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Nel ‘Squeak’ Glyndwr @nel8.bsky.social · 11h

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!)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · Jun 5

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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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

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?

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Liz Saville Roberts AS / MP @lsrplaid.bsky.social · 4d

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 💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 4d

Are you *sure*?
Because when she re-enters frame, she appears to sit back down on a chair that’s facing away from her.

I suspect that this is AI.

@gtconway.bsky.social

Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 4d

Re: Nation of Sanctuary 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

There’s a lot of confusion about “Nation of Sanctuary”, so here’s what it really means 👇

It’s a *resettlement scheme* to help people the UK Government has *already* given asylum to.

Welsh Government doesn’t control immigration, and it can’t choose who comes here. It *must* take in people the UK Home Office sends here - by law.

So Welsh Government set up a plan to do that, and called it Nation of Sanctuary - just like Scotland called theirs The New Scots Strategy, and NI has its Northern Ireland Refugee Resettlement Scheme.

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 8d

(And before some headcase mentions ‘Nation of Sanctuary’, let’s try to remember what that scheme actually is: It’s a resettlement programme for people who’ve been granted asylum by UK Government. The vast majority of beneficiaries are Ukrainian refugees.)

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 12d

Usually gullible bigots.

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 12d

They fall into four broad camps:
1. Gullible
2. Grifters
3. Bigots
4. Racists

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Anianegwr @anianegwr.bsky.social · 12d

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.

Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 12d

Done!

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 12d

What an abject mess Reform is
nation.cymru/news/reform-...

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Anianegwr @anianegwr.bsky.social · 25d

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.

Anianegwr @anianegwr.bsky.social · 25d

‘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

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

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 27d

Labour, Lib Dems and Plaid don’t always agree, and sometimes those disagreements are explosive!

But political parties in the Senedd are democratically-bound to find common ground.

And that’s just good politics.

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 27d

As I argue in my op-ed for Nation.Cymru: the way government in Wales works isn’t a “stitch-up,” it’s what a proportional democracy demands.

The Senedd is designed so parties *must* work together.
nation.cymru/opinion/the-...

The real story behind Labour, Plaid and the ‘stitch-up’ in Wales

Owen Williams The idea that Labour and Plaid Cymru are “in cahoots” in some backroom conspiracy to stitch-up Wales is not only lazy, it’s cynical, corrosive and entirely predictable. This is a narrati...

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 27d

The rest of the time, Labour governed in minority, but still needed support *every single year* to pass a budget.

Collaboration isn’t optional here in Wales - it’s baked into the political system.

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 27d

How often have parties shared *some form of power* with Labour in the past 26 years?

• Lib Dems: 29%
• Plaid Cymru: 25% (15% in government)
• Independents: 13%

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 27d

Sometimes it’s a governing coalition.
Sometimes a compact.
Sometimes it’s just a budget deal.

That’s not weakness. That’s how proportional democracy is *meant* to work: no one gets to govern alone, everyone has to collaborate.

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 27d

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…

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 29d

They don’t know. And they don’t care to find out. They can’t articulate what a Reform-led Welsh Government could actually achieve, because they don’t understand devolution.
The mess is decades in the making – the dominance of England-centric media here has fundamentally damaged democratic discourse.

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Travellersuzy @travellersuzy.bsky.social · 29d

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😳??

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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 29d

I don’t know. I lost track when I stepped away from Twitter.

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