Andrew Griffin MS

Member of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn | Chair, Public Accounts Committee | Standing up for rural Wales and accountable government.

[Andrew Griffin MS @andrewgriffinms]

We will remember them

[Reform UK Wales @RUKWales]

We will remember them ♥️

[Andrew Griffin MS @andrewgriffinms]

Tomorrow, on Remembrance Sunday, I’ll be attending a local service to honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

We also remember those who returned bearing the scars of war, and the families whose lives were forever changed.

We will remember them. 🌺

[Angus MacIntyre @AngusReform]

I would like to thank all fellow servicemen who attended on Thursday.

Rest assured that I will work tirelessly towards securing veterans a better deal under a Reform government.

[Art Wright @ArtWrightMS]

Great time yesterday with members of the @RUKWales team at the unveiling of our shadow armed forces minister @AngusReform. Only Reform have plans to save our armed forces and keep Britain safe

[Andrew Griffin MS @andrewgriffinms]

A fantastic appointment, welcome onboard @AngusReform

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

Over 14 years, the Tories destroyed our armed forces. They left them with 50,000 fewer personnel than they started with.

Our army hasn’t been this small since the 1790s. It’s underfunded and those who serve are treated as an afterthought.

Wing Commander (Retd) Angus MacIntyre, our new Shadow Armed Forces Minister, spent 40 years keeping the British people safe.

I can’t think of anybody better to rebuild our military and end the persecution of our veterans.

[Angus MacIntyre @AngusReform]

I have spent the past 40 years in the military.

My career has taken me all over the world, from Northern Ireland to Afghanistan to Iraq to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Somalia.

Today marks the next step in my mission to keep Britain safe.

From one mission to the next.

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

I will introduce Reform's Shadow Armed Forces Minister, Wing Commander Angus MacIntyre, LIVE at 2pm.

Angus has more experience than the entire government defence team combined.

He has served in Arctic Norway, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Iraq and Somalia.

The Tories and Labour have decimated our Armed Forces and betrayed those who have risked their lives for our country.

Reform UK will rebuild our Armed Forces and right these terrible wrongs.

Tune in at 2pm to hear more about the brilliant work Angus will be doing.

[Donna S @Boo65864]

Welcome Wing Commander Angus MacIntyre.
You will be a great asset.

[Andrew Griffin MS @andrewgriffinms]

Great to join the community clean-up in Llanfyllin today, helping get the town ready for Remembrance.

Proud to put up the town poppies on behalf of our local Royal British Legion branch, of which I’m a member.

Thanks to everyone who turned out and helped. A real community effort!

[Andrew Griffin MS @andrewgriffinms]

Representing Gwynedd Maldwyn remains my priority, even during Senedd recess.

This week: meeting constituents and local businesses, following up casework and raising issues affecting our rural communities.

The UK Budget offered little to address those challenges.

Back to Cardiff on Monday to keep making our voices heard.

[Andrew Griffin MS @andrewgriffinms]

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Welsh Government’s underground-first pylon policy is welcome, but Vyrnwy–Frankton would be excluded.

I’m challenging the proposals, raising Powys residents’ concerns directly with Ministers and pressing both governments for underground alternatives.

Powys deserves equal protection.

[Andrew Griffin MS @andrewgriffinms]

£13.1m announced for transport across Powys and Ceredigion. But where’s the breakdown?

How much will actually improve our roads? How much goes to cycling schemes and EV charging?

Rural motorists deserve answers, not just headlines.

Show us where the money is going.

[Andrew Griffin MS @andrewgriffinms]

Britain needs growth, investment and opportunity.

Robert Jenrick's 64-point Economic Rescue Plan sets out proposals to back British industry, cut bureaucracy and support businesses.

It's time to get Britain building, making and growing again.

#ReformUK

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Britain is broke. And to fix it, we need to start growing again.

That’s why Reform’s Economic Rescue Plan includes these 64 pro-growth measures I’d take if I were Chancellor:

𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗮

1. Approve Rosebank
2. Restart oil and gas licensing
3. Legalise onshore exploration
4. Abolish the Energy Profits Levy
5. Restore maximum economic extraction as the North Sea regulator's objective

𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻

6. Abolish the Emissions Trading Scheme
7. Halt the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
8. Repudiate AR7 contracts for difference and scrap AR8
9. Implement the Fingleton Review on nuclear in full
10. Automatically approve French and South Korean nuclear designs

𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀

11. Cut affordable housing requirements on brownfield sites
12. Permitted Development Right for brownfield housing
13. Repeal Biodiversity Net Gain
14. Exit the Aarhus Convention
15. Repeal and reform the Habitats Regulations, including Nutrient Neutrality
16. End the boiler ban
17. Legalise air conditioning to meet overheating rules
18. Remove mandatory EPC improvements
19. Revoke the Future Homes Standard
20. Repeal the Renters' Rights Act

𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲

21. Legislate approval for new runways at Heathrow and Gatwick
22. Auction airport landing slots
23. End 'target-consistent' carbon pricing in project evaluation
24. Ban carbon emissions considerations in planning applications
25. Fast-track all water reservoirs as nationally significant projects
26. Make Development Consent Orders a true one-stop shop
27. Restrict judicial review of ministerial planning decisions
28. Scrap Net Zero construction rules
29. Scrap the social value test in procurement
30. Lift launch limits at SaxaVord Spaceport
31. Open completed sections of East-West Rail

𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

32. Review regulatory barriers to AI adoption
33. Permit on-site gas generation for data centres and industry

𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀

34. Cut Employer NI back to 13.8%
35. Introduce a migrant worker levy
36. Repeal the Employment Rights Act
37. Clarify that workplace rights don't require mandatory training courses
38. Let experienced tradesmen work on government contracts without CSCS qualifications

𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆

39. Review bank capital requirements to boost lending
40. Rule out Net Zero in financial regulators' remits
41. Repeal climate-related financial disclosure rules

𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴

42. Scrap airport 'surface access strategies'
43. Abolish the electric vehicle mandates
44. Apply domestic GB hours to all UK HGV trips
45. Ban Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods
46. Back the M4 Relief Road
47. Move a new car's first MOT to four years
48. Abolish the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation

𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺𝘀

49. Replace GDPR with a New Zealand-style Privacy Act
50. Fully re-legalise Imperial units
51. Review all unchanged EU law
52. Automatically repeal remaining EU law in 5 years unless retained

𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀

53. Make quarterly Making Tax Digital reporting voluntary
54. Reduce legal obligations on SME Non-Executive Directors
55. Double permission-free event days from 28 to 56
56. Make pavement dining licences automatic and permanent
57. Let shops open until 10pm, except Sundays
58. Repeal board diversity and inclusion rules
59. Remove the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate
60. Abolish the packaging tax
61. Scrap BBC and Channel 4 priority on streaming platforms
62. Remove the Public Sector Equality Duty
63. Five-year sunset on all QUANGOs
64. Five-year sunset clause on all new regulations

And there are more to come!

Britain’s full potential is waiting to be unleashed 🚀

[Andrew Griffin MS @andrewgriffinms]

Real people. Real issues. Not political point-scoring.

This week I raised rural schools and prostate cancer in the Senedd, while tackling constituency concerns over bovine TB testing, Llanbedr Airfield, the Menai Data Centre and Kronospan.

The residents of Gwynedd Maldwyn are my priority. I promised to give them a voice, and that's exactly what I've been doing throughout the first six months of this Senedd term.

@RUKWales

[Andrew Griffin MS @andrewgriffinms]

Rural schools are at the heart of our communities.

I questioned the Education Minister about the pressures facing schools in Gwynedd Maldwyn and whether the wider costs of closures, including longer journeys and the impact on families, are being considered.

It's about more than cost per pupil.

[Andrew Griffin MS @andrewgriffinms]

Prostate cancer has affected several men in my family, including my grandfather, who died as a result.

I spoke in the Senedd about the need for earlier diagnosis, greater awareness and better access to treatment, particularly in rural Wales.

Early diagnosis can save lives.

[Camlas @CamlasCymru]

Thank you @andrewgriffinms for showing your support for people affected by cancer in Wales and for speaking with @CR_UK at this morning’s reception.

[Not your average grandpa 🇬🇧 @Jasonlh1967]

JUST HAD TO BE SHARED ☕️

Buying a fucking coffee has become unnecessarily complicated.

