Any party political content posted by my profile is promoted by Patrick Loxdale, both of the Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion Conservative Federation, Winston Churchill House, Upper Market Street, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, SA61 1QA.
Honour of a lifetime to have been selected as the prospective
@WelshConserv
candidate for Ceredigion Preseli at the upcoming general election.
I’m looking forward to being a strong Welsh voice for rural Wales!
@CeredigionCons
@PembsTories
@Conservatives
Today I officially became the
@WelshConserv
Candidate for Ceredigion Preseli.
Thanks to everyone who put their trust in me to get this far. I wont let you down.
@Amanwy
@davewalker
You can’t cut bus services in
@Pembrokeshire
one week, and then prioritise a £20 million car park/bus stop the next.
Imagine how the public feel about that?
I do genuinely understand your aims/end goal, but you and your Cllr colleagues are focussing on vanity projects rather
A week has passed since
@PembsTories
and
@CeredigionCons
members put their trust in me to fight for them in Ceredigion Preseli the next election.
Eternally grateful for all the support I’ve received, and I will do my best to make you all proud!
@WelshConserv
@Conservatives
🇬🇧 Campaign Officially Launched ✅ 🚀
It’s an honour to be able to represent the
@WelshConserv
in the Ceredigion Preseli constituency at the next general election, an area that I hold dear to my heart.
🎥 The media - Tory Party Conference is dead
🌳 Reality - The largest
@Conservatives
member and business turn out in over a decade!
More than that, the party is united and ready for the next GE.
Well done
@lukerobertblack
and
@LGBTCons
for organising a cracking closing party!
@RhunapIorwerth
This Co-Operation agreement with Labour is literally the definition of a coalition Rhun.
The ‘temporary and specific reason’ being delivering the Sustainable Farming Scheme set out in the agreement
If you don’t believe in your own policies, how can you expect others to?
I have just been to vote for Ian Harrison, the
@Welshconserv
candidate for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections today.
Get out to vote today, and vote Ian HARRISON for safer rural communities.
Don’t forget your ID!
@Conservatives
Lovely sunny afternoon out in Kingswood today!
Residents repeatedly told me that they want a truly local candidate for the upcoming by-election, and it’s clear that only Cllr
@SamBromiley
can deliver for them.
@Conservatives
@ToryVote_
When like-minded people get their heads together for the sake of one common goal, good things happen.
Very proud to represent our Welsh farmers in this process as Wales Chairman of
@ConRuralForum
🏴
@WelshConserv
will always stand up for Welsh Farmers.
Our team are passionate about our countryside, and the work the
@Conservatives
are doing to protect our rural communities.
Huge thanks to all those who helped to deliver our Manifesto Launch last week!
Fantastic evening at the
@ConRuralForum
AGM last night in Parliament
As we head into the GE, I’m looking forward to proving to rural voters that the
@Conservatives
will always be on their side.
Thank you also to
@gregsmith_uk
for attending
Here’s to another fantastic year!
Only the
@WelshConserv
can realistically stand up to Plaid Cymru's chaotic rule in Ceredigion.
A vote for me on July 4th is a vote for a true, rural Welsh voice who will always put Ceredigion and North Pembrokeshire communities first.
The audacity of Plaid Cymru rowing back on the fact that they’ve supported Labour’s war on our Rural Communities.
If Liz and her party had any spine left, they’d end the Cooperation Agreement - not soon, but TODAY.
@WelshConserv
are the only party that care about farmers. Fact.
Sunak’s Tory government has taken a wrecking ball to Welsh farming
Shoddy trade deals that undercut our farmers are just one example
He does not care about Welsh farmers and is shamelessly jumping on a bandwagon to try to scrape back a few votes
🇬🇧 🚜 There’s nothing like birthday campaigning!
I had a fab day at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society's event at Trawscoed farm in Ceredigion
🏴 🚜 Dim byd tebyg i ymgyrchu ar dy penblwydd!
