UK breakup? Welsh independence more popular than ever

Robert Carter
Press TV, London

New polls suggest that support for Welsh independence from the UK is at an all time high. This has created fear in Downing Street over the real threat of a Kingdom breakup, with the Welsh parliament elections on the way. 

The idea of a Welsh breakaway from the United Kingdom is high on the agenda ahead of this year's Welsh elections.

With the country’s biggest pro-independence party Plaid Cymru pledging to secure a vote on welsh independence within the next five years.

The idea of Wales going alone has traditionally been an obscure viewpoint, however, since Brexit public support for an independence vote has skyrocketed.

One poll conducted this year actually suggested that Welsh support for independence could be as high as 39 percent, that would be the highest level ever recorded.

No.10 has reportedly become very aware of the growing anti-Westminster sentiment outside of England and are drawing up plans to counter the trend.

The Welsh elections are taking place in May, Plaid Cymru have been recording great successes in past votes, and hopes are high of major gains.

Although support for independence is not yet near a majority view, Westminster’s poor handling of the coronavirus crisis and the negative affects Brexit has had for Wales appears to have created greater belief in the virtues of self-government. With Scotland also pushing hard for a UK divorce, No.10’s concerns are growing as fast as Welsh patriotism.

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