Wales - The First and Final Colony
Wales - The First and Final Colony
Author(s): Adam Price
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ISBN: 9781784616915

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Collected writings by Adam Price, leader of Plaid Cymru and one of the great thinkers in current Welsh politics. It explores the viability of Welsh independence and includes some of his most famous speeches to Parliament, offering a great assessment of the current Welsh situation as well as ideas for securing a brighter future for Wales.
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Collected writings by Adam Price, leader of Plaid Cymru and one of the great thinkers in current Welsh politics. It explores the viability of Welsh independence and includes some of his most famous speeches to Parliament, offering a great assessment of the current Welsh situation as well as ideas for securing a brighter future for Wales.
Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • 1 – This is our moment
  • 2 – A wealthy country that lives in poverty (Part 1)
  • 3 – Wales, the first and final colony
  • 4 – We are the ones we have been waiting for
  • 5 – When Adam got in for Carmarthen
  • 6 – High crimes and misdemeanours
  • 7 – We fought a war over an arsenal of non-existent weapons
  • 8 – A bittersweet farewell
  • 9 – Declaration of Independence
  • 10 – Democratic deficit
  • 11 – The red-green grass of home: in support of a Plaid / Labour alliance
  • 12 – Democratic socialism and the people
  • 13 – Reinventing radical Wales
  • 14 – Changing the course of a nation
  • 15 – Labour is now Robin Hood in reverse
  • 16 – We must own our own mistakes and our own solutions
  • 17 – That temporary Parliament on the banks of the Thames
  • 18 – A fo ben, bid bont – Let he (or she) that would be leader, be a bridge
  • 19 – Ammanford’s egghead
  • 20 – Why we need devolution in reverse
  • 21 – The glacial speed of Welsh progress
  • 22 – It’s good to be home
  • 23 – There is nothing wrong with Wales that Wales cannot put right
  • 24 – A new dynamic: rising to the challenge of change
  • 25 – This year of serial disappointments will not extinguish our hope
  • 26 – A new Wales, a new chance
  • 27 – A Guggenheim for Wales
  • 28 – A penny on tax will help wake Welsh potential
  • 29 – In politics, momentum is everything
  • 30 – A wealthy country that lives in poverty (Part 2)

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