A petition calling for the Prince of Wales Bridge to be renamed the Gareth Bale Bridge has been rejected by Westminster and the UK Government.
Andrew Challis applied to create a petition to rename the bridge following Gareth Bale’s announcement that he was retiring from playing football.
Mr Challis wanted to change the name of the bridge to ‘Gareth Bale Bridge’ or ‘Y Bont Bale’.
The petition was rejected by the House of Commons Petitions Committee, which is held jointly by the UK Government and Westminster.
The committee said: “We do not accept petitions regarding honors or appointments. This includes requests to name public infrastructure in honor of individuals.”
The Welsh Parliament had also previously rejected the petition because they do not own the bridge.
Mr Challis said he had now written to Alun Cairns, who was Welsh Secretary when the bridge was renamed the Prince of Wales Bridge.
He has also written to the Welsh Secretary David TC Davies, Mark Drakeford, Adam Price and Andrew RT Davies.
No surprise, just tally it up in the list of insults we, as the Welsh, suffer from. Any self respecting nation would have no problem getting support for this sort of thing, but here in Wales, nah! It has to be named after a Foreign monarch who’s institution played a major role in eradicating the “ACTUAL” British monarchs centuries ago. He isn’t a Prince of Wales, and he isn’t a Prince of Britain!
get his ass Andrew
Additional detail about how fucked this is:
The Prince of Wales bridge isn’t even its original name. Until a couple of years ago, it was called the Second Severn Crossing after the river it spans.
