Cathy Owens
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I remember when the Welsh Conservatives called for the Health Minister in Wales to be fired for *sitting down outside*.
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Well, the worst thing you can imagine is happening right now to the best mural in Cardiff. Covered up for a burger ad. Please contact us
@McDonalds
so we can salvage some good for the amazing young people of our city.
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A reminder that this was a week or so after the Conservatives had demanded the resignation of the Welsh Health Minister for *sitting down outside*
Boris Johnson and staff pictured with wine in Downing Street garden in May 2020
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It’s not about crossbows. Don’t let the debate focus on that. We need to stop men murdering women.
49-year-old Richard Jones has been charged with the murder of 30-year-old Sophie Evans, who was found dead in Llanelli last week.
He is due at Llanelli Magistrates Court on Friday.
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Ooof. Biden - our democracy is not a relic of another age. That’s why no President is a king. No Congress is a House of Lords. (Embarrassing 🇬🇧)
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Thank you so much everyone. It is great news that
@McDonaldsUK
responded so positively, so quickly. The
@unifycreative_
team will now be in discussion with them about replacing the mural and the long term plans for the wall.
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V interesting piece in the Times about 20mph. Almost half highway authorities in England have shifted to 20mph in built-up areas. Half of London’s roads are 20mph. Scotland committed by 2025. Ireland has declared its intention to follow with 30kmh
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A quick reminder that all Welsh Conservative MPs voted to keep the tampon tax in 2015.
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The MRP poll in the Times suggests the Conservatives would lose all 14 seats in Wales if there was a General Election today
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Makes a good case for Covid Passes. A lower rate than the general population as everyone had to show proof of test or double vaccination. A good job done by the team.
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Will the Welsh Conservatives be against national lockdown in Wales and for a national lockdown in England at the same time?
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We don't need to change crossbow laws. We need to tackle the pandemic of violence against women and stand up to misogyny in all its forms, every single day.
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Retweeting for clarity - every sitting Welsh Conservative MP voted against.
We should all take pride in this.
A decade on, we are a better society because
@David_Cameron
and many others fought hard to make this happen.
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You mostly didn’t even turn up, Nathan, so you’ve set the bar pretty low re who should be an AM. Most people, of any age, would do a better job. By simply turning up to work each day.
Reducing the age is a mistake. Are we now saying a 16 year old should sit as an AM?
It smacks at desperation of trying to get votes from the socialist parties as they perceive that young kids will automatically vote for them.
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If the Standards Commissioner thinks female AMs should not use mild swear words, but it’s OK for the male AMs to make buxom barmaid videos, then we have to call the system out for what it is.
Arseholes to that. It’s sexist bullshit.
Leanne Wood criticised for calling a blogger an 'arsehole'
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What the hell is happening tomorrow?
When was the last time you checked your first aid kit?
Make sure that it has bandages, plasters, thermometer, antiseptic, eyewash, sterile dressings, medical tape, and tweezers today.
Just in case you need to use it tomorrow.
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@McDonalds
Just across the road, a young artist is creating new work, and we need more spaces for our diverse community, not less. I am sure
@McDonalds
don’t realise how insensitive it is, but they could respond so positively. We need more artistic opportunities for these kids now.
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I see the Welsh Conservatives are now against local lockdowns, after being against previous national lockdowns and only for local lockdowns.
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Given that we’ve celebrated International Women’s Day this week, it’s been a generally shit week for women’s freedom, gender equality in the economy, and parity in public life.
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Sue Gray is formatting the Word doc and trying to get the pictures to stay in the right positions.
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@caitlinmoran
I’m afraid the dog is mostly naked and proudly so, but People Like Us in Cardiff Bay is joyous and must be one of the few black women immortalised across the UK, though we are all looking forward to the new Betty Campbell due soon.
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“I’m above politics, but we should repatriate powers back to the Conservatives in London because the Welsh Government is Margaret Thatcher” is quite something.
🚜 ‘Da ni’n teimlo bod Llafur yn neud yr un peth a nath Maggie Thatcher i’r hogia glo.’
