What we can't accept is that any positive achievement can weigh anything in the balance against this sort of behaviour. I think we can still take Leanne Wood and mainstream social democratic members of Plaid seriously. But more and more extremist groups such as the FWA are beginning to look as if they're made up of kooks and nutters. Perhaps I'm being unfair. I wouldn't judge the Lib Dems on Cyril Smith or even Jeremy Thorpe, but I've encountered so many grubby and inadequate characters who identify with nationalism, I'm beginning to despair.

The original British Communist Party, the CPGB. fell apart around the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rump is now called the Communist Party of Britain. Whether one chooses to believe in it or not the creation story has had a huge influence on Western culture. Without knowledge of the opening chapters of Genesis one can't appreciate Milton's Paradise Lost, Ruben's Adam and Eve or even Jerry Springer the Opera. The creation story has also been of historical importance. It has been the basis on which libertarian movements have been built "all men are born equal" is a creationist ideal. Because Eve lead to the downfall of man the creation story is also important in understanding the misogynist tradition that blighted Europe for centuries. It is essential that children should be taught the creation and other important biblical stories because they are an essential element in understanding the cultural inheritance of believers and non-believers alike. Even in science lessons the fact that an alternate view to the conventionally held belief in evolution should be taught in the interest of educational impartiality and of general knowledge. Nobody's pointed out, either, that small donations like this are how such magazines manage to survive, given the low circulation figures ;). Let's be clear, St Athan's Military Academy is set to be Britain's "School of the Americas" a huge centre for counter-insurgency and further imperialist adventures abroad. It is interesting that the Conservatives have won the GE on less than 37% of those registered to vote and fewer than 25% of those entitled to vote, but yet the Campaign seemed to be one of trying to swing voters from one party to another, whilst the "spare vote" was obviously elsewhere! With both Labour and Tories being advised by US "election gurus" who believe in both restricting the vote and making policy on what focus groups believe and becoming a choice of two sames, neither turnout nor result is surprising.No socialist would be seen dead on Wall Street, but given that Plaid is a party whose economic strategy is based on courting foreign multinationals, Plaid's attempts to build links with the US capitalist elite are not unexpected. We can accept, what appears to be the inevitable, that despite 1000+ years of resistance to being assimilated into England, that the battle is now lost; by continuing to vote for what have become the English Nationalist Labour party or English Nationalist Tory Party, or we can make, (what might be the very last stand for the future existence of Wales) and vote en-mass for Plaid Cymru in 2016 to secure a future for our Nation by having a government that puts Wales First!

How can you have a serious discussion with people who have spent decades arguing over Leftwing sectarian nonsense? Who have split more times than the Judean Peoples Front? In any case, Leanne's donation was to help keep the Weekly Worker going as a newspaper and as a forum for debate among the left. It wasn't a donation to the CPGB, which incidentally has nothing at all to do with the Communist Party of Wales referred to by another contributor to this thread.Most of us have heard of the placebo effect, where taking a sugar pill makes patients better because they believe that something is being done to make them better.

In the last round of local elections hundreds of county councillors were elected unopposed, including Labour, Lib Dem & Independent councillors in places like Gwynedd, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. There were some counties where the BNP had more candidates than Plaid and counties where not a single Plaid candidate stood; many thousands of community councillors were elected unopposed. I have lived with Epilepsy since 1982, epilepsy is a familial condition so lots of my cousins also live with epilepsy, but as far as I know none of us are members of Epilepsy Wales, we have never been approached to join Epilepsy Wales, it is not a body that represents us. I am not criticising Epilepsy Wales, I'm sure that it does great work, I'm just saying that it isn't an organisation that I am associated with so it doesn't represent my epilepsy! Apparently we can't survive because Billions of pounds have been poured into the City of London, to save the City - money taken out of Wales and other parts of the UK to shore up the City.Nearly 200,000 jobs in Wales are linked to our access to the Single Market and its half a billion people. Thousands of students and young people benefit from EU programmes enabling them to