Leanne Wood 💚💛
@LeanneWood
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Internationalist. Socialist. Former leader of Plaid Cymru. Co Exec Director - Community Energy Wales. Ambassador - Ramblers Cymru. she/her.
Rhondda, Republic of Wales
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Wow. It’s Christmas Day, you are an MP and this is the message you want to send out.
History will not look kindly on these people.
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Have we all forgotten about covid & Downing Street parties then?
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All MPs who voted to end the universal winter fuel allowance for pensioners, should be prevented from claiming any allowances or expenses for energy costs. For good.
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Top tip: if you don’t want to be called racist, don’t be racist. Well done
@IanBlackfordMP
- more of this calling it out please. 👏👏👏
SNP's Ian Blackford calls Boris Johnson "racist", saying the Tory leadership frontrunner is "stoking division, and has a record of dishonesty"
#PMQs
updates:
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Yes, I takes sides.
I side with the oppressed, the put-down, the poor, the underdog, those without power, or money or weapons.
It’s not wrong to take sides against those misusing or abusing their power.
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The Prime Minister’s briefings on Angela Merkel are shameful. An absolute disgrace.
I am sorry to people in Germany for the UK Prime Minister’s behaviour. He doesn’t speak for all of us.
🇩🇪 🏴
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Stephen Yaxley Lennon is now an asylum-seeker. Oh, the irony!
🤣🤣🤣
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Anti-fascists in the US need our solidarity now more than ever as far-right forces try to make out that they are the source of the problem. 'ANTIFA' is short for 'anti-fascist' - not something to hide away from.
Who here is proud to be anti-fascist?
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No, Thatcher didn’t close the pits because she wanted to reduce carbon emissions. She did it to kill an industry, a powerful trade union & she ended up dealing a severe blow to our strong communities. It still hurts.
Ditch the crap jokes. No one’s laughing.
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You don't understand our country, you know nothing about our culture, you are just trying to whip up hatred and division. Take it elsewhere.
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This is not an equal conflict.
There is not equivalence on both sides. Huge power imbalance.
Those defending Palestinians should not be allowed to be silenced.
Humanity must take a stand against what is happening.
#AChildIsAChild
#StopTheViolenceNow
At least six Palestinian children killed in the Gaza Strip this evening, four from one family. The number of child casualties is likely higher. It is time to prevent any further escalation of violence, protect civilians, and stop all violations against children.
#AChildIsAChild
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Is this two-tier sentencing?
Two months in prison for the thug rioter who smashed the windows out of a police car. While the Just Stop Oil protesters get 4 and 5 YEARS for a peaceful protest. WTF 🤷
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If criticism of Israel’s government is anti Semitism, is criticism of the Saudi Arabian regime islamophobia / racism? Need to be clear on this, as I am a critic of the leadership of both of these countries & want to be neither anti Semitic nor islaphophobic.
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The new political map of a Tory free Wales.
It’s a good morning indeed.
😊
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“Integrity”?
Who thinks the Prime Minister should resign?
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Have the Greens and reform both got four seats each, same as
@Plaid_Cymru
?
Can we now expect equal media coverage for Plaid & Greens as the far right get?
🤣
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Llongyfarchiadau / congratulations to all the new
@Plaid_Cymru
#Senedd
members - you will all be awesome, I know it. 🤩
Great to see all the far right gone from our national institution too. Every cloud...
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Dominic Raab says on Radio 4 “they were working under gruelling conditions”.
When you come from a family of miners, factory workers & bus drivers, or if you’ve worked in the the NHS or care, or in a supermarket, this statement is privilege on steroids.
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Terrible news.
On a personal level, I’m wishing
@NicolaSturgeon
all the very best. On a political level, we are all the poorer for losing her.
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Poverty is not inevitable. It is a political choice. Different choices can be made.
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Labour MP representing a constituency with a strong socialist history takes yet another swipe at socialism.
And. Gets. OWNED.
Solidarity
@AlanRMacLeod
✊
#Rhondda
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On this day in 1966, a coal tip slid into a school in Aberfan. Today I’ll remember all those killed on this day, everyone killed by coal and all other industrial disasters.
People should mean more than profit, but we don’t.
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I really don’t care about who the Prime Minister or anyone else sleeps with or what else they do in their spare time.
I do care about corruption though.
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If you are more angry about protestors at Stonehenge than you are about genocide in Gaza, you need to have a big, loud word with yourself.
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I must have been called "Natalie" over a hundred times today. This made me smile though.
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With the UK death rate among the worst in the world, now is not the time to tell people to stop making political points. All of this crisis is political. Everything. These death rates are a result of political choices. Those choices must be scrutinised.
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Giving airtime to someone who attacks our culture and our efforts to promote it is not 'freedom on speech', it is cheap sensationalism that gives oxygen to a dangerous hatemonger.
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Delegates who sang God Save the King didn’t sing “the” national anthem,
@BBCr4today
. They sang the national anthem of England.
In Wales, Scotland & Ireland, we have our own national anthems. None of them are “the” national anthem.
Hope that helps.
#equals
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Against: 263
The policing bill passes the second reading in the UK Parliament.
This is a direct attack on democracy. It helps to make the case for an independent Wales.
#PolicingBill
#SilencingBill
#RightToProtest
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Women must be free to walk in the streets at any time of day or night, without fear.
#ReclaimTheNight
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Da iawn Glasgow 💪
Police have released the men who were detained after a Home Office raid in Glasgow sparked protests.
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This cannot be justified.
There are children going hungry.
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Something is very wrong when a veteran BBC correspondent of 25 years thinks that our public broadcaster is “enabling and facilitating fascists". I share these concerns & await a response to my previous tweet on this from the
@BBCNews
@BBCWales
@rhodritd
The BBC is enabling fascists and I'm ashamed of it. Here's my letter to Lord Hall.
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What utter bull.
How are we expected to believe anything they say on the economy when they peddle crap like this?
The economy could have crashed if winter fuel payments for pensioners weren't cut, Labour minister claims
Read more🔗
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Current drugs laws don’t work. Gangs, Class As, violence, deaths. The status quo has failed.
It’s time for reform.
Time for cannabis decriminalisation.
Time for devolution of the criminal justice system.
Time for substances to be treated as a health issue.
Nonsense answer from Keir Starmer on the decriminalisation of cannabis.
“Drug gangs and criminality” aren’t a reason *against* decrim, they’re an argument for it.
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@Plaid_Cymru
condemns the detention of Carles Puigdemont
@KRLS
in Germany. He’s done nothing more than seek change through peaceful & democratic means. Wales & UK must express support for people’s right to decide their own future.
@JillEvansMEP
@catalangov
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To all the people having a go at teachers - STOP IT. NOW!
Like all key workers, teachers face risk just by going to work. Children of other key workers are being looked after as well as work being set for kids at home. Teachers work hard. Leave them alone.
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This tells us all we need to know about UKIP. I call on all Assembly Members to join me in refusing to give them mainstream party status in our Senedd.
#NoDealingWithUKIP
#CordonSanitaire
#FreezeThemOut
#No2TheFarRight
#OpposeFascism
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What a load of complete & utter BS!
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I remember disagreeing with Tim Martin on
@bbcquestiontime
about this, back in 2016. He was arguing the opposite position to this then.
Too late mate.
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Three options for dealing with the far-right / reform=bnp
1. Ignore them.
2. Pander to them & concede ground to them.
3. Take them on. Challenge them. Expose them. Fight them. Not give an inch.
I’m for option 3.
Who is with me?
#StopTheFarRight
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So ddraig goch bad, union jack good, is it BBC?
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In the 500-odd pages of the draft Brexit withdrawal agreement and no part of it refers to Wales.
This says it all.
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Message to all with “an accent” - don’t be intimidated by these idiots with posh accents. Many believe they are superior to the rest of us. Bless them.
Different accents, languages, class backgrounds makes life interesting.
#LoveYourWelshAccent
#UKParliament
Sitting in the finance bill watching Tory MPs mock the accent of a Welsh MP. Probably never left the Westminster bubble before. Just dreadful behaviour.
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Those who say Churchill was a villain after his actions in Tonypandy during 1910/11 were right.
#Rhondda
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“JCB, which has donated millions of pounds to the Conservative party and at least £25,000 to Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign”
The chair of JCB & wife paid for £27k worth of takeaways for PM during lockdown.
Police ....?
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The tories are stinking, corrupt, lying, greedy, racist, capitalist little Englanders who get off on the poverty & hardship of working class people, who they despise.
If I withdraw that straight away, it doesn’t count, right?
#VaccineNationalism
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Would you ever move to another country then become the leader of a political party that seeks to abolish the parliament of that country? Who would do that?
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Politicians need to stop doing “visits”. There was no need for the Prime Minister to visit Scotland and there is no need for visits to vaccination centres. Please stop. It takes up valuable time, it is unnecessary travel & it gives out the wrong message.
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Let us never forget David Kelly. May he rest in peace.
