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21/08/2025

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21/08/2025

EPISODE 65 - A Pint of Politics...
[Scene: A Welsh pub somewhere in Wales. Two men, Dai and Bry sit at a wooden table with pints in front of them. A welsh dragon hangs proudly on the wall behind them.]

Dai: (toasting) Iechyd da, Bry! Here’s to Wales - land of song, rugby, and more sheep than politicians with a spine.

Bry: (sighs, staring into his pint)
Aye, but at least the sheep are honest. Politicians? Not so much. Cardiff Bay’s full of them playing musical chairs with the same old tunes. It’s like karaoke night, but everyone’s out of tune and no one leaves the stage.

Dai: (laughing)
Come on now, boy, you’re too harsh. Think of what we could be. Imagine Wales running itself properly: clean energy everywhere, thriving valleys, trains that actually turn up before you die of old age.

Bry: (snorts)
Trains? Dai, I’ve seen ghosts arrive faster. If Wales ran itself, we’d probably still be waiting for a signalman to find the right key. We’re led by a bunch who think progress is swapping one press release for another.

Dai: But that’s my point Bry! It’s the status quo that’s the problem. If we keep saying aye to the same tired lot, we’ll always be stuck in neutral. Say no to them, and we can steer the dragon ourselves. Proper Welsh power!

Bry: Power? The only power we’ve got is the kettle when it’s not tripping the electrics. Look around, Dai. Council debt up to its eyeballs, hospitals bursting at the seams, parking charges up again, library down the road closed. And what about our leaders? They’re like weather in Aberystwyth. Grey, wet, and no one trusts the forecast.

Dai: I’ll give you that Bry. But picture this: Wales investing in its people, putting communities before cronies. A government that listens. We could have a nation that makes its own decisions.

Bry: Or we could end up with the same circus, just with a different clown holding the flag.

Dai: We’ve bounced back from worse. The Valleys’ve gone from coal to choirs, and we’re still singing. Cardiff’s got cranes everywhere, it’s like Meccano for grown-ups. And look at our rugby: we can lose five games in a row and still believe we’ll win the next Six Nations. That’s optimism, that is!

Bry: (shaking his head, smiling despite himself)
Blind faith, more like.

Dai: Faith keeps the dragon breathing, boy. We’re stubborn, we’re proud, and we’ve got more poets per square mile than politicians with excuses. If that’s not a foundation for the future, I don’t know what is.

Bry: (sighs, softening)
…You make it sound like there’s still a bit of magic left in the place.

Dai: There is! Always has been. It’s in the song before a match, the smell of chips on the pier, even in your miserable face when I drag you out for a pint. Wales isn’t perfect, but it’s ours, and that’s plenty to raise a glass to.

Bry: (raises pint, finally smiling)
Alright then. Iechyd da, Dai. To Wales, chips, choirs, and Tom Jones on every karaoke night.

Dai: Now you’re talking! Iechyd da!

[They clink glasses. Tom Jones’ Delilah kicks in suddently on the Jukebox drowning them both out..]

21/08/2025

Dumped Democracy: 26 Years of Rubbish Rule
By SouthWalesRebel – Political Writer

Wales is at a tipping point. After nearly 26 years of Labour-led rule since devolution, often shored up by Plaid Cymru through pacts and power-sharing deals, our nation is groaning under failed leadership, empty promises, and chronic financial mismanagement.

Labour’s record is marked by costly disasters. The Senedd building, promised at £12 million, ballooned to almost £70 million when it finally opened in 2006. The M4 Relief Road fiasco consumed £157 million of public funds in reports, inquiries, and plans, only to be scrapped in 2019. In the north, the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board, Wales’ largest, has lurched in and out of special measures thanks to repeated governance failures and collapsing services. Successive ministers have overseen the decline, but none have delivered solutions.

And now, during a cost-of-living crisis, the Welsh Government has signed off on expanding the Senedd by 36 new Members, at an estimated annual cost of £14.5–17.8 million. Not a one-off bill, an ongoing burden. All for a chamber many already view as toothless in holding power to account.

