Hywel Williams
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Cyn Aelod Seneddol | Former MP @Plaid_Cymru Caernarfon (2001-2010) Arfon (2010-2024)
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Bu'n wych gweithio efo cynifer o bobl talentog, ymroddedig i achos Cymru a'i phobl ac i warchod hawliau pobl gyffredin dros y byd cyfan. Heb son am dderbyn cystal cefnogaeth gan bobl Caernarfon ac Arfon dros 6 etholiad! Gobeithio fy mod wedi haeddu eich ymdiriedaeth. Diolch i chi
After 23 years of service, today is
@HywelPlaidCymru
’s last day as Member of Parliament for Arfon
Diolch for your tireless work for the people of Arfon and all of Wales, Hywel 🏴
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So, Sue Gray can publish her report on Downing Street parties so long as it doesn't refer to Downing Street parties.
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Someone called Rod Liddle says in the Sunday Times that 'Welsh has no real vowels'. 'Ignorant' has 3 vowels. 'Ignorant' in Welsh is 'anwybodus' and has 5.
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They think they got away with it last night. Don't let them. Vote Plaid Cymru in Wales, SNP in Scotland, Green in England.
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I raised a Point of Order for
@Plaid_Cymru
on the twelve Catalan leaders on trial simply for organising a democratic referendum on Catalan independence.
These peaceful people are political prisoners held against their human rights for believing in self-determination
#Catalonia
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Today we had a debate in the UK Parliament about the cost-of-living crisis
The empty benches says it all - the London parties have no interest, only contempt
@Plaid_Cymru
@theSNP
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'Today 12 Catalan leaders go on trial in Spain’s Supreme Court facing medieval-sounding charges of rebellion and sedition. There is a very nasty neo-fascist undercurrent furthering anti-Catalan sentiment.'
#Catalunya
#ALLOUTPOLITICS
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I am proud that Plaid Cymru is part of this legal attempt to stop what would un any other country be called a coup d'etat
There is good reason to believe the process to suspend Parliament will begin in the next few days.
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It is completely unacceptable that disabled people are ineligible for the UK gov’s £650 cost-of-living payment
Despite having additional energy needs, disabled people are offered the pitiful sum of £150
@BenMLake
and I are calling for an urgent revision of eligibility criteria
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Labour happy to see a Westminster power grab. Plaid amendment tonight-preventing transfer of new powers to Westminster without the consent of parliaments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. For 63. Against 350. Labour knowing full well what was at stake...went home early
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Whatever the Police decide this update - severely limited as it is - would be enough to persuade any other Prime Minister to resign.
Tory backbenchers need to find their backbone and sack him.
#SueGrayReport
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Diolch i bawb am y gefnogaeth trwy gydol yr ymgyrch // Thanks to all our supporters for your support!
#HywelPlaid19
#GE19
💚💛🏴🗳
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'Snowdon is the highest mountain in England and Wales', much as Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in England and France
From Snowdon in Wales and Ben Nevis in Scotland to the towering heights of the Lake District Fells, here is
@countryfilemag
's guide to the UK's most amazing mountains 🏔
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Boris Johnson's speech missed out two vital words - 'England only'. Even now he can't be straight.
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Ian Blackford is right. If Johnson fails to do the right thing and resign - Tory backbenchers must show him the door
Deafening silence from Welsh Tory MPs 🤐
Have you no shame?
#PMQs
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For the Prime Minister to take bets on the futures of vulnerable people is utterly repulsive
Cywilydd ar Sunak
Rishi Sunak has accepted a £1,000 bet from Piers Morgan that deportation flights to Rwanda will be up and running before the General Election.
The full interview is due to be shown on the Piers Morgan Uncensored YouTube channel at 2pm and TalkTV at 8pm on Monday (5 February).
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Voting against the
#InternalMarketBill
now. This is the biggest power grab since the creation of devolution in
#Wales
@Plaid_Cymru
will oppose this every step of the way.
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I was in the Chamber when Brandon Lewis conceded that the government's proposal would break international law - and seemed happy enough. I was astonished that lawmakers were happy to be lawbreakers. But in retrospect ('partygate' etc) probably should not have been.
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At
#PMQs
today I called on the Prime Minister Boris Johnson to correct the record over his repeated lying.
He isn’t fit to govern. He must go.
