Silversmith

Aspiring Lesley Knope. Occasional political commentator. Extremely personal views. 🌳 🐝🦔 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🐈 🐈‍⬛ 🌳

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

We went from this to this in just 10 months... I promise, you can do it too. Embrace #NoMowMay, or a Low Mow Year!

Please keep spreading the word on how easy this is to save, transforming from plastic to grassy habitat... @Shitlawns @BanPlasticLawns @MeadowInGarden @PlanningShit

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

Happy #NoMowMay ! I hope all of your gardens are blooming the bloom of free wildflowers!

If you're new to this whole grassy thing, check out @Love_plants advice or, if you just want some therapeutic, plastic-grass removal viewing, check out👇

https://t.co/9Xdl2Hctt8

[Stephen Morris @EosPengwern]

This is interesting; according to the data on https://t.co/LpAogndIkG, Shropshire has a much closer social affinity with Wales than with England.

I've always said it's East Wales really.

[David Deans @DeansOfCardiff]

The former counsel general offers praise for Burnham in his piece for WalesOnline but says his devolution speech was a "work in progress" https://t.co/c3mc59XxG3

[David Deans @DeansOfCardiff]

Former counsel general Mick Antoniw says Andy Burnham could save the Labour party, but in an article he also says that his pledge to devolve "deeper", away from parliaments, can only be achieved with the help of the devolved governments.

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

@Dewijones97 @DeansOfCardiff That'll probably be next week

[David Deans @DeansOfCardiff]

Behold - the Senedd's proposed committees

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

I appear to be back on X. Because Senedd Members WON'T LEAVE FOR SOMEWHERE NICER like the pretty Bluesky. I feel this was decided for me when the new Welsh Gov still made all its cabinet announcements here on first.

I AM UNHAPPY WITH MY FATE but whatchagunnadoaboudit

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

@DeansOfCardiff Seems to be working again now?

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

@DeansOfCardiff No informed reason I'm afraid, just a thank you for letting us know, I worried it was just me! It has seemed in need of an upgrade for a while, but I know how disruptive that'd be

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

@Andybettridge1 @WillHayCardiff SO MANY. I want to make a Guess Who game of them to make learning fun.

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

The list for Rhun's first First Minister's Questions is up - not sure if this is luck, or excellent organisation on Reform's part, but 10 out of 12 of the questions are from Reform MSs.

Fun times for the likes of @WillHayCardiff !

https://t.co/xTenpnSRhJ

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

@Hye15H @mrrobosborne @LlyrGruffydd @mabonapgwynfor Maybe on a tiktok or instagram stream? Rhun’s accounts seem to be doing videos. Haven’t checked myself. No bbc wales live feed yet.

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

All this to say - perhaps independence IS the answer. But 1) it won't happen & 2) the pain it will cause for the first decade will be akin to Brexit economically.

Anyway. I voted Plaid, to balance out Reform. Did they 'win' or were they just the best defence against the right?

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

Every Labour politician needs to see this:

Q: "who do they stand for now" - "not the working class or the valleys".

Plaid can take their ground as 'party of the working class' if they wanted to in Wales, but so many economic levers aren't devolved.

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

So, I don't see HOW Plaid, in 4 years, can change the cost of living crisis. Not without intervention at a UK level on capping energy bills (radically, ideally, y'know, stopping their shareholders profiting off the poorest). Some serious retrofit investment too.

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

@DeansOfCardiff When it runs out of ink does that mean the end of devolution?

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

@DeansOfCardiff What do we reckon timings wise ? Afternoon announcement? End of day? Thank you for your excellent reporting as always!

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

@AshtonWpashton @WalesGovernance @A_B_Evans Any MS can abstain but a party group might have a position they asked all their members to follow

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

@WelshConserv @DarrenMillarMS Here you go everyone - it is nice when people can see what you're launching https://t.co/YDcHE5rAO0

[Silversmith @lizsilversmith]

@WelshConserv @DarrenMillarMS Do you have a link to the actual document?