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The names of our rivers and mountains tell a story older than the state. Pen-y-Fan, Penicuik, Aberdeen, Aberystwyth – these aren’t just words on a map. They’re echoes of the first voices of this land.
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I'd rather that the political power to develop the Welsh economy was in in the hands of Wales' democratically elected representatives thank you.
The Welsh Government has secured an agreement with the UK Government to 'explore' the controversial Barnett Formula funding arrangement ✍️ Emily Price
Welsh ministers secure agreement with UK Government to 'explore' controversial Barnett Formula
Emily Price The Welsh Government has secured an agreement with the UK Government to “explore” the controversial Barnett Formula funding arrangement. The public spending formula has attracted consider...
nation.cymru
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I'd rather that the political power to develop the Welsh economy was in in the hands of Wales' democratically elected representatives thank you.
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@owswills.bsky.social explains very well here why this singular concept of Great Britain is divorced from reality. What stands for Cymraeg also stands for Scottish Gaelic. Moreover, Britain is a place of many cultures and languages. We are certainly not one nation nation.cymru/opinion/the-...
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The UK is not a single-language state. It’s time Starmer caught up
Owen Williams When Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that “if you want to live in the UK, you should speak English,” he wasn’t just parroting a tired line about integration. He was exposing a deepe...
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October 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
@owswills.bsky.social explains very well here why this singular concept of Great Britain is divorced from reality. What stands for Cymraeg also stands for Scottish Gaelic. Moreover, Britain is a place of many cultures and languages. We are certainly not one nation nation.cymru/opinion/the-...
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And had Reform not been standing, you'd have heard nothing about an election in a small Welsh town...
October 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
And had Reform not been standing, you'd have heard nothing about an election in a small Welsh town...
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the new Plaid Cymru assembly member for Caerphilly sounds like a proper community-minded character:
"Still a councillor, he also has four voluntary jobs, working in two local schools, a community coffee shop and a foodbank...."
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...
"Still a councillor, he also has four voluntary jobs, working in two local schools, a community coffee shop and a foodbank...."
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...
What you need to know about Lindsay Whittle, new Senedd member for Caerphilly
The veteran Plaid Cymru campaigner won the Caerphilly by-election
www.walesonline.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
the new Plaid Cymru assembly member for Caerphilly sounds like a proper community-minded character:
"Still a councillor, he also has four voluntary jobs, working in two local schools, a community coffee shop and a foodbank...."
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...
"Still a councillor, he also has four voluntary jobs, working in two local schools, a community coffee shop and a foodbank...."
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...
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"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."
October 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."
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Caerphilly byelection a triumph of positivity over division, says Plaid Cymru leader
Caerphilly byelection a triumph of positivity over division, says Plaid Cymru leader
Rhun ap Iorwerth says party’s win was more than just rejection of immigration-obsessed Reform or rudderless Labour
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Plaid Cymru can offer a positive vision for Wales for voters who want to reject the divisiveness of Reform UK, the party’s leader has said after a triumphant Welsh parliamentary byelection.
Rhun ap Iorwerth said the 47% win for his party in the Caerphilly byelection was a rejection of Reform and its obsession with immigration, which, while important, did not overshadow more pressing issues, such as healthcare and housing. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Caerphilly byelection a triumph of positivity over division, says Plaid Cymru leader
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Ymateb @lauramcallister30.bsky.social i canlyniad is-etholiad #Caerffili ar @bbc5live.bsky.social #Senedd26 #Cymru
Prof Laura McAllister responds to the #Caerphilly by-election result on BBC Radio 5 #Wales
Prof Laura McAllister responds to the #Caerphilly by-election result on BBC Radio 5 #Wales
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Ymateb @lauramcallister30.bsky.social i canlyniad is-etholiad #Caerffili ar @bbc5live.bsky.social #Senedd26 #Cymru
Prof Laura McAllister responds to the #Caerphilly by-election result on BBC Radio 5 #Wales
Prof Laura McAllister responds to the #Caerphilly by-election result on BBC Radio 5 #Wales
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Notwithstanding all the erudite analysis, could I just say, as a long-ago Valleys resident .... bloody well done, Plaid Cymru!
