Rather, it was a rejection of politics as business as usual, of a complacency of twenty years of drift and decline - an indictment of the promise of a better life that devolution offered but, under Labour, failed to deliver," he said.Plaid Cymru is hoping to build on its performance at May's European elections when the party came second in Wales behind the Brexit Party but ahead of Labour.It was the first time Plaid had beaten Labour in a Wales-wide election.Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts used her speech in Swansea to criticise Prime Minister Boris Johnson. We believe that Wales should be one of them: a prosperous, successful independent country enjoying good relations with its neighbours and comfortable in its own skin. For the converted he described Welsh independence, not Brexit, as the way to take back control.For those he wants to convert - especially voters in the Valleys seats which voted leave in 2016, and which Plaid must win to form a government in 2021 - there were big spending pledges on child care, jobs for young people, and a 50km rapid transit service "allowing cross-valley travel for the first time in 50 years".Plaid isn't the only party making big spending pledges for the years to come. Plaid was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in the Plaid Cymru's goals as set out in its constitution are: "We'll take people out of their cars by giving them a real alternative," he said.Mr Price said Wales needed a "National Reconstruction programme" - a "£20 billion Fund for Wales" - paid for by Westminster.He said Wales is owed reparations for "a century of neglect that has left a country, rich in its resources, a bitter legacy of poverty, sickness, blighted lives and broken dreams". Saunders Lewis, David John Williams and Lewis Valentine set fire to the newly constructed RAF Penyberth, and Plaid Cymru's neutral stance during the In 1943 Saunders Lewis contested the University of Wales parliamentary seat at a by-election, gaining 1,330 votes, or 22%. “The issue of an independent Wales is becoming more mainstream as people from different backgrounds see that the Welsh Parliament can do a better job of running Wales’ affairs than Westminster. Predicting a referendum on independence for Wales would be held in the next ten years, Mr Price told BBC Wales on Friday that "things are accelerating". For the first time in its history, the Welsh parliament will on Wednesday debate a motion on independence for Wales. The party leader claimed Wales could get £2bn extra as … Independence is the vehicle for boosting an economy that has been stagnating for the best part of a century.

The 2017 figures are based on changes from the 2012 and 2013 elections. These are external links and will open in a new window "The UK as we know it could cease to exist in a short few years", he said.Addressing party members at Swansea's Grand Theatre, Mr Price argued an independent Wales would be able to issue its own long-term bonds, taking advantage of low interest rates.His party's mission is to convince Welsh voters "that independence is imperative if we are to solve our problems as a nation", he said.Mr Price used his speech to unveil some of the policies his party would pitch at the next Welsh assembly elections, in 2021.He pledged Plaid would introduce a payment of £35 a week for every child in every low-income family in Wales, as well as 40 hours a week of free childcare for all children over a year old.The party leader recounted his experience of growing up in Ammanford.
He told BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast programme that a referendum would take place "definitely in the next decade".The party leader claimed Wales could get £2bn extra as a European Union member in its own right.Speaking at the Plaid Cymru conference in Swansea, Mr Price said Wales deserved £20bn in reconstruction funds paid for by Westminster.He outlined policies aimed at lifting 100,000 children out of poverty, and said a Plaid government would build a rapid transit line for the south Wales valleys.