Anglesey.

Byline: David Banks 

THE graffiti ``artist'' whose creative muse drove him to daub ``English out'' and ``no colonisation'' on the approach road to Anglesey, can rest easy.

The English do go out of Anglesey,after having come there in their droves and spent absolutely shed loads of cash at businesses,many of which are owned by Welsh people,employing Welsh people.

Anglesey without the English might be a paradise for that peculiar band of Welshmen who cry into their pints at long-remembered slights and who prefer to imagine themselves under the yoke rather than getting a grip of their lives.

But the fact is that Anglesey without the English would be a rather lonely place, given the fact that few people would be able to earn a living there without the tourist masses.

As for colonisation. Well, the English,admittedly, were extraordinarily good at this a few centuries ago.

However,colonisation did not involve turning up mob- handed for Easter weekend in a people-mover, spending the equivalent of the Brazilian national debt on tat,before going back from whence they came.

A note for those whose sole means of expression is the spray- can: colonists do not wear Kiss Me Quick hats, and they stay longer than a couple of soggy days.