Although good for reform as well great poll to have to encourage you’re less enthusiastic voters to show up because you might actually win. Greens still at a respectable position but have clearly stalled, Lib Dem’s and Tories still fighting for their lives
My immediate takeaway is bad news for Lab any remaining wavering voters will probs break towards Plaid,not great for Plaid though either they had a 10%+ lead over Ref 3 months back which does suggest a lot of DKs are heading to reform but on the flip side will strengthen their Plaid v Ref message
An atrocious answer from the ostensible environmental party - if the Greens are unable to formulate a coherent position on the biggest environmental policy area in Wales then I despair
Here's his answer, on film. Should have been an open goal to talk about pollution, rewilding, nature recovery, or just some of the actual challenges that farmers are facing.
Hopefully this doesn't represent Welsh Green policies in the manifesto, out next week. We need a party that stands for nature
Great question about the future of farming by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social at the Green Party launch. A little disappointed to see @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social answer by immediately citing the need for closeness with the farming unions, who are chief architects of our current awful systems.
The Belgians respect countries that can beat them in football
Because whilst the Spectator - and adjacent people - could shrug of tree planting and more solar panels etc, they can’t accept a threat to their economic interests. Which the Green Party now represents, because you can’t have a genuine Green transition without an economic one
“the WRU, an institution that has sat at the heart of Welsh sporting and cultural life for almost 150 years has, rather than creating lasting legacies of Grand Slams and world-class players, become adept at producing apathy and disillusionment” @nyedavies.bsky.social 👇👇
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Damn how dare a policy achieve the desired outcome
My latest piece for the Guardian:
Wales is on course to have a majority of parties in the Senedd who support Welsh independence.
The best way to secure the future of the UK is to make it work for the people of the UK.
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“We hebben een serieus probleem”
What I mean is that the only reason the WRU would do this is to fold up Ospreys
Frankly it’s over the Ospreys are finished
Catherine Howard - he had his marriage to Boleyn annulled then had her executed but he just went ahead and executed Howard who was still his wife
Henry the 8th never divorced anyone - 3 were annulled, 2 died (1 being executed) and his final wife outlived him
It’s either have nukes or have defence pact with a nuclear state (Cuba - Russia) or no nukes and hope for the best
Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
They’ve chosen not to do so and instead have allowed the most significant rollback of LGBT rights in the UK since section 28
This is a political decision by Labour to sell out trans people nothing more nothing less, all it requires for this to be reversed is for the current Parliament to pass legislation outlining what it means by gender in the Equality Act
Honestly this is a complete disgrace, for a supposedly “progressive” party to support the roll back of decades worth of trans rights with the absurd excuse of a “Supreme Court ruling” is a total betrayal - this isn’t the US, the SC cannot overrule primary legislation in the UK
Yeah but this is slowly rotating molten core of the earth low
I feel like this is quite a poor argument in defence of the tourist levy tbh, we should really be arguing for it on its own merits. Which is, it allows areas in Wales that have lots of tourism to benefit more directly from it. Not with whataboutism comparing the WelshGov with theTrump Administration
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Reform, Tory and TUV majority but barely - I mean given Reforms high MP attrition rate, very unlikely that a government would last long
I could smell the bullshit on this government statement
This btw is what Trump is apparently like in private he’s very affable, charming and funny - plus he doesn’t really hold personal attacks from elected opponents against them he views it as all part of “the game”. He hates it however when former cabinet members or other public appointees attack him
