Great speach below from Adam Price MP/AS. Link here: http://www.adampriceblog.org.uk/we-have-a-wales-to-win-my-speech-to-conference

Friends,

At this Spring Conference if there is one single message we must communicate in the weeks that are left to the European elections - the largest democratic election on the face of the planet after the subcontinent of India – then it is this: the world is changing, rapidly, relentlessly, irrevocably and we in Wales have no choice but to change with it. The only question is to whether we have the courage and the confidence as a nation and a people to begin to make those changes on our own terms. Are we content as humanity faces the great challenges of the twenty first century for Wales to be stuck in the sidelines, in the slipstream of history, or are we determined to chart our own course through the waters we face ahead? In the next few years we must decide what kind of a nation we want to be and the choice that we make will affect all of our lives. We have no choice but to choose. In life and in the history of our nation, an abstention is itself a choice – a refusal to accept responsibility for our own future. At this time that is a choice that we can ill afford to make.

It was the Breton philosopher Ernest Renan who answered his own question - what is a nation? - by saying it was a daily referendum: un plebiscite de tous le jours – on whether to continue to be a nation. It was writing When Was Wales in the shadow of 1979 that the late great Gwyn Alf Williams – one of the two great Welsh Marxists of the twentieth century that ended up in this party – Leighton Andrews please note - came up with a similar formulation when he said that Wales exists only if we choose it and it is up to each generation to make that choice. This generation is ready to make that choice and our question is no when Wales was but when our Wales will be.

Full speach here: http://www.adampriceblog.org.uk/we-have-a-wales-to-win-my-speech-to-conference