{"id":10601,"date":"2012-10-23T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=10601"},"modified":"2012-10-23T16:01:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:01:48","slug":"vox-pop-independence-for-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/10\/23\/vox-pop-independence-for-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Vox pop: Independence for Wales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/senedd_cardiffbay_I1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Senedd\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/senedd_cardiffbay_I1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Senedd\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/senedd_cardiffbay_I1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Senedd: Scene of Welsh political debate<\/p><\/div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_10656\">\n<dt><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Welsh independence has never been on the mainstream agenda, but change could be afoot in view of recent developments in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland\u2019s successful bid for an independence referendum has called into question the future union of the kingdom, lending greater scrutiny to the relationship between England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Policy differences between Cardiff and Westminster have grown in the past year. Not only do the Welsh enjoy free prescriptions and subsidised tuition fees, but the <a title=\"March 2011 referendum\" href=\"http:\/\/wales.gov.uk\/legislation\/referendumpowers\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 2011 referendum<\/a> gave the Welsh government direct law-making powers in <a title=\"Welsh Assembly law-making powers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.assemblywales.org\/newhome\/press-area\/new-mediapack.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 key areas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru said: \u201cIndependence is our long-term goal, but it\u2019s always going to be the people of Wales who decide how far on that journey towards independence they want to go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh independence has never been on the mainstream agenda, but change could be afoot in view of recent developments in Scotland. Scotland\u2019s successful bid for an independence referendum has called into question the future union of the kingdom, lending greater scrutiny to the relationship between England and Wales. Policy differences between Cardiff and Westminster have grown in the past year. Not only do the Welsh enjoy free prescriptions and subsidised tuition fees, but the March 2011 referendum gave the Welsh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":10656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2131,2132,2133,2134,2135],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-independence-wales","tag-scotland-referendum","tag-united-kingdom-future","tag-welsh-independence","tag-welsh-referendum"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vox pop: Independence for Wales? - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/10\/23\/vox-pop-independence-for-wales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vox pop: Independence for Wales? - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Welsh independence has never been on the mainstream agenda, but change could be afoot in view of recent developments in Scotland. 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