Sian Beidas
@sb234327.bsky.social
🏴 Cymraes, ieithgi, diddordeb mewn pethau o bob math. Welsh speaker, language geek, interested in all sorts of things.
#Annibyniaeth #IndyWales
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
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It never stops.
The grubby donations. The profiteering. The lobbying. The lies.
“In 2019-20, as the UK was leaving the EU, Harborne gave £10m to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, since renamed Reform UK.”
They make damn sure they get what they want.
We get screwed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The grubby donations. The profiteering. The lobbying. The lies.
“In 2019-20, as the UK was leaving the EU, Harborne gave £10m to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, since renamed Reform UK.”
They make damn sure they get what they want.
We get screwed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
It never stops.
The grubby donations. The profiteering. The lobbying. The lies.
“In 2019-20, as the UK was leaving the EU, Harborne gave £10m to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, since renamed Reform UK.”
They make damn sure they get what they want.
We get screwed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The grubby donations. The profiteering. The lobbying. The lies.
“In 2019-20, as the UK was leaving the EU, Harborne gave £10m to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, since renamed Reform UK.”
They make damn sure they get what they want.
We get screwed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Who could possibly have predicted Boris would be an unsuitable PM during Covid?
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Who could possibly have predicted Boris would be an unsuitable PM during Covid?
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Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Solidarity with the thousands of unionized Starbucks workers who are on strike. Keep up the fight. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/s...
Starbucks Workers United escalates strike during busy holiday season
Starbucks Workers United is expanding the strike, but the company says it has not yet disrupted the key holiday season.
www.cnbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Solidarity with the thousands of unionized Starbucks workers who are on strike. Keep up the fight. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/s...
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'If Putin is handed both impunity and rewards... we become more imperilled.'
James O'Brien and caller Hazel agree that we just hear 'words' on ending the war in Ukraine, without seeing much action.
James O'Brien and caller Hazel agree that we just hear 'words' on ending the war in Ukraine, without seeing much action.
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
'If Putin is handed both impunity and rewards... we become more imperilled.'
James O'Brien and caller Hazel agree that we just hear 'words' on ending the war in Ukraine, without seeing much action.
James O'Brien and caller Hazel agree that we just hear 'words' on ending the war in Ukraine, without seeing much action.
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Campaigners from Eryri have launched a new campaign against the 'colonial aspect' of the Ordnance Survey - targeting the use of names such as 'The Mushroom Garden' and 'The Nameless Cwm'
Campaign group criticise the 'colonial aspect' of the Ordnance Survey
Stephen Price Campaigners from Eryri have launched a new campaign against the ‘colonial aspect’ of the Ordnance Survey – targeting the use of names such as The Mushroom Garden and ‘The Nameless Cwm’. ...
nation.cymru
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Campaigners from Eryri have launched a new campaign against the 'colonial aspect' of the Ordnance Survey - targeting the use of names such as 'The Mushroom Garden' and 'The Nameless Cwm'
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This is very good indeed on how Mahmood talks about race. To suggest that immigration policy and racism are linked "reflects this government’s biggest failing, which is that it is essentially incapable of saying that racism is wrong, full stop".
Why should people who “look like” the home secretary be on the hook for immigration policy?
This is great by @stephenkb.bsky.social:
This is great by @stephenkb.bsky.social:
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is very good indeed on how Mahmood talks about race. To suggest that immigration policy and racism are linked "reflects this government’s biggest failing, which is that it is essentially incapable of saying that racism is wrong, full stop".
"The zeitgeist or national mood in the UK has changed for the worse since the Brexit referendum in 2016."
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
Starmer will pay the price for his spinelessness toward Trump
Silence on the US President's misdeeds will be interpreted as complicity
inews.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"The zeitgeist or national mood in the UK has changed for the worse since the Brexit referendum in 2016."
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
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Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.
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Anyone with an iota of support for human rights should totally condemn the Labour Party for pursuing this disgraceful path.
Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Anyone with an iota of support for human rights should totally condemn the Labour Party for pursuing this disgraceful path.
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You know when you see politicians talking about the British generosity, they’re going to say something deeply unpleasant. It’s not so different to J.D.Vance’s ‘have you even said thank you?’
Yet more details of the government’s planned slashing of asylum seekers’ rights out tonight: on.ft.com/4oIueqp
UK to curtail asylum seekers’ automatic right to accommodation
Home secretary says Britain’s ‘generosity’ is ‘drawing illegal migrants’
on.ft.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
You know when you see politicians talking about the British generosity, they’re going to say something deeply unpleasant. It’s not so different to J.D.Vance’s ‘have you even said thank you?’
