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Just a reminder that there are 49 countries in Europe.
#Wales
’s economy is larger than 26 of them.
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My daughter said in response to someone else saying “we’re never going back to normal are we” that:
“Normal was rubbish anyway and we can build a better normal can’t we?”
She’s twelve. 🏴
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If Wales didn’t have to pay for HS2 which will cost us £5B with no benefit to Wales we could afford to have 30 new members for the next 417 years.
An additional 30 members of the Welsh Parliament would cost around £1m a month, according to the latest figures
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Mental exercise:
If Wales with a deficit of £13b which is 17% of GDP can’t be independent.
How can the UK with a forecast deficit of £350b which is 19% of GDP manage to be?
It makes no sense.
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Wales has ended up having to pay the bill for policies over which it has no control - HS2/Crossrail/SercoTrack&Trace fiasco. etc. Welcome to our world.
"England will end up having to pay the bill for policies over which it has no control"
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Drakeford has a distinguished academic career as Professor of Social Policy and Applied Social Sciences before becoming a Welsh government minister. Do jog on.
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Fixed it.🏴
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The Welsh NHS is doing an excellent job of containing covid in Wales. There are only 24 people in the whole of Wales in hospital due to covid [UK = 954] and only 2 of those on mechanical ventilation [UK = 134].
An extraordinary achievement to date.
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This in the Metro's good.
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This is incorrect.
England has contact tracing 50%.
Wales has contact tracing 90%
4 weeks to go until schools open in England & Wales, & our *world beating* test & trace system is finding only 50% of Covid contacts
Memo to ministers: sort this out now. Your incompetence risks not only public health but our children's education & future
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This is interesting. Wales has a lot of rivers.
#Innovation
This whirlpool turbine by
@TurbulentHydro
can power dozens of homes
It can be installed at most rivers & canals to generate
#CleanEnergy
#RenewableEnergy
is the future.
#ClimateAction
#ClimateActNow
#GreenNewDeal
#Sustainability
#Hydropower
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RT Davies is a disgrace quite frankly.
The First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, has just shouted at the leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies, in the Senedd after a question about the Welsh NHS…
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We've tried this approach for the last 450 years and it's not worked so no thank you.
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In time the term Britain will become a term like Scandanavia which in local terms covers the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It will be geographical and not tied to a single nation state.
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“Recent polling shows that Wales is now the republican heartland of the UK, overtaking Scotland as the most traditionally anti-monarchist region”
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Whatever happens tomorrow Rhun has lead a cracking campaign. Ymlaen.
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Just a reminder that
@Cymru
is a word descended from Brythoneg [combrogi = fellow-countrymen] that we have used to describe the place we live since the 7th century.
It is not new - it is ancient and it is apt.
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“independence would make Wales 'like Albania' “
Welsh GDP is 5 times that of Albania.
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Welsh independence is a national emergency.
That is all.
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£180k price tag sounds made up to me. This looks more like a political U-turn rather than a cost one. So well done
@yescymru
and the petition signatories.
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Isn't the Health Secretary Eluned Morgan?
The Health Secretary said restricting outdoor exercise in Wales is not justified or proportionate
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Of the 186 countries the IMF ranks in terms of GDP per capita Wales would currently sit roughly 40th similar to Slovakia and Portugal. I.e. in the top 20%
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This is the Llangernyw Yew and is estimated to be 4000-5000 years old and still growing. One of 3 of the oldest trees in the world. The other two are in White Mountains California and in Iran. [Llangernyw near Llanrwst]
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Nationalise it. A G7 country can not lose its primary steel making capacity. It would be absolutely nuts to do so especially now.
Tata Steel threatens to shut Port Talbot blast furnaces early over strikes
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At some point
#Wales
has to have a conversation about taxes. If we compare the total revenue from taxes & social contributions across the EEA states we find France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden & Finland at the higher end. If we taxed like France does our income = ~£31B 1/
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How many housing associations does a country of 3 million need? And how much are these CEO salaries? Jesus wept.
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Trying to manage a Covid response in Wales without direct access to a central bank and treasury's ability to fund it - emergency social support, UBI, furlough, business support - is an absolute nightmare isn't it.
It should be a huge lesson for supporters of devolution.
