The UK government owes Wales an apology for its hugely insulting, historically illiterate response to more than 10,000 people who signed a petition calling for St David's Day to be made a bank holiday here.
Their response, which they were obliged to make because 12,000 people signed the petition on the UK Parliament's website, effectively seems to say that Wales isn't a proper nation. It's hard to know how else to interpret their justification that Scotland's history, culture and society merits having their own bank holiday whereas Wales' history, culture and society doesn't.
The petition had read: “ St David's Day has always been a significant day in Cymru/Wales, and has been used to celebrate everything Welsh. It's time to make this special day a bank holiday in Wales, just like Scotland has St Andrew's Day, and Ireland has St Partick's Day as bank holidays”.