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Tommy Robinson, Sargon of Akkad, Rupert Lowe.
Getting the whole spectrum of far-right nasties on your side is not a good look, Labour.
Getting the whole spectrum of far-right nasties on your side is not a good look, Labour.
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Tommy Robinson, Sargon of Akkad, Rupert Lowe.
Getting the whole spectrum of far-right nasties on your side is not a good look, Labour.
Getting the whole spectrum of far-right nasties on your side is not a good look, Labour.
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Aside from the cruelty of this, I’d just like to know why it’s ok to ignore and disappoint liberal/progressive voters.
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Aside from the cruelty of this, I’d just like to know why it’s ok to ignore and disappoint liberal/progressive voters.
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
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The majority of people who voted in a NationCymru poll believe that the left wing Your Party led by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana should not field candidates in next May’s Senedd election✍️ Martin Shipton
Most say Your Party should not stand at the Senedd election
Martin Shipton The majority of people who voted in a Nation.Cymru poll believe that the left wing Your Party led by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana should not field candidates in next May’s Senedd ele...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The majority of people who voted in a NationCymru poll believe that the left wing Your Party led by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana should not field candidates in next May’s Senedd election✍️ Martin Shipton
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Pay back your travel expenses Jenkyns!
Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns is claiming travel expenses for her job as Mayor of Lincolnshire, why? Because she lives in Yorkshire (despite saying she lives in Lincolnshire on her nomination forms).
Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns is claiming travel expenses for her job as Mayor of Lincolnshire, why? Because she lives in Yorkshire (despite saying she lives in Lincolnshire on her nomination forms).
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Pay back your travel expenses Jenkyns!
Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns is claiming travel expenses for her job as Mayor of Lincolnshire, why? Because she lives in Yorkshire (despite saying she lives in Lincolnshire on her nomination forms).
Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns is claiming travel expenses for her job as Mayor of Lincolnshire, why? Because she lives in Yorkshire (despite saying she lives in Lincolnshire on her nomination forms).
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In 2015 Cameron won an overall majority, and it was thrown away by May in 2017 because of Brexit.
In 2019 Johnson won a thumping majority, and yet he was out of office less than three years later.
In 2024 Starmer won a thumping majority and seems to have no idea what to do with it.
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In 2019 Johnson won a thumping majority, and yet he was out of office less than three years later.
In 2024 Starmer won a thumping majority and seems to have no idea what to do with it.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2015 Cameron won an overall majority, and it was thrown away by May in 2017 because of Brexit.
In 2019 Johnson won a thumping majority, and yet he was out of office less than three years later.
In 2024 Starmer won a thumping majority and seems to have no idea what to do with it.
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In 2019 Johnson won a thumping majority, and yet he was out of office less than three years later.
In 2024 Starmer won a thumping majority and seems to have no idea what to do with it.
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Reform UK and Labour need to face much more scrutiny over the donations they have received. It’s naive to assume that there is no correlation between the policies they are putting forward and the donations they have received ✍️Martin Shipton
When parties become vehicles for vested corporate interests, democracy is fatally undermined
Martin Shipton It was Deep Throat in All The President’s Men, the film based on the Watergate scandal that led to Richard Nixon’s resignation as US President, who popularised the phrase “follow the…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reform UK and Labour need to face much more scrutiny over the donations they have received. It’s naive to assume that there is no correlation between the policies they are putting forward and the donations they have received ✍️Martin Shipton
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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There’s someone over there who’s getting what I’m not getting.
If people cannot get over this, then we’ll get Farage as PM.
Don’t let the right’s divide-and-conquer propaganda trick you.
If people cannot get over this, then we’ll get Farage as PM.
Don’t let the right’s divide-and-conquer propaganda trick you.
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
There’s someone over there who’s getting what I’m not getting.
If people cannot get over this, then we’ll get Farage as PM.
Don’t let the right’s divide-and-conquer propaganda trick you.
If people cannot get over this, then we’ll get Farage as PM.
Don’t let the right’s divide-and-conquer propaganda trick you.
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
Deiseb yn galw ar M&S i roi’r gorau i hysbysebu ar GB News.
I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate
I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate
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November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Deiseb yn galw ar M&S i roi’r gorau i hysbysebu ar GB News.
I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate
I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate