Meirion Thomas
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Meirion Thomas
@dmt4214.bsky.social
Local Operations Manager Network Rail, 31 years British Rail to Network Rail.
Ex 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards & 224 SQN RLC TA.
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Absolutely this 👇

The only party that doesn't answer to London bosses.

The only party that will really fight for Wales ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Plaid Cymru are the only Party that will look after Wales's interests and fight for the people of Wales and the funding we're owed.
December 4, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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YouGov has just done a poll on whether Brits are happy or unhappy that Trump was elected US president:

Unhappy: 60%
Happy: 16%

They then asked them to say why, in their own words, they felt this way.

Leading "unhappy" reason: He's a criminal
Leading "happy" reason: He's not Harris/Biden/Democrats
December 4, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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Russia and China just rigged the Romanian elections with 10,000,000 fake TikTok accounts

kyivinsider.com/russia-and-c...
Russia and China just rigged Romanian Elections using 10 million fake Tiktok accounts - Kyiv Insider
Russia And China Just Rigged Romanian Elections Using 10 Million Fake Tiktok Accounts December 4, 2024 10:34 am Everyone in Romania knew that Russians had somehow rigged last week’s first-round presid...
kyivinsider.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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Left: Priti Patel complaining about not being able to send back failed asylum seekers

Right: Even GB News acknowledge that Labour have sent back thousands of failed asylum seekers

Why have Labour been able to do it, but the Conservatives were not able to do it?
December 4, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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Left: Kemi Badenoch, "The country needs conviction politicians, not politicians with convictions"

Right: Kemi Badenoch wants Donald Trump (guilty of 34 convictions) to address parliament
December 4, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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“Just three companies, News Corp (Murdoch family), Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT, Viscount Rothermere) and Reach plc, control over 80% of daily newspaper circulation…”

We need a free press - ie free from the billionaires.
We need a free press
It’s vital for democracy that we receive verifiable information that is not manipulated or controlled
sussexbylines.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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Plaid Cymru MPs voted against Labour’s National Insurance hike.

If social care hubs, hospices, dentists, and GPs aren't properly reimbursed, all the UK Government will do is erode the very investment it claims to be making in these services.
December 4, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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Across Europe and the US, neither the centre-right nor centre-left (i.e. Liberal democracy) know how to deal with the far-right insurgency. Why? Because they have no policy to deal with growing inequality, unlike the far-right, which (acting on behalf of billionaires), pretend to
December 4, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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Welsh disunity, politics, and our future

We need to be clear-eyed about the consequences of Brexit, rising extremism, and the imperative for European unity. Wherever we are on the political spectrum, we all want the same things: safety and prosperity.

bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
Welsh disunity, politics, and our future
We need to be clear-eyed about the consequences of Brexit, rising extremism, and the imperative for European unity
bylines.cymru
December 3, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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The Russian-backed government in Georgia arresting critics around the city now.

Here, activist Dodi Kharkheli, critical of the Moscow puppet regime is arrested while dropping daughter off at Kindergarten.
December 3, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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Ni ddylai Cymru orfod diolch i San Steffan am friwsion.

Mae arnom angen cyllid teg, sy’n seiliedig ar ein angen.

🔥 Ben Lake AS yn beirniadu Llafur am ddisgwyl i Gymru ddiolch am ein fformiwla ariannu annheg.
December 3, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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1) South Korean President declares martial law to try and go around parliament. Protests in the streets begin.
2) Parliament convenes and unanimously votes to negate the decree.
3) Soldiers withdraw and celebrations in the streets replace protests.
All in a matter of hours.
December 3, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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Wales shouldn’t have to thank Westminster for crumbs from the table.

We need fair, needs-based funding.

🔥 Ben Lake MP calls out Labour for expecting Wales to thank them for our unfair funding formula.
December 3, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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Rachel Reeves, "Today I have appointed Tom Hayhoe as our new Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner"

"As Chair of an NHS trust during the pandemic, he saw the urgency of getting PPE to NHS staff when they needed it"

"He will investigate the billions lost to fraud and underperforming contracts"
December 3, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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This is the energy we will need!!
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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‘"The EU went from being the easiest market in the world to quite literally the most difficult to get food into," he said.’
'Mind-boggling' Brexit rules hit British food exports by £3bn a year
British food sales to the EU have fallen by more than 16% on average across the three years since Brexit, a new report found, with businesses blaming new border checks.
news.sky.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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Heard a Fox News reporter describe the proposed tariffs on Canadian imports as being paid 100% by companies there.

Kids: Study economics.
December 3, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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THE NEW REFORMER MAGAZINE'S TOMMY ROBINSON LINK

The New Reformer is a publication being set up by two people Luke Pickton & Nathan Ryding under the company New Ways Media Ltd.

Issue 1 features Richard Tice on the cover, he's going to be a contributor to every issue.
December 3, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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A true collapse in Russia's agricultural sector reported today, with all resources now allocated to Putin's genocide operation in Ukraine, Russians are heading into the abyss.
Crop yield drop
Wheat: -9%
Barley: -11%
Corn: -26%
Buckwheat: -7%
Sunflower: -7%
Soybeans: -14%
Rapeseed: -11%
Sugar beet: -22%
Potatoes: -9%
Soon there will be famine in RU!
This is a disaster for agriculture!
December 3, 2024 at 10:46 AM