Richard Martin
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@ceritheviking
A huge advantage of being an entirely neutralised, economically negligible, easily flattered population inside the settled borders of the kingdom. Left to erode rather than forced to crumble.
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“The Princess of Wales”
What an embarrassment for Wales & the Welsh national teams:
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Wow, not seen this before. The UK (excluding London) is shockingly poor. Big problems with a mono-polar economy, even across a multinational union.
h/t
@john_tomaney
on LinkedIn
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Absolutely damning stuff from
@PrifWeinidog
today.
The UK Government has 'turned its back' on the governance of the union and hasn't participated in any of the intra-union government meetings since Liz Truss became UK Prime Minister. Severe peril for public services ahead.
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Woke madness! What about the businesses in these areas that have invested in their brand! People will always use the old name! What a waste of money! Where was the consultation?! How are visitors meant to know how to pronounce “III”?!
#BannauBrycheiniog
To celebrate the
#Coronation
and recognise a lasting legacy for people and nature, we’re renaming the iconic
#EnglandCoastPath
:
👑 King Charles III England Coast Path 👑
Once complete, it will be the longest
#NationalTrail
in the UK!
Read more:
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Oof, spread that on your toast.
@PrifWeinidog
obvs not in the mood for diplomacy today.
The tradition of Welsh Gov Ministers shying away from directly criticising their union/Anglo Gov counterparts is long gone. Double Ooof.
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Quite something to see a Chinese representative dismiss the UK like a human swatting away a fly.
Should be essential viewing for those Europhobes banking on China/USA deals saving the British economy after Brexit.
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I guess the cliche is true after all, the people who go to the stadium aren’t really Wales supporters - this is one of the least convincing I’ve seen for years.
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‘Outrageous that devolved administrations need to spend precious resources to shield them from [UK] Government policies’ says Corbyn, in surprising defence of
@theSNP
Scottish Government
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Seems somewhat telling that the Welsh, Scots, and Irish premiers all congratulated Joe Biden before Boris Johnson.
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Wow. Would love to know how
@Plaid_Cymru
will respond to the
@guardian
not placing them in the top 6 General Election parties, despite having more MPs now that the Greens/Reform have *ever* had combined!
Wales-blindness in endemic in the UK
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This is quite extraordinary. Congratulations to
@AUOBCymru
and all of those joining in the celebrations. It really does feel like a positive alternative to our current trajectory is being built.
#IndyWales
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@RetroWrexham
I’ve no animus to any individual but would simply suggest that the titles of ‘prince/princess of Wales’ are probably not appropriate for thr modern age of a four-nation kingdom.
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For watchers of Welsh & Scottish
#devolution
, Welsh and Scots Law, Brexit and the future (or not) of the UK, these observations about Clause 38 in the
#WithdrawalAgreementBill
in
@SeneddCLA
from
@AMCarwyn
were pretty troubling:
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Habana now eligible to work for the
@WelshGovernment
. That didn't seem too divisive/exclusionary did it?
“So you speak Welsh Sarra?…… Hold my beer…”
@BryanHabana
the linguists 👏🏴
@s4c
@SkySportsRugby
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@elle_hunt
It's a textbook slasher horror film packed with creature feature special effects, body horror and lone (all too common female in this genre) protagonist for whom survival is victory.
What else could it be?
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UK Labour punishing Scottish Labour councillors for *not* supporting the Conservatives?! Wild times:
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@Pitonman
Maybe either accept the responsibility that comes with a ‘Wales’ title or don’t accept it?
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Like dinosaurs cheering for the meteorite, the WRU celebrate the erasure of their own national teams:
Following a mandate from World Rugby, Wales, England and Scotland join forces for 2023 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series. Wales will maintain male and female sevens programmes including for Commonwealth Games and RWC Sevens cycles
🗞️READ
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This may be a plug for a new podcast, but the underlying story of Monsanto dumping tonnes of nasty, toxic chemicals in unused Welsh quarries (because poor, expedient etc) should be a genuine cause of anger, whether Brofiscin or Maendy/Maindy in
#Pontypridd
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Very sad to see that a once-proud Welsh brand
@RachelsOrganic
has ditched the dragon embraced a very Brexity Union Flag on its products.
