Columnist @NationCymru, musician, support worker. 🏴 New book out https://xitter.cf/t.co/eTE3FVQOeg
Wales, United Kingdom
Joined February 2014
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There’s no best way to arrive in Aberystwyth. Whichever road you take, the last hour will leave you breathless as you crest each summit before leading you down to the grandest curving bay in Europe ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1vs8
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By this shameful act of cultural vandalism, the Commission has betrayed not only its independence but the nation’s political dignity. Those sitting on it should apologise to Hanan Issa and to us all ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1vgd
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I’m the same age as Burnham, bar a couple of years, and I’ve begun to wonder if the things that appeal to me in his politics are as much about nostalgia as ideology ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1uXN
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The closed-list system has disempowered individual politicians, leaving them vulnerable to becoming functionaries of a party machine rather than representatives of the voters ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1uKL
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A levy on cheap alcohol, ringfenced to fund treatment for those it harms, is the obvious win-win outcome to this issue, but it is impossible under current arrangements ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1utQ
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This was a peculiar political moment, in which the PM punted an election manifesto to see whether it went down well enough that he could call an early poll ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1uiD
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“Get me 30 gallons of red diesel, 20 gallons of petrol and a family pack of beef Monster Munch.”
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My teeth itch every time I hear Tony Blair piping up on world affairs and it’s extraordinary how widespread that sentiment is amongst people of all political persuasions ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1tQg
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It is English politics that is riven by emotional division with a worrying tendency towards ethno-nationalism. For three ostensibly nationalist parties to have exposed that irrationality and emerged as the adults in the room is smart politics ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1twG
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Now Thomas has resigned, the party is entering a ‘process’ to select its next leader. That process, of course, will likely consist of picking up the telephone and writing down whichever name Farage barks down the line. It’s the Reform way✍️ @WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1tma
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As if on cue, a new saviour for ‘our women and girls’ rose to prominence last weekend on a float of American cash and newspaper connivance ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1t2H
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Politics is a scrap for resources that rarely takes a breather to indulge principles, and even then, only if the consequences are accounted for. Such a chink in the darkness was forced open this week by Ed Miliband ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1sRG
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Decades after Maggie sneered that there was no such thing as society, the fruits of that idea lie rotting on lamp posts – flaccid, Temu emblems of a culture that sold itself too cheap ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1szC
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Burnham’s fine intentions on Israel and privatisation will lead him, eventually, to a definitive choice. Keir Starmer’s likely ascent to gilded dishonour is one path, the other would be much harder ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1so5
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Belligerence without credibility is an invitation to exploit weakness, and Healey’s volte-face this week will surely been seen as such in Moscow ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1s6H
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Never mind the implications of an infantry that can march without rest, or the proven ability of AI to escape its servers and run amok, all you need to worry about is whether this technology makes money✍️ @WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1rHA
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Housing First schemes exist across the UK, including here in Wales, but none have been funded as generously as that in Manchester ✍️@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1ry1
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Interestingly hosepipe bans are often not because a shortage of stored water but the infra to clean water to drink & circulate it cannot take the demand for everyone using hosepipes at the same time.
Also the places he cites often don’t clean all water to drinking standards
There will be NO MORE hosepipe bans under Reform.
We only have them because we’ve been governed by fools.
Singapore is a small, crowded island with only tiny rivers to speak of.
It hasn’t rationed water since 1964.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are deserts.
No hosepipe bans.
Britain, famous for rain, has had Tory and Labour governments who have not built a major reservoir in 34 years.
The population has grown by 10 million since they built a reservoir.
So they tell you to stop watering your garden.
Meanwhile housebuilding in Cambridgeshire is on hold because there isn’t enough water to connect the taps.
They are making us a third world country.
Reform will make reservoirs nationally significant infrastructure to unblock planning.
We will build reservoirs faster than any time in history.
We will fast-track and build desalination plants.
We will ensure a lack of water is NEVER a constraint in Britain. 🇬🇧