Where has Plaid Cymru stood in all this? Too often alongside Labour, voting through budgets, cutting deals, and pursuing ideological side-projects while public services erode and councils sink deeper into debt. Once the voice of challenge, Plaid has become Labour’s lifebuoy.

Politics in Wales has grown complacent. Labour behaves as though it owns the nation. Plaid has abandoned resistance to become an enabler. Meanwhile, ordinary people face debt-ridden councils, collapsing health and education services, and a media too often repeating the establishment’s script.

Wales now stands at a crossroads. Do we continue down the same road, supporting a nationalist party that, time and again, props up Labour? Or do we break the Cardiff Bay cartel by supporting Independents, Greens, Liberal Democrats, or even Reform UK, Gwlad, or Propel, if that is what it takes to reboot the system.

Welsh Rebel Media are not here to dictate who you vote for. We are here to cut through the smoke and mirrors, the manufactured chaos designed to keep us confused, divided, and compliant. The online shouting match between left and right is not debate, it's a distraction. A fog meant to keep you grazing the same tired pasture, election after election.

We are being told voting "Plaid is the only party that can beat Reform UK" like there are no other choices in life, that we must accept the fate the establishment presents to us. This is only true if you choose to believe it, or if you trade your conscience for conformity. We put this question to you... if Wales keeps grazing in the same field, year after year, how can we ever expect our nation to grow green again?


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21/08/2025

EPISODE 64 - LABOURS GRIM KNOCKS THE DOOR

[A terraced house in South Wales. Rain pours down the street outside, puddles forming in potholes. Overflowing bins line the kerb. Inside, Ted sits at his kitchen table staring at an unopened council tax bill. A shadow passes the window. Suddenly — KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK. Ted jumps. He pulls back the curtain to see the Grim Reaper looming outside, scythe in one hand and a red-stamped “FINAL NOTICE” in the other.]

Grim: Ted Jones… Band D… Two months in arrears, £470 of your £2,400 yearly bill outstanding. I’ve come to collect.

Ted: (peers nervously through the window, clutching his bill)
I... I can’t pay! My council just hiked it 5.5%. My Welsh Water bill’s up 25%! Food’s doubled since Covid. My wages haven’t budged, my wifes lost her job. We're choosing between heating and eating!

Grim: That’s unfortunate. Pay up.

Ted: (desperate)
What exactly am I paying for, eh? Look at the road outside, potholes deep enough to swallow a bus!

Grim: (glances at the road, then back to Ted, blank expression)
…

Ted: (pointing past the window)... look, the park flowerbeds over there, filled with concrete! The library? Closed! The drains? Blocked! And now we barely get the bins collected. What am I getting for £240 a month for!?

Grim: (pressing the notice flat against the glass)
The council requires payment. Services not included.

Ted: Not included? For that price I might as well throw my money straight into the potholes, they’d actually get filled!

Grim: (grins, tapping his scythe on the window)
That would still count as arrears.

(Ted slumps back at his kitchen table, head in hands. Outside, a bin bag bursts open and seagulls fight over scraps. Grim just waits, patient as death itself.)

Grim: (darkly cheerful)
Cash, card… or soul?


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21/08/2025

Political Indoctrination in Wales and The Faithful Defenders of Failure
By SouthWalesRebel - Political Writer

Wales is often held up as a nation of political loyalty. Since devolution, the red and green banners of Labour and Plaid Cymru have dominated Welsh politics, trading influence and often governing hand-in-hand. Yet beneath the surface of democracy lies something more troubling, a culture of political indoctrination where parties are defended not on performance, but on faith. It doesn’t matter how abysmal the track record becomes; for the devout followers of these parties, no sin is too great, no failure too stark, to shake their loyalty.

Take Welsh Labour. Even as the party presided over some of the lowest educational attainment levels in the UK, chronic waiting lists in the NHS, and a sluggish economy that consistently lags behind the rest of the UK, its defenders remain unflinching. When the Labour government floated reforms to disability benefits – tinkering with a system that already crushes the most marginalised, the faithful stands by like its for the greater good. When winter fuel payments were mooted to be slashed, affecting elderly people already struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, the faithful found a way to justify it.