Ddiwrnod bendigedig gyda Cymdeithas Amaethyddol Frenhinol Cymru ar fferm Trawscoed
🚜 🇬🇧 🏴 🚜
Honoured that Welsh members of the
@ConRuralForum
have endorsed me to become the Wales Chairman
Agriculture, without doubt, is one of the most important policy areas in every government
At the end of the day it keeps food on our tables
🇬🇧 🚜 🌽 🌾
Very pleased to announce that following a meeting of the executive committee, I have been voted as the Vice Chairman for Wales of the
@ConRuralForum
Looking forward to working with
@LizzieHacking
and her team, as well as agriculture colleagues both sides of the
Great to talk to
@AndrewRTDavies
y’day on issues of the day
We discussed:
🚜 How the SFS scheme pause will affect our famers
🏴 What school closures in Ceredigion would mean for students and the Welsh language
🤢 What Pembs residents can do about ongoing issues at Withyhedge
@Steven_Swinford
@LBC
During the 2022 Local elections in Wales this was one of the key topics that came up on the doorstep - particularly women’s safe spaces. The main talking point on the doorstep was Labour’s decimation of the Welsh NHS but I don’t think Kier wants to talk about that either
🇬🇧🐄🥛
Is there anything better than a fresh milkshake?
Yes!
A farm fresh milkshake bought direct from farm, with young farmers and their businesses supported along the way!
Diolch Can Llâth
The fact that
@vaughangething
is refusing to step down as
@PrifWeinidog
is just solidifying Welsh Labour’s utter contempt for the Welsh public and democracy.
As Mrs T said: “Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.”
Read. The. Room.
Does this mean you will finally listen to the people of Rural Wales and end your cooperation agreement which has brought about all this pain today
@RhunapIorwerth
?
🚜 Whist the Tories shout from the sidelines and the Welsh Labour Governmrnt refuse to listen to our farmers,
@Plaid_Cymru
IS the voice of rural Wales!
🏴 The future of Welsh farming must be secured!
Despite
@Plaid_Cymru
HQ's spin and bluster suggesting that
@PrifWeinidog
had committed perjury, they continue to prop up this failing
@WelshLabour
Gov without fail.
It's time PC stopped acting like a university lobby group and did the right think by ending the Co-OP agreement.
Amazed at how
@Plaid_Cymru
are trying to re-write history, claiming the SFS scheme is nothing to do with them, despite it being in their Co-Op agreement.
The biggest show of support they could give to our farmers is to end this Co-Op agreement this week.
Are they up to it?
🏴☀️
Great day out today talking to residents and visitors of sunny Aberaeron!
🏴 ☀️
Diwrnod allan gwych heddiw yn siarad â thrigolion ac ymwelwyr heulog Aberaeron!
Llawer o gefnogaeth gan bobl sydd eisiau llais cryf i godi llais dros eu problemau!
Vaughan Gething is making a total mockery of Welsh politics and is doing lasting damage to the public’s trust in political processes in Wales.
This was never about party politics, it’s about being a decent human being and understanding that actions sometimes have consequences.
Vaughan Gething says he wants a “new start” after losing Senedd vote of confidence, insists he won’t resign, but acknowledges it’s been “difficult” for his own party members.👇
Great to welcome
@SCrabbPembs
to Johnston last night for the selection meeting.
Stephen has given me fantastic help and guidance since I was elected to council in 2022, and I look forward to working with him for many years to come.
Pembrokeshire Conservatives are proud to announce the that
@SCrabbPembs
will be our candidate to fight for the new Mid and South Pembrokeshire seat at the next general election.
We can’t wait to get out on the doorsteps talking to residents.
@Conservatives
@WelshConserv
Another great piece of work by
@ShiptonMartin
.
At the risk of sounding like a Lib Dem, I have concluded that there simply is no way back from this for Vaughan Gething and he must now resign as
@PrifWeinidog
.
Cymru deserves better than this.
Evidence has emerged that Vaughan Gething misled the UK Covid Inquiry and the Senedd by concealing the fact that he deliberately deleted records of conversations he had with other ministers ✍️
@ShiptonMartin
Plaid Cymru once again forgetting that they signed the agreement that allowed Labour to bring SFS in, in the first place.
This is too little too late from
@Plaid_Cymru
, they have a long way to go to earn farmer’s trust.
@WelshConserv
have always stood up for our Welsh farmers.
A Welsh Labour candidate has confirmed that he doesn’t want Vaughan Gething to campaign in his constituency during the run-up to the general election because of the controversy surrounding him ✍️
@ShiptonMartin
Utterly embarrassing from
@WelshLabour
.
It’s no wonder their commitment to the Welsh language has been so poor in this campaign.
Labour candidates continue to show their contempt for the people of rural Wales.
What happened to country first, party second?
A Welsh Labour general election candidate wanted to switch seats this week to one where she’d have a much better chance of winning, we have been told ✍️
@ShiptonMartin
@vaughangething
The only person undermining devolution and political process is you.
You just aren’t happy with the public having any sort of choice because you know they’d never support you and your choice of donors
Great to see our
@Conservatives
government supporting rural communities!
Unfortunately, Welsh farmers and rural communities are once again at a disadvantage because
@WelshLabour
’s refusal to implement a similar policy.
Only the Conservatives will stick up for rural communities.
🌧️ The Farming Recovery Fund already provides up to £25,000 for farmers who suffered uninsurable damage due to flooding from Storm Henk.
Last week, I confirmed this will be extended to support more farmers significantly impacted by water on their land this winter.
🇬🇧🍳
Fantastic brunch this morning at
@CrwstCymru
followed by a brisk walk around New Quay!
Crwst’s success is really one of West Wales’ best news stories, and Welsh Gov should seriously reconsider their business rate relief cuts to make sure businesses can succeed and grow
Labour's activist guide is telling people to campaign in Ceredigion Preseli because "we need just a 5.3% swing to win this seat from the Conservatives". I'm pretty sure
@BenMLake
will be surprised to hear he's a Tory now 😂😂
@tomhfh
I know I may be biased having a degree in Agriculture and being a former UK Agriculture student of the year, but I can’t help feel that the Agricultural figures must be skewed with farmers typically making gains in capital over their lifetime as opposed to ‘cash in the bank’
Sam is right.
@WelshLabour
are totally out of touch with how Welsh farmers and landowners think, feel and operate.
While the
@Conservatives
are driving forward English agriculture with innovative schemes such as SFI and utilising new technology with the Precision Breeding Bill,
We have a Welsh Government hellbent on driving Welsh farming families off the land. This is deeply upsetting and yet another kick in the teeth to our agricultural industry by a Welsh Government that doesn’t care for our farmers of their families.
No point in debating with the leader of
@Plaid_Cymru
because they are joint at the hip with
@WelshLabour
and are now indistinguishable in Welsh Politics.
Vote Plaid, Get Labour.
It’s that simple.
Starmer and Sunak are running scared
The leaders of Labour and the Tories claim to want to represent the whole of the UK but refuse to debate the leader of Plaid Cymru
We’ve told them to come to Wales to debate
@RhunapIorwerth
🏴
It’s official,
@WelshLabour
and
@UKLabour
have proven in the past week alone that they are not the party for Rural Life or Businesses, and certainly not fit to govern the UK.
❌ Cutting the Welsh Rural Affairs budget by 8% (or over 10% if factoring in inflation)
❌ Continuing
Fantastic Work From Home set up today in Johnston!
Thank you to the ladies at The Larder for looking after me all day with plenty of Coffee, Cake and Food!
🏴🚜
Pleser i fod mas heno gyda’r Fforwm Gwledig Ceidwadol i lansio maniffesto am 2024.
Mae Llafur Cymru a Phlaid Cymru wedi gadael ei’n ffermwyr lawr.
Y Ceidwadwyr Cymraeg yw’r unig parti am faterion gwledig.
@ConRuralForum
@WelshConserv
@Conservatives
Plaid Cymru needs to decide if it has influence or not
The Sustainable Farming Scheme is literally in their Co-Operation Agreement, but this week they claim it’s all on Labour
@Plaid_Cymru
MS’s and MP’s should at least have the courage to believe in their own policies
And Conservatives ask me in amazement why we won't work with them.
When they purposefully lie like this then they will *never* have *any* influence in the Senedd.
The only thing they know is how to tear down and destroy things. Building is anathema to them.
Labour have once again shown their distain for farmers in this manifesto.
Seems like they are indeed using their diabolical track record in Wales as their blueprint for the UK.
