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No chance of Reform winning in Grangetown.

Number of FBPE-ers defending the proscription of PA is genuinely incredible, if not unsurprising.

Do you *honestly* believe that breaking into a building constitutes terrorism?

Apologies for any spoilers! 😂

..and Reform/the right won't get the numbers.

They gloss over the new system way too much, it's straight up PR for the first time so there are a lot of unknowns as every vote counts. There's also a suggestion, even from the "expert", that Reform could form a government. That just won't happen, the new system is geared towards coalition..

Plaid often poll well but fail to deliver on election day, but they've repositioned as a party for all of Wales which is finally cutting through. They also tended to do slightly better in the regional lists which suggests a better showing under the new system.

And I think it probably underplays Labour's hand given how entrenched support is for the party in parts of Wales and that they have the biggest party machinery by far.

Apart from a few glaring inaccuracies and omissions it's broadly accurate in terms of who the biggest party will be; could be any of Reform/Plaid/Labour. I think they possibly overplay Reform's chances given that it's unknown how many will *actually* turn out for them.

Good luck in Sweden, if you're planning to move there you presumably know their Reform equivalent is the second biggest party and props up their right wing government!

*obviously it won't.

Events of the latest decade have demonstrated that the west is A-OK with the murder of journalists and at least Israel are finally admitting it. Wonder if it will prompt any self-reflection for British journos*

RIP Anas al-Sharif.

*fascism

50% of Welsh over 65s see the party as a party for Welsh speakers – but this falls to 27% among 25-49 year olds and 14% among 16-24 year olds, 37% of whom instead see Plaid Cymru as a party for all Welsh people.

Interesting bit from the YouGov poll on Tuesday. Suggests Plaid's excellent(?) meme game may be cutting through.

The English have no respect man

Put the Welsh Fire match on and it took about five minutes before the commentator said "iTs jUsT oNe oF thOsE WeLsH wOrDs wiTh seVeN cOnSoNaNTs anD nO VoWeLS LOL".

17, which I'd guess is more than most USians. Of the rest, the only one I'd really like to visit is Nashville.

It's genuinely an incredible defence. "I'd rather have houses with no toilets than no houses at all!", "I'd rather have houses with beds made of rat faeces than no houses at all!" etc etc.

Ooh interesting, will keep an eye out

Very well put as usual Pete. Legacies finally on the line I suppose, who wants to be the PM that waved though the ethnic cleansing of Gaza (even if, as you correctly say, it's been going on for a year and a half).

Finally!

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

All four of them are pathetic. Unsurprising but no less disappointing.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Road deaths are a policy choice.

He was then soundly rejected by the current Labour leadership but you expect him to what? Kiss the ring? Laughable.

Quite, all very well suggesting selling it off but who in their right mind would buy it?!

FoRmEr PoLiTIcO

Sorry, what? 😂 Absolutely obsessed with Magic Grandpa instead of facing up to your own incompetence? In 2025?

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.