Beware of independence
ALAN Stafford Jones (Have Your Say, Sept 12) advocates a dangerously early bid for independence for Wales.
Many needs, too numerous to mention here, are serviced through our membership of the UK all of which would need to be addressed before we go it alone.
Such nationalistic fervour could cause real hardship; allegiance won't put food on tables or pay bills and taxes which would inevitably rise significantly with independence.
Premature independence would, without doubt, prove economically disastrous.
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We already appear at times to be somewhat isolated, eg our inability to recruit specialists and poor inward investment, and independence would exacerbate such problems.
Economic growth would be harmed for years to come.
Wales needs several years to properly prepare for independence and the dismal performance of the Assembly to date hardly fills us with confidence.
V Collier
Swansea
Comments
by mw0cnd
Tuesday, September 18 2012, 11:35AM
“V Collier spreading fear again more scare tactics from our home grown British nationalist he worried because We are in totally uncharted territory in the UK today. Plaid suffered a setback in 2011, but no worse than the one the SNP suffered in 2003. The debate about independence in Scotland has forced the unionists to articulate the advantages that the union brings over the possibilities of independence, and so far all they have come up with is empty, meaningless rhetoric of the 'stronger together . . ' type, and outright lies of the 'Spain will veto Scottish attempts to join the EU'. These do not play well in Scotland, and will not go un-noticed in Wales over the next couple of years. With a doctrinaire right wing junta in London hell bent on destroying social provision in the UK, ostensibly to defend the failed neo-liberal experiment, talk of 'common values' seems a very empty slogan, and increasing economic hardship will lead to a desperate search for something better. Plaid will be in a position to offer something better, and as a renewed, modern party, will be in a position to deliver it.”