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@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-03-14 08:58:12

Mandar obedeciendo* in Wales?
Why Plaid Cymru’s plan to 'make a plan' might not be a bad plan, after all
nation.cymru/opinion/why-plaid
Fro…

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-04-07 15:33:56

"A Plaid Cymru victory in May would be “a pretty revolutionary change” for Wales, she said, but the party would first have to prove it could govern better than Labour: since devolution began in 1999, NHS and education standards in Wales have dropped below the other UK nations, and poverty has deepened."
So #Plaid_Cymru have a pretty low bar to climb, it would seem. Less incompe…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-03-11 14:00:41

"Plaid Cymru plans to share wind farm profits with local people – here’s how that idea has been tried elsewhere"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-04-07 15:06:47

"There are expectations too that Sinn Féin would use Plaid Cymru and SNP victories next month to boost its demands for a poll on Irish reunification by 2030, making that central to its Northern Irish election campaign in May 2027"
#UnitedIreland
#IrishReunification

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-17 15:13:03

Ireland has some excellent writers.
"It seems that losing colonial control of Egypt has not stopped Denial flowing through the British body politic." -- @…
#TLDR: #MorganMcSweeney

Graph showing movements of voters intentions between 2024 and 2026, I think, given the lack of Plaid Cymru and SNP, only in England. It clearly shows that only ReformUK (and to a much lesser extent Greens) are successfully recruiting voters from the enormous 'did not vote' block, while Greens recruited heavily from Labour and Reform and the LibDems both recruited slightly from the Tories. There's no movement to Labour from anywhere at all. The LibDems and the Greens are not losing votes to anyw…