What is distinctively Welsh about Wales in the 21st Century?

[neprimerimye]

Isadly I've lost nearly all the welsh I spoke as a lad

I've lost all my Yoruba.

 

[lewislewis]

None of us will die happy. Most of us will die lying on gurneys in run down NHS hospitals hoping a distant relative will ask the nurse for more drugs.

I recognised all the Cymraeg but only understood four phrases. None of which will be any use when I need those drugs however!!

Whats the Welsh for 'can I have some morphine now?' Best be prepared for all eventualities like.

Edited- Unecessary.

Its all doom and gloom with Neprimerimye. I'd rather end my days in a nice efficient Scandinavian hospital, but of course we're never going to achieve that standard in Wales unless we break with the conservative, low-spending United Kingdom.

 

[neprimerimye]

Edited- Unecessary.

Its all doom and gloom with Neprimerimye. I'd rather end my days in a nice efficient Scandinavian hospital, but of course we're never going to achieve that standard in Wales unless we break with the conservative, low-spending United Kingdom.

I would rather end my days in the arms of but it's rather unlikely I regret to say.

Btw I was reading an interesting article about cuts in the Swedish health service the other day.

 

[nwnm]

"I'd rather end my days in a nice efficient Scandinavian hospital, but of course we're never going to achieve that standard in Wales unless we break with the conservative, low-spending United Kingdom." We could always have a go at overthrowing capitalism redistributing the wealth and investing our time/energy/money in providing the sevices people need instead. Personally, I don't want to die in any hospital bed. I'd either want to die in my sleep next to a nice warm barricade trying to acheive what I've just written about, or after having sex. What a nice way to go.....

 

[niclas]

Happiness is a warm Scandinavian

Dontcha just love line breaks like this:

"I'd rather end my days in a nice efficient Scandinavian"

And so say all of us...

 

[lewislewis]

"I'd rather end my days in a nice efficient Scandinavian hospital, but of course we're never going to achieve that standard in Wales unless we break with the conservative, low-spending United Kingdom." We could always have a go at overthrowing capitalism redistributing the wealth and investing our time/energy/money in providing the sevices people need instead. Personally, I don't want to die in any hospital bed. I'd either want to die in my sleep next to a nice warm barricade trying to acheive what I've just written about, or after having sex. What a nice way to go.....

Haha so true, but capitalism has never been succesfully overthrown, each time it has, something worse has resulted.

And Niclas- amen brother.

 

[nwnm]

"capitalism has never been succesfully overthrown, each time it has, something worse has resulted." Good point. I'd elaborate it slightly differently though. Capitalism has never been overthrown, and each time the Capitalist class re-assert themselves something worse has resulted. The 2 most obvious examples being Russia and Germany.

In Russia ( at the time an economically backward country with a tiny working class) the revolution was Isolated and Strangled, and you effectively had a party ruling in the name of a working class that had been decimated in a civil war inspired by western imperialist forces. In that situation, (ie with no successful revolutions in advanced capitalist countries), it was only a matter of time before a growing beaurocracy would transform itself into a ruling class.

In Germany the far left of the SPD did not break and set up their own independent organisation until it was too late, and their leaders were murdered. The workers revolts in Germany (complete with barricades) were squandered. The capitalist reaction ended in fascism - proving the old adage of Rosa Luxemburg correct "We face a choice - either Socialism or Barbarism"