On foreign policy positions too, Labour in Wales is selective in its moral compass. The Senedd has loudly condemned injustices abroad, such as its motions on Gaza and Palestine - yet when calls for accountability arise closer to home, silence follows. It’s a virtue-signalling politics: loud against the distant, muted on the domestic.

And then there is Plaid Cymru, the party that markets itself as the principled alternative, has in reality propped up Labour through cooperation agreements and backroom understandings that have stifled opposition. For a party that claims to champion radical Welsh independence and justice, Plaid has been remarkably willing to compromise on its principles when proximity to power is offered.

The rot does not stop at policy either. Plaid’s internal culture has faced public exposure in recent years, with reports of toxic behaviour, bullying, and the silencing of dissent within its ranks. Investigations confirmed a party culture where speaking out often led to being ostracised. Yet, remarkably, many of its supporters respond not with concern but with doubling down, portraying critics as traitors to the cause rather than holding their leadership to account.

This is political indoctrination at work: a belief system rather than a rational evaluation of governance. For many in Wales, loyalty to party is tribal, inherited, and emotional. Labour is the "workers" party, Plaid is the "nationalists" banner – and to question either is in some circles, treated as heresy.

It is precisely this culture of uncritical defence that has allowed complacency to flourish. Labour has ruled Wales almost uninterrupted since the creation of the Senedd, yet the metrics on poverty, health, and economic growth remain damning. Plaid, meanwhile, presents itself as the watchdog, but too often prefers to play the junior partner in lock step with Labours actions.

Wales today is the product of this blind loyalty. Generations of citizens have been conditioned to shield these parties from criticism as though defending a faith. But politics is not a religion, and Wales cannot afford discipleship over accountability. If the nation is to progress, it will not be through banners and blind faith, but through a willingness to demand more – even from those who claim to stand for us.

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21/08/2025

EPISODE 63 - MOO INVASON AT FARMER JONES' BORDER

[A battered field on the Welsh side of the border, the fence is broken in places. Farmer Jones proudly inspects his homemade scarecrow.]

Farmer Jones: Ah, Dorris… look at you. Staunch as Blorenge mountain you are. A proper Welsh lady, standing guard over our ancient pastures. Those english cows won’t dare set a hoof past you.

(Pats her apron pocket as if she were alive.)

Down the pub, they said it clear enough, I heard em' “Those english are invading us in herds.” Well, I thought they meant folk with caravans and loud voices or something, but no, they mentioned herds of em', It’s worse, cows Dorris, cows! Great lumbering Herefordshire cows. Sneakin’ over at night, chompin’ on the grass, pushin’ our poor sheep out like they don’t belong.

(Leans in, whispering reverently.)
That’s why I made you in the image of a Welsh mam. Nothing scarier to an english cow than a Welsh lady with a pitch fork in her hand is there.

[The scarecrow flutters a little in the breeze. Farmer Jones nods as if she’d given him approval.]

Exactly! Sheep have been here longer than anyone remembers. They belong, but what chance do they stand, eh? One sheep for every three cows these days. Outnumbered on our own hillsides. Sheep bleat, but those cows just barge in, shoulders wide, eatin’ everything like it’s theirs. Typical.

(Pointing across the field at the border fence.)

They say cows are harmless, but that’s how it starts. One hoof over, then another. Before long, you’ve got a herd settlin’ in, raisin’ calves, chewin’ cud, takin’ over whole valleys. Sheep’ll be left wandering the high rocks, homeless in their own land.

(Slaps his forehead dramatically.)

And no one else seems to notice! But we do, eh, Dorris? You see it plain as day. That’s why you’re here. Our lady of the line. Defender of the flock. Patron saint of turnips and welsh border security.

[An english cow calmly strolls through the gap in the fence and begins munching right beside Dorris. She stares blankly ahead.]

Farmer Jones: (aghast, pointing)
Dorris! It’s one of ‘em! Do your duty! Give it the look!

[The cow walks in oblivious to both Dorris and Farmer Jones.]