The
@Conservatives
will always stand up for farmers and ensure the UK’s future food security.
🚜
Great day today at
@CeredigionYFC
rally.
Members really showed YFC at its best, and I’m proud to have been part of this organisation for so many years.
Enjoy the dance tonight! 🕺💃
Plaid Cymru’s faux anger at this is pretty pathetic
Your party is quite literally keeping Labour in power in the Senedd
You have the power to bring change by ending the cooperation agreement yet you choose not to
Do the right thing for the people of Wales and end the agreement
😠An environmental offender’s company that donated £200k to Vaughan Gething’s campaign to be Welsh Labour leader is £400k in debt to a Welsh Government-owned bank.
‼️ We need an immediate independent investigation into these dodgy donations.
The way
@Plaid_Cymru
loyalists are attacking
@1GarethWynJones
is abhorrent.
Online threats and abuse is exactly why we don’t have good people like Gareth in our Parliaments.
Plaid Cymru MP/MS should call out these attacks + praise Gareth for fighting for Welsh agriculture.
This evening at the Autumn meeting of
@JohnstonPrimary
School’s board of governors meeting I was elected the Chair for the forthcoming year.
Making sure that the next generation have a strong educational foundation and all they need to prosper is something I have always been
🇬🇧Good to be out on doorsteps in Johnston today with
@SCrabbPembs
MP talking to residents about their day to day concerns.
Lots of talk about Wales’ failing NHS, poor GP access, social care and road safety.
@Conservatives
@WelshConserv
@GregHands
Don’t listen to what
@UKLabour
say about being a changed party, look at what they do where they are in power.
Lowest education standards in the UK, abysmal record on the NHS…
Welcome to
@Keir_Starmer
’s blueprint for the UK.
Vaughan Gething now being heavily briefed against by his own side:
“Welsh Labour is a party that aims to bring Wales together. It’s difficult to see how Welsh Labour can do that if there are fundamental doubts about the integrity of the First Minister.”
Today’s vote by
@WelshLabour
,
@LibDems
,
@Plaid_Cymru
and some Independents at
@Pembrokeshire
full council to increase 2nd Homes Council Tax premiums to 200%, with ZERO evidence of how many houses they expect it to bring back into general circulation is utterly deplorable.
This
‘Past Couple of Years’ 💀
I have know idea of why Pembs Labour and
@WelshLabour
are so embarrassed of their candidate’s background that they make up a fictional past that he’s local.
Embrace the North London Lawyer stereotype, the rest of your party has!
That’s
@TufnellHenry
nominated and ready to fight the GE for Mid and South Pembrokeshire. Super proud to be his agent and I can’t think of anyone who has worked harder over the past couple of years.
🏴
Da iawn i ysgol
@JohnstonPrimary
ar gynnal digwyddiad wych heddiw i ddathlu coroni’r Brenin a’r Frenhines. Cyfle da i dynnu sylw at gyfleusterau ffantastig yr ysgol!
Tywydd braf, a roedd y lemonêd ffres yn taro'r smotyn, wedi'r cyfan roeddwn i'n teimlo ychydig yn 'Horse'!
🇬🇧🚜
I'm proud to be part of a
@WelshConserv
party which has such a good track record of sticking up for our farmers like myself.
🏴🚜
Rwy'n falch o fod yn rhan o barti gyda hanes mor dda o sefyll lan am ffermwyr fel fi.
🏴 Lansio’r Ymgyrch yn Swyddogol ✅ 🚀
Mae’n anrhydedd gallu cynrychioli etholaeth Ceredigion Preseli fel Ceidwadwr Cymraeg (
@WelshConserv
) yn yr etholiad cyffredinol nesaf, lle sy’n annwyl i mi.
🇬🇧
Honoured to have been made ‘Member Champion for the Welsh Language’ on Pembrokeshire’s County Council.
I look forward to working with Cabinet Member Cllr Guy Woodham and also Cllr Delme harries going forward.
#Wales
#Welsh
#Pembrokeshire
#Politics
Good to be out with PCSO Adam Thomas this morning showing him some areas of concern in the village and chatting with residents!
