Frequently Overruled

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 would all be so much better without 🇬🇧. End the union.

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

Perhaps the greater problem going forward will be whether Labour positions itself in the “pro-devolution bloc”. Because that is increasingly looking like a minority group in the current Senedd.

[Nation.Cymru @NationCymru]

If Labour were seriously to contemplate collapsing the Senedd and forcing an election (which is what happens eventually if a budget can’t be passed) it might be the last thing they ever do in it✍️ Desmond Clifford https://t.co/Bf1QvnCe3B

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

For “until it’s clear”, read “until the UK government is willing to admit it’s clear”

[Stuart Budd @StuartBudd1]

A clear majority of Scots already want a 2nd referendum on independence

Independence:
SNP (58) + Scottish Greens (15) = 73

Unionist Parties:
Labour (17) + LibDem (10) + Tory (12) + Reform (17) = 56

https://t.co/xJJeofB1ip

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

Labour is now an anti-devolution party when it comes to empowering Wales. It sees us as a region, not a nation.
It seems the plan will be to bypass and undermine the Senedd in favour of councils.
How will Wales respond to another Labour administered slap in the face?

[Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Plaid_Cymru]

Scotland, Northern Ireland and Greater Manchester have control over policing - Wales does not.

The PM recently expressed openness to devolving policing to Wales so it was disappointing that he didn’t show the same willingness today.

Plaid Cymru is clear it must be on the table.

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

@maelnallaen Every country can succeed and every country can fail. With every election political direction can change. What is important is that a country writes its own destiny and doesn’t have it written for it. Wales is not uniquely incapable of governing itself.

[APSM Rugby Channel 🏉 @ApsmRugby]

1965 Rhys Gabe
Winner of Wales' Triple Crowns in 1902, 1905 & 1908.
Interviewed by Dewi Bebb on the eve of Ireland vs Wales as another generation chased the Triple Crown

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

Burnham’s Welsh and Scottish MPs won’t be asking him to call an election yet.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch says she thinks Andy Burnham will call a snap election “in the next few months”

She has written to the Cabinet Secretary demanding pre-election talks with the Civil Service

[@christiancalgie]

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

@BernieSanders “we need leaders in Congress who stand with working families, not billionaires.

We need leaders who will fight for Medicare for All and raise the minimum wage to a living wage”

This really shouldn’t be controversial

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

@RhydianLFrancis Tories seem to think that putting Wales down at every opportunity helps their cause. It really doesn’t.

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

@PolliticsUK @DeltapollUK The changes are with 27th July (not June)

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

@Nigelrefowens @Penyrheolgerrig @tc1415 @WelshGovernment Strange how something like this can reveal a disrespect for the language and indirectly a disrespect for Wales. And not necessarily from the usual suspects. Wales has to work hard to preserve its language and its nationhood.

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

@maelnallaen Maybe it’s more to do with not respecting devolution than not understanding it

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

A glorious day for opponents of transparency in public life.

MPs have removed the names of their parliamentary staff from a decades-old public register - meaning we do not know who these people are and are left to accept the word of their employer when they say (as in the case of the prime minister, here) that said staff do not have any outside earnings or private interests.

"All staff have confirmed they have no registrable interests": oh, well that's that then.

No way of determining if true; no way of finding out if MPs employing family members; no way for anyone other than MPs themselves to uphold standards or examine who is operating in the Palace of Westminster on their behalf.

The decision was driven by ... you guessed it ... MPs themselves, following behind-closed-door consultations with staff trade union representatives - not media or anti-corruption organisations.

Echoes of the time that decided among themselves - with nil meaningful debate - to exempt themselves from the centuries-old system by which those arrested would be named before the Commons.

Parliament being sovereign it is always free to take such steps without consultation or engagement with the public - the hope is they decide not to abuse their positions and proactively seek criticism or counter-views.

In this instance, sadly, MPs have demonstrated they cannot be trusted to do so - they have put us out of step with comparable democracies without anything approaching scrutiny:

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

@ceritheviking Empowering local authorities to do things their own way - by setting central government “clear expectations” about what high streets should look like.

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

@alarchwen1968 @troutman831 @WelshRugbyUnion Wales, like every country, has its golden eras and its dire eras. But clinging on to the image of a principality that most Welsh people haven’t identified with for two generations instead of reflecting a confident 21st century Wales may turn out to be WRU’s existential failing.

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

@Joe_Mayes @JLPartnersPolls Part Burnham Bounce and part Farage/Tice Splat.

[Frequently Overruled @BellicoseBenn]

@TheWelshDragon9 If money is tight there’s a lot to be said for joining the Red Wall and supporting Wales’s rugby team from the pub. Let the WRU keep their princes and their feathers and their overpriced chaos to themselves.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Tomorrow in Palestine. A funeral for 112 people from 2 families.

112 people murdered by Israel.

Imagine this was an Israel funeral we would know the names and faces of every victim.

But tomorrow it won't even be a news story across the West.

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

HISTORY FOR EMMA FINUCANE 🥇🥇🥇🥇

The first sprinter to win four gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[SweetIrishGhirl @Newrygal1]

Get this woman to Stormont ASAP 👏👏 our native tongue should not be politicalised.

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

On the morning of the 1982 All Ireland, a journalist asked Offaly manager Eugene McGee how badly Offaly wanted to win.

He replied, “there’s men in that dressing room who haven’t had a pint since last Wednesday night.”