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@WelshYouthParl 2021-23 I would like to say a huge diolch to friends, family, @lhscardiff & everyone else who has supported me along my WYP journey. Over and out… for now

Starmer isn't the first minister of Wales.

This is funny, because no prime minister has turned on his staff as much as Keir Starmer.

‘Just wondered if you’re considering voting Reform this May?’ ‘No absolutely not. I’d rather wank with a razor’ 🪒 Chapeau sir 🎩👏

A Plaid government after the Senedd elections wouldn’t be some dramatic rupture. Wales would still sit where it sits in the wider system. But it would matter, quietly, in how the nation understands itself.

ARTICLE 🚨 🚨 Why Labour should talk like the SNP. Will Keir Starmer survive the next few days as PM after the latest Mandelson revelation? Probably yes. It will likely be a trouncing in the May elections that will force him out of No. 10 But it’s more than just the scandals that have created a sense of inevitability about Starmer’s political demise. It’s his complete & utter failure to communicate with the public. The post we’ve quoted below is a good example of why the SNP on the other hand, have been such a consistent force in Scottish & British politics. Scotland’s governing party certainly have their shortfalls, but when they do have successes, they never shut the fuck up about them. That’s not a criticism by the way. That’s just smart politics. It’s all very well making positive changes in government, but if you don’t tell anyone, you won’t be there very long. This is a lesson Labour could learn. Admittedly, finding something Starmer’s government has done successfully is not an easy task. The PM’s approval rating being -43 is down to more than just bad communication. But take for example the Renters Rights Act. The bill, which will come into force from the 1st of May, protects tenants from no fault evictions & bans unfair rent rises. It’s a rare example of a genuinely positive piece of legislation that will make a real difference to the lives of British people. The only issue with the legislation is that nobody outside of the Westminster bubble knows about it. Despite it being a significant potential vote winning achievement, Labour have tweeted about it just 4 times this year. To put that into perspective, The SNP’s official account has posted about free prescriptions 5 times in the past month. A policy first introduced in 2011. The SNP’s socials are plastered with what they would describe as their achievements. Free prescriptions, the baby box, free tuition fees, the lowest rate of child poverty in the UK. Whatever the SNP’s shortfalls, these policies are overwhelmingly popular, & during every campaign, the party’s election machine goes into overdrive to remind the population what they’ve gained by voting SNP & what they could lose if they vote for someone else. Labour supporters might despise the SNP with a passion that burns in the very depths of their souls, but that shouldn’t blind them to an important lesson. In politics, if you talk about your successes often enough, people will forget about your failures. Of course, to achieve this, Labour will have to have some successes. Admittedly, Labour’s PR strategy seems to have improved slightly since the departure of the party’s head of communications Tim Allan & chief of staff Morgan McSweeney. The slight improvement being that they now have one. This improvement does leave you wondering whether Labour’s former head of comms spent the last 2 years leaving for work every morning, walking to the nearest park & feeding the pigeons for 8 hours before making his way home for 5 o’clock. Labour won a landslide election under Keir Starmer & they govern with a huge majority. Yet from day 1, they communicated like a government teetering on the verge of collapse. Starmer often delivers statements to the public where he displays all the confidence of a man being held at gunpoint. Labour’s best communicators, or at least the ones that sound the most human, are undoubtedly the likes of Angela Raynor, Emily Thornberry & Andy Burnham. So it makes sense that Starmer would want to keep them as far away from him as possible. Instead, many in the party remain convinced that Wes Streeting is the most gifted public speaker on earth, despite him sounding like a children’s TV presenter who’s just done a few lines of coke before going on air. The governments communications may have improved in recent weeks, but it’s almost certainly too little too late. Labour haven’t done enough to improve the lives of working people & they wouldn’t know how to tell us if they had.

First Minister Eluned Morgan has been accused of ‘giving up’ on the Senedd election after she chose to host a Facebook live stream instead of taking part in a televised debate with Welsh party leaders✍️ Emily Price wp.me/p8Mk4U-1jsU

And with any luck you’ll be gone from Wales by 8 May. The people of Wales will move forward with @plaid_Cymru not backwards with Reform.

Just imagine the reaction if it was the Labour Party or Greens exploiting school children for political capital like this

Wearing tweed in aberdare is the most saes coded thing you could do

Be smart like Bob - Vote @Plaid_Cymru on May 7th #dontvotereform

The SNP is on your side. Let’s take Scotland forward together: 🚌 £2 bus fare cap across Scotland 🍝 Cap on prices for essential foods 🍎 Free breakfast clubs for every primary school 🏡 Up to £10,000 support for first-time buyers 🚸 Expanded childcare, from 9 months old to 12 years old ✈️ Private Jet Tax 💻 Online harm tackled 👩‍🏫 Teacher Job Guarantee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 An independence referendum

You are the last person in Britain who can lecture anyone on lying to the public.

Gent with a proper stache #BBCQT "I just feel Reform UK and the Conservatives come here and are just pandering to the finger tips" "Saying they're going to cut net zero, cut new Senedd members" "That would leave this country in absolute ruin" "Don't scrap net zero to pander to the right wing"

@seneddsources @ProducerOllie @MsJoKiernan I didn’t buy it - He said he wanted to cut the Children’s Comm. I went straight in and told me he wants them ‘in house’ so effectively get rid of the independent voices sticking up for young people!

Dan Thomas: Calm, confident, and loaded with numbers. Reform's candidate came ready for battle - but "cutting quangos" wasn't convincing everyone on the maths. Strong delivery - or shaky maths? @ProducerOllie @MsJoKiernan #WelshPolitics #ReformUK #Senedd #DanThomas

Gent in gray slams Reform UK #BBCQT "Deform UK talk of fantastic gain but I wouldn't trust them with a knife and fork, frankly" "They can't run a council in Kent without arguing with each other" "Their leader has just become our top crypto currency sales person this week" "And one of their top priorities in Wales is to do away with the 20mph speed limit" "My average speed on the way here tonight was 7mph" "I don't know if Leader of Reform UK in Wales Dan Thomas has ever driven in Cardiff, but of the top 100 issues Wales faces, the 20mph leader is not one of them"

The Prime Minister is either incompetent, gullible or a liar. Or all three.

Please help me out by pretending the Chairman of Reform didn't just show that he doesn't know what local elections are and thinks we are in America.

13 viewers. That’s how many people bothered to tune into the Welsh Labour leader’s Facebook Live. It is clear the Welsh Labour party have completely lost their way, and Welsh people are fed up. It’s time for New Leadership in Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Rhun ap Iorwerth is sweating bullets here thinking over and over again how he might have to put Anthony Slaughter in charge of a ministerial portfolio. #bbcqt

Farage’s puppet in Wales may say he’s in charge, but we all know he’s not the boss. Don’t risk our NHS in the hands of Reform. Vote @Plaid_Cymru to keep our NHS free at the point of need on 7 May 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