Live in Cardiff, work and volunteer in charity sector. Occasional whisky drinker. These are my personal whinges/thoughtlings
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This is the best ever true news BBC ever made about Israel, 4 minutes but every minute is extremely important
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In the case of Labour MPs in safe seats who retired at the last minute in late May, in the knowledge they'd get peerages for life - thus allowing Labour HQ to impose favoured candidates without local scrutiny - it's effectively a form of bribery.
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Ellie Reeves. Whose sister, husband, father-in-law & mother-in-law were all Labour MPs before she was. This Labour government is beyond parody.
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🔶 Liberal Democrats GAIN Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
Congratulations David Chadwick MP
ALT Liberal Democrats GAIN Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe - David Chadwick MP
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This election must be the most unpredictable foregone conclusion ever. Like if the hosts automatically qualified for the final of the World Cup and everyone else played for the other spot.
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@RishiSunak says he is hurt & angry at @reformparty_uk activist using racist language.
How did he think I felt when his top donor Frank Hester said I “made him want to hate all Black women' and I should be shot?
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Daisy Cooper, "I think you speak for Britain.. So many people ask me the same question.. Why are there so many massive companies raking in billions in profits when ordinary folk can't afford to put food on the table" #BBCQT
"LibDems do not believe we should be taxing ordinary folk during a cost of living crisis.. Big banks have been given a £3 billion tax cut.. We would reverse it.. The windfall tax on oil and gas companies has an enormous loophole in it.. Water companies have taken out loans to pay dividends"
"All of this is unfair.. Big companies should be paying a lot more to pay for our public services"
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This is Labour politician Alun Michael.
He currently occupies 1 of the most pointless jobs in Britain - a Police and Crime Commissioner.
Banking a tidy £86,700 a year as PCC for South Wales he is, IMO, a perfect example of what a missed opportunity the PCCs are.
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This is the most wonderful, wholesome, joyous pod episode! Been walking into work listening to it with a massive smile on my face 😀. Give it a listen 👍
🤩 Ep175: A Grand Day Out 🤩
A matchday diary extraordinaire, featuring a LOT of voices from around the pod bubble, on what turned out to be a very enjoyable away day. Wimbledon still doesn't know what hit it.
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Given strong trade union support for Vaughan Gething, I assume Jeremy Miles actually won a majority of the Labour membership? As well as a majority of support from Labour MS’s? That doesn’t feel like a strong mandate for Vaughan..
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Completely unacceptable. What are people thinking, in an era where UK MPs have been murdered, & female politicians are particularly threatened?
Ridiculous to think the vote of one opposition MP on an amendment in UK Parliament means they are supporting the murder of babies🤯
A Cardiff MP's office has been vandalised by pro Palestine protesters after a "vigil".
Former Plaid MS Bethan Sayed has been criticised for attending.
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It’s as if the entire Conservative party had spent too long in its bedroom, down some weird YouTube rabbit hole, to the point where its mum is getting genuinely worried
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Leeds fans, it’s online and it’s bloody glorious…
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This is Zaragoza, north-east Spain yesterday, where 28mm of rain fell in 10 minutes.
This is why @JustStop_Oil exists.
The Climate Crisis was created by humanity, and only humanity can prevent its worst excesses from making our only home uninhabitable.