THREAD
17 years ago this week the Welsh scientist, weapons inspector and MoD employee, Dr David Kelly, was found dead. It was following interviews he had given to two BBC journalists that blew apart Tony Blair's false claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 1/15
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Well done organisers of the
#BLM
protests for calling off the march in London today. Far-right types can now fight each other. They won’t have “leftists”, POC or virtue-signalling snowflakes to attack. Perhaps we’ll now see where the violence is coming from.
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.
@BBCRadio4
continues to give airtime to the
#FarRight
- item now on a Bannon organised “symposium” on the US / Mexican border. Is anyone surprised to learn that Bannon supports our new Prime Minister? How connected is he into the far right, populist network?
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But this isn’t true. The Tories did not accept the Assembly referendum result in Wales in 1997. They continued to campaign against devolution. Theresa May voted against in Parliament after the referendum result.
#StopLying
some extracts from May’s speech in Stoke tomorrow, fascinating point about the original vote for a Welsh assembly
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Keith, you are an absolute disgrace.
#TransRights
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer says that trans women should be banned from women-only spaces.
Asked if trans women (even those with GRCs) have the right to use women's spaces, Starmer said: "No. They don’t have that right. They shouldn’t".
(Via The Times)
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Tony Blair should be tried for war crimes, not given platforms to pontificate.
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Absolutely lovely to catch up with good friends while in Edinburgh.
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Dear
@BBCWales
- why are you reporting a mixed result for
@Plaid_Cymru
, when we are up 33 seats?
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Do you have to be an arsehole all the time? Have a day off.
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This was at today’s
#independence
march in
#Merthyr
.
🏴🏴🏴🎶😎
[You will need to turn the sound on]
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Wales should now recognise Catalunya as an independent country. I will be pushing our National Assembly on this.
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I know the argument. I disagree with you. Thatcher caused untold damage to my communities. She is not forgiven, even after all this time, because we are still living with the consequences of her actions. A statue would rub salt in our wounds.
@LeanneWood
Leanne, I never said I agreed with her or liked her politics. My point is women are hugely lacking in public space, as in public life, and statues should not only be of those we agree with. My full piece is here:
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Such a shame she felt the need to apologise. She is right and was speaking the truth.
Never trust a Tory.
Welsh bishop issues apology for "never trust a Tory" tweet
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It’s getting silly now.
Conservative MP launches campaign to put a portrait of Mrs Windsor in every British home
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This is an outrage. It’s what dictators do. Classic. Are we going to just allow it to happen, folks?
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What happens when you talk about incel ideology.
Stay classy bois. I’m sure your mothers are very proud of you.
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Found this today. It’s from when I & others were arrested outside the base in Scotland where the trident nuclear submarines live. It was part of an organised protest against these obscene weapons of mass destruction. They are still there.
#Faslane365
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Dear trans folk
Please know that not everyone is against you. You have allies and supporters -
plenty of people who know you are valid, and now is the time for all of them to step up.
#IStandWithTransPeople
#StopTransBullying
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Of course they were going to go all out to take this journalist out.
@carolecadwalla
has been consistent and persistent. I stand with her.
It’s official. The biggest political donor in British history - the subject of a criminal investigation by the NCA - is using his who-knows-where-it-comes-from millions to take me to court.
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For those who don’t know - Plaid Cymru means Party of Wales. That’s the translation. It’s the name of our party.
So no, we aren’t the “self styled party of Wales”,
@Plaid_Cymru
= the Party of Wales (in case you’ve been listening to Radio 4 this morning).
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Hope everyone enjoys the bank holiday weekend off work (for those who are off).
Remember, without protest, there would be no extra holidays. There’d be no voting either.
The right to protest is precious. Not something we can allow to be lost.
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Of course Gibraltar is a British colony. Just look at where it is. 🤔
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How about a 5% wealth tax so that austerity could be ditched, poverty could be tackled, a green revolution could be kicked off & people’s basic needs could be met?
Unite calls for 1% wealth tax on super-rich to fund UK public sector pay rises
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What does a politician have to do to resign these days?
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I work for Wales to become independent because that’s best chance we have to build a better Wales. I want equality, an end to poverty, the ability to improve our economy & plan for our futures. If independence doesn’t give us that that, what would it be for?
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Imagine governments being able to blow up our phones.
It just happened.
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Dear
@SkySports
@SkyUK
,
You have made an error here by placing an England flag over Wales. Does someone need some basic geography lessons, perhaps?
I look forward to you rectifying this mistake & I hope you won’t be using this graphic again.
Diolch.
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At what point do you just adopt the Conservative manifesto?
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has ditched his promise to abolish the House of Lords in a first term as he seeks to make the Labour manifesto "bombproof" of Tory attacks
[
@ObserverUK
]
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Why isn’t this called corruption?
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