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> “It is the best part of a decade since the former First Minister, Carwyn Jones, called for a constitutional convention. Some ideas turn out to have a very long fuse, but Carwyn’s efforts to keep that simple proposition alive have borne fruit in this new report.
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> “And a solution is urgently needed. The breakup of the United Kingdom is a real and present danger.
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> “Independence is a 19th century response to a 21st century problem. It is a slogan not a solution.
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> “Those of us who believe that Wales’ future is best secured through a powerful and entrenched devolution settlement, within a successful United Kingdom, have to lead that argument.
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> “It cannot be a defence of the status quo. It cannot be a surrender to the simplicities of Unionism or Nationalism. It has, instead to be a radical redrawing of the United Kingdom.
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> “What we have to create is a new union \- and this paper gives us many of the ideas which will be straightforwardly necessary if that project is to succeed. It is based on the simple but profoundly radical proposition that the United Kingdom is a voluntary association of 4 nations, where sovereignty is dispersed amongst 4 democratically elected legislatures.
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> “As much as possible, decisions which affect people’s daily lives should be made as close to the people as possible, but where the component parts of the United Kingdom choose to come together to pool resources and to share rewards, then that is also a powerful part of the deal.
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> “That is why I believe in the potential of the United Kingdom as a powerful engine of redistribution, putting a greater and fairer share of wealth and income into the hands of those who most need it \- in whatever part of the United Kingdom that might be.”







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> “Mae bron i ddegawd wedi bod ers i’r cyn Brif Weinidog, Carwyn Jones, alw am gonfensiwn cyfansoddiadol. Er yr holl amser ers y syniad hwnnw, mae ymdrechion Carwyn i gynnal y cynnig syml hwnnw wedi dwyn ffrwyth yn yr adroddiad newydd hwn.
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> “Ac mae angen ateb ar fyrder. Mae perygl gwirioneddol i’r Deyrnas Unedig chwalu.
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> “Mae annibyniaeth yn ymateb o’r 19eg ganrif i broblem yn yr 21ain ganrif. Slogan yw ef, nid ateb.
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> “Rhaid i’r rhai ohonom sy’n credu mai’r ffordd orau o ddiogelu dyfodol Cymru yw drwy setliad datganoli pwerus a sefydlog, o fewn Teyrnas Unedig lwyddiannus, arwain y ddadl honno.
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> “Rhaid i’r ddadl beidio â bod yn amddiffyniad o’r sefyllfa bresennol. Rhaid iddi beidio ag ildio i symlrwydd Undeboliaeth neu Genedlaetholdeb. Yn hytrach, rhaid ail\-lunio’r Deyrnas Unedig mewn modd radical.
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> “Rhaid inni fynd ati i greu undeb newydd – ac mae’r papur hwn yn cynnig llawer o’r syniadau a fydd yn angenrheidiol er mwyn i’r prosiect hwnnw lwyddo. Mae wedi’i seilio ar y cynnig syml, ond cwbl radical, mai cymdeithas wirfoddol o bedair gwlad yw’r Deyrnas Unedig, lle caiff sofraniaeth ei rhannu ymysg pedair deddfwrfa a etholir yn ddemocrataidd.
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> “Cymaint â phosibl, dylai penderfyniadau sy’n effeithio ar fywydau pob dydd pobl gael eu gwneud mor agos â phosibl at y bobl hynny, ond pan fo’r rhannau gwahanol o’r Deyrnas Unedig yn dewis dod at ei gilydd i gyfuno adnoddau a rhannu’r buddion, mae hynny hefyd yn rhan bwerus o’r fargen.
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> “Dyna pam rwy’n credu ym mhotensial y Deyrnas Unedig fel peiriant ailddosbarthu pwerus, sy’n rhoi mwy o gyfran a chyfran fwy teg o gyfoeth ac incwm yn nwylo’r rhai sydd â’r angen mwyaf – ym mha ran bynnag o’r Deyrnas Unedig y mae hynny.”