See also the Council of Wales and the Marches for the council governing Wales between 1473 and 1689. See also the Council of Wales for the advisory council established in 1948
The Council of Wales, and later the Council of Wales and Monmouth, was an unelected council established in 1948 by the U.K. government until its dissestablishment with the formation of the Welsh Office[1] . Her Majesty's Government, or when the monarch is male His Majesty's Government, is the title used by the Government of the United Kingdom, based at See also Council of Wales The Welsh Office ( Swyddfa Gymreig) was
The formation of the Council of Wales was partially in response to Plaid Cymru's growing influence following the Second World War[2]. See also Plaid Cymru The Party of Wales Plaid Cymru The Party of Wales (IPA/plaɪd ˈkəmri/ often referred in common speech simply as World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The council's foundation was opposed by Labour politicians such as Aneurin Bevan, Morgan Phillips and Clement Attlee, who felt that its establishment would encourage Welsh nationalism[3]. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Aneurin Bevan, usually known as Nye Bevan ( 15 November 1897 &ndash 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour Morgan Walter Phillips ( 18 June 1902 - 15 January 1963) was General Secretary of the British Labour Party, involved in two of the party's Clement Richard Attlee 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC ( 3 January 1883 &ndash 8 October 1967 Welsh independence is an ideal advocated by certain political movements within the Welsh electorate that would like Wales to Secede from the United Kingdom Bevan, the most influential and outspoken Welsh M.P.[4] of his day, believed any form of devolution would distract Wales from the political mainstream of U.K. politics[5]. TalkParliament#Screen-size. -->A parliament is a Legislature, especially in those Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions Mainstream is generally the common current of Thought of the Majority. The politics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland takes place in the framework of a Constitutional monarchy, in which the Monarch is Head As a result of the opposition, the council had only 27 appointed members and held no authority. The Council of Wales had a primary responsibility to advise the UK government on matters of Welsh interest[6].
With the failure of unanimous Welsh political opposition to prevent the flooding of Capel Celyn, and subsequent growth in Plaid Cymru influence in the 1950's, the Council of Wales recommended the creation of a Welsh Office and Secretary of State for Wales early in 1957, at time when the governance of Wales on a UK national level was so demonstrably lacking in many people's eyes. Capel Celyn (Holly Chapel was a rural community to the north west of Bala in north Wales, in the Afon Tryweryn Valley that was flooded to create a See also Council of Wales The Welsh Office ( Swyddfa Gymreig) was The Secretary of State for Wales (Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru is the head of the Wales Office within the United Kingdom cabinet. [7]
However, council member and one time Plaid Cymru critic Huw T. Edwards, didn't believe the Council went far enough. Huw Thomas Edwards ( 19 November 1892 – 8 November 1970) was a Welsh Trade union leader and politician Edwards resigned in 1958 from the Council of Wales over what he described as "Whitehallism. " Later that year he joined Plaid Cymru.
Responding on the calls of Welsh devolution, by 1964 the Labour Government gave effect to Council of Wales proposals by establishing the unelected Welsh Office (Welsh: Swyddfa Gymreig) and Secretary of State for Wales
References
- ^ [A History of Wales, by John Davies, page 622]
- ^ [A History of Wales, by John Davies, page]
- ^ [A History of Wales, by John Davies, page 622]
- ^ [A History of Wales, by John Davies, page 622]
- ^ [A History of Wales, by John Davies, page 622]
- ^ [A History of Wales, by John Davies, page 622]
- ^ Butt-Phillip, A, The Welsh Question, (1975), University of Wales Press
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