Welsh Wayne

company director, likes living life to the full, love sports the swans and spending time with family and friends

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

@LeeJarvis10 Well done to them both nice to see it will do hom the world of good .

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

@WillHughes_11 Dont believe him Will we have had a bit more than that i think .

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

@NathanHeaney Swans fan here hes a very good player we wasted him playing right back but im happy with the fee

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

Just a traditional foot pic for my feet fans

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

@Plaid_Cymru Did any of you take geography the size of wales will make no impact on the world . Sort the nhs shambles out instead .

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

Great day in cardiff having a swig in the sun then the cure concert but as normal trains a shambles be glad to get home🙈

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

The cure cardiff happy days

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

@WillHayCardiff Beautiful day enjoy the sunshine we dont get enough of it in wales .

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

@marchamjack @jones_mog Beautiful

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

@jones_mog Close great spot been there a few times with work when the italians used to produce furniture enjoy .

[Driftwood @buc97552]

@afneil @tractorgirly

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

@iamtomskinner See you down at the swans next season

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

You might have heard of Maggie Oliver.

She's a former Greater Manchester detective who, in 2012, was ordered to abandon her investigation into the systematic rape of children in Rochdale, and decided she would rather resign her warrant card rather than do so.

Maggie, as that would imply, is one of the good ones. I constantly ask how our police can consider themselves worthy of the badge if they are not willing to return the badge rather than commit injustice in its name. Maggie did just that; she was asked to cover for criminals, so she told the shirts to stuff themselves and handed back her commission.

She won a small but consequential victory in the High Court on Friday. Mr Justice Kimblin granted her foundation a full judicial review of whether the British state has actually done anything about the recommendations it accepted, in 2022, at the end of a seven-year inquiry into the institutional cover-up of decades of child sexual abuse.

Maggie Oliver is one woman. She has no political party behind her and no standing in Whitehall. She has no peerage, no chambers, no billionaire foundation footing her bills.

She was ordered, by senior officers, to drop her investigation into a network of men who were raping children in industrial quantities in her city, because of the demographics to which those men belong made the whole thing a bit awkward.

Fourteen years on, she has done what nobody else in this country has been able to. She has hauled the British state into open court to answer for the choice it made, over four years and under two governments, to hold a seven-year, £200 million inquiry into the institutional cover-up of child abuse and implement, deliberately, none of that inquiry's recommendations.

The Home Office accepted those recommendations in 2022. So did the Department for Education, the police inspectorates and the Crown Prosecution Service. And then nothing happened. The recommendations sat. The departments restructured. Ministers rotated.

The girls and women who had given evidence aged. More such operations continued around the country, while the men who had run the previous set of them either walked free, left the country, or drew their own pensions.

The state, in the manner of every institution Tony Blair ever built, had decided that the writing of the report was the action, and the doing of the report could be handed off to history.

That is what Maggie Oliver has now forced into court. And the political class knows what that means. The Home Secretary has not commented. The Prime Minister has not commented. The candidates jockeying through the post-Starmer Labour succession have, at the time of writing, failed even to speak her name, as though they know that, if they do, lightning will flash in the sky and they'll be turned into a pillar of Tesco's-own-brand dishwasher salt.

They are silent because they recognise, accurately, that the answers a judicial review will produce - to the question of why their inquiry's findings were treated as ornamental - will, should, must end the careers of every official who was supposed to act on them and did not. That councillors and councils, mayors, indeed entire political parties, will be caught under ultraviolet light and shown for their guilt.

It's time a government did what the British state has spent twenty years declining to do. Take on institutional failure.

Name the institutions that failed, in public, on the record. Name the officers and officials who covered it up, and the officers and officials who pressed for the cover-up too. Prosecute them under the standards that any other employee of a public organisation defrauding the public would expect to face.

The recommendations the inquiry produced must be implemented in full, alongside whatever further measures a second look at the evidence then demands.

There will not be another inquiry into the inquiries. There will be the verdicts.

Maggie Oliver is one of the bravest people in Britain. She has earned, by her own resignation and by fourteen years and a foundation and a court case carried on her back, the right to expect from a future British government the simple thing that ought to have happened in 2014, in 2016, in 2018, in 2022 and in every other year of this national disgrace.

She has not yet been given it; we have not yet been given it. But it will be given, and soon.

[BLAIM GAME @BLAIMGame]

“We asked 48m voters ‘What would make you vote for Labour again’

You said - Gordon Brown

If it’s up there I’ll give you the money myself”

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

Corfu town today

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

Kefalonia today this is the life

[Rush @exRAF_Al]

£25,000! I wonder if Steve Kinnock’s wife spends as much time in the Afan Valley as he spends in the Napa Valley. Networking with a WEF affiliate company is obviously more important than helping Welsh constituents. Port Talbot needs a new MP who puts the town first. @SKinnock

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Surely even Labour can see we can’t go on like this?

1.5 million MORE people are claiming benefits! With 63,000 new claimants last month alone!

Nearly 8.5 MILLION people taking more than they contribute. That isn’t a functioning society, it’s a collapsing one.

[Welsh Wayne @WayneSemmens]

@NorthGwentBlue @PaulAbbandonato @CardiffCityFC @NewportCounty Course not and everyone likes you lot dont they even the sports courts 🤣