Patriotic Alternative Wales

Today in Welsh history... 12 June 1919. Following race riots in Newport on the 9th, further trouble erupted simultaneously in Cardiff and Barry on the evening of the 12th. In Barry, the thirty-year-old former soldier Frederick Henry Longman, was outside of his own house when two ‘foreign’ men came up the street. Longman was suddenly attacked and stabbed just beneath the heart dying on the street. Pursued by both police and residents, the killer was eventually apprehended. The murderer, one Charles Emmanuel from the French West Indies, was later tried and gaoled. There was further trouble that night in Cardiff when a knife wielding man went to ground in a boarding house containing a number of Somalis. The men shot at the crowd from the house with revolvers. Under fire, the police entered and made arrests. Later that night, another ex-serviceman named John Donovan, was shot through the heart and another gashed on the head with a razor.

Only one group has protested against this monstrosity https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crggn2ddrkro.amp

Today in Welsh history… 7th June 1337 Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn, the only child of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales, died in exile in England. Gwenllian was descended from two royal bloodlines. She was the daughter and heiress to the Prince of Gwynedd and her maternal great-grandfather was King John of England. By the year of her birth the English king, Edward I was engaged in a bitter war of conquest that culminated in her father’s death in battle. The infant Gwenllian was then sent to an isolated Gilbertine Priory in Lincolnshire where she was raised and where she became a nun living in complete confinement until her death 54 years later. Gwenllian grew up with no memory of Wales and, it seems, never knew how to correctly pronounce her own name. The priory record-keepers listed her as "Wencilian" and was herself shown to have signed her name "Wentliane".

Cardiff enrichment https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/underworld-drug-gang-moved-more-29299793?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Today in Welsh history… 3rd June 1940, the last of the British Expeditionary Force were evacuated from Dunkirk with the battle ending in a decisive German victory. The loss of ‘materiel’ on the beaches was so enormous that the British forces left enough equipment behind to fit out about eight to ten divisions. In a desperate effort to bring the troops home, alongside the Royal Navy, over 1000 civilian vessels, including many from Wales such as the Glen Gower and the Scotia, were used to collect the stranded troops. Captain Bill Steer from the Rhondda was among the last to leave and was mentioned in dispatches for his bravery. In charge of a gun installation on the outskirts of Dunkirk he was tasked with maintaining fire to slow the German advance. Finally, Steer was given the order to spike the guns and leave. He and a handful of others were amongst the last people to make it off the beach alive, rowing away in a metal lifeboat.

This weekend (despite the teeming rain!) a dedicated team of PA Wales activists were back in St. Athan to protest the use of RAF St. Athan to house migrants. With tens of thousands of Welsh people homeless or in temporary accommodation and many thousands more struggling to simply get by in a cost of living crisis, it’s time the Welsh government put our own people first. Get involved! Email Region | Website | Join | Donate

Today in Welsh history… 26th May 1568, Queen Elizabeth I officially endorsed a congress of 'bards and musicians' that took place at Caerwys. Historically, the Welsh bard was part of the ancient European oral tradition of singing or reciting poems and tales, with themes ranging from love, heroism and myth and were passed from generation to generation. In Wales, the tradition continued into Early Medieval times through bards such as Taliesin and Aneurin. By the 16th century there had been a significant increase in the number of bards. It was decided that a mechanism was needed to grade the bards in order to weed out true practitioners from ‘vagabonds’ hence the congress of 1568 which initiated this process.

Bon appetite https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/kebab-shop-horror-takeaway-leaves-29226798?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar