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LONDON WANTS MORE WELSH WATER
“Get your house in order before taking more of Welsh water”, was the response today by Plaid Cymru following a suggestion by GMB union to take water from Wales to London.
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I was criticised last week by a leading Mid Wales political activist for sharing a post that called these visitors "idiots", I apologise; I should have said 'arrogant, self centred, idiots'
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Our local MP - who opposed the Welsh 2 week lockdown - now believes we should join the English lockdown for the extra 4 weeks. We've seen Conservatives in Montgomeryshire shout against this lockdown - now they want more!!! You can't make it up.
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Of the 50 businesses stated as wanting bilingualism and against the Welsh Bannau Brycheiniog not one, yes not one of them implements bilingual websites or bilingual strategy! Try and create a positive Welsh Sense of Place image rather than create false fears
@ElganHearnLDR
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Pwy sy angen pwy? Who needs who? Wales is wealthier than we're often led to believe
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The best ever result for Plaid Cymru in Maldwyn - doubling our previous best. This despite a tide towards Labour and the desire of many to tactically vote to get rid of the Tories. Why not join with our growing movement and be part of the future
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Was there ever a more obnoxious leader of any party in Wales?
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New Secretary of State for Wales refuses on
@BBCWalesNews
to give the £4bn due to Wales!! Where is the fairness?
@Plaid_Cymru
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Need I say more. Politicians It's not difficult
- have % cap number holiday homes each community
- make planning change essential as for everything else
- increase rates and block avoidance tactics
- create a local housing market - Simple !
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Another drowned valley in Mid Wales? That's the threat with the new powers the Internal Market Bill give Westminster over infrastructure. Combined with demands by the Shrewsbury MP to 'control' the Severn 'upstream' should be enough of a warning
@CountyTimes
@Plaid_Cymru
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Watch
@BBCCountryfile
and the emphasis on shortage of water in Sth England. The narrative being set to steal more of Welsh resources for a pittance. Watch out for plans for new dams or make existing ones larger in Mid Wales
@PlaidPowys
@CountyTimes
@BBCCymruFyw
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Powys has contributed so much to our history. Cilmeri, Sycharth. Brynglas, Glyndwr's Parliament and Llyfr Coch Hergest. We need to make the most of that an see the County as a Celtic Knot unifying the country rather than a gap between North and South. Strength in unity.
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Perhaps they should get rid of their Parliament as some Tories say should happen to our Senedd !!
Hundreds of farmers protesting in Canterbury! A lot of support too 🚜 🇬🇧 🪧
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Great seeing neighbours of Conservative party Chair, Glyn Davies, supporting
@Plaid_Cymru
😊
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Complaints today about people at holiday homes here, saying they are going to Barmouth - "there's nothing you can do about it." Cummings should have been sacked sending a clear message. Sad our Powys Conservative MPs supported him resulting in disregard of our communities.
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Highland clearances again - the same thing is happening in Wales - clear the indigenous families away, undermine our language and culture and let holiday homes and expensive houses rule whilst our young people are living with parents or on housing lists. Some Conservatives try to
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Don't be a 90 minute Welsh person, proud of Wales at internationals, waving our flag and wearing a red top; believe in Wales and our potential all year. Start the New Year with a commitment and join us
@Plaid_Cymru
, don't just talk about Wales - be Wales
@PlaidMaldwyn
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This obnoxious Conservative MP for Shrewsbury who wanted to get rid of our Senedd so he could visit the beach. Now grovelling to Saudi Arabia to get a personal deal. I challanged our Conservative MP & MS at the time to condemn his actions. I do the same again.
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Rishi Sunak claims he’s on farmers’ side-
Tories cut Welsh farm funding by £243m since Brexit
Tories undercut our farmers through deals with Australia and NZ
Tories allow supermarkets to rake in profits while farmers get a pittance
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Powys has contributed so much to our history with Cilmeri, Sycharth. Brynglas, Glyndwr's Parliament and Llyfr Coch Hergest. We need to make the most of that an see the County as a Celtic Knot unifying the country rather than a gap between North and South.
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Pleased that Powys Council have supported our motion to increase annual rates on holiday homes to 75% premium. Welcome cross party support.
@PlaidMaldwyn
@Plaid_Cymru
@Cymdeithas
@BBCCymruFyw
@derynbech
@TrawsEffect
@LloydCymru
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Welshpool market. Montgomeryshire Glyndwr farmers have had enough of Trade deals with Australia and lack of leadership they want a strong voice for fairness
@Plaid_Cymru
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Powys councillors vote unanimously for 75% tax hike on holiday homes
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Interesting to see a Brecon town cllr leading the campaign against
@BreconBeaconsNP
Welsh name - a town council which doesn't have any Welsh on it's website!! Hypocrisy and arrogance
@BnRExpress
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Wales supplies hundreds of millions of litres daily to these companies for a pittance of 3p per tonne - shareholders having creamed £57 bn since privatisation whilst dumping sewage in our rivers, Sad irony that the residents of Wales now pay more than most for water.
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"I'm proud to be Welsh. And I am proud to be speaking Welsh."
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Diolch am eich cefnogaeth. Diwrnod hanesyddol i Faldwyn. Plaid Cymru sy'n cynrychioli traddodiad Cymru Fydd. Rydym yma o hyd !
Montgomeryshire Result:
CON - 48% (+6)
PC - 18% (+8)
LD - 17% (-11)
LAB - 14% (+8)
REFUK - 2% (+2)
GWLAD - 1% (+1)
Conservative HOLD
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The Conservatives 2021 manifesto said:
· “Plant at least eight million trees a year, to soak up around half a million tonnes of C02 a year,
· complained the Welsh Gov weren’t meeting their target for tree planting
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Extra bank holiday if England wins Euros but never any mention of allowing a St David's bank holiday for Wales!!
Starmer raises hopes of extra bank holiday if England win Euros
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Angen dileu 'Happy valley' ac 'Artists valley ' ger Machynlleth
@CyngorGwynedd
@CeredigionCC
Dim mwy na imperialaeth diwylliannol oes a fu
@Golwg360
@Cymdeithas
@Plaid_Cymru
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Plaid Cymru announce Powys councillor to be candidate in next general election
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This surely begs the question when Craig Williams will be arrested? The electors deserve clarity
@mywelshpool
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@Simonhartmp
Get your facts right. They present planning to a Welsh council, get bar licence from Welsh authority, implemented smoking ban on Welsh legistlation and received Covid grants from Wales. This isn't Woolies pick and mix !
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Our Conservative MPs have failed us; failed our farmers, our rural communities. They can try and hoodwink, spin, and justify, but history will show that their actions this week will do the same damage as the Conservative policies of the 1980's did to our coal mining communities.
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Imagine the benefits to Powys if we merely got 1p a litre for it – the financial problems of our public services locally would be solved.
London – go away!”
ENDS
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With the ultra right anti Wales running the Conservative party, now's the time for the Welsh national movement to be inclusive, tolerant, open and welcome those in the centre ground who want to build a new Wales
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Good news
@PowysCabinet
have confirnmed that they will increase the council tax premium on holiday homes to 75%. This alone won't solve all the housing challanges in our communities, but it will send a clear message that want to enable our young people to live in our communities
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Rishi Sunak heddiw yn honni ei fod ar ochr ffermwyr
· pwy dorodd cyllid amaeth Cymru £243m ers Brexit?
· tanseiliodd ein ffermwyr efo Cytundebau Masnach Awstralia a Seland Newydd?
· caniatodd archfarchnadoedd neud elw mawr tra bo ffermwyr yn cael arian pitw ?
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Are you a progressive Welsh labour supporter? Do you just follow all that Sir Keir tells you to do? That's what will happen with Vaughan Gethin as leader. If you want progressive Welsh values, a voice for your communities then join me and Plaid Cymru and the best of those values
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This was the message last night at Llanfyllin with
@LSRPlaid
and
@PlaidPowys
@CountyTimes
@mywelshpool
Thames Water wants up to 180m litres of Welsh water a day, despite losing 630m litres daily to leaks
The company is £14bn in debt yet paid over £200m in dividends in the past five years
Wales shouldn’t bear the brunt of the Tories’ failed privatisation
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With this revelation, our Plaid Cymru statement - “These reports speak volumes about Craig Williams’ judgement. No-one in a position of power who respects those who elected them would behave in this way. It’s time to get rid of the Tories from power with a vote for Plaid Cymru.”
BREAKING: MP Craig Williams has confirmed he faces a probe by the Gambling Commission over a bet on the General Election
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Following the news the Tories have pulled the plug on Craig Williams placards continue to hold up. Join with this movement for change with
@Plaid_Cymru
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oes angen dweud mwy? Gwleidyddion gweithredwch!
- rhowch uchafswm % tai haf oddi fewn pob cymuned
- gwnewch hawl cynllunio yn orfodol i newid o anedd
- codwch treth cyngor arnynt yn sylweddol
- cynyddwch treth tir/stamp duty ar y pryniant
- creuwch marchnad dai leol - Hawdd !
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Pleased to welcome Welshpool town councillor, Nicola Morris as
@Plaid_Cymru
member. Joining Plaid from Labour as we understand the needs of rural Wales and are proactive locally in ensuring environmental issues are on the agenda. Croeso Nicola.
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I'm pleased to welcome
@emilyvdurrant
as our new
@Plaid_Cymru
Cllr
@PowysCC
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@CountyTimes
@PlaidMaldwyn
@PlaidYstrad
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Politics for me is about much more than elections every few years, its about people and communities. I'll still be working in Montgomeryshire after the election day in day out. Putting people first.
@CountyTimes
@mywelshpool
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Would those Conservatives in Powys now like to justify the actions of their fellow member who has travelled to his holiday home on Anglesey, or is it one rule for most of us and another for the privileged ?
@CountyTimes
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Dual stream education is not a bilingual education. Children in Welsh stream/ education become bilingual, children in English stream become English first language.
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WAKE UP WALES
We see continued pressures on our public services. The backlog of school building maintenance in Powys is worth £77 million. We see the threat to our leisure centres with increased energy costs crippling swimming pools. Now a survey conducted by
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Gwych cael cwmni Dafydd Iwan heddiw yn Rhosllanerchrugog. Great to have the support of Dafydd today at Rhosllanerchrugog
@Plaid_Cymru
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Whilst the Conservatives claim they support our farmers remember who voted to lower food standards allowing cheap imports to undermine them ! Worth noting that Craig Williams was one that voted for this.
@aSamEvans
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Dafydd Wigley; with deep Montgomeryshire roots, supporting Elwyn Vaughan
@Plaid_Cymru
as a strong voice for fairness for our communities
@CountyTimes
@mywelshpool
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Conservative Fay Jones MP, James Evans MS and other Tories are on the wrong side of history today as they rant their anti Welsh bile about Bannau Brycheiniog. Learn your history - ah of course you don't want us to learn Welsh history!
Cofnodir enw "Y Bannau" ym marddoniaeth Gymraeg yr oesoedd canol.
The name "Y Bannau" is recorded in medieval Welsh poetry. This isn't renaming, it's embracing the area's heritage. Da iawn
@CroesoBannauB
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Good to have potential support for the arts sector to the tune of £59m. However, if the support in England is £1.57 billion surely with the 5% Barnett consequential shouldn't Wales be receiving £78.5 million? Where's the missing £19.5 million?
@Plaid_Cymru
@HelenMaryCymru
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Sycharth = beth am barchu ein treftadaeth Cyngor Powys ? How about respecting our heritage Powys?
@CountyTimes
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Cambrian Line beyond Machynlleth closed for at least 10 days Need for investment in our railway infrastructure is obvious, the Conservative Westminster Government want to spend £106bn+ on HS2, yet refuse the expected £5bn consequential funding for Wales Wake up Wales
@CountyTimes
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Thank you for the best wishes as a result of being on the Mid & West Wales list for Plaid Cymru. I can now confirm that I will be standing in Montgomeryshire for the Senedd election, to be a positive voice for our rural communities. A strong voice right to Offa's Dyke,
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A certain AM who didn't live in Wales before elected, has no interest in the country, opposed to other nationals who live, work and are here full time having a vote !!? 🤔Pot, kettle, black !
@WalesPolitics
@WalesOnline
Our Presiding Officer
@yLlywydd
has just voted to drive through highly partisan legislation giving voting rights to foreign nationals in Wales. How can she claim to be impartial?
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However Plaid Cymru leader in Powys Cllr Elwyn Vaughan said; Get your house in order and stop trying to take all the resources from Wales all the time. You pay pittance for what is already taken, merely 3p a tonne or 1,000 litres.
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1. Yn dilyn y cwthrwfwl wythnos yma am sylwadau Cynghorydd o Bowys yn deud ei bod yn erbyn i'r Gymraeg cael ei 'gorfodi' ar pob rhan o Gymru, dwi'n falch iawn cael dweud mi fydd Cyngor Powys yn trefnu hyfforddiant ymwybyddiaeth iaith i pob Cynghorydd. Croesawaf hynny'n fawr.
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Rewilding is a pretence for multi millionaires of doing something for conservation. It's modern 'highland clearances' and colonialism - it suits the Tory agenda of Trade Deals, importing our food and let our farming communities go to the wind
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Says the man who wanted to ignore rules and visit a beach. There's a reason they've given him a job in Mongolia, take the hint and leave Wales alone.
@CountyTimes
@ShropshireStar
@Plaid_Cymru
@PlaidMaldwyn
@mywelshpool
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Catalunya, Euskadi, Scotland and much of Wales standing against the ultra right. We are the internationlists based on self determination not colonialist imperialism
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To confirm I will be standing for the Plaid Cymru Mid Wales regional list to be a strong voice for our rural communities, challenge the establishment, ensure that all of Mid Wales is heard and listened to, right to Offa's Dyke.
@PlaidMaldwyn
@PlaidCeredigion
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Pleased to get the support today of a respected Ind Newtown County Cllr Joy Jones. We've campaigned together for the future of the air ambulance & for public services and knows that we need a champion for Newtown, Mid Wales and Montgomeryshire Glyndwr at Westminster
@Plaid_Cymru
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gas and electricity up for the average family by £686, fuel up by £314, the average weekly shop by £85, Universal Credit cut by £1,040, National Insurance up by £150 and frozen tax allowances will cost another £300, that's £2,875 in Mid Wales where the median salary is £27,000.
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Haleliwia. Cabinet Powys di cadarnhau ymgynghoriad statudol I neud Ysgol Caereinion yn ysgol cyfrwng Cymraeg.
@Golwg360
@Cymdeithas
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something ironically bonkers with our so called democratic system. Former SNP leader arrested re monies given to a pro Indi party for Indi purposes yet Tory leaders in London despite billions of dodgy deals with mates and chums getting off scot fee!! Bonkers.
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Tories lied to farmers promising the world but have cut the agrifunding £242m to Wales, £1bn less than EU funding and the Trade Deals with Australia and New Zealand. Yes they gave you the world - their vision is for food to come from the far reaches of it
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@WelshConserv
why lie? Tories cut Welsh farm funding by £243m since Brexit
undercut our farmers through deals with Australia and NZ
Tories allow supermarkets to rake in profits while farmers get a pittance
Liz Truss bonkers budget caused high inflation, costs, interest rates for farmers
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Great to have the support of former Montgomeryshire
@WelshYouthParl
Jake Dillon at Welshpool for
@Plaid_Cymru
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At a time of austerity and financial pressures for families the 250 richest in UK are worth £710 billion up from £658 billion in 2021 ! We're in this together - no we're NOT !
@PlaidPowys
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Strong voices at Welshpool market against the Australian Trade Deal. Shame our Powys Tory MPs voted for it.
@AledNfu
@Plaid_Cymru
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Ah the Hunt budget gives £5m towards Mid Wales farm innovation - only another £238m due as promised to equal agri funding to Wales at Brexit. Where's the money for Welsh farming?
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Says the party with 9 AM's in 2019 employing family members!
Welsh Tory leader pledges to end 'Assembly gravy train' at party conference
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Powys council Cabinet aporove plans to make Caereinion school all through Welsh medium to ensure bilingual skills for all.
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We supply 360 million litres a day at a mere 3p a tonne If we were paid properly Mid Wales would receive hundreds of millions of pounds transforming our economy and public services which are being cut every year
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100 mtrs from Offa's Dyke at Prestigne and the challenge is the same for our communities.
@Plaid_Cymru
housing policies relevant to the border
@bev_baynham
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This further highlights the need for water to be seen as a valuable resource, a commodity and Wales is fortunate to have it, however we cannot allow it to be taken and used by large corporations and fritted away whilst our communities get pittance from it.
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Pwy di'r twpsyn sy di adfer llygredd diwylliannol enw lle wrth agor pont newydd dros y Ddyfi?
@CSPowys
@LlywodraethCym
@Golwg360
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Pleased to welcome Gren Ham Leader of the Green Party to Plaid Cymru
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