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This is a nonsense way to work. England decides what it wants to spend in England and then Wales, Scotland and NI get a proportional amount of that amount. But it’s England that decides. If Wales wanted to allocate new money to a project it couldn’t. Doesn’t work that way. Broken
Britain said it was guaranteeing 3.7 billion pounds of additional funding this year to be split between Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to allow the devolved governments there to plan their coronavirus response
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Wow this is a real blow for
#Wales
. This is high-value precise manufacture gone because of supply-chain problems - being outside of the EEA and customs union a likely cause.
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Just delete this. Not a single person in this photo is a member of the
@WelshGovernment
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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Max Hastings’ cheque’s in the post. Outstanding work in support of:
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I remember Brown giving a similar speech in Cardiff some
years ago with Carwyn Jones.
We are way past this now.
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It seems inexplicable to me that we can find money for Ineos like projects that go nowhere owned by the richest man in the U.K. but can’t find the money to secure our National Library that also houses our national archives.
@NLWales
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Happy Chinese New Year of the Ox.
*video sent from Singaporean relative. Nice piece of CGI.
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How about instead of these somewhat draconian measures WG and its councils redirect its focus towards access to exercise - pools, gyms, lessons at prices people can afford.
France does this very well indeed.
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It might be prudent I think if
@yescymru
or other welsh indy organisation considered funding an academic research group or PhD to look at what would be required to set up a Welsh central bank and independent currency.
Discuss.
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No, this *is* what Britain is. Let’s stop deluding ourselves.
This is not what Britain is - and not what British police are.
This is our police being used as government enforcers for a government over-obsessed with controlling culture whilst preaching an alarm around the protection of free speech.
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Here we go again. Any lagoon should be owned by the Welsh public for the benefit of the Welsh public. Not some corporate welfare grant handout where we end up not owning the means of the production of energy and only its consumer and bill payer.
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“When Cardiff's first Welsh language secondary school, Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, opened in September 1978, protesters gathered to greet pupils coming off the school bus with posters proclaiming 'Welshies go home'.”
I think we’ve come along way since🏴
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Electrification Cardiff to Swansea - cancelled
Tidal Lagoon - cancelled
Wylfa B - cancelled
UK gov Flooding relief - non existent
Brexit dividend - non existent
10 years of austerity.
Shall I go on?
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It is starting to grate that some politicians in Wales do not realise that the Johnson administration is as corrupt and dangerous as the Trump one. Both administrations have the same core. Time people woke up to that here and for snarky politicians to can it or listen up.
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My son's class have been studying Antartica and the south pole this week. What they didn't cover was that the team that reached the magnetic south pole first was led by Edgeworth David - explorer & geologist who was born and raised in St Fagans - 4 miles from their school.
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We have completely lost sight of what the economy is for.
People do not exist to serve an economy the economy exists to serve the people. And yet we find ourselves now talking about the economy as an entity to "protect" at the expense of people who work and live in it. Bizarre.
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When you start firing on unarmed civilians you’ve lost all arguments.
Just been sent this from a friend in Barcelona. The Guardia Civil are just firing rubber bullets randomly at people.
#CatalanReferendum
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I’ve never been more for Welsh independence and at the same more against devolution than right now. It’s an absolute shambles how Wales is governed.
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Thread. If Lloyd isn’t a future President of Wales I’ll eat my hat.
Just a quick thread: The figure Alun Cairns has used here includes residents outside Wales who have been counted in our figures. In reality, the number is 1,025.4, which is lower than England. 1/4
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This isn't true. Welsh GDP £75B. Per capita = €27072 ish.
HIgher than Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Estonia.
More than three times that of Belarus.
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Wales will now see attacks from Westminster on devolution, will watch Scotland push closer to independence with the SNP's renewed mandate for Indyref2. Let's hope Labour are up to it.
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@ScottManies
Welsh GDP is £75B so the current deficit is 18%.
UK current deficit is £300B on a GDP of £1800B so 17%. Explain to me how UK could possibly be an independent state?..
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Absolute nonsense. Malta has vaccinated per capita more than the UK has. And Malta has a population of half a million. Seychelles, Israel, Cayman, Bermuda, San Marino, Chile, Maldives. All vaccinated more per capita than we have.
📰 "Wales wouldn't have a single vaccine" if it were independent, says Tory MP
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BAME history is Welsh history.
"Wales to become first UK nation to make Black, Asian and ethnic history mandatory on school curriculum". What amazing news to follow after the reveal of the Betty Campbell statue last week!
