Welsh Labour Member of the Senedd for Blaenau Gwent. I don’t do casework on Twitter. For all constituency inquiries please email alun.davies
@senedd
.wales
We need to be honest. Brexit has been a disaster for the UK.
Rather than becoming another Switzerland we need to turn our backs on Brexit and chart a course for rejoining the EU.
What nonsense. Welsh Labour has a cooperation agreement with Plaid. And we have had a coalition with Plaid in the past.
It’s time for UK Labour to learn from the success of Welsh Labour rather than the failures of Scottish Labour.
Our party must stand shoulder to shoulder with the British Jewish community to fight against antisemitism, which requires engaging in full-scale, institutional self-criticism and self-improvement.
This is what the right wing don’t understand. We collectively fund services for everyone and not just the parts that we value ourselves. That’s what it means to be a part of a community. And they just don’t get it.
The violence in London today doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This is happening because the political right has failed to call out and confront Farage and his nasty bunch of xenophobes.
@johnmcdonnellMP
@guardian
I suspect that greatest scandal in Labour’s history was the cesspit you helped to create. You should be apologising to each and every one of us.
Genuinely astonished that a
@Channel4News
journalist would follow this line of questioning. After a quarter of a century these London people still don’t get the UK.
"I've not had that conversation with him, nor should I need to."
First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford tells
@PGMcNamara
that he did not consult Labour Party Leader Sir Keir Starmer MP about lowering the speed limit on most Welsh residential roads to 20mph.
@JulianWheatland
@FT
Gunster had 10 employees embedded in LeaveEU's offices. LeaveEU declared not a single penny of it in their spending returns for his services. Still no idea of who paid for it. So, fact that he's represented here by same lawyer as Cambridge Analytica is really really curious.
If this is true then it is another extraordinary example of Johnson breaking our democracy.
This election is becoming more and more about the future of our democracy.
I missed this completely astonishing intervention by Dominic Grieve today. One of most prinicipled men in UK politics & head of intelligence committee, is claiming Number 10 is deliberately sitting on report into Russian interference in UK politics
This is pretty poor. The UK Govt move and create bank holidays at the drop of a hat. Wales is being treated as a second class nation by the Tories. They should be ashamed
@AndrewRTDavies
I support Catalans campaigning for their basic human right of self-determination.
The
@EU_Commission
should demand that Spain recognises Catalan political rights.
Serious questions must be asked about how three big gigs in Cardiff have ground South Wales to a halt.
This simply isn’t good enough.
We need modern transport infrastructure in Wales.
And if they expect any of us to distribute this material it will need to change. I’m not going to support a campaign that doesn’t reflect the position of
@WelshLabour
or
@UKLabour
Huge pressure to change leaflet content before goes to printer. Shadow minister tells me: "Keir is absolutely furious about the leaflet. He knows very well that it doesn’t reflect the party’s policy, the views of the membership or our candidates. It will have to change.”
Tony Blair can say what he likes, sitting on his millions from dodgy regimes, but people will only ever remember him for his illegal wars. Thankfully Labour has a man of peace as leader now
#VoteLabour
#Corbyn4PM
I've always seen myself as British, but right now, I'm pretty sure that if Wales could govern itself, then it would do so with a degree of decency, honour, integrity and competence that is missing from Westminster.
I am constantly shocked at the way Catalan politicians and the Catalan people are treated by the Spanish state. And how the UK Govt and EU institutions stand by whilst a democracy is dismantled.
Owen went to private school and Cambridge and is married to the daughter of Viscount Radley and is a wealthy landowner.
We recognise the establishment.
“Whether it was appeasement in the 1930s, to Trade Union reform, or demanding that the UK join the Euro, the establishment has been wrong every time...that cosy group of well-paid, powerful people, who have the most to lose from real change.”
Claudia -
@tom_watson
speaks for me and many other
@UKLabour
members who are deeply deeply ashamed of what our party has become.
It’s your job to sort it and not attack those who point out your failures.
Perhaps you and those have caused this should consider your positions?
@tom_watson
your engaged in public attacks on the Labour Party’s General Secretary
@JennieGenSec
despite your clear knowledge she is receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer. This is not behaviour befitting of the Office of Deputy Leader. You should consider your position?
