Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
Wales has always been poorer than most of England.
The terrain here is difficult to farm or build on, prior to the industrial revolution there were no towns in wales with more than about 1000 inhabitants.
Welsh was a perjorative term for a substandard version of something that the poor would have - "welsh cakes" , "welsh rabbit" (rarebit)
Yes but at that time A. there was no union, B We never 'joined' anything and C the vast majority of the English were from the old saxon lineage and were actually serfs (almost slaves) with no land and no property to speak of so they were really no better off.