St David’s been dead for more than 1,400 years and we still don’t get the day off... unless this year you’re a council worker in Gwynedd.
The debate over Westminster’s continued intransigence over allowing Wales to celebrate its national day with a bank holiday surfaces annually with the daffodils.
Scotland celebrates St Andrew with a day off. Northern Ireland gets a bank holiday for St Patrick’s Day. But nothing for Wales. Some say this is because a government obsessed with muscular unionism fears a nationalist uprising if we get a day to chill out, don a daff and eat Welsh cakes.
