The Plaid Cymru campaign is in full swing. Here are five things you should not miss over the next few days.
Mae’r penwythnos yma yn addo bod yn un cyffrous i gefnogwyr Plaid Cymru ar draws Cymru!

1. ‘Ask the leader’

Adam Price will be on the BBC’s Ask the Leader this evening fielding questions live from the public. He’ll be on at 5.30pm. Don’t miss it!

Bydd arweinydd Plaid Cymru Adam Price ar raglen BBC ‘Ask the Leader’ heno am 5.30pm. Bydd yn ateb cwestiynau yn fyw gan y cyhoedd. Peidiwch a’i golli!

2. Question Time

The formidable Liz Saville Roberts will be on Question Time tonight alongside James Cleverly (Tory), Clive Lewis (Labour), and Alex Phillips (Brexit). Tune in to support our Liz!

Bydd yr anhygoel Liz Saville Roberts ar ‘Question Time’ am 10.45pm heno yn mynd ben ben â James Cleverly (Torïaid), Clive Lewis (Llafur), ac Alex Phillips (Brexit). Cofiwch wylio a chefnogi Liz!

3. Wales, it’s us! Ni yw Cymru.

Plaid’s party political broadcast will premier this evening at 6:30 on our Facebook page.

Bydd darllediad gwleidyddol plaid Plaid yn dangos am y tro cyntaf heno am 6:30 ar ein tudalen Facebook.

4. Super Saturday! Sadwrn Sblennydd!

This Saturday there will be events held across Wales in support of Plaid Cymru, check your area to see what’s on and come along! We’d love to see you!

Dydd Sadwrn hwn bydd digwyddiadau yn cael eu cynnal ledled Cymru i gefnogi Plaid Cymru. Dewch i gefnogi eich ymgeisydd lleol!

5. Poverty Pledge. Tlodi Plant

1 in 3 children in Wales grows up in poverty. This injustice is a result of cruel Tory cuts and a useless Labour government in Wales. But no more. Tomorrow Plaid Cymru will announce a policy aimed at lifting children across wales out of poverty, bringing the support to many of those who desperately need it across Wales.

Mae 1 o bob 3 o blant yng Nghymru yn tyfu fyny mewn tlodi. Mae’r anghyfiawnder hwn yn ganlyniad i doriadau Torïaidd creulon a llywodraeth Lafur ddiwerth yng Nghymru. Yfory bydd Plaid Cymru yn cyhoeddi un o’n prif bolisiau fydd yn codi miloedd o blant ar draws cymru allan o dlodi.

Something is happening in Wales. Over the past year, thousands of us marched together in independence demonstrations in Cardiff, Caernarfon and Merthyr. Polls show around 30 per cent consistently support independence. Independence has moved from the margins into the mainstream.

Plaid Cymru’s mission is to convince the people of Wales that independence is not just desirable but vitally necessary to tackle our problems and improve our standard of living.

That’s why I’m proud to announce that Plaid Cymru have set up a landmark commission, chaired by Jocelyn Davies, to look at how Wales can become independent in the next decade.

The arms-length commission will make the economic case for independence and answer other detailed questions on independence to turn Wales from an ‘indy-curious’ country to an ‘indy-confident’ one.

Wales, it’s us.

Mae rhywbeth yn digwydd yng Nghymru. Dros y flwyddyn ddiwethaf, gorymdeithiodd miloedd ohonom gyda’n gilydd dros annibyniaeth yng Nghaerdydd, Caernarfon a Merthyr. Mae arolygon barn yn dangos bod tua 30 y cant yn cefnogi annibyniaeth yn gyson. Mae annibyniaeth wedi symud o’r ymylon i’r brif ffrwd.

Amcan Plaid Cymru yw argyhoeddi pobl Cymru nad yw annibyniaeth ond yn ddymunol ond yn hanfodol bwysig i fynd i’r afael â’n problemau a gwella ein safon byw.

Dyna pam rwy’n falch o gyhoeddi bod Plaid Cymru wedi sefydlu comisiwn arloesol, dan gadeiryddiaeth Jocelyn Davies, i edrych ar sut y gall Cymru ddod yn annibynnol yn y degawd nesaf.

Bydd y comisiwn hyd braich yn cyflwyno’r achos economaidd dros annibyniaeth ac yn ateb cwestiynau manwl eraill er mwyn rhoi hyder i Gymru y gall fod yn annibynol.

Ni yw Cymru.

Adam Price, Arweinydd Plaid Cymru

This is my promise to European citizens: in this election, I’ll make sure your voice is heard.
The only way to protect your rights is to remain in the EU – that’s why we will fight to secure a Final Say referendum on Brexit

By Adam Price

Dear European citizens, as leader of Plaid Cymru, I have a message for you all: you are welcome here in Wales. Amid the toxicity of politics, and the further uncertainty caused by this general election, I want to give you my utmost assurance that Wales welcomes you, Wales values you, and Wales wants you to stay here.

Just as you were denied a vote in the referendum of 2016, you are again denied a vote and a voice in this upcoming general election – an election that will decide all our futures. But Plaid Cymru will continue to represent all 80,000 of you who live in Wales. We will continue to fight for you.

I understand that the current application process to apply for settled status is costly, confusing and causing you grief and anxiety. I understand as well that some of you will have family with settled status while other members of your family won’t. I understand that the emotional burden of having to make such an application in a time of dreadful uncertainty can at times be too much to bear.