Thank you for your attention etc.
Thank you for your attention etc.
Lessons of Caerphilly by-election IMV:
1) UK has become a country with bloc politics
2) enough voters don't want Reform that they are very vulnerable to being on the wrong side of it
3) but Labour, an essential component of that anti-Reform bloc being able to win, are too unattractive at present.
1) UK has become a country with bloc politics
2) enough voters don't want Reform that they are very vulnerable to being on the wrong side of it
3) but Labour, an essential component of that anti-Reform bloc being able to win, are too unattractive at present.
Labour’s Caerphilly humiliation is a bad omen
Result shows how Reform’s polarising nature may also be its weakness
www.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Notwithstanding all the erudite analysis, could I just say, as a long-ago Valleys resident .... bloody well done, Plaid Cymru!
Thank you for your attention etc.
Thank you for your attention etc.
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Scale of Plaid win in Caerphilly is significant, not least because of what it says about the potential for progressive tactical voting in (relatively) high turnout elections to block Reform. Voters in this race knew it was a Plaid-Reform contest and voted accordingly.
October 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Scale of Plaid win in Caerphilly is significant, not least because of what it says about the potential for progressive tactical voting in (relatively) high turnout elections to block Reform. Voters in this race knew it was a Plaid-Reform contest and voted accordingly.
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This week's More in Common UK newsletter looks at the implications of Caerphilly, who is the party of the status quo, attitudes to multiculturalism and more! Take a look and sign up to get future editions below. 26724274.hs-sites-eu1.com/what-happene...
What happened in Caerphilly?
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October 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This week's More in Common UK newsletter looks at the implications of Caerphilly, who is the party of the status quo, attitudes to multiculturalism and more! Take a look and sign up to get future editions below. 26724274.hs-sites-eu1.com/what-happene...
“This was not a knife-edge result. The victory by Plaid Cymru was emphatic. They deserve massive credit for what they have achieved. Since I believe Wales has a right to be a self-governing country, I am delighted for them.”
Caerphilly brings hope
The Caerphilly Senedd by-election result yesterday was reported in advance as being on a knife-edge between Plaid Cymru and Reform, with Labour, the incumbents in all types of elections in the constit...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
“This was not a knife-edge result. The victory by Plaid Cymru was emphatic. They deserve massive credit for what they have achieved. Since I believe Wales has a right to be a self-governing country, I am delighted for them.”
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That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.
October 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.
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This is beautiful. Dw I’m caru y hen iaith! (Apparently it should be dw i wrth fy modd â'r hen iaith but I’m learning!)🏴
The names of our rivers and mountains tell a story older than the state. Pen-y-Fan, Penicuik, Aberdeen, Aberystwyth – these aren’t just words on a map. They’re echoes of the first voices of this land.
October 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is beautiful. Dw I’m caru y hen iaith! (Apparently it should be dw i wrth fy modd â'r hen iaith but I’m learning!)🏴
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Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane
October 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane
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Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.
Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
October 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.
Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
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Being Welsh is about belonging and shared values.
I was a loud south-east London girl who became Welsh, heart and soul.
Our Wales is one that welcomes, includes and builds, not one that divides.
Proud to close an inspiring weekend at Plaid Cymru conference 💚🏴
I was a loud south-east London girl who became Welsh, heart and soul.
Our Wales is one that welcomes, includes and builds, not one that divides.
Proud to close an inspiring weekend at Plaid Cymru conference 💚🏴
October 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Being Welsh is about belonging and shared values.
I was a loud south-east London girl who became Welsh, heart and soul.
Our Wales is one that welcomes, includes and builds, not one that divides.
Proud to close an inspiring weekend at Plaid Cymru conference 💚🏴
I was a loud south-east London girl who became Welsh, heart and soul.
Our Wales is one that welcomes, includes and builds, not one that divides.
