YES FOR WALES

Platform 1.To promote the constitutional advancement of Wales with a view to attaining Full National Status for Wales within the European Union. 2.To ensure economic prosperity, social justice and the health of the natural environment, based on decentralist socialism. 3.To build a national community based on equal citizenship, respect for different traditions and cultures and the equal worth of all individuals, whatever their race, nationality, gender, colour, creed, sexuality, age, ability or social background. 4.To create a bilingual society by promoting the revival of the Welsh language. 5.To promote Wales's contribution to the global community and to attain membership of the United Nations.

History Founded 1925 ▫August 1925 economic depression (unemployment rose to 29%) Tân yn Llŷn 1936 ▫Rose to prominence when Welsh nationalism was ignited in 1936 when the UK government settled on establishing a bombing school in Gwynedd. ▫However, UK Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin refused to hear the case against the bombing school in Wales, despite a deputation representing half a million Welsh protesters At a party conference in 1949, fifty members left Plaid Cymru over the strict observance of a pacifist political doctrine and over the party's continued emphasis on the Welsh language, but also because the party firmly rejected adopting a republican manifesto adopted current socialist outlook as a result of Margaret Thatcher ▫From the belief that her conservatism negatively impacted Wales

Recent History Cooperates with Scottish National Party ▫Formed the Celtic alliance voting block in campaign to impeach Tony Blair The Government of Wales Act 2006 was heavily criticized by Plaid for not delivering a fully- fledged parliament. Ieuan Wyn Jones, Welsh politician, leader of Plaid Cymru and Member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Ynys Môn constituency. Now the second largest political party in Wales

One Wales (2007) One Wales is the coalition agreement for the National Assembly for Wales between Labour and Plaid Cymru. Negotiated in the wake of the preceding National Assembly election which resulted in a large Labour plurality, but no majority. Varying Analysis ▫A first step towards independence ▫A sell-out on Plaid's part that props up a Labour government, and part of a wider shift towards nationalism in the British Isles. According to recent polling by the BBC, only 20% of Welsh voters favour independence, but 22.4% of Welsh voters supported Plaid Cymru — just one of a number of nationalist parties and candidates at the last Assembly election. ▫This has been put down to more general dissatisfaction with Labour's Tony Blair in the media, suggesting that any growth in nationalist sentiment might be less important to the electorate's shift away from Labour than Westminster political scandals.