Cardiff is a beautifull capital city -90 percent of the people who think otherwise OR BELIEVE in the north south divide have never been farther south than Wrexham. To say that we have more in common with cheshire or merseyside is an obvious statmentmade by the mostly imigrant population who come from those regions and which now probably makes up a 3rd of north Wales. To me the National Assembly should have been in Machynlleth Mid Wales as its in the middle and Wales first parliament was sighted there-but Cardiff will do!

North Wales has historically been linked with N W England because we haven't had control of our own affairs for centuries. Our mines powered the British Empire, our slates and bricks built the terraces of Liverpool and Manchester.
In return the ordinary people of Wales got very little - especially when it came to transport links.
Hopefully, greater control over our own affairs will mean we can address the problem of transport from here to Cardiff. Already progress has been made. I can leave my house in Wrexham and be in Central Cardiff within two and a half hours - by train. That's thanks to a new direct service paid for by the Assembly.
We desperately need better roads too but that will come.
Wales is a small country - let's not exaggerate the differences with these negative stories that seek to divide us.

Yet another suggestive and negative article by the Leader, based yet again on fictional facts and appealing only to the narrow-minded and unrealistic people who think that Wrexham is 'the capital of North Wales'. It DOES NOT take longer to reach Cardiff than London (especially due to the new 'convenient' rail link to London). Of course improvements to transport should be made, but we're in North Wales where Arriva rules, so it won't be happening in a hurry. Would you see the same kind of thing coming from a northern English town, complaining about its distance and differences from London? No. Cardiff is our capital, we should celebrate that, not whinge about it.

I'm afraid that to even ask the question implies that a negative answer for Cardiff should be given.
Can I ask why the Leader seems to have a preference for stoking up unecessary and divisive questions of nationality which really have no reason to be asked, unless you are pushing an anti-Welsh agenda of course? Geographically, Cardiff has been the capital of Wales for well over 50 years now and has become one of the fastest growing cities in Europe. The one area the Assembly does need to address however is a Welsh road building policy which could improve links between the North and South, bringing us closer together which would then finally silence the critics who suggest that simply by being closer to Liverpool we have more in common?? Can this be related to the recent high influx of people from the NW of England to the Wrexham area I wonder?
I have to say that I feel a degree of pride when visiting Cardiff, I would recommend others make the effort to see the exiting new developments there. It's nice to be associated with such a vibrant,and socially diverse city!