Proud to close an inspiring weekend at Plaid Cymru conference 💚🏴
Re: Nation of Sanctuary 🏴
October 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Re: Nation of Sanctuary 🏴
It bears repeating that Welsh Government has *no* control over Immigration.
Voting Reform in the Caerphilly by-election because you’re cross about small boats on the Kent shoreline is an utterly mindless exercise.
Voting Reform in the Caerphilly by-election because you’re cross about small boats on the Kent shoreline is an utterly mindless exercise.
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
It bears repeating that Welsh Government has *no* control over Immigration.
Voting Reform in the Caerphilly by-election because you’re cross about small boats on the Kent shoreline is an utterly mindless exercise.
Voting Reform in the Caerphilly by-election because you’re cross about small boats on the Kent shoreline is an utterly mindless exercise.
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Watching Thatcher on the news as a kid I asked my Dad where's Wales' parliament? He explained why we didn't have one. That's not fair I said. We reasoned it out. He started voting @plaidcymru.bsky.social shortly after.
I still feel the same way about our Statehood.
I still feel the same way about our Statehood.
I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.
October 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Watching Thatcher on the news as a kid I asked my Dad where's Wales' parliament? He explained why we didn't have one. That's not fair I said. We reasoned it out. He started voting @plaidcymru.bsky.social shortly after.
I still feel the same way about our Statehood.
I still feel the same way about our Statehood.
What an abject mess Reform is
nation.cymru/news/reform-...
nation.cymru/news/reform-...
October 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
What an abject mess Reform is
nation.cymru/news/reform-...
nation.cymru/news/reform-...
I have it on excellent authority that, contrary to reports, Mayor Sadiq Khan *IS* going to enact Shania Twain in London.
I want to state, for the record, that don’t impress me much.
@london.gov.uk
I want to state, for the record, that don’t impress me much.
@london.gov.uk
September 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I have it on excellent authority that, contrary to reports, Mayor Sadiq Khan *IS* going to enact Shania Twain in London.
I want to state, for the record, that don’t impress me much.
@london.gov.uk
I want to state, for the record, that don’t impress me much.
@london.gov.uk
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If Unionism is your bag, knock yourself out. Just dont pretend it's progressive or liberal. It's imperialist all the way through. The UK is a State that was built hand in hand with empire and blood. You cant just pretend that didnt happen then claim some moral high ground about some "unity" blather.
‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.’
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#DissolveTheUnion
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#DissolveTheUnion
Farron drapes himself in flag as Lib Dems seek to reclaim patriotism
The Lib Dems are urged to stop being squeamish about national pride, at their annual conference.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
If Unionism is your bag, knock yourself out. Just dont pretend it's progressive or liberal. It's imperialist all the way through. The UK is a State that was built hand in hand with empire and blood. You cant just pretend that didnt happen then claim some moral high ground about some "unity" blather.
No party can dominate the Senedd. That’s the point.
Labour scraped a majority once, in 2003. Every other year since 1999, Welsh Government has only functioned because someone else helped make it work - Lib Dems, Plaid, independents…
Labour scraped a majority once, in 2003. Every other year since 1999, Welsh Government has only functioned because someone else helped make it work - Lib Dems, Plaid, independents…
September 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
No party can dominate the Senedd. That’s the point.
Labour scraped a majority once, in 2003. Every other year since 1999, Welsh Government has only functioned because someone else helped make it work - Lib Dems, Plaid, independents…
Labour scraped a majority once, in 2003. Every other year since 1999, Welsh Government has only functioned because someone else helped make it work - Lib Dems, Plaid, independents…
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Welsh voters putting their faith in farage when his Brexit has damaged Wales to such a degree is quite simply bonkers and I have no sympathy for them. Grow up voters. This is ridiculous. You will be even worse off..wtf😳??
September 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Welsh voters putting their faith in farage when his Brexit has damaged Wales to such a degree is quite simply bonkers and I have no sympathy for them. Grow up voters. This is ridiculous. You will be even worse off..wtf😳??