#annibyniaeth
#indycymru
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Cancelled the lagoon project
Cancelled the electrification of rail Cardiff to Swansea
Underfunded Innovate R&D UK spend in Wales
Failed to deliver WylfaB (but that’s fine actually )
Undermined devolution for decades.
Screwed up brexit, covid, and the economy.
#hadenough
Brexit: UK ministers set to get new Welsh spending powers - Welsh Labour Govt criticising legislation which would allow us to spend extra money in Wales. Unbelievable.
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“Growing the Welsh economy” and “punching above our weight” is so late 2000s.
It ignores automation, distribution, extractive capitalism and insecure wages. Our economy is large enough - it’s just poorly distributed and our tax base favours the wealthy. That must change.
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Seriously, just nationalise it. If it were a bank we’d have done it by now. It’s a strategic asset and we have no idea what security risks the future holds.
Tata Steel says it would consider additional future investment in its Port Talbot plant if there was more government funding
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Come back to me when they electrify the train line between Swansea and Cardiff, which the UK gov are responsible for.
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What a disingenuous headline. The truth is that Wales received £375m per year from the EU. It will now get £46m. £329 million less.
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I think YesCymru needs to employ a full-time experienced CEO answerable to the board to steer it through choppy UK waters. That CEO can then employ a small team of FT/PT paid individuals to run the core YesCymru machine & volunteers can then be drafted for the rest. Reasonable?
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Albania - similar size and population to Wales but half the GDP.
Today we signed a trade deal with Albania 🇬🇧🇦🇱
The agreement secures vital certainty for business and supports 🇬🇧 jobs.
We’ve now agreed deals with 64 countries plus the EU, covering £897bn of trade.
Trade = opportunity = jobs
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“Voters back new-build second homes ban in Northumberland”
Imagine the uproar if west Wales did the same.
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Just spent a week in France seeing family there and the standard urban speed is 30kph. Spent a day in London and 20mph was the norm in central London on the majority of roads. Lives will be saved. Weaponising against this new urban speed is the latest right wing culture nonsense.
People are crapping all over the plans to change Wales' speed limits to 20mph instead of 30mph.
There is a lot of noise about it but having looked at the evidence I believe this is actually a really good bit of policy.
Let me explain.
[Thread]
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I tell what I'd like - a full list of Russian donations to Tory coffers, please and thank you.
Welsh Conservatives have called for the Senedd to be lit up in the colours of the Ukrainian flag.
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#brexit
is now the side show. We leave in January.
The breakup of the Union is now the main event.
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Is it just me or is it unreasonable to expect primary school teachers to go back to school without being vaccinated?
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Exactly this. Sending Labour MPs from Wales won't make much difference to a Labour supermajority. A rather pointless exercise. Sending 32 Plaid on the other hand would make an enormous difference to how Wales is represented there.
@Plaid_Cymru
@RhunapIorwerth
@GMB
I have to say, the more I listen to Rhun ap Iorwerth the more he impresses me.
I was undecided, but I think it's Plaid for me now. We need someone to hold Labour to account in Westminster - can't see Welsh Labour doing it.
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A country with a central bank and its own currency need not do this.
UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts
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@NationCymru
How about a sculpture that looks an awful lot like a train line that runs the length of the Wales and has a practical application..trains?
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Not including the Green Party is scandalous. They at least have 8 councillors in Wales. Reform has no representation in Wales at all. Pandering.
The line-up for BBC Wales’ Election Debate on 21st June
Vaughan Gething MS – Labour
David TC Davies -Conservatives
Rhun ap Iorwerth – Plaid Cymru
Jane Dodds – Liberal Democrats
Oliver Lewis - Reform UK
Apply here to be in the audience:
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If we had a Welsh central bank and treasury we could implement it yesterday.
Iceland can and it’s one sixth the size of
#Wales
Mark Drakeford calls again for the UK government to restart the furlough scheme
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She should have a word with the Home Secretary.
Priti Patel says UK should have closed borders in March 2020
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That this has to be published in the National in Scotland rather than a paper in Wales says a lot about the state of our newspapers.
Labour folded when called upon to protect Wales from power grab
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Number of personal current accounts in Wales is ~2.5million.
We know that banks make profit of about £400 on each account in charges/products/overdrafts per year.
For Wales that is £1 billion a year being made by banks not HQd in Wales.
