{"id":14296,"date":"2017-01-20T15:21:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=14296"},"modified":"2017-01-20T16:47:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:47:36","slug":"membership-grows-for-welsh-independence-movement-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/membership-grows-for-welsh-independence-movement-in-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Membership grows for Welsh independence movement in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes\u00a0Caerdydd, the Cardiff branch of Yes Cymru,\u00a0says it has seen its membership increase over the past few weeks as more people express\u00a0an interest in Welsh independence.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mark Hooper, treasurer of Yes Caerdydd, says they now have more than thirty active members with more joining each week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The movement and feeling for Welsh independence is definitely growing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first time we met there were four of us talking about it in the pub, now we&#8217;ve got a very active membership of more than thirty people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every time we have a meeting we see new people joining and we can see that growing very quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a meeting last night, and there were six or seven new faces there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lots of new people, passion and ideas at tonight&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YesCaerdydd\">@YesCaerdydd<\/a> meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yes Cymru Caerdydd (@YesCaerdydd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YesCaerdydd\/status\/822178753660981248\">January 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mr Hooper says the group\u00a0has begun using the term &#8216;indycurious&#8217; to encourage people to question the idea of Welsh independence without committing to it.<\/p>\n<p>He says more people are expressing an interest because they\u00a0&#8220;are concerned about what is going on elsewhere in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the group says they aren&#8217;t party political, seeing people join from a variety of political parties and ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one knows what the future holds, and if you leave it to other people to define\u00a0your future then the issue of taking back control resonates strongly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Independence is very much about us saying these are our problems and issues, and we think Wales can sort them out ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0YouGov poll conducted last year put support for Welsh independence at 17 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/303666059&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes\u00a0Caerdydd, the Cardiff branch of Yes Cymru,\u00a0says it has seen its membership increase over the past few weeks as more people express\u00a0an interest in Welsh independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[26,929,928,932,930,931],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14296"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14571,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions\/14571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}