A confident sign that attitudes are changing
WHAT a day it was in Caernarfon on Saturday! Anglesey residents were out in force among the 8,000 people who marched for Welsh independence through the town. It was a confident and colourful sign that attitudes are changing.
For those of us who’ve long supported the goal of independence, it’s great to see people getting excited about the possibilities, and even those who aren’t yet convinced want to learn more. I look forward to having more of those conversations.
With so many children living in poverty, such inequality in infrastructure investment, so many decisions being taken that are against Wales’ interests, it’s clear to me that there is an alternative to the current
UK. It’s time for a new partnership between our nations!
The election of a new Prime Minister has focused minds, too, and with a new cabinet happy to entertain the possibility of a no-deal Brexit that would be devastating to our communities here on Anglesey – our farmers, our port, our exporters – then we have to think outside the traditional UK box.
It’s been good to hear over the past few weeks from campaigners promoting active travel on Anglesey.
As a cyclist and runner, I support the creation of infrastructure to encourage people to get out and about in the open air. We already have the Llangefni to Malltraeth path, and we should look at other possibilities, too. What about the old long-lost Pentre Berw-Traeth Coch railway? It may be that access/ rights of way would be difficult. New roads should certainly have paths alongside.
It would be good to see if something could be developed alongside parts of the Lein Amlwch railway line, too, which I’m confident can be reopened. With contractual work nearing completion, work on financing that line will be gathering steam soon (pun fully intended!). So many railway lines have been lost, and here we have an opportunity to fight back, reopening a community rail link that can be great for connecting communities and for tourism.