Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

Reform Member of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr. Promoted by Kevin O’Neill c/o 67 Cardiff Road, Caerphilly, CF831FP

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

Proud and thrilled to announce that I’ve been called to serve the constituency of Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr. Watch the video, leave your thoughts, but be assured, you will not find a harder working candidate.

The campaign starts now.

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

Political lying is soon to carry a criminal sentence in Wales.

Plaids entire schtick will come crashing down and nonsense like this will end.

[Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Plaid_Cymru]

First session of First Minister's Questions ✅ ✊

While Reform's ambitions are to privatise the NHS - the people of Wales have put their trust in this Plaid Cymru government to protect our NHS and strengthen it for the future.

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

We’ve got some real talent across the board in @RUKWales but I’ve got to pay particular tribute to the contributions made by @SarahReform @Art93229Art @BenHodgeMckenna this week. Absolutely superb.

Our party and our country has a bright future ahead of it!

[Reform UK Wales @RUKWales]

Reform Wales is the largest opposition in the history of the Senedd.

We will hold Plaid Cymru to account.

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

I recently sat down for a wide-ranging interview with @businessinWal . Here is the transcribed Q&A:

https://t.co/zALISFLCHK

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

@Cai_ParryJones and I agree- mass immigration is stealing the futures of our youngest and brightest.

27 non-EU young migrants have been hired for every young Brit since 2020.

Reform will put a stop to this and prioritise British jobs for British people.

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

On our high streets illegal tobacco and vapes are being sold to children.

Even people smuggling operations are hiding in plain sight.

Only Reform will put an end to this.

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

Great to attend the Transport for Wales drop-in session today and hear directly from transport professionals about the opportunities and challenges facing our rail network.

These conversations are vital in helping shape a transport system that works for all communities across Wales. 🚆

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

I was very pleased to sign a Statement of Opinion at the Senedd earlier this month to highlight #ArthritisAwarenessMonth and the impact of arthritis.

Arthritis UK offers a helpline & useful resources for people living with arthritis: https://t.co/1PZq7Q3ET7 @CymruArthritis

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

The NEET report is a sobering indictment of successive policy failures from Labour and the Tories.

Hammered home by Rachel Reeve's disastrous attacks on employment, there is little wonder that a generation of young people are drifting, unable to find a career or opportunities for development.

We are a country that makes it as difficult as possible for our businesses to hire young talent and has misused the tax system, turning it into a hammer to punish aspiration rather than using the tools it provides as incentives to employ and grow.

Reform will change course. We have to back business, we have to give our lost generation hope through a career.

https://t.co/cu2GPAr33G

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

People are rightly fed up of the UK being the world’s most expensive market for energy.

Enough.

The cost of rushing to net zero simply has exceeded any theoretical benefit and has to be stopped.

If successive governments had invested in abundant nuclear, tidal, industrial solar, we would not be at the whims of world events and in control of our own destiny.

We have to change course.

No to net zero.

https://t.co/bAUJl4XTnm

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

@JacotheNorth Cc @Cai_ParryJones

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

People have asked what Reform’s no tax on overtime means for the Armed Forces Reserves.

You won’t pay *any tax* on time served in the Reserves, where it’s on top of a full time day job.

This will be a huge boost to recruitment.

Thank you to those serving in the Reserves 🇬🇧

[Reform UK Wales @RUKWales]

This bank holiday, remember that Reform is the party backing our tourism industry.

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

This was a cringy watch.

No plans, just waffle. Right out of the Plaid election playbook.

There will come a time soon when the Welsh public will demand some concrete actionable strategy; platitudes aren’t going to cut it when in Government.

And no, no one in Boston has asked about the WDA. Ever.

[BBC Wales Politics @WalesPolitics]

Missed #PoliticsWales ?

@Adamprice Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy confirmed a new arms-length government Development Agency.

@DanWalesReform explained how Reform UK plan to hold the new Welsh government to account.

Watch back here:
https://t.co/7HRk0ZrCuu

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

@CoeurDeLion1966 Do not open the link & delete the message, it was a hack.

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

My account has been hacked and I’ve just got it back after 24 hrs.

Please DO NOT open any links sent via DM, I will be working through and deleting them asap.

Thank you!

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

Reform is the party that puts working people front and centre of everything we do.

Hard work should be rewarded, and with Reform, it will be.

This is a policy with the grafters in mind, the workers, the hard earners.

We hear you, we stand by you & we know that you are the engine of this great country of ours.

Thank you 🩵

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Nigel Farage has pledged to axe income tax on overtime as he vows to “make work pay”.

If Reform UK wins the next general election, people who earn less than £75,000 and work overtime above a 40-hour week will pay no income tax on the extra hours.

🔗: https://t.co/YNGndqIpQg

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

@GHWTowler Nooo, I hope not. The team at x was very responsive tho.

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

Plaid Cymru have zero timeline and no plan for their flagship childcare offer.

This is £400m of your taxpayer money.

They must come clean to the electorate.

[Jason O’Connell MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @jason_oco]

If only someone could have seen this coming….

Plaid are out of their depth and don’t know what they’re doing.

This 4 year government will be led by the Welsh civil service.

[Dan Thomas MS @DanWalesReform]

Waiting lists will have to wait. The child care pledge will have to wait. Farmers will have to wait.

But what did the First Minister raise with the PM in their first phone call?

Independence.