Mae ffermwyr gan gynnwys
@1GarethWynJones
wedi cyfarfod â
@RishiSunak
heddiw gan ‘ymbil’ arno i'w cefnogi nhw drwy roi pwysau ar Lywodraeth Cymru.
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A lot of people were furious with the ‘non-essential sales in supermarkets’ thing, but go and have a chat with independent shops in England who will now be closed throughout much of the Christmas shopping period whilst the supermarkets hoover up all their sales.
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Great news to share. Thanks to
@McDonaldsUK
, the
@unifycreative_
team have been able to secure a new, permanent home for Maimuna. She is currently taking shape on James Street.
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@McDonaldsUK
@unifycreative_
Yusuf and the team are delighted, of course, and are in discussion about exactly what might be repainted. Let’s not forget about what has happened since that beautiful photograph was taken!
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Lovely flowers. I wonder how many Welsh Tory MPs will be there. Every one of them voted against same sex marriage 🏴🌈
I’m sorry that European Council means I can’t make the Pride reception
@10DowningStreet
.
Here’s what I wanted to say:
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Mark Drakeford's insight into policy is second to none. The way he explains things. Somehow, whenever you chat to him, he makes you think * you* have become a bit more clever, not just more knowledgeable, by the time you have finished.
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I guess it's only confusing if Wales does it first?
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Dear
@BBCWalesNews
- your team need some training on framing sexual violence, because this is pure bullshit >> Man 'distressed by wife's death' sexually abused boys
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These numbers are absolutely crazy. In a good way. And each one is a person and family. Credit to those politicians who demonstrated the leadership and had to live with the constant personal attacks for implementing this policy.
- Total number of casualties down from 510 to 377 - a 26% fall.
- Killed & seriously injured from 101 to 78 - a 23% fall.
- If we break that down further, the number killed has gone from 11 to five - a 55% drop.
- Slight injuries are down from 409 to 299 - a 27% reduction.
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Wealthy establishment lads filling in their own crime questionnaires, blaming their wives and getting mum to pay for sex crimes, but a hard no for 500 underprivileged teens in Wales with no family getting extra government support, or a basic payment scheme as landowners call it.
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OK so pinch of salt etc as the Survation poll on 6th July had a small Welsh sample, but it reflected the overall pattern. Only two Tory MPs projected to keep their seat if there was a GE.
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A decade of crap from this guy, amplified by chums and acolytes across politics/media. Might not have known extent of depravity, but they knew about his misogyny, bullying, appalling influence. Thinking about his victims, and those he dismissed and denigrated when they spoke out.
Former Senedd lobbyist Daran Hill jailed for making and distributing indecent images of children
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I get that there have been some serious issues here at the weekends at night time. But if the answer is to fence it off all the time, for everyone, all weekend, it’s time to rethink the problem
@swpolice
@cardiffcouncil
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Whilst the mural is already lost, there’s still time to bring some good from it. More support for
@unifycreative_
will make a step change to the creative opportunities in Cardiff, and celebrate our diverse city. Happy to chat to the team behind this campaign regarding issues.
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This is such great news. I hope it heralds a total shift in the way the PCCs operate - challenging the internal culture of Welsh forces and changing the way they approach hate crime, racism and violence against women.
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Imagine being an Assembly Member for five years and being so bad at it that the Abolish the Assembly Party won’t let you stand for them.
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Thanks for kind messages today. In a position to say challenging things where others can’t so important to use opportunity for change 💪🏼
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Did I miss the coup?
I met
@WelshGovernment
partners to discuss how we’ll end abuses of the human rights framework and restore some common sense to our justice system.
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Turning away needy travellers is what Christmas is all about.
Terrific Christmas bash with RCT Conservatives on Friday 🎅🎄
There was no love for small boats here either. Almost as if Twitter and Britain are not the same thing …
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Just wait until you see a pic of me in a bikini coming out of JabsRUs in the Bay next week….
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Oh my word
@BBCNewsnight
. That was painful to watch. Like a piece on racism with just white people from the 50s......
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A message for our friends and colleagues, and thanks very much for your support.
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These stories need some context. You need to read a lot of coded language in the statements, the website and the press releases to see that there is some basement-level homophobia, transphobia and misogyny in here. Journos need to make that clearer.
