Yes Cymru - Podcast Extra
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson
4.6 • 274 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this Podcast Extra, Lesley travels to Rhyl to speak at a march and rally organised jointly by YesCymru and AUOBCymru (All Under One Banner Cymru), the march brought people from every corner of Wales to the north coast, filling Rhyl’s streets with a sea of Welsh flags, banners and music. Lesley is blown away by the everyday and natural use of the Welsh language by so many Welsh speakers from all walks of life and from different ages. She interviewed some of the organisers of the march to find out more.
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| 0:00.0 | Yes, you can't work from a train at a platform. |
| 0:13.0 | A hell of a loud of train in Bushog. |
| 0:15.0 | Yes, you even get the banal stuff translated into Welsh here. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm travelling around North Wales after speaking at an |
| 0:22.0 | all under one banner, Cumry rally in Rill, which was fabulous. I was so amazed actually at the |
| 0:29.4 | amount of Welsh being spoken. It's not token, it's not marginal, it's not older people only, |
| 0:34.9 | it's young bands, it's every southern speaker, it's all the |
| 0:38.4 | mechanics. It was amazing. So anyway, I'm going to sign out more. So I'm here with Phil Griffiths, |
| 0:44.0 | who is the chair of Yes, Cymry. And Phil, before we move, I think, to have something to eat, |
| 0:50.7 | what was it that made Yes, Cumbery set up as a separate organisation to Plaid? |
| 0:56.6 | Because in Scotland, obviously, the SMP has kind of sucked up the whole independence movement |
| 1:02.1 | after the referendum in 2014. |
| 1:04.8 | But here in Wales, you've got a separate yes movement. |
| 1:08.9 | Yes, we have. |
| 1:09.7 | And it was inspired directly by that Scottish referendum in 2014. |
| 1:15.6 | And the realisation here that we needed a movement, you know, a yes movement. |
| 1:21.4 | So if you look at the yes-cumry logo, you'll see that the font is exactly the same as the Scottish Yes movement in the Yes |
| 1:29.6 | and they've got Cymourne underneath then obviously as a point of difference so it was a |
| 1:34.9 | realisation then by a group of people who got together and just set up yes, Cymry is a |
| 1:42.2 | campaigning group a single issue campaigning group, a single-issue campaigning group, |
| 1:45.6 | which would be non-party political, |
| 1:48.8 | with just that one goal then of working towards independence. |
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