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@Cai_ParryJones Diolch am ateb

cwestiwn da. Sori, tydi Cymraeg fi ddim digon dda eto I ymatab yn gywir yn yr iaith, ond gobeithio bod hyn yn iawn: Under the Remuneration Board's Determination, a Member who stands down voluntarily is entitled only to a winding-up payment of two months' salary. A Member who stands and loses gets three months' winding-up, plus a resettlement grant of one month's salary for every completed year of service (capped at six months), plus a further top-up if they ever held an additional office such as a ministerial post or committee chair. To put real numbers on it: the basic MS salary in the last Senedd was £76,380, £6,365 a month. An MS continuously in post from 2011 to 2026, standing and losing, is entitled to £19,095 in winding-up plus £38,190 in resettlement, over £57,000, before any additional-office top-up. Had they stood down, the entitlement is £12,730. That's a £45,000 gap. The full Determination is published by the Board here: remunerationboard.wales/determinations/

Does losing pay? There were a number of sitting MSs running as independent candidates in the 2026 Senedd Election. By all political commentators' accounts it was virtually impossible for them to win election. So why were they standing? One possibility is that an MS who seeks re-election and loses can gain £10,000s more than an MS who stands down voluntarily. You don't need an economics degree to work out that this can cause perverse incentives. The UK Parliament recognised this in their equivalent rules and narrowed the pay gap in 2023. I'll be pushing the Remuneration Board of the Senedd to do the same. Throughout my time in business, I have often found that performance issues don't stem from bad people, but from bad incentive structures. This is exactly how we should view this issue, not by pointing the finger at any individual candidate, but at the system and its architects. At the risk of overstating it, this mindset may very well be the key to tackling bigger problems facing the Welsh Government.

@SeneddWaste Hi - this short article (5 minute read, with videos) explains. Welsh tradition follows a patronymic naming system, where the son or daughter takes the father or mother's first name as their surname. Very common in Wales (and some other countries too!) museum.wales/blog/1220/Wels…

If his father’s surname is Jones, why does he call himself “Rhun ap Iorwerth”? Odd.

@20NPHartleyHare museum.wales/blog/1220/Wels…

@MattMacKinnonUK 2nd place is sometimes called 1st loser, hope this helps 👍

You’d have thought they won a majority.

@AndrewRTDavies Why don't you take a stance of absenteeism then if you are so against Senedd members?

Election law means the signs have to come down. But my commitment to scrapping the Senedd’s 36 new members remains. 12,464 people lent us their votes in the Vale of Glamorgan and Bridgend after we made this pledge. It is my duty to speak up for them.

@b332960923 @speedy3williams @DevereuxJohn13 U lot really hate brown people so much you'd happily sell the NHS and pay for a new knee 😴 sad really

@speedy3williams @247FoodEater @DevereuxJohn13 I thought I’d help you out to show you what it means for Glasgow. I’m pretty sure they are in a devolved nation. Right no control over immigration.

Shame on those idiots that voted for the Green Party in Wales, REALY DID YOU READ THEIR MANIFESTO, labour and the conservatives are finished as political parties. Plaid Cymru god help us with them running the country, it is a mess, with reform snapping at their heels. Starmer out

@b332960923 @DevereuxJohn13 Just letting you know these are from left and right media for balance 👍

@247FoodEater @DevereuxJohn13 You swallowed the propaganda hook line & sinker. It gets so boring when people don’t bother to check the source.

@RWTaylors This was wrong

Plaid Cymru 38 LARGEST PARTY CONFIRMED Reform UK 29 Second Largest Party Welsh Labour 12 Third Place (Historic Low) Conservatives 2 Squeezed Green Party 2 Breakthrough (2nd seat confirmed in Cardiff S/W) Liberal Democrats 1 Holding (Jane Dodds confirmed)

@mikeharristns Thanks for response - good for you to share that you are: Anti-NHS Anti-LGBT Anti-Welsh language Take care, hope whoever is in charge looks after us all, for all our sakes 👍

@247FoodEater I agree our system is not working and it’s a result that governments are scared to try and solve it

Oh no, this can't be good PR for Wales' most beloved football club.

@GarethReformUK Reform is: Anti-Welsh language Anti-LGBTQ+ community Anti-NHS [Source: Farage (the man in charge) of Reform]

Someone had the bare faced cheek to remove these young people’s signs, that had been placed outside the houses perfectly lawfully! He texted me, not happy, understandably 10 went back out and up as replacements! Thank you young Sir’s and Madams! The Reform is strong in these ones! #timeforreform @RUKWales

@mikeharristns Thanks for responding appreciate it - I presume by voting for them you agree with these choices then, Mike? [Sources are a mix of left and right wing media]

@247FoodEater Everyone has the choice and at present my view is Labour has failed and see Plaid as Labour 2.0 that does not mean our fans have to take the same view -

@thesoccerdemic @WolvesFPA @TalkingWolves @WolvesTalk @WeAreWolvesFans @wolvesfancast @WeAreWolves_com @ESWolves_star @Cymru legend, look at that tracksuit!!!

#OnThisDay in 7️⃣7️⃣ George Berry made his senior debut🙌🏾 ⚽️Aged 1️⃣9️⃣ he started for Division 2️⃣ champions #Wolves vs #Chelsea in a 1-1 at The Molineux✨️ 🌎Of Welsh🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 & 🇯🇲Jamaican descent, he became #Wolves 2️⃣nd Black footballer & made 1️⃣6️⃣0️⃣ appearances🔥 #WWFC

@JGillRay @DanOakesBP How much is one life worth then?

@247FoodEater @DanOakesBP Yes you can.

Will Hayward still not getting it. We don't care if it's 0.0015% of the budget to plant trees in Uganda. It's 0.0015% of the budget that could have been spent preventing people dying in corridors within Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board That's where I'd rather it went, tbh.

@ABarrosCurtis How much do parachutes cost?

Plaid Cymru have failed to publish how much their manifesto would cost the people of Wales. So we did the work for them. The result? £4 billion of uncosted commitments. They’re just not serious.

@JGillRay @DanOakesBP Can't put a price on lives saved though eh?

@247FoodEater @DanOakesBP What was the indirect cost from time being wasted?

@DanWalesReform You will charge people to use the NHS Daniel. [Source: Your boss at Reform Inc.]

Vote Reform to save the NHS.

@DanOakesBP Yeah, saved lots of money in the end though so deffo worth it after all. Think it cost £30m to set up (from what I can see online) so has paid for itself already 👍🙌

@247FoodEater I'm not against 20mph, but more it was implemented in a dumb way. Local Authorities should have been given control over which roads instead of the way they did it.