Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr has been investigating Welsh Home Rulers especially Tom Ellis and David Lloyd George and the Liberal Imperialist ideology that informed their nationalism.
Here are some of our notes on Lloyd George, we are certainly not David Lloyd George fans like Huw Edwards of the BBC, and are making less known information about David LIoyd George available to illustrate how he like Tom Ellis combined Imperialism with their Welsh Home Rule Nationalism in the 1890's.
Lloyd George in June 1891 on Tories and Nationalism
"It was a maxim of ancient Roman Law that slaves have no country. Our Tories today believe it. So they oppress the national spirit in Ireland, jeer at it in Wales, cajole it in Scotland, and pervert it in England , where they degrade it into an unholy imperial vanity"
"A great writer attributed the fall of the Roman Empire in a great measure to the decay of the national spirit in the provinces forming the Empire.
The Roman policy was to destroy the national identity of the subject peoples.
The Gaul the Briton, the German were citizens of Rome. The result was disasterous to Rome itself. The individuality,independence and manliness of spirit developed by the sense of nationhood vanished and with the disappearance of these qualities Rome fell.
"It is a remarkable fact that the Imperial party in this country which makes the preservation of Empire the motive power of its statesmanship should now pursue the very policy that lead to the destruction of the Roman Empire.
"As Welsh Liberals we are Imperialists because we are nationalists. We are Liberals because we are nationalists.
We know that by honouring our native land as shall best respect ourselves and that by the sum of the success, prosperity and happiness attainted by Wales, the Empire of which she is a part will be the more glorious."
Page 44 Wales Drops its Pilots (1937) by W Hughes Jones
Talk of dominion status for Wales originated in Liberal Imperialism in 1890's with Lloyd George and predates Plaid Cymru and Saunders Lewis and Gwynfor Evans use of the term.
It is interesting how Plaid Cymru adapted to Liberal Imperialist notion of Dominion Status and later Confederalism so easily.
We at Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr and the Welsh Socialist Republican Congress actually stand for Independence and we defined what we mean at our Congress in 2016.
Liberalism will never bring Independence to Wales only Revolutionary Socialism can.
Welsh Independence Resolution adopted at 1st Congress Of WSRC October 2016
The Welsh Socialist Republican Congress stands for Welsh Independence, we do not agree that Wales is a mere principality of England but a sovereign Nation.
We stand for Welsh Independence as it is the only way to restructure the relationship between two unequal nations the Welsh and English Nations from one of domination by England to one of equality and mutual respect.
The road of the Home Rulers of Constitutional changes and a Welsh Assembly is nothing more than a new management arrangement for the continued domination of Wales by the British State.
We look to the separation of Norway from Sweden as a model of how new relationship between a once dominant nation and subordinate nation was turned into one of mutual equality and respect following Norwegian Independence.
Independence is a prerequisite of a new long term amicable relationship as the Norwegian case has proved.
Continued domination of Wales by the British State no only damages Wales but ultimately the harmony between English and Welsh working people.
TO LOOK MORE CLOSELY AT WHAT INDEPENDENCE MEANS AND A STRATEGY TO GET THERE LOOK AT
https://greatunrest2012.blogspot.com/2018/09/what-price-independent-wales-mirage-or.html
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