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Lols, some rebel at
#Tafwyl
has pulled down the butcher’s apron on Cardiff Castle.
Guess that makes it “Wales 1 : UK Gov Wales 1” in the game of taking down flags for which you hold little regard
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Just been reminded how perennially dispiriting it is that the
@WelshRugbyUnion
still holds one of the English princes as its patron. It’s one of the last shackles of the past that we have yet to shake off.
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Wow. From industrial powerhouse, the red flag rising & Dic Penderyn to Wetherspoons, Trago Mills & Farage. How far we have come from the days of men volunteering to fight fascism in Spain.
Wales, we need to talk. (IRL, not Twitter obvs)
Nigel Farage and Richard Tice will be in Merthyr Tydfil this Wednesday!
Get your tickets whilst they last:
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If you ever wonder why Wales is funded less favourably than Scotland, has a weaker voice in Westminster & - quite frankly - less respect for it, it’s because our elected representatives consistently fail to drive a hard bargain.
Wales, look to Scotland.
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One of our perennial
#OwainGlyndwrDay
debates is ‘why isn’t there a film (a la Braveheart) of Glyndwr.
I spent about 3 years working on treatments and, the truth is, it’s a massively tricky story to tell in a way that is
- satsifying
- positive (ie not tragic)
- vaguely accurate
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Keep seeing a lot of of ‘PM promised this but it happened 8 years ago’ posts (as linked here) from surprised voices across the border
But from Wales, this stuff looks like sci-fi fantasy future, not the Victorian stuff or roads-built-on-canals that characterise our situation 1/2
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2/2 It’s so easy for us in Wales to think the rest of this island is in the same state we are. It’s not, we’re the worst of the worst in terms of infrastructure.
The difference is perhaps that we’re the only nation without any control of our own destiny. Devolve it all. Please.
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@cpjuanrios
@OfficialMLK3
The punishment for breaking those rules shouldn't be summary execution.
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Wales 2019:
- Football team changes crest when it doesn’t need to
- Rugby team still has 3 Feathers and “Ich Dien” when it really shouldn’t
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How many situations in world sport is the USA comfortable describing itself as 'the underdog' against tiny old
@Cymru
? Extraordinary times.
Please hold, the President is on the line… 📞
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Just goes to show that you don’t have to be the party leader to lead by example.
@LeanneWood
has displayed the same qualities in defeat that she did in 6 years as leader - positivity, integrity & readiness to make the hard yards for Wales. 🙌
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Ooh look, the Old North, Wales & Cornwall have recreated the kingdom of the Britons circa 8th century
There's a YELLOW WARNING in force for wind across northern and western parts of the UK tomorrow night into Tuesday. Details here:
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City without bus station or 21st-century rail/transit infrastructure thinks that a 15,000 capacity arena is the one thing missing in its plans? Hmmm 🤦♂️
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On the train from Cardiff to Pontypridd listening (inadvertently) to a young lady from Wales explain to a yound chap from England how much more accessible her Welsh Parliament member is compared to Westminster equivalent.
Great advert for modern Wales.
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Extraordinary to see UK Labour publicly embarrassing its Welsh leadership so bluntly.
As if The FM’s credibility wasn’t already in the pits, now the entire leadership’s agenda for the last decade thrown under the bus. Difficult for Welsh Labour to promise anything now.
Senior Welsh Labour Westminster candidate says party will not give Welsh government full control over post-Brexit economic aid
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A pretty damning indictment of the influence of Welsh Gov over their own party.
Not even a guarantee of devolution of youth justice & probation - just ‘consideration’ - and ruling out policing and justice with another ‘London knows best’ promise. Bleak.