Please get in touch with myself or Milford Haven and Neyland Police if you have any issues you’d like to discuss!
@DyfedPowys
🏴
Anrhydedd i’w hi i gael fy ngwneud yn ‘Aelod Bencampwr dros y Gymraeg’ ar Gyngor Sir Benfro.
Edrychaf ymlaen at weithio gyda'r Aelod Cabinet, Cynghorydd Guy Woodham a hefyd Cynghorydd Delme Harries wrth symud ymlaen.
#Cymru
#Cymraeg
#SirBenfro
#gwleidyddiaeth
Busy day yesterday making three appearances on the media in one day including
@NewyddionS4C
and
@BBCRadioCymru
.
No prizes for guessing what the topic was 🙄
Liz knows that the £338m available this year for farmers is the same yearly budget as when we were EU members.
Plaid Cymru simply can’t accept the result of a democratic vote and are after nationalist soundbites.
If she bothered to go out and speak to farmers like myself; she’d
The audacity of Welsh Tories:
leaving Wales to pick up the pieces of their Brexit shitstorm, imposing some of the worst PMs in history, ignoring our interests with amateur-negotiated trade deals, & playing on farmers’ genuine fears to revive Conservatives’ zombie credibility
Sad to see how far
@Plaid_Cymru
have fallen
Once a party I respected, now reduced to nothing more than a weak crutch propping up a broken
@WelshLabour
government
How the ‘Party of Wales’ can remain in the co-op agreement and oversee the loss of 5,500 rural jobs is beyond me
🇬🇧
Fantastic food, company and views tonight at The Sloop in Porthgain.
Evenings don’t get much better than this - roll on summer!
🏴
Bwyd, cwmni a golygfeydd ffantastig heno yn y Sloop ym Mhorthgain.
Nid yw nosweithiau'n mynd yn llawer gwell na hyn - dere’ mlaen haf!
Plaid Cymru are up there with some of the most divisive political parties
They’ll quite literally say or do anything to get votes while trying to gaslight that they are the party of ‘fairness’
Plaid Cymru are acting like a high school lobby group, not a serious political party
Big thanks to Father Christmas for coming to Johnston and spreading some joy around the village last night!
He seems to be making a habit of stealing my phone for a quick selfie too!
@oldishbird1
@SteveBarclay
@Conservatives
You do realise the Welsh government get 20% more funding per person (£1.20 for every £1 in England) for the Welsh NHS, right?
NHS funding in Wales isn’t the issue, Labour’s management of the funds are.
🇬🇧 It was fantastic to walk around Johnston this afternoon with PCSO Adam Thomas, highlighting some of the key areas in the village where problems may arise.
I look forward to working with his team again soon!
@DyfedPowys
🇬🇧 🎄
Another fantastic Christmas Eve service at St Peter’s church in Johnston this evening.
It was also nice to take the Mother along out for her birthday!
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, and a peaceful New Year.
🎄 🏴
Gwasanaeth Noswyl Nadolig Ffantastig arall yn
A fantastic joint surgery had today with
@PaulDaviesPembs
I always find these surgeries beneficial - as well as those I have with
@SCrabbPembs
- so we as a team of
@Conservatives
can work together at all political levels to help the people of Pembrokeshire the best we can!
Great to hold a joint surgery with Cllr Aled Thomas in Johnston this afternoon. Lots of issues covered and as usual, plenty for us to take back to the Senedd and County Hall.
🇬🇧
Great to have been out earlier with
@SCrabbPembs
to mark Day 1 of the ‘The Great British Spring Clean’. It’s upsetting to see so much rubbish on the verges around Johnston but together we can get it sorted 👊🏻
@WelshConserv
@Conservatives
Good to team up with Cllr Aled Thomas
@AgriAled
in Johnston ward today for another Pembrokeshire litter pick. Four sacks of drink cans, coffee cup lids, fast food wrappers collected from road verges outside the village.
Deeply disappointed to hear Emily Thornberry talk about class sizes the way she did yesterday.
Labour won’t be content until they’ve decimated education across the entire country, judging on their blueprint record in Wales.
📰 Bridget Philipson tells
@TimesRadio
she will have a word with Emily Thornberry over the school tax row - after saying class sizes may get bigger
📰 Our Page 2 today
Great to be out in Llanelli this a.m with Richard Williams, he’ll be a fantastic Councillor for Elli.
Lots of anger on the doorsteps with Labour + Plaid Cymru’s pet projects, people just want their taxes spent on services they need.
Good to see
@RobertBuckland
on top form too!
I would believe
@hannahblythyn
over
@PrifWeinidog
Gething any day of the week.
But even if she did do it, sacking someone for telling the truth pretty much sums up the sorry state of Welsh Labour under Gething and is a glimpse of what’s to come under
@Keir_Starmer
I am deeply shocked and saddened by what has happened today. I am clear and have been clear that I did not, nor have I ever leaked anything. Integrity is all in politics and I retain mine.
1/2 🧵
@Dave_Kirby5
@BBCWalesNews
The Welsh Government get £1.20 for £1 on the NHS in England.
It’s it’s easy to blame the Welsh Government, because it truly is their fiscal mismanagement.
(1/3)
🇬🇧News today that inflation is likely to drop further reminded me of a conversation I had with &
@VaughanRoderick
recently on
@BBCRadioCymru
🏴Roedd newyddion heddiw bod chwyddiant yn debygol o ostwng ymhellach wedi fy atgoffa o sgwrs a gefais yn ddiweddar ar Radio Cymru
*SHOUTS LOUD FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK*
Nobody is against sensible and necessary 20mph zones through busy pedestrian areas and outside schools for example
What the people of Wales ARE against are Labour’s constant totalitarian blanket policies
@WelshConserv
@AndrewRTDavies
Very wet Lancashire. Stunned to see 20mph signs, I assumed it was only a Wales thing judging by some tweets.
So either...
20mph places exist in England also or....... parts of England have secretly been holding referenda and are now incorporated into Wales.
How people can continue to support
@WelshLabour
after they have utterly destroyed the Welsh NHS despite getting £1.20 for every £1 in England never ceases to amaze me
This is what a Labour government in the UK will see, prioritising vanity projects over our health services
As
Great to see such a fantastic turnout at
@Pembrokeshire
music service’s ‘Music at the Manor’
Great to see so many young people from north schools getting involved in the arts!
Summer weather finally on its way!
@GBNEWS
A blanket with holes in it is still a blanket.
Also shameful he failed to mention that it’s going to cost the Welsh economy £4.5 billion (maybe even up to £8.9 billion).
Labour claiming to be the party of a growing economy is laughable. 🥀
A privilege to be asked by
@centrepointuk
to take part in a panel discussion on Youth Homelessness, giving a perspective on our challenges here in
@Pembrokeshire
Lots of agreement between
@simon_jeal
and I, confirming this issue is far bigger than any party politics
Delighted to join
@centrepointuk
’s webinar presenting their databank on youth homelessness this afternoon, Great to share local picture from
@LBofBromley
and hear from
@AledTPembs
- a lot of consensus across parties at local level that actions needed I think!
🇬🇧
I was honoured to attend a service at St David’s Cathedral today with Johnston community Council’s Chair Cllr Nina Philpott, to celebrate The Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
The choir’s singing always sends a shiver down my spine!
#KingCharles
#Coronation
A new era has begun!
Great evening at the inaugural AGM of the joint
@PembsTories
and
@CeredigionCons
Federation
We are lucky to have a fantastic bunch of officers to kick off the federation, as well as such hard working representatives in the Council, Senedd and Westminster!
Hopefully the national media will finally take an interest in Wales and look at what Labour actually do where they are in power, and not just what they say!
🇬🇧
Great day out with Jack Parker from
@CeredigionCons
in Llanfarian today helping him campaign for the Local By-Election July 20.
Ceredigion Council needs a young, enthusiastic voice and I have no doubt Jack is the man for the job.
@WelshConserv
@Conservatives
@GregHands
🎄 🇬🇧
Fantastic Christmas Carol service at St Peter’s church in Johnston this evening.
Getting a Chrstingle brought me back to my childhood in Sunday school!
Looking forward to the week of festivities ahead!
🎄 🏴
Gwasanaeth Carolau Nadolig Gwych yn eglwys San Pedr yn