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[ACORN Cardiff / ACORN Caerdydd @ACORNCardiff]

🧵 Today — in response to @UnitedWelsh's shameful treatment of a vulnerable woman in their care — we have sent a letter to @VikkiHowells and @AndrewMorganRCT demanding that they:

1) Launch a Wales-wide investigation into UnitedWelsh's practices as a housing provider

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

@arisroussinos Henry Green’s ‘Living’ is a tidy little novel set in and about Birmingham. I think it’s partly explained by the fact that Birmingham’s decline happened relatively later than, say, a Manchester or Liverpool— it has not rlly been able to work out the reified ‘culture’ gimmick yet

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

@dai_alectic There’s a little egret that always fishes underneath the bridge on Western ave., don’t think I’d ever seen one before moving to Cardiff. Do think there’s something unique about Cardiff’s birdlife!

[ACORN Cardiff / ACORN Caerdydd @ACORNCardiff]

📰 BREAKING NEWS 📰

Cllr @huwthomas_Wales and Cllr @cathayschris came to ACORN Cardiff's 1st Warm Homes & Cost of Living Forum on Tuesday

Here's what they said 🧵

[ACORN Cardiff / ACORN Caerdydd @ACORNCardiff]

Introducing our new campaign: Warm Homes, Not Empty Ones.
ACORN Cardiff members are calling for @cardiffcouncil to:
1. Increase council tax premiums on empty homes to the legal maximum
2. Ringfence this revenue to create a Winter Fuel Support Scheme
Hence #WarmHomesNotEmptyOnes

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

Think I saw my first little egret on the taff today 😋

[Tegid Roberts @TegidRoberts]

For a G7 country to lose its primary steelmaking is a long-term strategic error by the UK Government with the Welsh Government neutered in its response. This is a big unforced error as was how we've treated other infrastructure - energy, transport, food security, health etc etc.

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

Rest in Power king ❤️

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

Not that they’re worth giving attention to these days, but funny how his opportunism is spoken about far less than Lewis , Whittome etc. There’s probs no one else in parliament who owes his career to the left as much as he does.

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

Dan Carden really is a telling tale of how you should be wary of bag carriers of all persuasions

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

The Valleys exhibition at @AmgueddfaCymru is great btw, brilliantly curated. Do check it out if you can!

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

New tattoo idea just dropped

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

I’m sure your old man will be alright Rachel with his fat civil service pension, but my nan who is on blood thinners and worked for 50 years in a factory could do with it 👍

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a policy so blatantly dictated by the distorted, homogenous class experience of our political- media class. Pensioners are now being plunged into poverty because of the Oedipal outrage experienced at middle class family dinner tables

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

Pensioners are "more likely" to be millionaires - so why should they have a universal benefit?

@RMCunliffe on why Rachel Reeves is right to means test winter fuel payments.

Watch in full: https://t.co/aKNwcVd4fi

[Anwar El Ghazi @elghazi1995]

‘So, surely with hardship comes ease’ after the darkness of the last few months, I look forward to this new chapter at Cardiff. I am grateful to the club and manager for giving me this opportunity and accepting me for who I am without question and the amazing players and fans 1/2

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

The bluebirds say free Palestine 🐦🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[Cardiff City FC @CardiffCityFC]

It's past midnight! August is here and so is Anwar! ✍️

@elghazi1995 is a #Bluebird! 💙

#CityAsOne

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Incidentally, this is the key to what has just happened with 2 child cap - Treasury control. The vote came down to a demand that HMT regain and reinforce its autonomy over fiscal policy, its authority in government and therefore its authority over Labour… 1/n

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

@Yus_pro_quo Putting your career above everything else now appears to be the first step to getting our future back it seems!

[b🛬 @bpj1499]

Wasn’t this also the same fella who was bullish about bureaucratic inertia around planning regs the other day lool

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

As an aside, you don’t often see big changes to social security outside of fiscal events because decisions have to be made in the round (underpinned by fiscal forecasts). I spent long enough as an HMT civil servant to know the alternative is chaos. We’ve had quite enough of that