Via
@WalesPolitics
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You wait ages for a Welsh pope, then two come along at once! 🏴
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Brittle, snappy, and defensive. Not the kind of interview you would expect from someone on the cusp of a personal and party victory on a huge scale.
'This was a political stunt by the Tories, aided and abetted by Plaid Cymru - I have absolute confidence in Vaughan Gething.'
@CHafJones
fu'n yn holi Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cysgodol Cymru
@JoStevensLabour
yn ail raglen cyfres etholiadol
@ybydyneileS4C
.
#ybydyneile
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Wales will continue to see nothing from it, but will continue to pay for it. Nice. 🇬🇧
BREAKING: The estimated cost of building HS2 between London and Birmingham has soared to as much as £66.6bn, the project's executive chairman, Sir Jon Thompson, has said.
Live:
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Huge respect to
@michaelsheen
for the patience, humanity and humility with which he is responding to the various fair, unfair and ridiculous criticisms of his actions re: the OBE.
#Parch
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Reflecting on this *extraordinary* interview 24hrs on, two thoughts:
1) Talk of radical federalism is obvs expired. Labour's ‘national’ government is the UK Government & everything else is secondary/tertiary
2) Wales is now 'under new management’ & the Senedd group are just that
'This was a political stunt by the Tories, aided and abetted by Plaid Cymru - I have absolute confidence in Vaughan Gething.'
@CHafJones
fu'n yn holi Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cysgodol Cymru
@JoStevensLabour
yn ail raglen cyfres etholiadol
@ybydyneileS4C
.
#ybydyneile
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Pretty much every policy decision from this UK Gov seems to be basd on the idea that It worked for Britain in the 18th Century so why wouldn't it work again in the 21st? (Prison ships/islands, naval power, trade wars with the continent etc)
Boris Johnson vows to make UK 'foremost naval power in Europe' with boost to defence budget
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Has to be said that
@RhunapIorwerth
has done a very effective job of defusing some of the tricky issues around the independence question caused by the over-excited 2021 Plaid campaign.
One of the standout media performers of this election campaign so far, across the UK.
#GE2024
Plaid Cymru leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, says that he doesn't "seek [Welsh] independence for its own sake".
5 Live has invited the leaders of the seven main parties to talk directly to you with
@NickyAACampbell
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Unwittingly the
@WelshConserv
are turning the
#Senedd2021
election into a 🇬🇧v 🏴 showdown, asking the question, 'who does Wales want to be governed by?'
Literally creating the divides that they claim to oppose and sending Wales down the path of Scotland. Reap, sow, etc.
Three of the top 4
@WelshConserv
candidates selected for South Wales Central are supportive of scrapping the Senedd.
In a ballot of party members,
@CllrJoelJames
,
@calumtjd
&
@CT_Wales
set their stalls out as anti-devolutionists & came 2nd, 3rd & 4th.
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Wow! Amazing, well done
@BBCr4today
‘s
@MishalHusainBBC
- first time I’ve ever heard thephrase “England’s Secretary of State for Health”
It’s actually happening
@ThatsDevolved
😃
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You can’t go anywhere in Wales without bumping into an EU-funded project. The centralised London-led UK visualised by the ardent Brexiters is what made Wales so poor that the 🇪🇺 had to intervene, I don’t see how it will help us in the future.
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@AngleseyHomes
Embarrassing folks. This isn't a good idea, it's a bad idea.
De-Welshing is something that belongs in the 19th century past, not the 21st century present.
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Talk about an upgrade! Can't think of a better appointment or a better contrast with the previous, disgraced and defenstrated chair, than
@elancloss
:
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Did I skip a page or did we celebrate
#WorldEnvironmentDay
with a new nuclear power station, more half-diesel trains, airport expansion, campaigns for motorway expansion, increased Severn Bridge traffic & recycled lightly-nuclear mud being deposited off the coast of our capital?
2017 was Britain’s greenest year ever and the Conservatives are determined to protect the environment for future generations. These are some ways in which we’re proudly protecting our environment and wildlife.