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Tom Hunt(Tory MP) - "If you walk into a town center & people speaking English is almost is almost a rarity..."
Better not come to Caernarfon then ...
#Ridge
- You said it was not xenophobic to not want to feel like your living in a foreign country... what do you mean?
Tom Hunt(Tory MP) - "If you walk into a town center & people speaking English is almost is almost a rarity..."
#politicshub
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Just witnessed the Spanish Military Police raiding a polling station to steal ballot boxes to deny people right to vote.
#CatalanReferandum
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Boris Johnson says that people traveling from England to Wales is one of many 'hypothetical' situations. It is not hypothetical.
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Correction: Plaid Cymru's Adam Price secures a radical programme for Wales that contains many Plaid Cymru policies previously vetoed by Welsh Labour
Labour’s Mark Drakeford secures a radical programme for Wales that contains many of the policies set out in Labour’s 2019 election Manifesto, charting clear red water between Welsh Labour and the Tories.
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Dorries and Boris, a shameful and shameless double act leave the stage
Two pantomime villans who revelled in wreaking havoc during our darkest hours
Good riddance
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It is not a 'strict policy'. It is a Welsh language festival.
(I am not allowed to speak Welsh in the Chamber of the House of Commons by the way)
'Bilingualism is at the core of how we express our Welsh identity'
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🎥 GWYLIWCH // WATCH:
Urgent Question for
@Plaid_Cymru
on the imprisonment of the Catalan leaders.
#CatalanPoliticalPrisoners
@APPGCatalonia
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@ukhomeoffice
Wholly unacceptable. Having different surnames is not some bureaucratic problem. My wife is Davies- she's not an add-on to me. My children are Hywel - a pattern becoming more common in Wales as we shed practices enforced on our culture during industrialization.
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Pleased to announce my constituent
@satku_shiromini
has been released tonight and decision to deport has been lifted. Thank you for support!
Good news! Bangor University student has deportation order lifted
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Not being broadcast of course but about 100 MPs are sitting in the Chamber of the House of Commons singing Flower of Scotland Jerusalem Bandera Rosa and of course Calon Lan etc
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This snowflake better not come to Wales - Caernarfon in particular - or the poor dear might be very upset by hearing people not speaking English
NF: "I could take you to streets in Oldham right now where no-one speaks English."
MH: "Or they might be speaking another language. Don't your children speak two languages?"
NF: "I think this is poor form. Very poor form. Unsurprising, but very poor form." ~AA
#r4today
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The UK consists of four countries not just one. Democracy values all voices not just one. Devolution demands all countries in the UK have a say not just one.
#EUWithdrawalBill
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'Sorry, sorry, Brexit, freeports, vaccine rollout' 🤔
Boris Johnson isn't sorry - he only cares about saving his own skin
He has to go
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A superb and wholly deserved win for Sian Gwenllian and the Plaid team in Arfon. The highest vote ever for Plaid Cymru in this constituency
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In Wales vote Plaid, in Scotland vote SNP, in England vote Green
@OwenJones84
This could get a little tiresome, Owen…
I know Labour disappoint by the day
I hate that the choice is essentially between them and the Tories
But if we spoil our ballots, stay at home, or vote with our hearts
You know what that gets us.
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Whoever did this will learn pretty quick that a tolerant society is far stronger that the divided mayhem they crave. Solidarity with the family and I echo condemnation from within the local community.
#Penygroes
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✏️My letter to the Foreign Secretary urging UK government to immediately stop the sale of tear gas and rubber bullets to the USA and condemn the threat of lethal military action against US citizens.
#BlackLivesMattter
👇🏻
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Today I paid tribute to the good people of Llanilltyd Fawr
Last weekend they saw off a pathetic rabble of about 20 hard right strangers bussed in to protest against refugees
Wales stands up to hate 🏴
#LlantwitMajor
#RefugeeBanBill
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Welsh Tory MPs would be better employed looking to ensuring the health and safety of their constituents rather than posturing in order to ape England
Tory MPs press Welsh ministers to explain why travel restrictions are so much greater in Wales than England
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Across the UK good people are shouting at the Today Programme R4 as Brandon Lewis MP discredits and debases himself by protecting Boris Johnson. Tory MPs should realise this is no longer just about Johnson's fate, but about their own credibility with the people who elect them.
