Brexit <\/a>as being disastrous for Wales.
\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\nWelsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru confirmed it had withdrawn the whip from Mr Edwards.<\/p>\n
For an MP to loose the whip means they have been suspended from the parliamentary party temporarily.<\/p>\n
They then must sit as an independent until the whip is restored.<\/p>\n
A Plaid Cymru statement said: \u201cThe party whip has been withdrawn pending the conclusion of a police investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr Edwards has accepted this course of action and is complying fully with the police enquiries.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be inappropriate for the party to comment further at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Welsh politician joined a series of anti-Brexit marches held across Wales.<\/p>\n
Calling for Welsh independence, he said: \u201cWe can finish the job started by devolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cBrexit will do for independence what Thatcherism did for devolution\u201d.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Edwards told his party\u2019s conference in Swansea in 2019 that the vote to leave the EU has driven a \u201csledgehammer through the post-devolution period\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Welsh politician also said rural communities would face extinction because of Brexit.<\/p>\n
Mr Edwards MP said: \u201cIn a no-deal scenario demand for lamb on the continent is likely to disappear\u201d.<\/p>\n
In his speech in Swansea Mr Edwards said he remembered \u201cwriting a university dissertation trying to explain the differences\u201d between the 1979 and 1997 Welsh devolution referenda, \u201cand why Wales had gone from being overwhelmingly opposed to devolution to marginally voting in favour in the space of 18 years\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe main reason was Thatcherism inflicted upon Wales immediately after the first referendum.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people of our country yearned for a degree of protection via self-government.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Brexit referendum drove a sledgehammer through the post-devolution period in Welsh history and now the stakes in the game have been raised considerably.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the one hand, Wales as a political nation will be re-subsumed by Westminster.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the other hand, we can finish the job started by devolution and become a normal independent European country.\u201d<\/p>\n
The MP added: \u201cI am more convinced now than ever that Brexit, whatever happens from herein, will be for independence what Thatcher was for devolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnionism will move towards abolition of the National Assembly and nationalists will move towards independence.\u201d
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