‘Three capital cities and own currency in free Wales’
A POLITICAL party which wants Welsh independence in the “shortest practical time” has laid out its plans for Wales to have three capital cities and a new currency called the Hywel.
Gwlad has put forward 14 constituency candidates and 21 candidates across the regional lists. Aside from Labour, Tories, Plaid, Lib Dems and Reform UK, it has the most candidates seeking election on May 6.
Its policies include a £2-a-night tourist tax, a ‘Powys Spine Road’ along the A470 and A483 corridors to provide a two- or three-lane road with a series of bypasses to cut the road travel time between the north and south of Wales by at least an hour.
It wants three capital cities for Wales. Cardiff would remain, but the Senedd would move to Llandudno Junction and the ministerial offices of the First Minister to Aberystwyth.
Gwlad says it wants Wales to be independent as soon as “practical”.
“Gwlad is committed to achieving a free and independent Wales in the shortest practical timescale – but it does need to be practical.
“Our principal reason for aspiring to this is simply our belief that Wales is a nation: and the normal state of a nation is to be independent.
“Being a nation, but choosing to live in subservience to another nation as part of a highly unequal union, makes little sense.”
Post-independence it says there would need to be a debate and “probably” a referendum on whether the monarchy should be retained, there should be a new monarchy, a US-style president or non-executive president, as in Ireland.
The party says it would create at least one naval base and maintain a “small land army”.
A new currency would be created, and instead of pounds and pence the units would be the Hywel and ceiniog.