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The Tory government won the vote to slash foreign aid, by 35 votes.
@Plaid_Cymru
voted to protect the world’s most vulnerable. To educate women and girls, to beat HIV/AIDS, to provide funding for water and sanitation during a pandemic.
A day of shame for Westminster.
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We in Wales know the cost of dangerous fossil fuel extraction, particularly today on the date of the Gresford mining disaster
Gresford was once mooted as a fracking site. I asked the UK Government to confirm that powers on fracking will remain with our Senedd 🏴
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🎥 GWYLIWCH // WATCH:
‘We will not allow
#BorisJohnson
to subvert representative democracy by shutting down Parliament. Well done all who came to
#Bangor
today and to my
@Plaid_Cymru
colleagues.’
@LSRPlaid
#StopTheBrexitCoup
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Plaid Cymru stood alone among Welsh MPs against the HS2 bill in 2013 - no Welsh Labour MPs joined us
We argued the project shortchanged Wales
After a decade of lies by the Tories, there is still no convincing argument for denying Wales our fair share
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Key findings from recent polling by
@BestForBritain
which is out now:
▪️Remain vote now at 56%
▪️Remain vote in Arfon now at 71%
▪️66% now back a final say
▪️All but 1 Wales seat back remain
▪️All constituencies back a final say
#PeoplesVote
#Brexit
🏴🇪🇺
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'Parking fine only £30!' Gwynedd's only Labour councillor calls on the Plaid council to 'step up their game' and charge £200. The fines are £60 or £70 (£40+£50 for quick payers) and are set by the Welsh Labour Government.
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Huge congratulations to Ireland on being elected to the UN Security Council. They will be a great force for good with their fine record of peacekeeping and consistent support for progress on climate poverty and disarmament issues.
#nottoosmallafterall
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Rishi Sunak claims he’ll allocate £1bn to electrify the North Wales Line
All journalists should ask him: WHEN?
The money he talks of is not yet on the books
The Tories scrapped Cardiff-Swansea electrification - we can’t believe a word they’re saying
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This is 86 yr old Aneurin Jones from Llanllyfni who walked over a mile to vote for me and
@Plaid_Cymru
#Dedication
http://t.co/tYNt7KJuSB
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Tories- ‘for every £1 spent on public services in England Wales gets £1.20
HM Treasury.
Country and Regional Analysis of public spending
Published December 20th 2023
Spend per head
London £14, 486
Scotland £14,456
N Ireland £14.453
Wales £13,387
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Boris Johnson claims the Downing Street "garden is an extension of the office" and that he believed he was attending a "work event"
I don’t know about you, but I don’t bring booze to work meetings
Resign
@BorisJohnson
#PMQs
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Just a bit of fun of course but according to this latest prediction it would be possible to walk the length of Wales without setting foot in a Labour seat
This is from
@ElectionMapsUK
and is just for fun of course, but according to its latest prediction it would be possible to walk the length and width of England and not set foot in a Tory seat
#GTTO
#ToryWipeout2024
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This is what confronted my staff in my Caernarfon office this morning.
My staff are entitled to work free from fear and intimidation just like everybody else. Sincere thanks to
@NWPolice
for swift response.
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Today former Speaker and a deputy of the Catalan Parliament
@rogertorrent
and
@josepcosta
are before a criminal court for allowing debate on self determination
@Plaid_Cymru
send our solidarity - Spain must withdraw this scurrilous attack on freedom of speech
#JudiciAlParlament
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I think this might posibly be about English people flocking to beaches... Just a wild guess...
Brits flock to beaches as coronavirus lockdown eases – video
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Deeply disappointing that the Speaker of the House of Commons is absent while proceedings have descended into chaos
This evening should have been about uniting to call for an end to the suffering in Gaza
Labour’s politicking turned it into an absolute circus
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I didn't see any of these on the side of a bus
After consulting Express readers for 'Brexit Benefits' these are *the top ideas selected by Jacob Rees Mogg*.
