Why isn't Wales considered by everyone to be England's first colony?

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Why isn't Wales considered by everyone to be England's first colony? Anything that isn't written by the Welsh themselves completely ignore Wales when this question is raised.

The conquest of Wales and eventual occupation exceeds every condition or definition of a colony, Wales remained so up until gaining devolution in 1998. 

 A colony is 

a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.

Since before the conquest we saw areas of Wales being colonised by Normans , they removed the native Welsh from their lands, built castles and towns and moved in English and Flemming, After Llywelyn's first war, Longshanks started doing the same and by 1282 he went into overdrive, for example , around Denbigh 10,000 acres was taken from the natives and given to English settlers, then we have Conwy, Caernarfon among others that the Welsh were excluded from, this happened in every corner of Wales. 

In the 1295 ordinance, the Welsh "were not to reside in the English boroughs of Wales, or to bear arms in them, or to conduct trade outside them"

Through the thirteenth century, additional prohibitions were added to the 1295 ordinance at various times. These included provisions that "Welshmen should not acquire English land in Wales without licences; that they should not be allowed to live or purchase land in English towns in Wales or the English border counties; that they should be prohibited from holding assemblies; that they should be excluded from all the major posts of civil and military power in Wales; and that English burgesses should only be tried and convicted in Wales by fellow Englishmen.

This was colonisation in every sense of the word, so why isn't Wales recognised by all as England's first colony? 

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