Everything Catrin Wager said in her Spring Conference speech

Everything Catrin Wager, Plaid Cymru candidate for Bangor Aberconwy at the next general election, said in her Spring Conference speech.

Diolch i chi am y croeso, a diolch i Blaid Cymru am y cyfle i gloi’r gynhadledd mewn lleoliad sydd mor agos i nghalon i, mor agos i etholaeth Bangor Aberconwy,

A rhywle lle bu i fy siwrne wleidyddol gychwyn fel cynghorydd sir ar gyngor Gwynedd, tafliad carreg i ffwrdd o’r ystafell hon. 

Mae hefyd rhaid i mi nodi faint o fraint ydy bod yma  fel rhan o dim ymgeiswyr arbennig Plaid Cymru ar gyfer yr etholiad cyfredinnol nesaf.

Dychmygwch …. Ann Davies a Llinos Medi, ac ambell un aral……….  yn ymuno hefo Ben Lake, Liz Saville Roberts a Carmen Smith i herio sefydliad San Steffan a dangos na ddyle unrhyw blaid gymrud Gymru’n ganiadtaol. 

Mae’n debygol mai hon ydy’r gynhadledd olaf cyn yr etholiad, bosib felly, mai fi sydd hefo’r fraint o’r gair olaf cyn y diwrnod mawr. Ma’n ddipyn o bwysa.

If this is my last opportunity to use my voice on a Plaid Cymru stage – it’s precious. 

How can I make the best of it?  What…… do I really want to say? 

I want to say that I don’t want to live in a world where the slaughter of children becomes normalised. 

Where starvation and suffering are livestreamed. Where global organisations, established to maintain peace, calling out for help amid horror of an unimaginable scale, are ignored, and funding for aid withdrawn.

I don’t want to live in a world where  rhetoric has become so distorted, society so polarized, we  live in fear of calling out war crimes for what they really are.

Where our political leaders argue semantics of sustainable versus immediate, while the bodies of innocents pile high.

I don't want to live in a world where the those fleeing war an persecution, wash up dead on our shores.

I don’t want to live in a world where a third our own children, here in Wales are growing up in poverty.

Their futures potentially blighted by childhood trauma, their future health compromised by a lack of nourishing food.

 And I don’t want to live in a world where any political leader thinks that that is acceptable and refuses to commit to change. 

I don’t want to live in a world where I hear stories of suffering, eople loosing their lives because they can not see the right doctor at the right time. Where ourNincredible NHS staff are overworked and underpaid. Where we hear stories of grandmothers on the floor for hours, days, because there simply are no ambulances available.

I don’t want to live in a world where we career towards climate collapse; condemning not only future generations, but quite possibly our own, to inadequate food, water, or housing …….

Condemning them to increasing political instability, because we don’t want to give up the dopamine hit of a new purchase,

and algorithms disctract us from the hard realities of our world now, and in the future. 

I don’t want to live in a world where hate is normalised by those who lead us, and those who speak out branded woke.

I don’t want to live in a world where none of the parties set to lead us, offer us any hope that things could change.

It shouldn’t be like this.  It should, and could, be better. 

As we face an end to 14 years of Tory cruelty, this should be an exciting time, a new dawn.  But Starmers Labour, with their u-turns, their lack of ambition, and their glorification of the  ‘inspirational’ thatcher, dont offer me any hope.

They aren’t offering anything different,  just more of the same.  

They may wear a red roset, but their policies run blue

and they stand as proof, to me, that the two party system, that Westminster, is broken.

Rwan, ma’n hawdd iawn cwyno am be sydd o’i le.  Ond mae’ anoddach  cynnig dattrysiadau

Ond dwi yma, dwi yn y byd gwleidyddol, ac yn aelod o Blaid Cymru, gan fod gen i weledigaeth dros well.  

Felly pa ffordd gwell i wario’r cyfle euraidd hwn ar ddiwedd ein cynhadledd,  na dychmygu’r dyfodol .. all … fod.

Yn fy nyfodol delfrydol i bydd ein cymunedau wedi eu grymuso.

Bydd gan bob trigolyn gartref clyd, lle nad oes angen poeni am sut i gadw’n gynnes yn y gaeaf, neu sut i roi bwyd ar y bwrdd. 

Yn fy nyfodol delfrydol i, bydd andnoddau naturiol Cymru; ein moroedd, ein gwynt, ein glaw ….. yn gwefru adfywiad ein economi gyda trydan gwyrdd,  gyda’n trigolion a’n cymunedau yn elwa.