Almost every single one is about removing consumer, worker or environmental protections. And to think that the UK sacrificed 12% of trade and 4% of GDP for this! ~AA
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I have joined cross-party colleagues to mount a legal challenge to prevent Boris Johnson from suspending Parliament over
#Brexit
to pursue a damaging no-deal. 🇪🇺
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Matthew Lynn in the Spectator says that Welsh Labour banning the sale of non-essential goods is ' a war against the economy and the free market' blissfully unaware, poor dear that in this Mark Drakeford was giving in to pressure from the Conservative Senedd Member Russell George
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Shocking scene in the lobby during the fracking vote with two very senior ministers 'manhandling' a reluctant MP to vote. There are pictures and perhaps a video clip. They should own up now voluntarily - before they have to.
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To confirm. I along with my
@Plaid_Cymru
colleagues will be voting AGAINST military air strikes in tomorrow's debate.
#Syria
#DontBombSyria
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Today I raised concerns about the reports of alleged espionage by the Spanish Government on members of
@APPGCatalonia
"Spying by a supposedly friendly country has no place here"
#Catalonia
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That's not a 20 mph sign. Are you lot safe on the roads?
🚘
@natasghar
: “The Welsh Conservatives have been listening and engaging with the public over this – something which is completely alien to Labour ministers – and that’s why we would scrap this £33m blanket 20mph scheme on day one.”
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'We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender' ... unless there's a small demonstration within earshot and they might boo me, in which case I'm off.
UK PM Boris Johnson cancels a press conference in Luxembourg, as protesters boo outside the venue – leaving an empty podium next to Luxembourg's PM Xavier Bettel
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Are the rules about people from Conwy not travelling into Gwynedd anti - conwyist
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Try calling the mountain by its real name
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Llongyfarchiadau / Parabéns
@LulaOficial
This is a win for Brazil’s indigenous and black communities who have suffered so much pain under Bolsonaro.
The Amazon and our entire planet breathe a huge sigh of relief tonight.
🇧🇷🌎🏴
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Trefriw to Betws y Coed via Llyn Geirionydd yesterday. Hundreds of cars at this remote mountain lake, people swimming, speedboats(!). Had there been an accident cars were parked in every passing place and traffic jammed. This is dangerous tourism incompatible with our offering
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Canlyniad gwych I Blaid Cymru yng Ngwynedd. Diolch o galon i bawb Superb result in Gwynedd for Plaid. Huge thanks to all
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I've written to Jeremy Corbyn to ask if he'll join
@Plaid_Cymru
& others & publicly voice concern over developments in
#CatalonianReferendum
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On my way to London to fight to save our democratic right to oppose a ’no deal’
#Brexit
and what could be the most serious abuse of power in living memory.
#StopTheBrexitCoup
⛔️🏴
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Michelle O’Neill is completely right
Many of us in Wales look on with envy at the north of Ireland’s continued access to the European single market
Brexiteers’ arguments have all evaporated - we must rejoin the single market
@moneillsf
@Plaid_Cymru
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Independence is a viable option for Wales’s future.
The status quo is not.
Those are the two most striking conclusions of the
@Comisiwn
report published today 🏴
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1,223 words but not a single mention of Wales
Da ni’n haeddu gwell na hyn
We deserve better than this
@Plaid_Cymru
🏴
Today's King’s Speech ran to 1,223 words, making it the longest monarch’s speech at a State Opening of Parliament since 2005
The Standard's political team
@nicholascecil
and
@jitjoshi
give a recap here 👇
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Shocking that the UK Government is rewarding Avanti for chaotic and unreliable services
Not an extra penny of taxpayers’ money should be going towards rewarding this shambolic operator
Privatisation of rail has been a disaster for the north Wales line
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My thanks to all who worked so hard and those who votrd for Plaid Cymru in Arfon and accross Wales
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Labour failed in Arfon in 2019 They piled in workers form Merseyside and beyond by-passing seats they later lost to the Tories Held their final Sunday rally in Bangor starring J Corbyn Better to unseat a radical Plaid MP than fight the Tories They don't deserve your vote in 2021
Leaked document shows Labour decided not to defend Welsh seats – despite knowing 18 could fall
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It has been great to work with so many talented people so committed to our country, and to defending the rights of ordinary people world wide. But also to secure such support from the people of Caernarfon and Arfon over 6 elections. I hope I have repaid your trust. Sincere thanks
After 23 years of service, today is
@HywelPlaidCymru
’s last day as Member of Parliament for Arfon
Diolch for your tireless work for the people of Arfon and all of Wales, Hywel 🏴
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Today I will be voting to protect the interests of my
#Arfon
constituents and Wales and will be opposing the so-called deal brought back by the Prime Minister.
