ 20.21 or £ 2021, as the "Wales Party" Plaid Cymru suggests on its website.
Because 2021 should be the year in which a "long-cherished dream" comes true: a government that works for the independence of the British part of the country.
The general election will take place on May 6th, when the Senedd, the Welsh House of Representatives, will be reorganized in Cardiff.
The Labor Party has been setting the tone here for decades, holding 29 out of 60 seats.
Plaid Cymru has ten seats, just like Boris Johnson's Tories.
According to the forecasts, both opposition parties could make strong gains in the election and make Labor's supremacy controversial - especially with their positions on independence.
While the conservative Tories are in favor of Wales' connection with London and the United Kingdom, Plaid Cymru wants the separation.
Labor commutes more inconspicuously between these two poles.
Support for detachment is increasing: surveys by the television broadcaster ITV achieved 39 percent approval in March, the highest result ever asked for. In January it was still 22 percent - previously the value had been around ten percent for decades. YesCymru, a pro-independence association, now has 15,000 members, more than most political parties in Wales. A year ago he also had just 2000 supporters.
Adam Price, party leader of the Plaid Cymru, owes thanks above all to the Brexit.
He told the British press several times that it was like a "drive rocket" for the independence movement.
Besides England, Wales was the only part of the country to vote in favor of leaving the EU - 44 percent of the Welsh men and women would now re-enter the EU, only 38 percent would stay outside.
"The wrong answer to the right questions"
Price is campaigning in person.
In a video, his mother has a long word about his father's dementia and the "crisis in the care sector" that Price criticizes for the Labor Party in Wales.
"I come from a working-class family," he says.
"The Labor government, which once stood up for families like mine, has failed."
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Adam Price, party leader of the Plaid Cymru: "The Labor government, which once stood up for families like mine, has failed"
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Brexit was "the wrong answer to the right questions," said Price - the real problems therefore remained.
"The people here feel neglected." After the alleged dependence on Brussels, the dependence on London should now come to an end.
If this is successful, the party aims to re-enter the EU.
The organization YesCymru envisions Wales as "part of a larger European and international family".
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In fact, the agenda of independence politicians reads like the former Tories Brexit Manifesto: the constitutional apparatus of the confederation of states is undemocratic, an independent Wales would be more prosperous, could conclude its own trade agreements and would be in a "partnership between equals" with England, it says.
Decisions that affect Wales, "should be made in Wales," said party leader Price the ITV channel on its survey results.
That is a "simple question of democracy".
His party will therefore offer the referendum that "more and more people are longing for."
More power transfer could be the solution
With the combination of striving for independence from Great Britain and at the same time being pro-European, the movement in Wales follows a similar line as the Scottish national party SNP.
With party leader Nicola Sturgeon, she is predicted to have an absolute majority in the May elections in Scotland.
Although the independence movement in Wales is much weaker than in Scotland, the parallels cannot be overlooked.
The values in Wales are where they were in Scotland years ago.
A less radical solution to more self-determination would be a transfer of power from London in favor of the state governments, as Tony Blair initiated with the "Devolution" in the 1990s.
It was then that Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland formed their own parliaments.
Especially during the corona crisis, the state governments made use of their competencies and regulated many measures themselves and according to local needs. Wales, for example, decided last autumn to provide free school meals until after Easter. England was significantly slower on issues relating to child poverty and supply shortages during the pandemic and only gave in after prominent protests. Indeed, among the main reasons respondents expressed their desire to independence to ITV were Britain's "dissatisfaction with pandemic management" and their "greater confidence" in the Welsh Parliament over Westminster.
A strong federalism could therefore counteract the new discontent without calling into question the unity of the kingdom. However, the signs in London are pointing to headwinds: Prime Minister Johnson is destroying the harmony between the four parts of the country that has been favored by the previous transfer of power, rather than nurturing or even expanding it. In November he had called devolution "Blair's greatest mistake" and a "disaster north of the border." Price said at the time that Wales' "biggest mistake" was that it had not already left the kingdom. It seems like more and more Welsh people are agreeing with him.