#WorldEnvironmentDay2018
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We could do this in Wales, couldn’t we?
Petition: Require all new builds to have solar panels as condition of planning permission
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The UK Government’s decapitation strategy of firmly entrenching the north of Wales into the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ and the south of Wales into the ‘Western Gateway’ proceeds with aplomb.
Welsh turkeys continue to vote for Christmas as their regional periphery status is cemented.
Rail priorities of £8bn for South Wales and the West of England set out
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I'm no expert on comic book lore but I do find the idea of 'Captain Britain' pretty tragic.
Eschew muscles, jawline, & leadership skills and replace with a dislike of new build housing near his home, small boats, foreigners, and a deep paranoia when people don't speak English.
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I'm sure this is something that
@SP_FinCon
are looking at closely because the legal implications are more stark for Scotland. Of course, it's something that's worth considering for the future of Welsh Law, should we ever clearly break from England's legal space
@justiceinwales
:
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Would appear that the Irish are now the premier statesmen (& women) of these isles. Would be lovely to see how the Scots & Welsh would compare.
wow. the PM of Ireland just absolutely *shreds* boris - to his face - here. brutal
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Quite the thing to watch the English Conservatives attack English footballers and Welsh Conservatives to attack the Welsh language. Next up Scottish Conservatives vs tartan.
This is not a strategy for governing nor winning elections
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This is a core plank of both the
@vaughangething
and
@Jeremy_Miles
leadership manifestos and has been Welsh Labour policy for years. Not only dismissed but dismissively brushed off in an interview with no engagement with the policy nor the underlying issues. Quite extraordinary.
Yvette Cooper says Labour will not devolve policing to the Welsh government
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Extraordinarily difficult to defend decisions like this from the state broadcaster. Fully endorse calls to have the
@WalesGreenParty
represented and frankly
@WalesPolitics
should be embarrassed into changing their minds.
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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@LouLouNutbar
@youwouldknow
But the English word for “sauce” is just a mispelled version of the Old French “salsus” written in an English form & “pan” from Old German “panna”. This is why Anglophone language elitists should not be taken seriously - ALL languages share & recycle.
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We could have 15 years of better democracy in Wales for the cost of one UK Gov dodgy contract blunder. Seems good value to me.
An additional 30 members of the Welsh Parliament would cost around £1m a month, according to the latest figures
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Unbelievable nonsense from the SoS.
Like saying Alun Cairns’s salary doesn’t have to be paid to Alun Cairns to benefit Alun Cairns. If it’s paid to one of his neighbours, they may, from time to time, mow his lawn and wash his car.
“Infrastructure investment doesn’t have to be in Wales to benefit Wales” says the so-called Secretary of State for Wales. 🤦♂️
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Following Jess Phillips' questionable comments about Scotland's (or NI's or Wales's) right to secede from the UK &
@AMCarwyn
's tweet earlier on the subject, I think the FM's response in
@SeneddCLA
yesterday is useful.
IF you want the UK to persist, it has to work fairly:
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Jeremy Corbyn campaigning in Newport: “I don’t want to be living in a country where teachers are subsiding schools out of their own pockets”
Think he might need to pick up the phone the Welsh Gov
@ThatsDevolved
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I think that Wales just found its most eloquent spokesman for greater autonomy.
#TheButlerDidIt
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Wedi fflyncio prawf lafar Cymraeg eto. Hir yw pob taith ond mae'n bwysig parhau.🏴💪
#DysguCymraeg
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@R_Davidson1980
@theSNP
Welsh Labour Conference. Obvs he wasn’t talking about Scot Gov specifically, more about Welsh Gov & the English regional devolution administrations (run by Labour).
But I figure he’s a principled guy that wouldn’t want to treat them differently based on shallow party politics.
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@MarcusStead
You must be very angry with England after having forced English-only placenames, laws, jobs, rights, residence permits and language on entirely Welsh-speaking population in centuries past.
#irony
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A Britain of four kingdoms of roughly equal size. What might have been if this had developed into an island of four modern democracies eh? The biggest what-if in Welsh history.
