Wales is trying to rebrand itself as a tourist destination. People tend to chose Ireland or Scotland to visit & have long overlooked Wales. Associating it with coal mines, gray skies, & unfriendly people. Visitors are treated as an inconvenience instead of welcomed with open arms. The spin doctors are doing their best, but Wales is still Wales. From the Daily Mail

D'you know, only 2,500,000 people live in the whole of Wales? Manchester alone probably has more. Without English tourism they'd sink and it galls them no end. The north is far more reliant upon us than the south and they're a funny, insular bunch, with many treating you as a necessary evil. My mate has a caravan at Llanberris and they openly rant on about the English to him all the time. If he was black they wouldn't be able to do that. For some reason the Welsh have a genetic inability to run a pub, all of their pubs are owned or run by English. The north complains that the English are taking them over, ruining their culture, yet none of them appear to grasp the fact that until the hordes from the sub continent arrived, Jones was the second most common name in England, Jones being a Welsh name of course. Through the Barnet formulae Scottish people get £2500 per year, per person, out of the government coffers than the English, but the Welsh get £4500. They complain that the English are taking them over and they have a point, as over the years the English have moved in en masse, because property prices were a fraction of what you would pay in England. Many bought second homes there and back in the 70's and 80's the Welsh nationalists burned down many of them. They brought out a law that made it compulsory for all school kids to learn Welsh at school and in some, Welsh only was permitted until they were seven. This destroyed the education of hundreds if not thousands of kids in parts of North Wales, I say north Wales because the south wouldn't have it.

In one of those series "The Crown" that I watched showed a young Prince Charlie being sent to school there to learn the language & the culture. It portrayed Wales & the Welsch as you did, Major. The only thing most older Americans know of Wales is that Tom Jones is from there.

They appear to be searching for their own identity............like the Canadians. Of course they bring nothing to the table.

A survey published today shows that the Welsh population is declining and almost 19% of them are pensioners but the population has risen now to 3,100,000. London's population has soared to 8.8 million. Little story for you. Back in the early 70's we were on our way to Wales on the bikes and we took a wrong turn heading for Rhudlann. As you enter the village, you go over a small hump-backed bridge over the river and we used to take that at speed so as to take off. As we shot through the air, there were two girls on the pavement who waved to us, so we went back and my brother ended up marrying one of them. Her sister ended marrying a rabid Welsh nationalist, so you can imagine that whenever my brother was near him, it almost came to blows. They had a daughter who was forced into Welsh lessons from almost day one and she's a natural Welsh speaker. Now, here's where it gets complicated. That part of the Welsh coast overlooks Liverpool and as a result of mass Scouse importation over the years they all speak with a slight Scouse accent, including the Welsh nationalist and his daughter. Here's the delicious bit, it used to drive him mad when other Welshy's gave him the same treatment as he gave my brother, as they thought he was English. One day we were in Conway with his daughter when the colonists were visiting. My niece and her went into a supermarket and when they opened their mouths, the Welsh women on the counter began insulting them.... in Welsh, thinking nobody with that accent could understand. She used to tear them to pieces and they crapped themselves and she did it a hundred times over the years. She's now a teacher in Boston USA.

Scouse eh? Had to look it up.

Scouse is actually a stew, a form of Irish stew, which they ate so much they were named Scousers. The Scousers are mostly watered down Micks and have a well found reputation for militancy and theft. There are a thousand Scouse jokes involving laziness and especially theft. Here's an example. 25 Scousers get killed and go up to the Pearly Gates, where they are met by St Peter. He goes to see God to tell him and God says.... Mmmm. go back and say we'll accept 15 of them for now. St Peter goes off and a minute later he's back shouting.... they're gone! God says.... the Scousers? And St Peter says.... no the Pearly Gates.

Bit of trivia for you. The Welsh alphabet has more letters than the English one. I live about 40 minutes from Wales and when you reach the border there is now a sign that says.... welcome to Wales. For most of my life you never knew where the border was but now they feel the need to tell you. It's the same with Scotland, wherever you now cross the border there is a big sign which says.,...welcome to Scotland. You'll never ever see a 'welcome to England' sign, as we just can't be arsed. We have no need to advertise ourselves in any shape or form, as after all, we are god's chosen people.

Wales is trying to rebrand itself as a tourist destination. People tend to chose Ireland or Scotland to visit & have long overlooked Wales. Associating it with coal mines, gray skies, & unfriendly people. Visitors are treated as an inconvenience instead of welcomed with open arms. The spin doctors are doing their best, but Wales is still Wales. From the Daily Mail

The Welsh government might talk about rebranding for vested interests but the Welsh never will, as dislike of the English is passed on to them in their mother's milk. As I've said, we are the golden goose they'd love to shoot but daren't. Fact is, Wales has been bought out by hundreds of thousands of English, who have bought up property there and a million caravans. The North is totally and utterly dependent on English tourism and they just can't stomach the fact that they are reliant upon the English tit. Britain is the most tribal society on earth and they never cease to go at each other's throats, from streets, to estates, to towns to cities to counties to countries. we are a nation of warring tribes who, when outside danger threatens, seamlessly become one great family until the outsiders are defeated, whence we return to our squabbling.

A 30 page ruling from a Church of England tribunal that the Rev.Clive Evans violated "acceptable church practice" when he stripped to his underwear to perform a "full immersion" baptism & also pinched two women's bottoms.

Breaking News from the Centers of Disease Control - People engaging in hookups should avoid kissing & consider "virtual sex" to avoid contracting monkeypox. Two major food chains in the colonies, Kroger & Harris Teeter are caught in a tribal backlash. Libtards complained that some symbols on beverage sleeves were adorned with eagles & firearms slogans such as; "Give me liberty or give me death." The store's capitulated & removed the slogans. Now the other tribe is threatening boycotts claiming that move is "anti-American. The other day I was walking in the woods near my estate & a "Bigfoot" saw me, but nobody believes him.

All The Queen's Presidents Elizabeth II has met 14 U.S. Presidents in her remarkable 70 years atop the British Monarchy. Truman, 1951 Eisenhower, 1957 Hoover, 1957 Kennedy, 1961 Nixon, 1969 Ford, 1976 Carter, 1977 Reagan, 1980 Bush, 1991 Clinton, 1994 Bush, 2003 Obama, 2009 Trump, 2018 Biden, 2021

Further to the last - One notable exception was she never met LBJ. The official reason given was disagreement between London & Washington over the Vietnam War.

Britain had already fought and won its own 'Vietnam' in Malaya.

In the vast Pacific theater of WWII, the U.S. Navy had the flight decks of their carriers painted a shade of blue. This enabled the ships to blend in with the sea more difficult to see from above. The Japs never painted the flight decks of their carriers & therefore were better targets.