The most infuriating thing isn’t that Wales is treated as a non-country – it’s that we accept it | Will Hayward

Wales is the only UK nation not to have any representation on the union flag.

In 1888 , under the “Wales’s’ section of the Encyclopaedia Britannica it simply read: “ See England” The very currency in our hands underlines our perceived lesser nationhood.

We routinely get secretaries of state who aren’t Welsh (imagine how the Scots would react to that) But what concerns me far more is the way the system leaves Wales completely unable to meaningfully tackle its own problems.

In Wales we generally don’t fight our corner: we shrug and accept that this is the way it is.

Wales has significantly longer NHS waiting lists than Scotland and England .

But there is an eternally disappointing lack of ambition and talent among those elected to our Senedd .

We need to discover that there is a responsibility that comes with Welshness to demand better.