Rhys Kaminski-Jones

nora: ACORN the Union Cymru are demanding that all Senedd candidates commit to supporting:
1. Bailiff Free Wales
2. Rent Controls
3. Stop Homelessness
4. End "No-Fault" Evictions
5. Nationalise Buses

If you live in Wales & support those demands, follow this link: acornuk.good.do/cymru/senedd...

I am now trying to imagine Godwin's opinions on Johnny Rotten, hoping he'd know he was destined to do a political Southey.

He's more the "won't stop talking about the reading group at his intentional community" type of anarchist anyway!

Seconded, Hitchcock is a perfect comparison!

Proto-anarchist Anglo-Saxonist whimsy, a very specific political vibe

They're not advertising me villas in Dubai, they're advertising me AirBnBs in Machynlleth - I have been algorithmically judged to be less fancy

I wasn't wrong, was I? ☝️

The final fall from being allowed to pretend they're important if it's convenient for the Anericans

"Refusing to rule out" according to Guardian. Whatever that means from Trump's mouth

"How about Iraq but somehow *more* arbitrary, and with the Labour Prime Minister abject instead of deluded? Would you enjoy that, British millennials?"

Maybe they tried some other metonymies but decided "guns in their faces" somewhat gave the game away

I do not care to see it

"Boots on the ground" is a weirdly jaunty euphemism for "invasion"

Also not sure I'm pleased or annoyed they gave us the very period-appropriate trope of the free-spirited non-threatening Celts showing the English how to live free from artificial convention. Sydney Owenson would be proud.

So given this is Season 4, and Season 1 was in 1813, it must be the Seditious Meetings Act 1817, which means they're *definitely* trailing Bridgerton Season 6: The Peterloo Massacre, where Eloise's forgotten radical tradesman boyfriend reappears only to die in her arms at the hands of the Yeomenry

Depends what you mean by "beat", a coalition is still possible even if Reform are the biggest single party

For clarity, this is a lot less relevant under the Senedd voting system this year, but we need to be v much encouraging a political culture that leads to good coalitions in the Senedd and tactical anti-Reform voting pacts between Welsh parties for forthcoming FPTP elections

I did not love that the Greens ran a candidate in the Caerffili by-election, but have hope coalition politics in the Senedd can lead us to a different way of doing things!

I'd be delighted with Green representation in a left wing Senedd coalition government, whilst being (I think understandably, on historical record) wary of a party that wants to replace Labour ending up thinking of itself as "national" therefore more important, basically!

SEDITIOUS MEETINGS ACT BRIDGERTON MENTION.

Time to overanalyze one line, nerds.

That's the ideal outcome! We want coalitions in the Senedd and tactical pacts for the general

A welwn ni'r Blaid Werdd fuddugol yn ailddyfeisio "Divisive Nationalists" Llafur, tybed?

...or, ofc, we're the important "National" party 🙄

It was a "we can win everywhere" excited sentiment, but I don't want that understandable excitement to harden into infighting!

Thankyou! But no today's fine I'm going back into my work burrow tomorrow 😆

True it's mitigated in the Senedd system but I'm more worried about the attitude carrying on to the next general and having the left-liberal vote split Plaid-Labour-Green-Libs with a dead Tory party

I've seen at least one Green activist saying "we can win in Wales" post Gorton and Denton, and I am begging please let's not get anglocentrically carried away and remember that tactical anti-Reform voting in Wales needs to take Plaid Cymru into account

And no you're right, I have never been as cool as my mother. She saw James Brown in Monrovia in the 70s, I saw him in Cardiff supporting the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

One day I'm going to go on an archival dive to try to confirm the family story about her getting A Reputation back in Abergele because she got seen on the news at an American Embassy protest getting shoved around by a cop

You can explain a lot about my politics and positionality when you know I'm the child of a Welsh Presbyterian mother who was in London during the Vietnam War and went from SOAS to the University of Liberia

I am not going to defend the entirety of the Nonconformist tradition by any means, but at times you really feel the lack of politicians who can speak like they're the guest preacher at the Sedd Fawr in Bethesda Chapel