Joe Wood

@JordanWebber96 Weird guy. Just dripping in anger and negative energy.

Nice to see he took the defeat well last night…🤣 Well done, Caerffili, and all those who voted for Plaid Cymru. 🌼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@T33ktr3at @nevervotedtory1 @Capsandnumbers @georgegalloway So pathetic. He’s blocked me. I’m a lefty. What chance do we have to build a broad coalition to win elections if we can’t handle some very mild push back? I don’t hate trans people at all but in a very few cases, single sex spaces need to be protected.

@nevervotedtory1 @joewood1981 @Capsandnumbers @georgegalloway That's what self-id is by definition. Tell the women who were sexually assaulted by Karen White to 'stop clutching their pearls'.

There will have to be a red-green alliance if the next British election is to save our ancient lands. The Tories and Labour are as dead as a Dodo. Reform would destroy the social fabric of the country. The left parties, the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and the Green Party must provide an electoral front. An Alliance based on self determination for Scotland and Wales, an end to Austerity and a new approach to the economy, withdrawal from foreign wars, scrapping digit id and abolishing all anti free speech measures.

@rchieyes @Capsandnumbers @georgegalloway Maybe because it’s utterly absurd to think that a person can change their sex or maybe because it’s completely insane to waste time worrying about a total non issue affecting less than 1% of the population when we are facing economic collapse and a climate catastrophe?

@joewood1981 @Capsandnumbers @georgegalloway Boy, I wonder why the anti trans sentiment has risen over the last few years? Not like it's been manufactured at all eh?

@nevervotedtory1 @Capsandnumbers @georgegalloway Men who want to enter women’s spaces or compete in women’s sports. The overwhelming majority of people easily understand this and it is crazy that the left can’t edit this one issue to make themselves electable.

@nevervotedtory1 @Capsandnumbers @georgegalloway Nobody believes in total ‘inclusivity’. We all accept that there are some spaces which are reserved for some people. No one’s arguing that an adult should be free to walk into a primary school classroom or that a stranger should be free to invite themselves cont…..

@nevervotedtory1 @Capsandnumbers @georgegalloway To someone’s party. Men taking part in women’s sport disadvantages women. Men going into women’s spaces removes those spaces for women. There are tensions in society and the left should be on the side of the 50% of the population who are women and not the tiny minority of cont…

@jakelchambers Absolutely. Reforms supporters are vocal but their politics is very niche and any lead very soft. 26% in the polls. Greens will be on low twenties soon. SNP, Plaid etc. winning 321seats is a tall order. Labour are not beyond saving either. It’s far from adobe deal.

This Caerphilly by-election is a clear indicator of two things: 1) Polls are inaccurate (reform were the heavy favourites to win) 2) Reform doesn’t have as much support as they believe they do. There’s a silent majority voting against them. This was a big win for Plaid 👏 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@hsutcliffe68 @CraigMurrayOrg This is unfair. mpwarcrimes.co.uk/parliament/cli…

@CraigMurrayOrg He's complicit in genocide. Anyone who remains in the Labour Party is turning a blind eye to it's crimes which makes them complicit.

Look around the Labour benches Clive and see the right wing, zionist and hedge fund bought horrors you are sitting alongside. The Labour Party is long past saving for progressive politics.

@owenjonesjourno @Plaid_Cymru I agree. We need to stop talking as though Prime Minister Farage is a foregone conclusion.

Total humiliation for Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer. Sensational victory for @Plaid_Cymru. The media narrative now has to shift: Labour face a massive challenge from the left, rather than simply the hard right.

@JamesBrian29916 @ElectionMapsUK Every time some MAGA simp with a Stars and Stripes in his bio posts something like this, more people turn away from ‘Britain Trump’ and his Republican Party UK branch ( Reform). Keep going. You are doing great work!

If tonight proves anything, it’s that the IQ levels throughout Caerphilly are staggeringly low. How a community can vote consistently for over 100 years for the same party, producing the same results year after year, only to then vote yet again to continue that mediocrity with Plaid, is beyond comprehension. At this point, I genuinely believe that people in communities who keep voting for the same uniparty nonsense deserve everything they get. 🤦‍♂️

Caerphilly Senedd By-Election Result: 🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0) ➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2) 🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9) 🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3) 🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2) 🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New) 💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New) Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2021.

@londonA84648 @GrazzaD @ElectionMapsUK Wales isn’t a city and neither is Caerphilly. The foreign born population of Caerphilly is just over 2% so there is no mass migration. Immigration is not a devolved issue so not part of an MS’s role. We Welsh are not as thick as you pob Saes might hope unfortunately!

