The Phenomenon of Welshness or "How many aircraft carriers would an independent Wales have?"

I'm glad to have read this very interesting, stimulating, provocative and infuriating book, much of it in medical waiting rooms. I would like to comment on it later when I have gathered my thoughts properly but for now I feel that the answer is one (and not 42). I am a bit of a non-dogmatic pacifist after all. I would have it sail around the coast with helicopters to rescue people off cliffs and a really big and noisy fighter, spitting fire, like a harrier jump jet, with a red dragon on its side, to entertain the crowds and make them really proud to be Welsh. As Mr Jobbins says "the Welsh state needs to offer its people pageant, glamour, uniforms, symbols, medals, authority and status." But I hope to come back to my plan to bring back jousting and proper damsels in distress in a later comment. Meanwhile I think I'll go and lie down while the medication wears off.