There was a time when you walked into a café and asked for a coffee.

That was it.

"Coffee please."

Somebody put coffee in a cup, you gave them some money, and everybody got on with their fucking day.

Not anymore.

Now you walk into somewhere like Costa and ordering a coffee feels like you're filling out a mortgage application.

"What would you like?"

Coffee.

"Americano, latte, cappuccino, flat white, cortado, mocha, macchiato, espresso, double espresso, iced latte, iced Americano, frappe?"

Fucking hell.

I don't know.

The brown one that wakes me up.

Then comes the size.

Small, medium, large, regular, tall, grande, massive, fucking oil drum.

I'll have a large.

Excellent.

Surely we're finished.

Oh no.

"What milk would you like?"

Milk.

"Whole, semi skimmed, skimmed, oat, almond, coconut, soya?"

Cow.

Just whatever normally comes out of a fucking cow.

Then they start offering you syrups.

Vanilla, caramel, hazelnut, salted caramel, gingerbread, cinnamon, chocolate, white chocolate, pumpkin spice, sugar free vanilla, sugar free caramel.

No.

I wanted a coffee.

I didn't come in to design a fucking Yankee Candle.

But we're still nowhere near finished.

Would I like an extra shot?

Decaf?

Half caf?

An extra hot one?

Skinny?

Whipped cream?

Cold foam?

Chocolate sprinkles?

Cinnamon dust?

Caramel drizzle?

Chocolate drizzle?

Ice?

Crushed ice?

Less ice?

More ice?

At this point I'm expecting them to ask whether I'd like fucking underfloor heating installed.

And there's always somebody in front of you who knows this system intimately.

"Can I have a large iced skinny oat milk caramel latte, half sweet, extra hot, two pumps of vanilla, one pump of hazelnut, no foam, extra shot, light ice, whipped cream, caramel drizzle?"

Fucking hell, Barbara.

You're not ordering a drink.

You're giving the launch sequence for a fucking nuclear submarine.

Meanwhile I'm standing behind her thinking, "Coffee. Milk. Two sugars. Please let me go home."

Then comes the price.

"That'll be five pounds eighty please."

FIVE POUNDS EIGHTY?

For a fucking coffee?

For that money I want to keep the mug.

In fact, I want shares in the fucking building.

And because you've already stood there answering twenty seven questions about milk and syrup, you just tap your card like you've developed Stockholm syndrome.

Then they finally hand it over.

And I've ordered the biggest fucking size they've got because, naturally, I'm thinking bigger cup means more coffee.

Silly me.

The cup's the size of a fucking paint tin, but about fourteen percent of it appears to be coffee.

The rest is milk, foam, whipped cream, syrup, ice, chocolate dust, caramel drizzle and whatever other fucking building materials they've used to construct it.

You've basically ordered a coffee and they've built a fucking extension on top of it.

If you've gone for one of the cold ones it's even worse.

You pick up this enormous plastic cup thinking you've got enough caffeine to see you through until Thursday, then realise three quarters of the bastard is ice.

Six quid for twelve ice cubes, a splash of milk and a frightened little espresso hiding at the bottom.

Take the ice out and your "large" coffee would fit in a fucking egg cup.

And then there's the whipped cream.

Fucking mountains of it.

You've got to eat your way through half of the Alps before you even reach the beverage you actually ordered.

By the time you finally locate the coffee, you've consumed eight hundred calories and you've got cream on your nose.

At that point it's not a drink anymore.

It's a fucking dessert with a caffeine problem.

And somehow we've all just accepted this.

We've gone from putting the kettle on and spooning Nescafé into a mug to standing in a queue while somebody called Tyler asks what fucking personality we'd like our milk to have.

I don't need my coffee to be an experience.

I don't need it handcrafted.

I don't need it drizzled.

I don't need it dusted.

I don't need it topped with something that looks like insulation foam.

I just want it hot, strong and capable of making me slightly less likely to tell everyone to fuck off before nine o'clock in the morning.

It's coffee.

Put it in a cup.

Give it to me.

And stop making me take a fucking GCSE before I'm allowed to drink it.

[Reform UK Wales @RUKWales]

Laura Anne Jones has been elected as Deputy Leader of Reform Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