#SuperSaturday
🏴
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Been asked to explain this photo. The Labour 1st minister of Wales said today that nationalism is inherently right wing and incompatible with socialism. This is the MP for Swansea East - Labour
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I'm going to London today to meet other MPs to discuss Brexit and how to avoid a disastrous no deal outcome No doubt the Prime Minister will condemn us for doing our duty
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I tonight joined my
@Plaid_Cymru
MP colleagues in voting for an immediate
#ceasefire
in
#Gaza
. We stood for international law, for the protection of civilians, and for peace.
#CeasefireForNOW
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'Anyone can be Welsh -as long as you're prepared to take the consequences.' Gwynfor Evans
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We are already struggling to recruit care workers in Wales
If people can’t come with their families, they may not come at all
This is reckless and short-sighted by the Tories
Today in Parliament we have laid an order to ban overseas care workers from bringing dependants.
This is just one part of our plan to deliver the biggest-ever cut in migration 👇
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Panel in Deeside 🏴:
2 Tories
1 journalist but a former Tory adviser
1 New Labour Lord with no links to Wales
and a lone voice of reason in
@DavidLinden
No political, national or gender balance, with more Davids than women
So, business as usual for BBCQT
On Question Time tomorrow, Fiona will be joined by David TC Davies, David Blunkett, Charlotte Ivers, David Linden and Guto Harri
Join us and an audience from Deeside at 8pm on
@BBCiPlayer
or on
@BBCOne
after the 10 o'clock news
#bbcqt
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Ynys Môn's Conservative MP asks a chummy question about freeports
Completely silent on her colleagues boozing at Number 10 while her constituents suffered in lockdown
Siomedig
#PMQs
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Darren Millar AS complains about the alleged cost of new Senedd members. I can't recall any Tory objecting to Boris Johnson stuffing the unelected House of Lords with dodgy Tory donors.The current estimate of renovating the Palace of Westminster is £22,000,000,000 i.e.£22 billion
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Westminster’s plan to scrap the Senedd's Trade Union Act is an attack on workers’ rights and on Welsh democracy itself
The illusion of the Union as a progressive force has long vanished
Only independence can protect our rights and our democracy
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Diolch i bawb a fu'n gweithio mor galed a phawb a bleidleisiodd dros Blaid Cymru un Arfon a thros Gymry gyfan
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Now on 10.1 million views! How long are you going to pretend you haven’t seen it
@BBCNews
@bbclaurak
@itvnews
@Channel4News
@SkyNews
!
When will you finally step up and hold this truth twister to account? What’s it going to take?
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We in
@Plaid_Cymru
welcome the news that
@metpoliceuk
have finally confirmed they will investigate alleged illegal parties in Downing Street while the rest of us were in lockdown.
Nobody, including those at the very top of government, should be above the law.
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The verdicts and the sentences passed on the Catalan democrats are an indelible stain on Spain's already sullied history of democracy and oppression. The EU cannot reain silent. Rhag eu cywilydd.
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Airbnb to me today. From 9 am today "it will not be possible to book a stay on Airbnb in the United Kingdom during the current crisis", for stays from April 18th. They will prohibit listing the words " COVID" "coronavirus" and "quaratine". After Easter, late but welcome
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Lord Geidt finds Boris Johnson didn't break the ministerial code over funding the Downing Street flat refurbishment 'A Tory donor settled an invoice but Mr Johnson was unaware of this'. I suppose the PM does understand Ignorantia juris non excusat - ignorance is no defence in law
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Plaid Cymru MPs were the ONLY Welsh MPs to vote against the HS2 bill in 2013
The Tories and Labour claimed it would benefit Welsh passengers, but we withheld our support unless Wales would receive consequential funding
(Article from 2013)
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I'll let you draw your own conclusions on this one.
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1 What is the value for Wales of a constitutional monarchy when the monarch apparently has no choice but agree with the Prime Minister 2 What is the value for Wales of a parliament in London that can be shut down at the Prime Minister's convenience
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I have just finished phoning supporters in Penygroes and Y Felinheli. All had already been out to vote or were on their way.Our support standing firm.
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