You can't be a Separatist and a Royalist

TENSIONS within Plaid Cymru over its relationship with the monarchy are exposed again today with a speech by one of its AMs claiming the Royal Family “does not reflect Wales’ radical progressive tradition”.

Many within Plaid will share the views of Leanne Wood, below, to be made at a conference of republicans in London today.

Leanne Wood has at least the courage of her convictions and her position is a perfectly logical one.

Surely any party which has as its main objective the destruction of the United Kingdom, should then also no longer owe any allegiance to the head of state of that nation?

Sinn Fein and the SDLP have no doubts on that matter, the SNP and Plaid Cymru, on the other hand are constantly delivering confused signals.

"Ah, but she’s also the Queen of sixteen other nations such as Australia and Canada":

Well, no. Only if both parties succeed in splitting up the UK will they then be able to apply for membership of the Commonwealth as similar independent nations and at that point they can use that particular defence.

But until that date, constitutionally both Scotland and Wales remain part of the United Kingdom and the head of that state is the Queen; ergo, if you don’t accept that your country should be a part of that state, then you (if you were being consistent) should also refuse to recognise the Queen’s role as head of your part of the overall state.

But I suppose that might lose you votes and upset your best pal, Big Ian.