A friend and I were discussing the coming referendum on additional powers for the National Assembly and idly speculating what we, as residents of Powys, might do in order to raise our profile in Cardiff Bay. This would be particularly relevant after the demise of the ‘One Wales’ Government in May.
His idea was to set up border posts on all access points to Powys, charge a toll of all inward journeys and use that money to make up for the much-publicized failure of One Wales’ economic policies.
My idea was simpler, if we want to stem the flow of resources from the rest of Wales into Cardiff, all we need to do is to petition 10 Downing Street for Powys to be allowed to secede from Wales and to re-join England. Powys couldn’t be worse off by being part of England and, with a fair wind, might even be better off with regard to certain devolved areas like education and health.
All idle speculation, of course, but something has to be done about reversing the trend for the rest of Wales being transformed into the new state of Greater Cardiff.
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You've gone mad. As mad as Gary Price. See a doctor. Before the Westminster government abolishes them in England.
Got you going, though. Just wait until after May, you'll see what WAG has in store for Powys and East Wales.
Perhaps we've all gone mad, but we do need to do about Powys being ignored by the Welsh Assembly. Border post or the petition will make Cardiff sit up and take notice. There is to much infighting and to many big egos in Powys, we all need to put our differences aside and start making an united fist for Powys. All you have to do is to walk through Cardiff to see how much money is being wasted there, that could have made a real difference in Powys
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