@BarrieHatrick It's not just about getting people from North Wales to South Wales along the west coast, it's also about connecting those communities across West Wales to one another and elsewhere by rail
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@BarrieHatrick Which is entirely fair, but this is completely the wrong way to look at rail travel. It's about connecting communities to one another, be that for commuting or leisure purposes
That's the main issue that a West Wales rail link would solve
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Wales isn't a natural administrative unit because *checks notes* it has mountains
These melts can't fathom Wales being a country with a national parliament. They still can't accept they lost the election 3 weeks ago
DOGE Wales 🏴💰@SeneddWaste
North and South Wales are separated by mountainous terrain. This is why Wales naturally looks from west to east. It’s also the reason Wales is not a natural administrative unit. This explains why the Senedd does not work.
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@NealOKelly @cefinroberts What do mountains have to do with Wales being a country or not?
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@NealOKelly @cefinroberts Can you point to me where in my post I was talking about physical geography?
I was pointing out DOGE-y Boy's ludicrous suggestion that Wales isn't a country because it has mountains
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Wales isn't a natural administrative unit because *checks notes* it has mountains These melts can't fathom Wales being a country with a national parliament. They still can't accept they lost the election 3 weeks ago
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@cefinroberts @InstaSim6 Sure. But the OP was poo-pooing the idea that physical geography matters.
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@BarrieHatrick I live and have lived in North Wales my whole life, so I'm acutely familiar with us being ignored by the political class
A West Wales rail isn't just about connecting North and South Wales, it's also about local connections for those who live there to elsewhere on the network
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@InstaSim6 I live in the politically forgotten North, Welsh first language. South Wales might as well be a different country for all we’ve got in common.
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@plaidcymruwatch I'll play whatever games I want to play, thank you very much. Ironic you call me a child when you don't know how to use capital letters properly. You might want to return to school to learn it again because it seems you've forgotten
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@InstaSim6 Hahahahahaha go back to playing KIDDIES games you absolute CHILD!!! LOL
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Plaid Cymru HATES scrutiny. Nation.Cymru and BBC Cymru are run by ex-Plaid staff or supporters. Wales is heading for a TOTALITARIAN future. Criticism of its CRIMINAL rulers will be CRIMINALISED
DOGE Wales 🏴💰@SeneddWaste
Plaid supporters really don’t like their guys being scrutinised, do they?
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@plaidcymruwatch The deranged one here is you with your degrading comments about people you don't like. I'm not sure why you feel the need to use random capitalisation mid-sentence every time either, but you really need to pipe down on it. It just makes you look even more like an idiot
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@plaidcymruwatch Nobody's opposed to scrutiny, but what you do across multiple accounts on this platform is spread utter bile and lies. That's not scrutiny
The BBC isn't in Plaid's pockets either, there have been plenty of people from all parties in various roles at the BBC over the years
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@SnowlySnowly Good for you, but you've entirely missed the point I made with your reply
What do mountains have to do with Wales being a "natural administrative unit" or not?
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@InstaSim6 What you dont seem to understand is that I don’t have anything in common with the people in north wales. I have more in common with people in Bristol and the south west of England than I ever will withthe north. Perhaps you can just separate and leave the rest of us in peace.
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@moelfennli And what relevance is that to providing connectivity by rail to communities across West Wales?
People living in places like Caernarfon can't even get to Cheshire by rail, let alone Cardiff
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@InstaSim6 we're closer to cheshire than cardiff without the land mass + mountains why are u dickheads failing to see that
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@JacCymro1400 Might do a substack just debunking like 10 of this guy’s tweets
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In the second half of this post, he very clearly denies that Wales is even a nation. The person who runs this account thinks Wales should be a part of England.
They are an English irrendentist who wants to get rid of our self-government and nationhood.
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@Ystwyth1558 Pretty much shows that the rail network in the UK is very much centred on London
North-South links in England and Scotland get you to London. East-West links in Wales get you to London
Interconnectivity is, largely, forgotten about
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Wales is sort of the reverse of England when it comes to rail. East-West is easy, North-South is hard. Trying travelling east in England by train compared to South.
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It's kinda ridiculous that Aberystwyth is isolated from the north and the south of Wales. It's one of the major cultural hubs of Wales and it's only rail connection is eastward (like most of Wales)
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@SeneddWaste They've been in government for 2 weeks. That's nowhere near long enough to make any kind of reasonable judgement on how their government is functioning
You've done nothing but whinge about the election results since they were announced
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Bless him, he thinks Plaid are “governing well” …
Morgan™️ 🐝@CantreBreiniol
Other parties already spouting shedloads of misinformation about the @Plaid_Cymru led @WelshGovernment shows that governing well is not going to be enough. And it’s early days. We need a counter-propaganda campaign in parallel 🏴
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@plaidcymruwatch @wru4me @daij1960 The plans for the tunnels were made in 1959 and construction started in 1962, so much of the work was done whilst the Conservatives were in power. Labour weren't in power until 1964
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@wru4me @InstaSim6 @daij1960 The Brynglas tunnels were built in 1967 during the LABOUR WILSON government as was much of the road in Wales
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I'm going to be contraversial. All those who moved to Wales but work in Bristol, knowing the problem of the bryn glas tunnels, can move back or put up with it. You had a choice, you still have a choice so stop bitching.
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I will find solution to M4 congestion, first minister says bbc.in/43AzumY
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@SeneddWaste Plaid won nearly 80,000 more votes than Reform did. It wasn't a stitch-up, Reform lost the election
Implementing STV in council elections isn't a stitch-up either, it's one of Plaid's manifesto commitments. There's virtually no chance of it happening before next year anyway
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Fresh from stitching up the Senedd electoral system to stop Reform, rumours are circulating that Plaid and Labour are planning to rig the system for council elections too. To kill this, it must be called out now.
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@NationCymru @ShiptonMartin There's no chance it'll be implemented before next year's election, but certainly should be considered for future elections
However, it's the Senedd election Closed Lists system that should really be sorted as a priority
petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/2469…
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Discussions are taking place between Senedd Members about the possibility of changing the electoral system for next year’s council elections in Wales, we have been told ✍️@ShiptonMartin nation.cymru/news/could-nex…
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