Numerous agencies have hidden agenda
YOU mention in your leader June 26, “There have been people within Whitehall working to stop it [the Swansea lagoon], and it is striking that the Government is willing to strike multi-billion pound deals to develop new nuclear power stations”.
I have been concerned for some time that there is a hidden agenda by numerous agencies to prevent Wales from developing into a successful self-governing nation.
First example – It is becoming obvious that M15, or parts of the security services have been told for some years to keep an eye on Welsh and Scottish nationalists. I remember Gwynfor Evans telling me that when he became an MP in that historic byelection, after one late night sitting, he emerged and called a taxi. As he was about to open the taxi door, a young woman all legs and short skirt, came up and asked if she could share his taxi. Gwynfor opened the door for her and as she sat down, he closed the door and walked away across St Stephen’s Green. He turned round and saw a photographer step from the shadows and walk away. Imagine what the Daily Mail or other right wing unionist paper would have done with a photograph of them both in the back seat of a taxi. There are more ways than one to ruin a person’s character.
Second example – The prevalence of the Union Jack since the shock Scottish independence referendum has not gone unnoticed. There must be a small agency in Whitehall that asks the main supermarkets to display the Union Jack on food packaging when possible, so we do not often see foods labelled as being produced in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales, but only produced in Great Britain. The present epidemic of Union Jack displays must be coordinated. But by whom? Although most supermarkets in Wales display some Welsh and Scottish products, there seems to be no equivalent English products showing the flag of St George. It is either Devon or other county sources or a Union flag.
Third example – I have also begun to believe that the centralist power of Westminster does not want Wales to develop a strong economy. Both Labour and Conservative unionists preach that Wales is too poor to be a successful independent state. Should Wales develop a thriving economy, this excuse will no longer hold sway. We get investment only when it suits the majority English government, not when it suits us.
Perhaps there could be a whistleblower in Whitehall who could reveal all. Gwynn Bowyer Carmarthen