The news that ex-chairman John Dixon has left the Party of Wales is not exactly surprising given the many doubts and disappointments he expressed on his blog yesterday.
It is not the first time that JD has lamented Plaid’s perceived lack of distinguishing features in the policy arena but it is first time he has implied that members might be better advised to “join the Welsh wings of the unionist parties” as an alternative means of evolving nationalist aims.
What would Saunders Lewis have made of that one?
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John Dixon let his Plaid Cymru membership expire months ago and said so on his blog. The Welsh media should be embarrassed they are printing old news because they missed it.
You may have seen that Carwyn Jones is ahead of Ieuan Wyn Jones with Plaid Cymru voters.
Saunders Lewis would not have bothered in the least about John Dixon's thoughts. In his Tynged yr Iaith, he made it clear that the Welsh language is more important than party politics.
I'd love to see John Dixon as a leading light in the growing Labour Party. It's where he belongs.
I'm not sure you have fully understood John Dixon's feelings. He is leaving Plaid because he feels that the party is leaving its radical convictions of an independent Welsh state that puts people before profit.
Labour have never believed in using the leavers of nation to create social, economic and cultural liberation.
Labour don't believe we need to be liberated at all.
A Welsh radical like John Dixon wouldn't be seen dead mixing with the sort of London elites that control the Labour Party.
The price of party membership these days he may have decided to save his money and be quids up
"I'd love to see John Dixon as a leading light in the growing Labour Party. It's where he belongs. "
Awful analysis. Dixon supports Welsh independence unequivocally, and believes Plaid is drifting away from that to become a party of government instead.
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