Sir Dai Llewellyn claims he is not considered Welsh enough

Socialite Sir Dai Llewellyn, who holds the title Baronet of Bwllfa, plans to sell the home in south Wales he calls his "hunting lodge".

Sir Dai says he will only return to Wales to be buried.

He also wants to sell a row of former miners' cottages he owns because he claims they have been the target of vandals and thieves.

Sir Dai, who has lived most of his life in the expensive Mayfair area of London, has delivered a series of parting shots against the Welsh language, the Welsh assembly and what he terms "xenophobic nationalism".

The Welsh language is being used as part of an unhealthy and essentially racist agenda Sir Dai Llewellyn

He is the 57-year-old son of the 1952 Olympic gold medallist showjumper Sir Harry Llewellyn.

Sir Harry was born in the south Wales valleys town of Aberdare.

But Sir Dai claimed he was not considered "Welsh enough" when he returned to the land of his father.

Inherited

He said the traditional Welsh valleys welcome has been replaced by "cold, professional Welshmen".

He inherited the baronet's title four years ago and bought a home in Aberbeeg, Blaenau Gwent, as well the six cottages in the nearby village of Llanhilleth.

Sir Dai calls this house in Aberbeeg his hunting lodge

But he said the cottages had been ransacked for baths, toilets, basins, staircases and electrical wiring.

"Since then I have suffered arson attacks, threats of violence, a bullet hole through a window, scratches on my Mercedes and paint daubing," he told a newspaper.

"I believe that much of what had happened is prompted by the growth of an increasingly xenophobic nationalism that has been stirred up in Wales.

"The most insidious example of this is the promotion of the Welsh language which is being used as part of an unhealthy and essentially racist agenda."

Sir Dai said the "new-found nationalism" meant Wales no longer welcomed outsiders and people like himself were targeted by "thugs and vandals".

He claimed Wales would be better without "bully-boy tactics used to ram the Welsh language down her people's throats".

Sir Dai dismissed the Welsh assembly as " a joke, a costly talking shop where nothing happens other than discussions on which extensive new building might house the members' farcical antics."