Farmer Jones: (devastated)
Traitor! Dorris, you’ve gone soft on ‘em!

[He sinks to his knees, clutching his head, while the sheep and cow graze side by side in peace.]

Farmer Jones: (muttering, broken)
First the cows… then the sheep… then Wales itself... all gone.

[The scarecrow remains upright, noble and useless]


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20/08/2025

Political Spotlight: The Wales anti-establishment group and pro-union Voice of Wales calls out a Yes Cymru 'militant' fringe, accusing them of reviving cottage-burner style anti-English hate and division. Is anger the answer, or is it weakening the very unity Wales needs right now? Have your say in the comments below...

The cottage burners at Yes Cymru, militant section of Plaid Cymru have made the headlines again, showing their history is anything but history.
With stickers saying “F**k your second home” and a picture of a house on fire, “death to Air B&B” and their infamous Yes Cymru stickers it’s clear the hatred & racism towards our closest neighbours in England is very much alive and kicking!
Its mental how a Party (Plaid Cymru) who claim to be Welsh Nationalist, with links to Sinn Fein IRA and who wanted to side with the N@zis in the War could have such hatred for the English but in the same breath want to open the doors to Africa.
The past is the past and the present is more important. To any morons with a problem with the English, we are Great Britain. We are all facing the exact same threat and and together as a United Kingdom we cannot be beaten! Stronger together. Don’t let the racists divide us.

Vote these scumbags OUT at every single opportunity!

20/08/2025

EPISODE 62 - THE SENEDD SOPRANOS
[Scene: A dark warehouse beneath the Senedd, Cardiff Bay Docks. Water drips from an old pipe above, a single flickering light bulb swings. Two shadowy figures seat at a small wooden table laiden with stacks of blank voting slips.]

[Enter Don of the Docks]:
(voice calm but sharp like a knife)
“So… Don y Cennin Aur. Long time since we’ve met without the cameras, eh? I hear whispers you’ve been planting your cennin in soil that doesn’t belong to you.”

[Don y Cennin Aur]:
(nervously adjusting his tie shaped like a leek)
“Ah now, cariad… no, no, you misunderstando. West is West si? I’ve not stepped a foot over our arrangement. I only… fertilise where the ground is willing, God bless.”

[Don of the Docks]:
(leaning forward, eyes glinting)
“Careful. I currently hold thirty-seven percent of this country. Thirty-seven, you capeesh? The mountains, the valleys, even the potholes, all mine. You? Fourteen point eight. Do not mistake my hospitality for weakness.”

[Don y Cennin Aur]:
(gulping)
“I would never! Never. You’re the rose, the eternal bloom of Wales, you know this, I have said many times.”

[Don of the Docks]:
“Good. Because while I’m fending off Don Faraggio aka el “Capo di Dover”, that snake with the English tongue, promising reforms while sharpening his knives, I need to know you’re not sharpening yours, your job is to keep seats warm, capeesh?”

[Don y Cennin Aur]:
(fidgeting)
“Of course, of course. Just keeping them… lukewarm. Not too hot, not too cold. Like my mama's cawl on a Sunday.”

[Don of the Docks]:
(voice drops to a whisper, deadly calm)
“If you ever forget who pulls the strings, remember this: we built the last bypass over a a county consigliere who thought he was clever. If you betray me, Don y Cennin Aur, they’ll find your bones beneath the tarmac of the A465 upgrade. And you’ll still be paying the toll.”

[Don y Cennin Aur]:
(pale, clutching his leek tie like catholic rosary beads)
“Si, si... I understand. No double-crossing. No trespassing. No… alternative manifestosa.”

[Don of the Docks]:
(sitting back, satisfied)
“Dacw ti. That’s more like it. Now drink. Toast to our beautiful country, where even democracy is… our family business.”

(They clink glasses filled with Penderyn 21 year Special Edition whisky. The bulb flickers. Somewhere above, the Senedd bell chimes. The satire continues… stay tuned...)