#otd
1405: Tripartite Indenture was signed by Prince Owain Glyn Dŵr (bolstered by French support), Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland + Edmund Mortimer.
It divided England and Wales among them at the expense of Henry IV of England.
More:
#IndyWales
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We hear very noisy voices complaining about turnout at Senedd elections, not entirely unfairly so.
However, if turnout is as low as predicted for these PCC ‘elections’, we need to have a serious conversation about scrapping them in Wales, which I fully hope Welsh Gov will lead!
What will the national turnout be in Wales for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections?
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Pretty harsh of
@WillHayCardiff
to go all aggressive Cofi on Boris 🤣
The Welsh Government is considering placing travel restrictions on parts of England with high Covid rates.
Boris Johnson has not replied to the First Minister letter from last week asking him to restrict travel himself.
Cont:
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To finish, your regular reminder that neither the current FM or the former FM, both
@WelshLabour
unionists, believe the the UK Parliament should be sovereign in the 21st Century. Potential
@UKLabour
(*British not UK) leaders are not discussing this at all (bar Clive, obvs)
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Ok, so that Katie Hopkins piece on Wales & Welsh Education was obviously a hatchet job but was quite revealing.
A quick thread for anyone curious but not wanting to add to Katie’s clicks/views on YouTube
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Had no idea Trump was this capable. Maybe after curing cancer and AIDS we could get him to have a look at Welsh public transport?
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Me: Siri, could you find an example of imperial attitudes persisting into the 21st century?
Siri:
Pathetic stunt by Luxembourg Parish council chairman empty chairing Boris Johnson. Why shlouj.d Britain be pushed around by a country a fifth the size of Wales
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Something very satisfying in watching the dignity & clarity of a small country’s leader addressing serious international issues while the UK PM scampers away sulking that he’s not getting his own way.
FYI Luxembourg is 1/5 the size of Wales in terms of population
“Don’t make it like the European Union would be the bad guy not accepting decisions that the UK proposes”
Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel says the EU is not responsible for the
#Brexit
“mess we are in at the moment”
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The monolingualism of GWR trains serving Wales it pretty disgraceful.
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Hopefully this evening’s excellent
@cymru
win is another nail in the coffin of the parasitic
#TeamGB
football team.
No need for Welsh players to feel forced into playing for 🇬🇧 in order to reach major championships, 🏴 🏴 & 🏴 can do it themselves.
#NoTeamGB
#TogetherStronger
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I’d challenge you to find a caffi or pub owner in Caernarfon today that doesn’t think that Welsh independence is good for the economy.
#AUOBCymru
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Very disappointing to see
@WalesOnline
publishing these dodgy stories from the Tax Payers (read: avoiders) Alliance. Good healthcare, social care, education, public infrastructure & environmental protection all cost money, which we collectively, rightly, pay for through taxation.
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Remain convinced that it would have been better for Welsh Gov to have worked on an app with Scots Gov.
Combined with a strong track and trace system & devoid of the negative connotations associated with UK Gov’s handling of Covid19, we could have been up and running months ago
England’s and Wales’ long-awaited contact tracing app will not do contract tracing (initially at least), No10 admits. Worth remembering Scotland and Northern Ireland are already using contract tracing apps.
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I'm not sure that it was sensible to have someone who knows nothing about Wales on
@bbcquestiontime
to defend the Welsh Government's actions:
“I’m rejecting the premise of the question”
“Hang on a minute, you don’t get to do that on Question Time”
The
#bbcqt
audience react when Labour’s Thangam Debbonaire is pressed to answer a question
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This is the best examination of the ‘UK/English’ union & Welsh/Scots/Irish independence movements from a London news agency that I’ve ever read. Bravo
@SkyNews
👏👏👏
“Wexit? Wales could opt for independence if Westminster does not redeem itself”
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The
@ybydyneileS4C
production team are absolutely knocking it out of the park this election season. They’re delivering big ideas on tiny budgets.
