Thousands celebrate coming of National Eisteddfod (From South Wales Argus)

And should put a stop to the pro-english whiners like Mike Buckingham who keep asking what is the point of it, what is HIS point but to moan all the time..... we'd all be morris dancing on the village green left to him....

what a fantastic day. im proud to say thats my daughter on the front page.talk about being the proudest mother in the world.

mervyn james, for you to call anyone a "whiner" must rank as one of the worst cases of the pot calling the kettle black i have seen or heard for a very long time!!! even if you dont agree or like Buckinghams opinions the alternative is censorship and secrecy, although i seldom differ from Buckinghams appraisal of things,
when i do it is usually diametricaly i still wouldnt call him a "whiner"

Welshminx, What a fantastic picture, you have every right to be proud of your beautiful daughter!
Congratulations on her being selected as a flower girl at this historic event.

What a load of rubbish !

westender wrote:
mervyn james, for you to call anyone a "whiner" must rank as one of the worst cases of the pot calling the kettle black i have seen or heard for a very long time!!! even if you dont agree or like Buckinghams opinions the alternative is censorship and secrecy, although i seldom differ from Buckinghams appraisal of things, when i do it is usually diametricaly i still wouldnt call him a "whiner"

Mr Buckingham has repeatedly attacked the Welsh, and the welsh language. Including statements like what use are we ? the welsh culture ? or the Welsh language ? and why we should be run by England and get 'sorted' out. If he dislikes us so much then why is he living here ? Just so he can annoy us with his English is best view ? He IS whining. (And repetitively boring too on this subject). His basic agenda is anti-Wales. That's his bottom line regardless what else he does.

You will see I am right because the odds are 20-1 he will do an article running it down. he has never said anything positive about the Welsh language or culture. Go HOME Buckingham.

Mervyn James wrote:

westender wrote: mervyn james, for you to call anyone a "whiner" must rank as one of the worst cases of the pot calling the kettle black i have seen or heard for a very long time!!! even if you dont agree or like Buckinghams opinions the alternative is censorship and secrecy, although i seldom differ from Buckinghams appraisal of things, when i do it is usually diametricaly i still wouldnt call him a "whiner"

Mr Buckingham has repeatedly attacked the Welsh, and the welsh language. Including statements like what use are we ? the welsh culture ? or the Welsh language ? and why we should be run by England and get 'sorted' out. If he dislikes us so much then why is he living here ? Just so he can annoy us with his English is best view ? He IS whining. (And repetitively boring too on this subject). His basic agenda is anti-Wales. That's his bottom line regardless what else he does. You will see I am right because the odds are 20-1 he will do an article running it down. he has never said anything positive about the Welsh language or culture. Go HOME Buckingham.

I agree with you about that Buckingham, but we could show him some compassion and understanding. He can't help it, he's a man out of time. He's actually from the 1950s and woke up in Gwent after bumping his head at Morris Dancing competition in Surrey. He's been trying back to his own time and believes he can achieve this by getting us Welsh, here in Gwent Wales, so angry our collective energy will open a rift in the space/time continuim allowing him to return to his beloved Middle England. So if we get really angry and somewhat miffed with the reactionary drivel he gets published in the name of journalism, we might just get rid of him!

He probably likes Cricket as well lol....... (No hope for him)...:)