Parents to go court on Tuesday over Wales’ compulsory sex education curriculum
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So he has demonstrated limited insight into the nature of his misconduct towards multiple staffers and would be fired from any other job, but is free to meet vulnerable constituents. What are the
@WelshConserv
doing re safeguarding?
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To put this in context, the Welsh Government have used private providers to cut NHS waiting lists. Sensible. One form of this was introduced by Rhodri Morgan, but in a way that bypassed the competition introduced in England, and commissioned by LHBs for extra long waits.
Labour would use private providers to cut NHS waiting lists, says shadow health secretary Wes Streeting
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Why aren’t we offering visas and 50K salaries to carers and nurses?
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Oh come on. It was daft reaction and he’ll apologise no doubt. But resigning as Health Minister in a pandemic for swearing? Come the fuck on.
1/3 Plaid Cymru isn’t amused by Health minister’s zoom blooper, calling for him to resign: ‘he has not only failed over the last month several times, he has failed to acknowledge that he has failed and aggressively attacks even those witjin his own party who question him.
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What do we do if it turns out one of our MPs is an actual pimp? If party staff collude to nobble a rape trial? If an AM is arrested, can they just not explain why. Are there any rules any more? Other than female AMs can’t swear in public, obviously.
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Oh.
What’s the betting that Allegra will have to the resign, and the lads at the party won’t.
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37 deaths in Wales today, only 5 weeks on from when the experts were derided for predicting a terrible second wave. And some politicians have spent every day of that 5 weeks railing against restrictions.
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Hang on
@RhunapIorwerth
. Revolving doors and no mandate? You were installed without a vote. After the previous leader failed to manage the group and had knifed the previous one?
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“But in Wales were still going to campaign for new motorways and against measures to protect nature by tackling river pollution”
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I don’t think pretending to isolate is helping Boris. He didn’t isolate when he was supposed to be isolating. Now no one even believes he’s been pinged or is actually isolating anyway.
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Swift action already by
@McDonaldsUK
and now discussions about the potential options. Will update in due course. Diolch pawb.
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Plaid Cymru have been stubbornly awful at modern voter contact campaigning. Spectacularly poor at modernising their canvassing, voter ID, GOTV operations. No idea where their voters or potential voters are. But criticising others for running a decent ground game is a bit much.
Labour once again transporting bus-loads of students from afar to constituencies like Ynys Môn and Bangor Aberconwy ‘may not go down well’ with local voters
Also reveals a dire lack of local Labour supporters
No change for Wales with Labour
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Has someone every done a PhD about those awful blokes that get thrown out of political parties because of their appalling behaviour and then start their own party? At least four or five just in the Senedd so far.
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In which
@ruthmosalski
sets the bar for all the other political journalists in Wales 👇🏼
Ukip's new Assembly leader Gareth Bennett walked out when we challenged him on immigration
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Quite the historic day today with
@Eluned_Morgan
likely becoming the first female Leader of Welsh Labour, and presumptive First Minister. Whilst she has reached that role in unexpected circumstances, she is in the position to do so based on her 35-year career in public service.
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Just put the branding in front of the curtains. No one will notice 😂
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I guess the ladies are making the tea.
It was great to catch-up with many Welsh journalists from
@NationCymru
,
@BBCWales
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@ITVWales
,
@S4C
,
@WalesOnline
and the
@southwalesargus
today, where we discussed a range of topics.
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Has anyone offered any sort of apology to the victim yet?
The cover up just compounds the appalling treatment she’s already had to deal with.
Email to Welsh Secretary
@AlunCairns
over a year ago revealed details about aide’s involvement in rape trial collapse
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We’ve been providing clients with webinars on policy divergence in Wales, and happy to offer it to
@WalesOnline
staff or any of the public service broadcasters sharing the UK Gov pressers without clarification to Welsh licence-fee and taxpayers.
Schools will not be reopened until UK is 'firmly the other side' of peak in Covid-19 cases, with no change to lockdown measures expected this week
Latest updates from UK Government daily briefing
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This would never happen at the Senedd. Where they had to redo the refurb of Ty Hywel in 1999 because one of the aircon contractors admitted on the security forms that he had an IRA terrorism conviction and no one read the paperwork for six weeks.
