To The Top Of The Hill
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson
4.6 • 274 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
There's a bit of Welsh theme in the podcast this week. Lesley, having just come back from speaking at an all-under-one-banner Cymru rally in Rhyl gives us the low down on all things Welsh, the Welsh indepdendence movement and the revival of the Welsh language. We talk about up coming changes to the Welsh voting system, scrapping what we've got for the Scottish elections which still has the first-past-the-post and the move to a completely proportional system. Why aren't we talking about that here in Scotland? We also discuss the separate Yes movement, Yes Cymru, which was set up in 2014 and is separate to the Welsh indpendence supporting parties.
We also look at more authoritarian moves by UK Labour and breifly discuss the fall out over the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans traveling to the watch a game against Aston Villa. And the Prince formerly knows as Duke of York and the timidity of the UK Labour government to just deal properly with stripping his titles.
Links
REVIVE’s national conference, a landmark event that is set to be a pivotal moment in Scotland’s land reform journey.
https://www.perththeatreandconcerthall.com/whats-on/revive-what-scotland-wants-real-land-reform
Senedd Elections changes
Welsh placename project
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, there's a bit of a Welsh theme in the podcast today, having just come back from speaking |
| 0:05.1 | at an all under one banner, Camry rally in Ril, which I hope I've pronounced. It's an amazing |
| 0:12.2 | experience in being immersed in a completely Welsh-speaking environment. Everybody's speaking |
| 0:18.0 | Welsh for the best part of a day and a half. |
| 0:28.1 | So we talk somewhat about that, about the fact the Welsh are about to scrap the kind of voting system we've got for the Scottish elections, which still has the first past the post bit to a completely proportional system. |
| 0:32.6 | Why aren't we talking about that? |
| 0:34.6 | They have a separate yes movement, yes, Cymoury, which was set up in 2019, |
| 0:39.2 | nothing to do with plied standalone, a yes movement there. Well, maybe that's believe in |
| 0:44.9 | Scotland for us these days, but interesting that they got off the mark. Interesting too, |
| 0:50.2 | that Labour are making so many authoritarian mistakes, deciding that they would decry the ban |
| 0:57.9 | on the Israeli team with a terrible reputation playing here at Aston Villa when that same team |
| 1:05.2 | was actually banned in a match that happened just a couple of nights ago over in Israel. So why support the |
| 1:13.8 | Maccabees right to play? Why also Palestine Actions proscription looks like legal judgments are |
| 1:21.2 | going towards overturning that ban? Why the ID cards and why not tackle Prince Andrew and take that title away. |
| 1:30.6 | Those are the headlines now for the podcast. |
| 1:34.0 | Well, hi folks and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddock podcast. |
| 1:38.6 | Leslie, you're returned from the far off Celtic dragon. |
| 1:43.8 | Indeed, I can now say properly, |
| 1:46.3 | Hrill. |
| 1:47.4 | In fact, it probably isn't even proper |
| 1:48.8 | because every attempt I made |
| 1:50.4 | to kind of do Welsh pronunciation for stuff, |
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