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After Brexit, Britain faces Celexit








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Last week Monday September 14, 2026 a significant and unprecedented event occurred in Britain when for the first time in British history, leaders of the home nations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland held a summit in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, to determine how to go about their quest for self-determination. In other words, the three nations met to pursue a long-sought course to detach from the United Kingdom of which they have been very much a part for centuries.

At the end of the summit, which was christened the Cardiff Accord, the leaders declared that Westminster, which is where the seat of government in the United Kingdom resides, ‘’has no right to block democracy’’. They asserted that ‘’each nation had the right to self-determination and future constitutional change’’.

One of the core topics of discussion at the summit was closer ties with the European Union and paths towards potentian independence.

The signatories of the Cardiff Accord were the first ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; Rhun ap Iorwerth, John Sweeney and Michelle O’ Neill respectively. They were joined by the leader of Sinn Fein, Mary Lou Macdonald the party representing the Irish in Northern Ireland.

The next step in this process is that these leaders will meet with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham next month to present their proposals and decide the way forward.

The question that prompts the mind here is why was England by far the most populous and dominant nation in the UK excluded at the meeting?

The obvious answer is that the three nations historically and distinctly consider themselves the representatives of the aboriginal inhabitants of the British Isles, the Celts. The area where the English inhabit in Britain was once populated too by the Celts, an ancient aboriginal people dominant in most of Europe. But with Roman conquest and waves of migration from northern Europe specifically the Netherlands, Denmark and Saxony in Germany into eastern part of Britain and invasion by the maraudi

Wales was conquered and incorporated into the Kingdom of England in 1536 and Ireland became the first colony of England in a gradual process from 1169 to 1801 when the Act of Union following the merger with England.

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