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Statement by Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales on the passing of Hefin David MS

Datganiad gan Eluned Morgan MS, Prif Weinidog Cymru ar farwolaeth Hefin David MS.

Mae @jaclarner.bsky.social ar BBC Wales yr wythnos yma i drafod rhagolygon y pleidiau gwrthbleidiol yn Senedd Cymru o flaen yr etholiad nesaf:

Dr Jac Larner discusses the prospects for opposition parties in the Welsh Parliament ahead of #Senedd26 and its new voting system this week on #WalesCast:

Support for proportional representation hits record high according to new research The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) has, this week, published the latest findings from their British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey. The survey has been conducted almost ever

According to @NatCen, fully three-fifths (60%) of the British public now support changing the voting system for UK general elections. Scrapping FPTP is more urgent than ever.

electoral-reform.org.uk/support-for-...

There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI

This is also cyberpunk

You: pornbots keep randomly following me on Bluesky

Me, an intellectual: pornbots are citing my books on Google Scholar

The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.

On the 10th July we gathered in Cardiff Bay to discuss the challenges and opportunities arising from Senedd reform and how the benefits of increasing the membership of the Senedd can be realised. Huge thanks to our speakers, panellists and attendees

...You're welcome...??

"Encouragement to question their gender" sounds rather close to "promotion of homosexuality" to me...

I know the 80s are very trendy and retro now, but I don't think we need LGA 1988 too!

Anti-LGBTQ orgs have explicitly stated they USE sports as a "gateway drug" to undermine trans people's rights. They've also said this is how they eventually roll back all progress on LGBTQ rights. Newsom falls for it hook, line, and sinker.

freaky Friday sequel where Slavoj Zizek has to be a TV showrunner and Dan Harmon has to debate Jordan Peterson

🚨🗳️ | New Guidance in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill confirms that Mayoral and PCC elections will return to the Supplementary Vote system.

Caught between the Senedd and Westminster, Welsh Labour risks collapsing loyalty A century of power could end next May amid Labour’s failure to learn lessons from Scotland, opening the door for Plaid Cymru and Reform UK

Referencing the Welsh Election Study's polling that highlights the pressure on its voting base from both Reform UK and Plaid Cymru, Bethan McKernan writes here about the challenges facing Labour ahead of #Senedd26 #Wales #Cymru
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🚨 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿New Senedd polling by Sky News / More in Common

Ref narrowly leads on 28% with Plaid just behind on 26%. Labour in third, but on 23% - higher compared to other polls which had them on 18%.

🔷Reform: 28%
🌼 Plaid Cymru: 26%
🌹 Labour: 23%
🌳 Conservatives: 10%
🟠 Lib Dems: 7%
🟩 Green:4%
⬜️Other: 2%

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

Low turnout and an unfair voting system: UK elections ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe British voters are moving away from the two-party system, but their electoral system hasn’t kept up.

“It is estimated that there are around 7 million to 8 million people not correctly registered or missing from the registers entirely. This is not many less than the 9.7 million people whose votes gave the government a landslide majority.”

Three politicians ran as "independent" candidates in the recent Tokyo Metropolitan election, but accepted endorsements by the LDP after they won.
Some voters apparently feel betrayed, but this seems to underline the importance of researching candidates before you vote. www.jprime.jp/articles/-/3...

Survey ‘suggests political system poised for potential transformation’ Erosion of the traditional two-party dominance of British politics and a continuing decline in voter trust in the system suggests the political landscape is “poised for potential transformation”, acco...

Erosion of the traditional two-party dominance of UK politics and a continuing decline in voter trust in the system suggests the political landscape is ‘poised for potential transformation’, according to researchers

Warms the heart to see “AI made this person nuts” and “this other person is in deranged romantic love with AI” news stories running alongside “AI is here to stay” tech columns. Looking forward to no one knowing how to do anything by the time I’m whatever descriptor has replaced “retirement age”

Rightly so it's being picked up how bizarre this is to be classified as "progressive" by Labour Together.

A progressive policy would be to go after "criminal employers and slum landlords", not deport the victims for daring to go to the police because they have the wrong digital marker!

Reform UK and Plaid Cymru vie for gains in Labour stronghold of Wales Plummeting support for Keir Starmer’s party points to impact of some policies that have proven highly unpopular

@jaclarner.bsky.social from the Welsh Election Study: “Looking at the areas now voting Reform, they’re the same areas that always voted Labour, and it’s very easy to just make the logical mistake to assume it’s the same people doing it. That isn’t what we see” #Senedd26
www.ft.com/content/668f...

Seems appropriate today given the news

Senedd election: Senior Labour MSs face three-way selection fight The deputy first minister is in selection battle in seat spanning Port Talbot and Rhondda.

The new Senedd voting system is causing more internal party drama

The deputy first minister, the deputy presiding officer and the Woman that beat Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood in 2021 are in a three-way Labour selection fight that will leave someone in 3rd place

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are 3 seconds from a dim, influential person arguing that it's ok for "AI" to hallucinate scientific references because it means those papers *should* exist.