New Labour allegedly plans to merge Wales’s national football and rugby teams into new “Great Britain” superteams in the wake of the successes of “Team GB” at the Beijing Olympics, a whistleblower on Gordon Brown’s political staff has revealed.

The whistleblower, believed to be a member of Gordon Brown’s Downing Street staff, who is Welsh, said she felt compelled to speak out in view of the “sheer madness” of policies aimed at creating a “new sense of Britishness” by  removing bodies such as the Welsh Rugby Union and the Welsh Football Association by creating Great British teams to replace “the sub-national/regional teams of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland”. These are, the official said, nothing less than “attempts to bolster support for an ailing Labour Party and the Prime Minister’s increasing unpopularity by pursuing a reinvigorated and naked ‘unionist’ agenda,” adding “This is not something I am prepared to support.”

The start of this process is seen as Brown’s demand for a “Great Britain” football team to take part in the 2012 London Olympics, described by Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond as a “spectacular own goal”. “Instead of trying to brow beat the SFA, the IFA and the Football Association of Wales into a single team,” Mr Salmond continued, “Gordon Brown should abandon his campaign which threatens the identity of each of the home associations and their national squads.” There has been no comment so far from ministers in the Welsh Assembly. See here for more on this.

Wales, Scotland and the North of Ireland have already lost swathes of funding for sport and the arts as a result of the budgetary demands of London Olympics, whose facilities are being constructed against a backdrop of thinly disguised organisational chaos and deepening recessionary gloom.

The Government is reportedly putting pressure on football’s governing body, FIFA, to press for one major team to represent Great Britain in future international tournaments, which will mean the demise of independent Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland teams, first in football and then rugby.

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Update

“It’s great to be flying the Welsh flag on the world stage. My Dad’s born and bred in Wrexham and is Welsh through and through and so am I.” Says Olympic gold winner Tom James. -see article

Update
More evidence has been unearthed – see here

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