@GrazzaD @ElectionMapsUK It's not a moan. I don't live in Wales, but those who voted PLC agreed with turning it into a city of sanctuary for refugees. They will get exactly what they voted for now

@ElectionMapsUK Wales has spoken.

@tunney24927 @ElectionMapsUK There isn’t mass immigration in Wales, and MSs have no say on immigration policy which is a Westminster matter. Despite efforts to paint us stupid reactionaries, we Welsh are not morons and we understand very well that Reform is pure snake oil with nothing to offer our country.

@ElectionMapsUK So everyone in Wales is happy the way things are going now ? Mass immigration, no housing, rape scandals, taxes rocketing, NHS on its knees, jobs...... well done. The Welsh 😳

@NewStatesman @AndrewMarr9 Following last night’s result in Caerphilly, which Reform were expected to win, perhaps we can start to challenge this deeply harmful notion that Reform are an unstoppable shoo in. It risks becoming a self fulfilling prophecy if we keep repeating it.

DOOM LOOP by @AndrewMarr9 Why no politician can get Britain out of this mess The postwar British political establishment is collapsing. The Conservatives threw themselves into a death spiral last year, though it had been a long time in the making. Now in government, Labour is heading in the same direction. The nation’s patience has snapped. The likelihood is that at the next election, almost whatever happens, we will be stuck with a government we didn’t expect. What follows may be bleak. After Keir Starmer’s victory, I succumbed to that hard-to-forgive journalistic sin: the faint prickle of optimism. With a big majority, it seemed that, perhaps at last, the “grown-ups” were in charge. Starmer promised “to restore service and respect to politics, end the era of noisy performance, tread more lightly on your lives, and unite our country”. But shocks kept coming. Above all, the Labour establishment had underestimated the deeper difficulties of so much it was facing. The intractable problem of ballooning welfare spending and worklessness; the sheer incompetence of much of the state; the pressures on housing and public services caused by the post-Brexit immigration wave. It did not feel as if a new government meant a new start, not in daily life. For now – perhaps for the rest of our lifetimes – the two-party system lies in ruins. From once-Labour Wales to inner-city London, people who a few years ago would not have given Reform the time of day are privately reassessing, due to impatience and despair. Unless something substantial changes, we are heading for a Reform government. The Conservatives, underpinned by business, hereditary wealth, the military and the poor old Church of England, are being scattered to the winds. The party of organised labour has gone the same way as, well, organised labour. Yet the old arguments about economic vitality, fairness and cohesion will also be the new arguments. My greatest fear is that we come to feel, before too long, that these past wildly turbulent years were relatively calm and kindly ones.

@EuropeanPowell @BBCNewsnight Zack mind wiped him with his hypnotist skills.

@BBCNewsnight Why does Rory Stewart look like a sulky truculent child?

“Are they public servants… or are they effectively almost a private company or a tourist attraction…” Zack Polanski, Green Party of England and Wales leader, questions the role of the Royals in light of growing scrutiny around Prince Andrew’s finances. #Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight Can’t believe Zack Polanski used his hypnotic powers to kill Rory Stewart. Pure evil. Poor Rory’s finger is still twitching. Sick! Pure communism.🤪😀

@sallonsax Very few former Green voters will hate the direction Zack Polanski is taking the party in, which is essentially the same direction it’s always had! Total nonsense. The Green Party has always been a very left wing party.

Sorry to break it to everyone, but Green Party policy has not radically moved to the left since 2015, which is when I joined. It has not radically moved anywhere since 2015. It's basically still the same policy, which is leftwing. The comms have changed, that's it.

@UKLabour We don’t need support before school. It’s the 3pm end of the school day and expensive or patchy after school and holiday provision that gives parents a real headache. This feels like a corporate sponsored gimmick.

Today, Labour has announced we’re working with Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Weetabix to deliver free breakfast clubs. By join forces with some of Britain’s most loved food brands we’re backing our schools, supporting families and ensuring every child gets the best start in life.

@OliDugmore It just seems like such a low impact policy. Few parents need help with childcare before school and few want the school day to start earlier. It’s the 3pm finish and cost/poor provision of after school clubs that’s a far bigger issue. That and absurdly long summer holidays!

Well said Labour is doing great things for young families, like reducing childcare costs. More, more, more to alleviate the cost of living