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19/08/2025

Political Spotlight: Reform in Wales claim they will break the cosy Cardiff Bay consensus and put Cymru first. In the words of Nigel, "if you really really want change, you've got to vote for that change". If Reform UK take the most seats at the next Senedd election, would this be the wake up call the establishment in Cardiff Bay needs? Would another Plaid/Labour coalition bring more of the status quo? Would the infamous 'Greens of Grangetown' show up in force again? or the Libs brigade wake from their slumber... one thing we do know, outside this ring of goliaths, the 'Davids' of Welsh Nationalism are stirring in Gwlad and Propel adding another twist to this plot beyond 2026. The stakes for governing Wales' future has never been so high.

Only Reform UK will break the cosy Cardiff Bay consensus and put Cymru first. Wales needs Reform. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

19/08/2025

EPISODE 61 - THE MOLE TRUTH
[The heart of Cardiff, at the HQ of Lied Cymru, chaos erupts. A mole has infiltrated their comms department, leaking embarrassing secrets to Senedd Waste, a watchdog page run by meme-loving patriots with too much time and a deep grudge against political hypocrisy. Dai, Dewi, Dafydd, and Ffion scramble to contain the breach.]

DAI: Eeeeek! The mole’s back! It’s nabbed the internal memo titled: “Why YesCymru endorses us despite us not really wanting independence unless Labour says it’s okay.” If that leaks, we’ll have to pretend to be principled again!

[A flash of fur scurries under the desks.]

FFION: Duw, it’s got the focus group results! The ones where people confused us with a pub quiz team from Cwmbran!

DEWI: No no no, it’s worse than that, it’s nicked the draft TikTok of Rhun doing the Macarena in front of a burning Union Jack while mouthing “Independence by 2030... maybe.”

DAFYDD: [cautiously peeking over a desk]
Oh Lord, if Senedd Waste gets hold of that, we’re done for! They’ll clock the burnt Union Jack came out of our “Community Engagement” budget, itemised as “symbolic materials for cultural healing.”

[Dai throws a rolled-up Western Mail. Ffion hurls a Fair Trade dragon plush. The moles rampage continues...]

FFION (gasping): They’ll meme us to death! You don’t come back from being tagged in !

[Suddenly, silence. A heavy breath. Dafydd, eyes darting, reaches for the one thing that might save them.]

DAFYDD:
Quick... release the emergency press statement:

“Lied Cymru remains fiercely pro-independence - except when we’re jointly committed, casually aligned, or softly whispering policy sweet-nothings behind closed Senedd doors.”

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Disclaimer: This production is a work of satire. All characters, organisations, and events depicted are fictionalised for the purposes of commentary, humour, and public interest. Any resemblance to real individuals or political parties, living, defunct, or perennially in coalition denial, is purely coincidental or exaggerated for comic effect.

Welsh Rebel Media does not endorse any political party or candidate and accepts no liability for emotional damage, reputational tremors, or sudden electoral reflection resulting from this content. Viewer discretion is advised, especially for those allergic to accountability. Diolch.

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19/08/2025

Political Spotlight: Gwlad highlights that Wales has been stuck in the same old economic model since the 1980s: luring overseas companies with subsidies to set up factories that bring mostly low-skill, low-wage jobs. So here’s the question: do we keep repeating the same failed strategy, or is it time for Wales to back itself, and follow Gwlad’s vision of nurturing home-grown enterprise? Join in the conversation below...

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19/08/2025

A Gwlad voter, a Propel voter and a Plaid Cymru voter walk into The Welsh Nationalist Arms in the village of Cwmryfel.

A Gwlad voter says, “I’ll have a pint, but only if it supports local business and actually gets poured, not just talked about.”

The Propel voter says, “I’ll have a pint, but only if it’s strong, straightforward, and not watered down by committees.”

The Plaid Cymru voter clears his throat and says, “I’ll have a pint, but only if it’s ethically sourced from a vegan, Welsh-speaking brewery, certified carbon-neutral, blessed by a bard, and acknowledged by everyone in this room as morally superior to your pints.”

The barman asks, “So what do you really want?”

The Plaid voter sighs, “Just a motion for further discussion about maybe having a pint… at the next Senedd term if Plaid wins”


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