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Should we lockdown now and move Welsh Christmas to 1st March? 🏴
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Had our weekly sinister coven meeting. Pleased the Raab succumbed to our feminist mind control. Been a hard week bringing down the dominion of men, as we’ve had to keep an eye on issues closer to home. Now got a chicken to sacrifice and the ironing to do....
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I’m heartbroken and furious. Went to uni for two years in Christchurch - a lovely, open, welcoming little city. Difficult to contemplate such darkness in the place, and I’m outraged at those who could sow such division in a place so harmonious.
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Just imagine, for a moment, that Vaughan Gething had put a personal bet on a government decision or overclaimed his expenses. The usual suspects would have gone full tonto and the Welsh Conservatives would have demanded his immediate resignation.
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This isn’t a failure of Parliament or ‘the entire political class’. It is the abject failure of a minority government unable to accept it spaffed its majority. Theresa May fails to understand any human who disagrees with her, and consequently is terrible at politics.
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Listening to Adam Price and I think we have been watching the results of a different election, and I hope one of his team can tap him on the shoulder and have a realistic conversation.
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So the Tories refused to change the system, claiming retrospective rule-making, in order to avoid the serial sexual harasser having to resign. But now they are retrospectively changing the entire process so the dodgy cash for access MP does not have to resign. It absolutely reeks
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I’ve run our numbers again, and it seems that the Conservatives in Wales lost 40% of their seats in Wales yesterday. Much worse that in Scotland or England. I’d say that was more than a “pretty firm talking to”.
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A real shame on a personal basis.
The political crisis within the Welsh Labour Group has several strands, but the overarching one is that Labour is a minority government, and this is a numbers game.
Our Senedd electoral system makes it hard for any party to win a majority, so
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At least four blokes think they are the Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, and I’m guessing not one of them has condemned this candidate yet?
Rape trial was 'deliberately sabotaged' by Conservative Assembly candidate
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The campaigners were also homophobic and misogynistic but we’ll gloss over that bit.
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We’re now in the territory where Mark Drakeford has a working majority Labour Government and can trade between the Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru to deliver a budget deal only. Extraordinary.
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I’m incredibly proud of Carwyn Jones. Proud of his integrity and dignity in particular at this time, and proud of his leadership for the last 8 years.
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*State-educated Welsh speaker* in top job shocker.
🔴 A state-educated Welsh speaker is to be the acting BBC chairman after Richard Sharp’s resignation
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So pleased - I voted for Betty as she represented the fight for equality for all of us. We’ve got so much to do on race equality as well, but as a woman she faced lifelong discrimination and became a beacon for the modern age.
The winner of the
#HiddenHeroines
public vote is Betty Campbell.
Read her inspirational story here.
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Did I really just hear
@adamboultonSKY
suggest Wales is not a nation in human terms because we speak two languages and have a north and a south
@skynews
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The Senedd Reform Bill is welcome but we need to build in some safeguards. We need an innovative way to introduce disqualification during office. If you are found guilty of a serious crime or gross misconduct, there has to be a way to force an MS to stand down.
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The Batley and Spen by-election has already had more coverage than the Senedd Election.
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Been a difficult few weeks. We are totally failing to tackle male violence, harassment and abuse against women. Guys - you keep saying you’ll call out poor behaviour? You rarely do. You often pillory those that do, making it more difficult for others to speak out.
#believewomen
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Really annoying when news channels like
@BBCWalesNews
put up fundamental religious types on random topics without any context. The fella speaking out *for* smacking is not an expert in child psychology. He’s also *for* conversion therapy and *against* sex education.
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Seems like she wasn’t “at the centre of a love triangle”. She’d left a violent man. Reads like he became a killer because of her choices. We have to get better at how courts/lawyers see women, and how journalists write up these stories about violent men.
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Walking home across a unitary authority administrative boundary and I feel like Theresa May running through fields of wheat.
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And if I may, da iawn Louise Magee and her team, and
@JulieJamesMS
for chairing the campaign. These things don’t happen by accident. Or luck.
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