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New Senedd Polling for Wales: Plaid Cymru - 33% Reform UK - 25% Green Party - 14% Cons - 10% Lib Dem - 9% Labour -8% Source - YouGov Polled March 9th-10th 2026

@AnMailleach I'm worried about the parasite neighbour to be fair :)

We need to get President Connolly to take up golf or something.

@WillHayCardiff I wouldn't say an overly deferential approach to Welsh gov has been much of a problem for Starmer's tenure

BREAKING - Big Story A memo from Keir Starmer to all members of the UK Gov Cabinet has been leaked. In it the Prime Minister says “each of us will maintain a professional and respectful working relationship with our counterparts in devolved governments” but that “an overly deferential or laissez-faire approach to devolved government engagement almost inevitably creates political challenges or misses positive opportunities”. He then adds: “We should be confident in our ability to deliver directly in those nations, including through direct spending, even when devolved governments may oppose this.” This memo was just 10 days after my newsletter exclusively broke the story that more than a third of Welsh Labour MSs had accused the Prime Minister of undermining devolution. Plaid Cymru have just raised this with the First Minister in the Senedd. More updates to follow The UK Gov has been approached for comment.

And here we are - the Tory Senedd manifesto Asked about the timing, I'm told the Tories wanted to get it out first, before Reform.

@ClwydEnComu Lol

🔔NEW: Keir Starmer has announced that prescriptions will be free in Wales.

@ItsTaz1989 Yeah, it's bad when people can't distinguish journalism, which Shipman does as well as anyone out there, from propaganda.

Tim Shipman is an award winning journalist who has worked for some of the biggest papers in the country. Just because the person you support is being exposed as completely crap - as reported by numerous journalists - doesn’t make the journalists reporting on it propagandists.

@DeansOfCardiff No two polls alike these days!

More in Common now have a poll that has Reform in the lead, Plaid in second and Labour in third. Smaller sample than YouGov's polling which puts Plaid in lead.

@SineadOCarroll really enjoying your winter Olympics chats with @SecondCaptains Thought the below may be an interesting angle (although much more depressing than the sports stories I'll admit) europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/the-itali…

More: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@DeansOfCardiff He's right there. Not sure what right UK Labour think they have to rule Wales in such an offhand way.

Regarding the Welsh Labour MP's comment suggesting policing won't be devolved because we don't know who will win the election: "Whoever is in government democracy must be respected."

Labour MS and former counsel general Mick Antoniw on Shabana Mahmood's stance on devolution, to me: "It is not evidence based, and facile! A gross failure to properly engage with Wales."

@DeansOfCardiff is dropping some great Welsh politics stories for campaign followers. Welsh Labour in a parlous state.

This digression is everything that is wrong with the UK today. Might be interesting to a social scientist like @GoodwinMJ who push this bullshit narrative

@keewa @p_f_lees Corbyn is, sadly, an eejit.

@p_f_lees 1) it shouldn't be early days, if Corbyn had either shit or got off the pot the party should be 5 years old already 2) those progressive activists and gen z'ers you disdain so much also vote

Your Party fucked it so badly they'll study it in textbooks in a decade

@WillHayCardiff Looks like a bald Clarke Kent.

Reform UK's director for Wales has been removed from Cwmbran Community Council for failing to attend meetings. David Thomas is also goes by the names "DJ Dowster" and "Dr Squeegees" (I am not joking). He once posted a picture of himself "officially opening" a Lidl in his area though the supermarket says that no ceremony had taken place... You can find out more about Dr Squeegees in our special report on Reform (see below). (Props to @NewsatTwm for breaking the story)

@NC_Renic Your thoughts on Garamond? I love it, but using it feels like a stylistic imposition. Calibri is my preferred widely accepted font, TNR is tolerable. Arial is a crime against the human aesthetic affordance and therefore the preferred font for admin templates.

As a mature adult, it’s very important to hate a font, and the people who use that font, with an irrational intensity

If we want to understand wealth concentration, we must study the systems that generate it — The contracts, licences, amortisation schedules, transfer pricing models, and APAs that convert code into capital and capital into private power. democracychallenged.com/2025/12/10/whe…

@SecondCaptains top banter with MO'N youtu.be/iRXByLHckFE?is…

Matthew 25: You can’t support ICE, without rejecting Christ.

@DailyMail This must be a joke? Thought you guys were worried about the UK's migration numbers being too high?

The great Polish exodus: The arrival of 100,000s of Poles changed the face of Britain, but now they're returning home in droves for a better life in their low-tax, booming homeland. Could there be a more damning indictment of our decline? trib.al/Ab5zf2k

@MelOwenComedy @SwanseaUni @robinjaymorgan @WillHayCardiff Diolch! The Guinness was a touch of class lol

Sláinte! 🍻 On this week’s FWSW, we’re joined by Professor Matthew Wall from @swanseauni. Big chats on electoral systems, election strategies and why Wales’ poster game is ✨weak✨ Go listen / watch / rant / rave / tell all your friends 👊🏽 📺 : youtu.be/BppC-NiEwWk?si…