The EU-puppets of the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru bet on hard Remain to bolster their fortunes and break up Britain – but in reality, Brexit entrenches and intensifies unionist currents in British politics and may yet be an endgame for nationalism.

What I call the Cardiff Bay Cartel validates Karl Marx’s aphorism that history repeats itself ‘first as tragedy, then as farce’.

Matt Smith wrote on Brexit Central: Wales’ achingly europhile First Minister Mark Drakeford turned his St David’s Day address into a fanfare to Brussels this year when claiming: “Wales is a European nation and always will be”.

The leadership of Welsh Labour passed from Carwyn Jones to Mark Drakeford after he beat Vaughan Gething and the peer and former MEP Eluned Morgan in a three-way contest.

Mark Drakeford, a self-styled ’21st-century socialist’, won Welsh Labour’s leadership election, succeeding Carwyn Jones to become the fourth Prif Weinidog Cymru (First Minister of Wales).

Labour’s political broadcast  Our Town  tells viewers “We lost control” and “we’ve been sold short by a political and economic system that has been unchallenged for far too long.” Labour’s bait-and-switch broadcast was a clear attempt to reconnect with blue-collar Leavers in marginal English seat

Plaid Cymru recently elected Adam Price (pictured above) as its new leader.

One of the reasons the British came out for Leave was the spectacle of EU officials and Commissioners lavishing taxpayers’ money on their own perks and fripperies.

At Unite’s Annual Conference in Brighton in July, Jeremy Corbyn claimed “Labour is back as the political voice of the working class”. The fact he had to say this begs the question: when did Labour forget about the workers?

As part of the United Kingdom, Wales benefits from the hard power projection of the British state. Wales also gains from the UK’s soft power which since the EU referendum has consistently been ranked the second greatest in the world by Portland Communications’ ‘The Soft Power 30’.