Wales is normally invisible. A country without a national media, which rarely sees itself on TV, in films, or in the newspapers. Recently, though, that has begun to change.

First, Wales voted for Brexit, despite receiving over €4 billion in EU structural funds since 2000. Then, in the 2016 assembly elections, UKIP — a party whose disgraced leader doesn’t bother living in Wales and revels in his chauvinistic Englishness — won seven seats, and made significant gains in the Labour heartlands of south Wales.

Now, faced with more austerity, early GE17 polls suggested that Wales might have returned a Conservative majority for the first time in its history.