I want to assure you that Plaid Cymru will continue to fight your corner and will resist any attempt to split families apart or deny you your rights – be they your right to access public services here in Wales or your right to a democratic voice.

We will fight for the respect you deserve, continuing to combat the hostile environment that has been created by Brexit and has caused such deep rooted divisions within our society. We will continue to insist that Wales is your country too; you belong here, just like everyone else who lives here.

Europeans, you are our family. You are our siblings, our parents, and our grandparents. You are our neighbours and our colleagues. You are our teachers, our doctors, our nurses. You contribute to the Welsh economy, to our health service, our schools, and to our rich and vibrant culture. You are among the building blocks of our country – you don’t just contribute to our communities, you are our communities.

You shouldn’t have to go through this gruelling process. You shouldn’t have to be thrown into such a state of uncertainty and fear. But where the UK government has let you all down, we will defend your rights to live and work here in Wales. My party and I will fight until your legal status to live and flourish here in Wales is guaranteed automatically – and we will keep going until your rights are fully recognised in law.

Others including the Labour Party say they want to “protect” you rights, but we know the only real way of doing that is for Wales to remain in the EU – which is why we want to secure a Final Say referendum on Brexit, and will campaign for Remain if that ballot is secured.

Whether you’ve lived here for two months or five decades, it doesn’t matter: Wales is your home. You are welcome, you are valued, and you make our country stronger and better just by being here.

Thank you for making Wales your home. We will do everything we can to make sure you can stay here. Because, Wales – it’s us.

Branch meeting! Come along, we live in important times!
13/11/19 Cowbridge – Duke of Wellington. 7:30pm Wednesday.
Cyfarfod y gangen! Dewch, rydyn ni’n byw mewn amseroedd pwysig!
13/11/19 Y Bont Faen – Y Dug Wellington. 19:30 Dydd Mercher.

‪We went to the Rhanbarth meeting of Vale Plaid, and our Chair is here with council Plaid leader Ian Johnson! ‬‪
Roeddwn yn y cyfarfod rhanbarthol @plaidcymruvog heddiw lle wnaethom sgwrsio â @ianjamesjohnson arweinydd y grŵp @Plaid_Cymru yn y @vogcouncil -diddorol a defnyddiol! ‬

Our reply to the letters section in the western mail:

Dear Editor,

In his article, WM2 on Wednesday, Dr Daryl Leeworthy derides Adam Price’s demand that Westminster pay retribution to Wales for the billions of pounds taken over the years without inward investment as simplistic backing his stance by citing the existence of some Welsh coal field owners and colliery managers as proof that people in Wales not only benefited from the situation but happily contributed it. However it is Dr. Leeworthy and not Adam Price who has adopted a simplistic view. It seems to be the resurrected tactic of Labour and acolytes to brand Plaid falsely as anti-English, in blatant disregard of evidence to the contrary.

As a historian Dr Leeworthy will be well aware that every colonised country has found a few willing locals “Dic Sion Dafydd’s, Viscount George Thomas’, who line their own pockets and seek to don ermine robes, in fact I can think of more than a few current Labour and Conservative MPs who follow this mantra. Clearly they choose to believe that Wales is too small, poor and stupid.

There’s no doubt that some Welsh mine owners gleaned considerable wealth from mining however they were by far and away in the minority and the reality is that, despite the billions of pounds generated from Welsh mining, other than a few square miles of civic centre in Cardiff there is nothing tangible to show.

Dr Leeworthy seeks to further justify his argument with the traditional Labour Party view that “Anyway there are parts of England that have suffered just the same” and again no doubt that’s the case but as your writer on Monday so succinctly put it “Despite experiencing similar problems the response from Westminster has never been the same when dealing with English regions” Indeed it is with Westminster that Plaid Cymru take issue, not with similarly downtrodden English folk.

Newcastle has had a Metro system for over 40 years but are only just talking about a Metro for Wales. Wales has 6% of UK rail infrastructure but receives just 1% of rail investment, in fact, when it comes to infrastructure spending Wales receives just 76p for every £1 spent in the rest of The UK (Figures from GERW).

But this unacceptable lack of investment isn’t all the Tories fault, Wales has been short changed by every Westminster Government, Conservative, Coalition or Labour that has held power, let’s not forget that the first ten years of The Senedd was accompanied by a Labour Westminster Government who upgraded less of our rail network than the Tories.

Adam Price is right in demanding Wales receives fair recompense for generations of Westminster neglect, though I doubt very much whether we will see one penny of additional funding and our communities and businesses will continue to suffer and decline until and unless we have an independent Wales with full control of its own finances, investment and infrastructure policies. Plaid seek for Wales no more than that status and those powers which other nations assume to be theirs by right.

‪Some of our members protesting outside an Alun Cairns Production ©️. Ein aelodau gydag eraill yn protestio y tu allan i gynhyrchiad Alun bach.‬ And a question we didn’t get to ask: As you know, Today is mental health awareness day, the NFU announced earlier in the year that depression and suicide amongst farmers has skyrocketed with the present uncertainty, and they expect this to increase exponentially in the event of brexit, many farmers are already on suicide watch, with this to especially increase exponentially under a no deal brexit. You announced £55m for midwales, but what mitigation have you

made for farmers here, what advice can you give to those with livestock they cannot sell and cannot afford to feed, their livelyhoods and way of life at stake???

These farmers are your constituents, given we all saw what you did you for your constituents at the Airport, i won’t hold my breath.