Gallwn werthu adnoddau pwysicaf cymdeithas ein dyfodol – ynni, bwyd a dwr, i’n cymdogion…. Am bris sydd yn deg. 

Ac yma, bydd bob teulu yn gallu bwyta bwyd maethlon, o safon, sydd wedi ei gynhyrchu o fewn ein milltir sgwar, cyfraniad ein amaethwyr yn cael ei werthfawrogi.

A byddwn yn prynu’r bwyd yma o siopa o annibynnol Dan berchnogaeth leol  ar stryd fawr fywiog llawn bwrlwm ……  a gallwn y

Gymdeithasu dros beint wedi ei fragu yn ein bro, gan ddathlu naws (a blas) arbennig ac unigryw ein cymuned.

Bydd clydiant cyhoeddus a cherbydau cymunedol yn fforddiadwy a dibynadwu ac yn ein cysylltu hefo’r byd.

Yn fy nyfodol delfrydol i, byddwn oll gyda mynediad cyfarfal at adnoddau, a bydd gwasanaethau ar gael i ni o fewn ein cymuned.

Fydd o ddim yn frwydr i weld doctor neu deintydd. Bydd triniaeth amserol ar gael, a chleifion yn cael eu trin gydag urddas. 

Bydd fy myd delfrydol i, yn hygyrch I bawb;

ni fydd anableddau yn rwystr i deithio, i weithio neu gymdeithasu. 

Ond, os oes angen, bydd gofal ar gael gyda gofalwyr yn cael eu gwerthawrogi, a’u cyflog yn gyfystur a’u cyfraniad.

Ac yn fy myd delfrydol I, bydd y wladwriaeth les yno …… fel  rhwyd i ddal y rhai sydd yn disgyn, heb stigma, heb fai. 

Yn y dyfodol yma, bydd ein plant ni oll yn cael yr un cyfle i ffynnu.  Bwyd maethlon, addysg o safon, a’r gefnogaeth ma nhw angen, beth bynnag her mae nhw’n ei wynebu. 

Bydd y Gymraeg yn fyw; ein hanes, ein  chwedloniaeth, ein diwilliant, yn cael ei ddathlu – ac fe  fydd croeso u’n cyd-ddyn o ble bynnag y don – gyda’r gwead o Gymreictod a diwilliannu’r byd yn creu rhywbeth arbennig

Dwi eisiau gweld byd lle mae Cymru yn chware ei rhan ar blatffordd ryngwladol. 

Ein gwerthoedd creiddiol o heddwch a chyfiawnder cymdeithasol yn helpu adeiladu byd goddefgar a heddychlon, ein trigolion yn ddinasyddion y byd.

Dwi eisiau gweld byd ble mae rhagfarn, hiliaeth a chasineb yn anghof.

It would be easy to dismiss me as idealistic,  easy to call me naïve.

But I ask you, if politicians arn’t driven by a dream for better, should they be in politics. Should they have power?

After 14 years of cruelty, of lies and hate, it seems to me that the only ambition of these tory governments has been to line the pockets of their friends with as much public money as they can.

And Labour …. They seem to seek nothing but power. 

I don’t know what they stand for. 

But I know that I see no ambition for change, no hope. 

They say that when you are in darkness, you must find the light. 

Today….. I want tell you that the light is found within you. 

You hold the key to make change.

Because let me tell you, my Utopia is not so far away. 

It is here, in our beautiful nation. In our people, in our communities. 

There are seeds of hope, they are seeds of hope and it is our role as politicians, as a political party, to tend those seeds, 

we must nurture them. Give them light and help them grow, so that one day.... hope ….. can bloom.  

So, ffrindiau, at the close our conference, I ask you to take to the streets, knock on doors, tell people that things could and should be better. 

Be empowered by the possibility of what we, collectively, as a society, as Wales, can achieve.  

Hold a fire in your heart, a passion burning for a brighter future, and let that fire awake the Dragon, show that Wales will no longer be silent.  Show Westminster that Wales has a voice, and that this dragon can roar. 

Heddiw, gadewch i ni gofio mai ynnom ni, fel pobl, fel plaid, ac fel cenedl y mae’r grym y greu gwir newid. 

Gyfeillion, gynhadledd, Diolch. Amdanni, ac ymlaen!