Don’t understand the confusion with Chester FC & whether they fall foul of Welsh Gov covid rules. They’re in the English league, under Cheshire W & Chester Council, policed by Cheshire Constabulary. They don’t even receive Welsh Gov financial aid. Any chance of some common sense?
@MarcPalmer75
@WalesOnline
She’s a Tory looking to cut her teeth somewhere. It’s a disgrace that
@WalesOnline
have been gullible enough to give her a puff piece. Poor lazy journalism.
"It's important in a crisis like this that parliament is sitting so that decisions can be scrutinised."
Labour leader
@Keir_Starmer
says parliament must be recalled as "soon as possible" - but admits they won't be able to sit in the "usual way".
#Ridge
:
This is happening today in Western Europe. And our media are ignoring it. We need to demand action to recognise Catalonia and to stop Spanish oppression.
Looking forward to
@BBCWalesNews
spending the next month sitting on the border and asking people how they’re going to cope with the English restrictions and how confused are people by lockdown across there.
Let’s get it right. This is not true.
In all the conversations that I’ve had with
@PrifWeinidog
we have never ever - not even once - discussed the position taken by the Tories. The focus has always been on the virus and its impact on people and the NHS.
After
@WelshConserv
pressure, Labour has relented and published a roadmap out of overzealous Covid restrictions.
Drakeford's rules on spectator sports, exercise, and hospitality venues were economically cruel & clinically unnecessary.
He's been found out but 🏴 paid the price.
If
@AndrewRTDavies
does not understand the difference between democratic debate and a difference of opinion and what we are seeing in Washington this evening then I wonder if he understands democracy at all.
Treweryn is in the news at the moment. This is Gwyn Alf Williams in The Dragon has Two Tongues. A brilliant programme and the great socialist historian Gwyn Alf explains why Treweryn is important to all of us as a nation.
Sixty years ago at about 10.45am on 28 June 1960, an underground explosion at Six Bells killed 45 miners. Let’s take some time today to remember those men and boys and reflect upon the real price of coal.
If the Scottish and Welsh Governments want to introduce new restrictions that cause significant economic harm that’s their right. However they should be prepared to front up to their own electorates and explain how they’re going to pay for it.
I very much agree with this letter from
@Andrew_Adonis
If the UK cannot guarantee basic rights across the whole of its territory for the whole of its people then you start to wonder what is the point of it.
‘There is growing anger & frustration in Northern Ireland that you have have made no provision for Parliament to safeguard basic rights of abortion & equal marriage in the absence of the Assembly. This is creating a deep sense of injustice.’ My letter to Mrs May
Deputy leader of
@ScottishLabour
@jackiebmsp
says if Keir Starmer's electoral college proposal (1/3 MPs, 1/3 unions, 1/3 members) goes before Labour's ruling NEC as is, she'll move an amendment to water it down.
She'd push for MSPs, AMs & cllrs to be included with MPs
Jeez. At tonight’s press conference not a single journalist pointed out to the Prime Minister the skyrocketing rise in small boat crossings is in large part a consequence of the Brexit deal championed by both him & the Home Secretary! WHY NOT?
RT if you think they should have
This is why
@WelshLabour
can’t simply shout at independence and needs to engage in a debate about the sort of UK we need to meet Wales’s interests. The current model does not work.
This is it. For the Tories the UK means England. And England alone. They don’t give a damn about the rest of us. Whether it’s flooding or Covid. The answer is always the same.
This is the same Chancellor who rejected continuing the furlough scheme for workers in lockdown in Wales, Scotland & N. Ireland.
Sunak waves the Union Flag but the so-called ‘Conservative & Unionist Party’ proves once again it doesn’t care about Wales.
Never has, never will.
The problem with this mindless unionism is that it also assumes that this is the only union that we can accept. It isn’t. This union fails Wales every day. And until there is an acceptance of that then the campaign for independence will only continue to grow.
💥Data on 20mph in London & 39 European cities shows an astonishing 37% fall in road crash fatalities.💥
📉 18% cuts in emissions
📉2.5dB fall in noise pollution
📉 7% ave fall in fuel consumption
... with v small variations of average traffic speed.
A 1.3km long queue composed largely of older age groups. If only there was some way to vote safely and efficiently without attending in person and which didn't make Britain look like the land time forgot? Anyone?
There is no rational basis for Wales to be denied powers over justice.
@Plaid_Cymru
is not calling for devolution for its own sake, but in order to deliver real justice for victims and to create a better and safer society.
