{"id":159,"date":"2006-03-05T11:36:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T11:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2014-03-21T20:35:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:35:23","slug":"rights-for-the-people-not-royal-prerogatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/05\/rights-for-the-people-not-royal-prerogatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights for the People Not Royal Prerogatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Republican St. David&#8217;s Day Demonstration<\/h2>\n<h2>10am Wednesday March 1st, Oval Basin, Cardiff Bay<\/h2>\n<p>Mrs Windsor will officially open the National Assembly for Wales\u2019 new debating chamber on March 1st St. David\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Our National Assembly does not have the powers to meet the needs of the people of Wales. It has fewer powers than a council &#8211; it is little more than a talking shop. It cannot make laws and itcannot raise taxes.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The new Welsh Assembly building\" src=\"http:\/\/www.republicancommunist.org\/i\/EL012\/welsh assembly.jpg\" title=\"The new Welsh Assembly building\" width=\"342\" height=\"257\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Welsh Assembly building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A demonstration has been called by Cardiff Social Forum. We demand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the right of the National Assembly to decide for itself which powers it has and to determine its relationship with Britain and the rest of Europe<\/li>\n<li>powers for the Assembly to pursue policies for full employment, the expansion of public services and official status for the Welsh language<\/li>\n<li>constitutional rights not the ancient royal prerogative and the abolition of the expensive monarchy<\/li>\n<li>an equal Wales, free from prejudice and a political system free of patronage, deference and corruption<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Government of Wales Bill is on its way through Parliament. It will give greater powers to the Westminster-based Secretary of State for Wales to block any law the Assembly might wish to make. We oppose powers being taken from the Assembly to be given to a minister of the Crown. Wales should be able to decide its own legislation without interference from the crown via Westminster ministers. If it\u2019s good enough for Scotland, it should be good enough for Wales.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this demonstration or Cardiff Social Forum\u2019s other activities, contact: <a href=\"mailto:cardiffsocialforum@yahoo.co.uk\">cardiffsocialforum@yahoo.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rae Bridges\" src=\"http:\/\/www.republicancommunist.org\/i\/EL012\/cartoon 3.jpg\" title=\"Royal Flush\" width=\"266\" height=\"280\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rae Bridges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican St. David&#8217;s Day Demonstration 10am Wednesday March 1st, Oval Basin, Cardiff Bay Mrs Windsor will officially open the National Assembly for Wales\u2019 new debating chamber on March 1st St. David\u2019s Day. Our National Assembly does not have the powers to meet the needs of the people of Wales. It has fewer powers than a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57],"tags":[237],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emancipation-liberation","category-issue-12","tag-author-cardiff-social-forum"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":28844,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6810,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}