Welsh independence referendum if EU funding not met after brexit - Plaid Cymru - Polidicks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-47656578 Wales should hold a referendum on independence if a series of demands are not met after Brexit, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price has said. The Plaid leader called for "every penny" of the £2.5bn structural funds Wales would have expected in the next EU funding period to be replaced, plus matching funds to provide a £5bn fund for "a fighting chance for us to rebuild our own fortunes". "If you deny us these reasonable demands then we only have one left, and that's the right to ask our people whether we would be better to take control of our future as an independent member of a European Union, not a second-class region in a failing British state." Scotland has the SNP, Wales has Plaid Cymru. The fact that things could even realistically get to this stage is just mind boggling.

wales literally has nothing going for it

it has even less in a post-brexit UK

Unless they can get everything they need from the EU, which I'm sure they would support as a big Fuck You to the rest of the UK. And we wind up in a timeline where people smuggle medicines into the country across the Welsh border.

Welsh economy would be based purely on smuggling EU medication and food into england as the US hyperinflates medicine prices and makes england buy their GMO chlorinated chickens™.

Hey you. You're finally awake, you were trying to cross the border right? Walked right into an EU ambush, same as us and that diabetic over there. Damn you Brexiters, the UK was nice before you came along. Government was nice and lazy, if they hadn't been looking for you I could have stolen that Insulin and been halfway to Harlow.

If Wales was Independent would I not be allowed to live in England?

nobody is gonna strip your citizenship

Did anyone sincerely believe that the current government would actually replace any of the EU funding? Their standard policy is to reduce spending wherever possible, and no spending is considered more wasteful than that going to Wales or Scotland.

Celtic Union, esketit. NI rejoins Ireland, Wales and Scotland break free, which leaves just Cornwall, Isle of Mann, and Brittany missing

As much as I'd love to see it happen and I think Wales would do perfectly fine divorced from the UK but in the EU, I don't think the Welsh independence movement is quite ready to face the struggle. Yet.

Come join Australia, lmao. We already have New South Wales here; and speaking as a New South Welshman, why not be joined in union with the old north Welshmen? lol

But the bus said £350 million

Wexit

The Welsh are less likely to be interested in chlorinated chickens because they make for less willing sexual partners.

I wonder if Wales will get the same shit Scotland gets everytime we bring up IndyRefs I wish Wales goodluck and I know Scotland would love to support them.

Wales is genuinely a bit fucked as it's an entire country of fucked steel towns. They'd honestly be dead outside of the EU, so I don't blame them jumping the sinking ship of the UK. Pretty sure Scotland would follow suit shortly

Wales did actually vote to leave the EU though. NI and Scotland have more of a case to complain about leaving, as they were majority remain.

It'd be very on brand with Brexit to threaten to leave the UK unless you keep all the benefits of the EU even though you voted to leave.

In the far flung year of 2020, Wales has succeeded from the Union (to rejoin that other union) Smuggling is rampant, pills, chlorine free chicken, and reasonably priced electronics flow unchecked into the Kingdom. Neither MI5 or 6 or the BBC with their massive survailence networks can stem the flow as all their wiretaps record is a seemingly gibberish language

Seriously though, this is actually a place in Wales: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

Didn't Wales mostly vote Leave with England in the UK? I thought only Scotland and North Ireland were the bulk of the Stay votes or am I wrong

But I thought Brexit would bring back the British Emprire, not destroy what little is remaining of it!

To me, it was those brexit promises of more funding for national services that had places convinced it was a good idea. The NHS in Wales is severely underfunded and the senedd have Just recently nationalised the rail service after a terrible private contract to arriva. All you had to do was flash that "more money to us not them" The results for the counties that voted leave were mostly in line with the narrow majority of the overall referendum. 51/52% etc. as another point.

I remember watching the referendum results come in live, and was pretty baffled seeing Wales lean leave, for reasons stated above - you may think the EU sucks, but Westminster cares even less than the EU. Good luck doing that referendum

Yeah they heavily voted Leave. Basically gtfo you voted for this.

Ahahahaha Wales dug the grave that they shall die in. They voted overwhelmingly to leave, despite being disproportionately benefited by EU funds. Speaking as someone who desperately wants to remain in the EU, and is extremely bitter, let Wales go independent and crash and burn by themselves.

http://mcimaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Refernedum3-1080x864.png https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/inlineimage/15154/EUmapStat2.png I wouldn't say heavily leave (I mean certainly in comparison to the midlands) from these two maps, but the places in green are where plaid cymru are strongest and heavy red are mining towns that have been seeing the heavy urban decline and bad land value. The first one is the actual results and the second is a yougov poll from feb 2016 btw.

Yeah, I've lost my patience with Brexiteers to be honest.

Like my sis is at the Minor injuries unit (downgraded A&E) atm for a possible broken arm. 2-3 hour wait to even just see a nurse/doctor. But its the older generation that has to deal with this all the time, you tell them that the EU is stealing their NHS money and they're instantly behind you.