It’s not so long ago that we were being told that a free trade deal with the US would be the easiest ever done. We would be at the front of the queue.
Times change. And that’s another reason why we need a
#peoplesvote
on the future of Brexit.
This pompous nonsense about “addressing the nation” really belongs to another age. In terms of Covid his mandate extends to England only. And I’m very happy with the approach outlined by
@PrifWeinidog
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to address the nation about booster vaccines at 8pm this evening, as the UK's COVID alert level has been increased to level four
@bbclaurak
@Amanwy
Rather more awkward was her vote in the House of Commons in December 1997 against the enacting legislation. Less than three months after the referendum.
And
@RhonddaBryant
is absolutely right. I survived a heart attack last week not because I’m a fighter but because of the actions of people who called the emergency services and the expertise of the NHS coronary care team in the Heath.
I’m really serious about this. STOP suggesting that “fighters” survive disease better than anyone else. I wish Boris well but all this BS is winding me up.
Utterly depressing listening to
@wesstreeting
rubbishing coalitions. Welsh Labour is the most successful part of the Labour family because we deliver in coalition and in agreement with other parties. It’s mature politics.
So. 50% of their parliamentary party leaves rather than face the electorate under their colours. What all of them have in common is that they are freeloaders and frauds. Time to get rid.
“I’m deeply uncomfortable with the way I'm now in effect being expected to endorse something I just think is wrong”
Extraordinary moment just now as former minister Lee Waters calls on his boss Vaughan Gething to ‘do the right thing’ and give back a £200,000 campaign donation
In the Commons,
@aluncairns
says it was “only late yesterday” that the Welsh Gov matched the UK Gov suspension of business rates. In turn,
@SDoughtyMP
criticises UK Gov - needs to work better with Welsh Gov to avoid future “chaos.” “It isn’t clear and it isn’t simple.”
If I become PM, I won’t allow a second Scottish independence referendum. People stated views clearly in 2014, so there should be no second vote. Nicola Sturgeon should spend more time improving public services in Scotland, and less time grandstanding
Whatever you may think of him, this is thoroughly principled, considerate and decent. I'd happily join him at his hut for a cup of tea, two metres apart, of course. Da iawn Mark.
@fmwales
@MarkDrakeford
I’m not sure that this is the tone or the approach or the arguments that will give the UK a future. Yesterday’s march in Cardiff was the biggest and most impressive demonstration in support of independence in my lifetime. It demands and deserves a more thoughtful response.
March for a nationalist driven movement to divide a people and cause a destructive departure from a political and cultural union occurred today.
Sounds like Brexit, smells like Brexit, looks like Brexit, yet calls itself Welsh nationalism 🤔
The curious thing about that Tesco’s Twitter nonsense this morning was that I knew it was wrong immediately. I knew it was wrong because I have read the regulations. But the Tories and journalists and others retweeted a story without checking it and so misinformation spreads.
I agree with
@LauraMcAllister
on this. I do not and will not support a Team GB football team. In 2012 we were told that it was a one-off for the London Olympics. Now we have the English FA taking unilateral decisions and actions.
#walesfootballnation
@Declan_Townsend
@Dawn_Bowden
@fmwales
Given to Wales?!! You do know that people in Wales pay taxes?! And ironically the UK Treasury only provides funds when a particular part of that UK needs it - England. And that’s why this union fails us. Every day.
But of course he’s very happy with 800 members of the House of Lords and more mates of Johnson appointed every month to create a fake majority which undermines our democracy.
Pleased to join other Members of the Senedd to express our solidarity with Catalonia after the imprisonment of their democratically-elected leaders yesterday.
Prayers for all those dutiful Tory MPs who took to social media to defend a policy yesterday only to see the govt about turn today.
Looking forward to learning how a policy which was impossible a few hours ago is now the only way forward.
Bless them.
I think that we all need to say thank you to
@michaelsheen
for his commitment to making this happen over the last week. Diolch yn fawr iawn i ti!
#HomelessWorldCup
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Ukrainian refugees are welcome in Wales - but when?
Welsh Secretary,
@SimonHartmp
, says families have already arrived there, but he wasn't able to say how many...
#KayBurley
SR
The Crown Estate should be devolved to Wales
There is now so much potential, particularly with floating offshore wind, for us in Wales to make sure that this isn’t just another extractive exercise