It’s the 80% Wales that doesn’t speak Welsh’s loss that English programming is tame, tired, and distinctly regionalist in mindset.
'O ran yr Etholiad Cyffredinol, dwi'm yn meddwl ei fod o'n cael unrhyw effaith o gwbwl a dweud y gwir.'
Mae'n anhebygol y bydd trafferthion Vaughan Gething yn cael llawer o effaith ar ganlyniad yr etholiad yng Nghymru meddai
@RWynJones
wrth
@ybydyneileS4C
.
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@ScotBrit2
@PrifWeinidog
Amazingly, the job of national leadership requires people to do more than one thing simultaneously. All governments across these islands have urgent domestic responsibilities as well as international obligations.
You may not like his politics but he doing his job with dignity.
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Who wants to play a game of 'Do you want to fund a business convention centre or a national library?'
The Welsh Government puts an extra £1m into Newport's International Convention Centre Wales to help it get through the coronavirus lockdown.
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Whether you agree or not with this argument about optics, the idea that optics should take precedence over good actual government is pretty contemptible in the middle of a global pandemic.
What a rotten mess 🇬🇧 union is in:
Covid inquiry: Boris Johnson did not want pandemic meetings with Drakeford and Sturgeon
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Wales’ favourite MP (the one who keeps trying to erase Wales from the map & reintroduce direct rule) turns out *shock* may not be entirely above board (with apols for linking to the Mail):
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A reminder that the scourge of leasehold is a Wales problem because it’s an England problem. The only two countries in the western world with this awful system and because of the ‘joint’ legal system, only one of those countries can change the law that affects them both. 👇
Labour has dropped its pledge to abolish leasehold within the first 100 days of government if it wins the general election
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Cracking line of questions from
@lewis_goodall
, again demonstrating why he is one of the few journalists in London with a genuine grasp of the multi-national British union.
Somewhat less high quality answers - obviously un-briefed beyond top line rebuttal - that were dismissive
"Isn't that rather dismissive of the Senedd?"
Emily Thornberry describes
@Lewis_Goodall
's question about Vaughan Gething losing a no-confidence vote as 'odd,' insisting that the motion was just 'a gimmick.'
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Wales’s First Minister doesn’t have an official residence (unlike Scotland & England/UK). It’s not for want of candidate buildings, that’s for sure 👇
Down at the barrage today & wondering if this building next to the fine old custom house building will ever be saved? Such a shame to see it continue to decline. Easy for me to say but maybe a coupla £million & it would be a great asset to the area a building we'd be proud of🤞
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Would like to give a shout out to all the Professional Services staff going ASOS at Cardiff Uni in support of
@CardiffUCU
#USSStrike
#UCUStrike
- in what is widely perceived as an academic strike, many PS Staff are defending their pensions, too.
#HelloColin
#WeAreTheUniversity
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Frankly amazed that the
@WalesPolitics
powers-that-be haven’t changed tack on this. Pretty awful stuff to choose to sideline the Greens but include Reform.
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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I walked into the cell and they all started speaking Welsh...
Prisoners in Wales fear they are being singled out as troublemakers for speaking Welsh... because guards can't understand them
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No consultation between UK Gov and Welsh Gov on - arguably - the only key heavy industry left in the country.
What an internally-hostile and self-defeating state this is.
We've worked closely with Tata for years to safeguard jobs and the long-term future of Welsh steel production.
It’s disappointing we weren’t involved in the UK government discussions, despite record of calling for investment to move to greener production methods.
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People outside of Wales will have no idea how unusual this stuff is in the national parliament & government here. Welsh Labour is truly a machine that wins elections and runs a tight ship.
This stuff has never happened before (incomparable to 2000 imho, you nerds out there).🏴👇
No-confidence vote in Vaughan Gething more likely than not, says Andrew RT Davies
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FOR SALE: One world-beater, 3 careful owners. Has been kept in garage for 2 years. Giant engine, powerful drive, GSH.
£81m ONO
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