@banccambria
will change that. 🏴
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Good riddance UKIP, Abolish, Reform. Carpetbaggers get packing.
The final result is:
Labour - 30 (+1)
Plaid Cymru - 13 (+1)
Conservatives - 16 (+5)
Lib Dems - 1 (-)
#Senedd2021
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If Wales was an independent country it would have both a central bank & its own functioning treasury. If it wanted to raise finance in the markets or quantitative ease it could do so like so many countries in Europe large & small already do.
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First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford says 'the treasury is meant to be for the whole UK, not just England' and adds the Welsh government have not had 'a sufficiently regular and reliable pattern of engagement with the UK government'.
#KayBurley
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UK deficit is now £300B and rising. UK GDP has fallen to £1.8 Trillion. So UK deficit is +17% of GDP. And yet UK didn't suddenly lose its sovereign status this year did it?
The Welsh "deficit" that apparently stops us being an indy nation is a sham argument. Ignore it.
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There are 17 sovereign states in Europe with economies smaller than Wales'.
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Also must point out that this £4.4B is the result of a Barnett Consequential. I.e. decision to spend in England is made first [£77B] and then Wales gets a proportion of that.
Wales does not get the £4.4B if England doesn't get theirs first. That's how UK funding system 'works'
£4.4B is less than 6% of GDP. So not an enormous stimulus by any stretch of the imagination.
Furlough was not offered for Wales' firebreak. Only when England decided to have theirs.
Only 1/3 self-employed people helped.
48K bounce back Loans means only 1/4 companies got one.
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I dared to suggest on BBC Cymru/S4C News TV 3 months ago that furlough should be extended until March and was scoffed at with "who will pay for it?".
"Sunak expected to extend furlough scheme to March"
Well now.
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@ScottManies
Your first statement is incorrect. Based on current GERW Wales raises £27.1B in estimated revenues and Wales TOTAL expenditure including WG block grant, defence, foreign policy, pensions, welfare etc is £40B.
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A truly "radical" Wales would have:
1. 90% of all land owned by the state [Singapore]
2. High proportion of state owned housing [Singapore]
3. Free college & university education [Germany/Switzerland/etc]
4. State owned rail [Germany]
5. State ownership of companies [Singapore]
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Wales is not a normal country nor a nation at all in the global sphere. Why? Because teaching Welsh history here to any level of depth is *so* controversial.
Are there many places like this on earth?
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You couldn't vote because you were in Manchester. If you had done what you are paid to do which is to attend the debate and vote then there wouldn't have been a problem.
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I'd start with PPE contracts and Greensill Capital.
Today the Public Sector Fraud Authority has been launched to hunt down those who commit fraud against the public purse.
Backed by £25m in new funding, the organisation will also work with departments & public bodies to test & improve their fraud defences.
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Abolish are a tufton street think-tank funded astroturf lot that want Wales entirely controlled by Westminster. The Welsh NHS absorbed into the English NHS. So that means the reintroduction of prescription charges, further privatisation and control by Matt Hancock. Nightmare.
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Tata, UK gov & WG have had at least 10 years to prepare for this. What a shambles - key critical national asset allowed to fall at what is a critical juncture in global security. Steel is the number one industrial material. We are fools to rely on imports.
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This 20mph debacle is quite the distraction from some very serious budget cuts coming our way in the next few months.. austerity on steroids.
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To only spend 5 hours debating a 1246 page Trade agreement with our largest trading partner and for the opposition party to vote along with it blindly is not the work of a properly functioning democracy.
We will repent at leisure.
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God this is tedious. Just rename yourself EnglandOnline and be done with it.
Nearly everything Johnson said was applicable to England only and not to Wales, Scotland and NI.
Live coronavirus updates as Boris Johnson addresses the nation with his 'roadmap' to end lockdown
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Next week Spain will see a heatwave over 45 degrees centigrade. And yet we complain about a disrupted tennis match and a protest blocking illegal mining in south Wales. Fools all.
Spain, close enough to make us want to do something about the climate emergency? Nah, just carry on as we are.
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What the UK treasury did was increase the deficit to £350b, issued new gov debt to cover it. Then the Bank of England created new money via quantitative easing & then used that new money to buy £350b worth of government debt back off the market. Bank of England is owned by UK Gov
Adam Price says an independent Wales would have borrowed the money required to run its own furlough scheme
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