I'm going to the Inter Isles Forum on Friday. I'm really looking forward to it. Basically, it is a Forum organised by St Columb's Park House that brings all youth wings of political parties together from across the Isles to discuss a certain topic and to share ideas. Last year's event was at Edinburgh, and all representatives prepared a paper on the differing models of democracy in their countries/ regions. It was great to meet people from other political parties, and fascinating to watch the tensions develop in the Sinn Fein vs Unionist discussions! Cymru X has kept in touch with some of the youth groups, but mostly Young Scots for Independence and the Scottish Nationalist Student Federation. We've shared ideas on our text referendum for a Parliament for Wales( they organised a text referendum on Independence after our successful campaign), and we've also been to each other's Conferences to pick up on new ideas.
This year, the topic of the Forum is religion and the state, which I'm sure will create much lively discussion again. There will be guest speakers from different faith groups, and workshops on the main themes. I'm sure we'll all get a chance to socialise but I'll report on the weekend when I get back from London Sunday evening! I don't have a laptop, so blogging on the go is not a possibility, unless I am donated one under Plaid's new free laptop scheme, that is;-)
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