Owen Williams

Immigration and Asylum are decided by UK Government.

“Nation of Sanctuary” is how Welsh Government follows the law once people are placed here.

Similar schemes exist in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Simple facts. No spin. Please share. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Graphic asset: Schrödinger's Alba (n.) A paradox in which Scotland is too poor to survive as an independent country and simultaneously too rich to let go

Schrödinger's Alba 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#indyRef2

Graphic asset: Schrödinger's Cymru (n.) A paradox in which Wales is too poor to survive as an independent country and simultaneously too rich to let go

Schrödinger's Cymru.

#annibyniaeth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

‘You can tell the mood has changed’: How Plaid Cymru led the Welsh fightback against Reform Nigel Farage’s party was on the charge in Wales – but after the seismic Caerphilly byelection, progressives now believe they can come out on top in May

‘You can tell the mood has changed’: How Plaid Cymru led the Welsh fightback against Reform

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Graphic titled “Nation of Sanctuary explained”. Colourful panels explain that NoS is how Wales provides public services to people resettled by the UK Govt. It already exists, is required by law, and does not control immigration or asylum. Similar schemes operate in Scotland and NI.

BlueSky wouldn’t allow me to copy and paste the alt text I’d penned. A genuinely painful experience.

Your regular reminder that immigration is not devolved to Wales.
Anyone who tries telling you that a vote for any party in the forthcoming Senedd elections is NOT a vote to end immigration.

Immigration and Asylum are decided by UK Government.

“Nation of Sanctuary” is how Welsh Government follows the law once people are placed here.

Similar schemes exist in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Simple facts. No spin. Please share. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

And a referendum wouldn’t be immediate. It would need planning and legislation, with a vote sometime in the early 2030s (Plaid would only do it if they won a second term in government).

If that’s still too slow for you, just spoil your ballot. It’ll achieve more than voting Reform ever will.

4. The only way to stop immigration to Wales is to gain independence, *then* elect an anti-immigration party of government

To achieve independence, Wales would need a referendum - and the only parties that would deliver such a referendum are Plaid Cymru, The Green Party, Propel and Gwlad.

Hard truths for people voting Reform in Wales to “stop immigration”:

1. It won’t work
2. Only UK Government decides who is resettled, and where
3. The devolved governments created resettlement schemes to comply with UK Law:
- Nation of Sanctuary
- New Scots Strategy
- NI Refugee Resettlement Scheme

Also: Greenland is already under the NATO umbrella! Neither Russia nor China is going to "get it"! Look at a map – what are those two countries between Greenland and Russia? This is just absolute crankery. You can't sanewash this (even though people are trying).

Hard to find a bigger treat to freedom of the press than the President openly reminding a powerful journalist, on TV, that the journalist only has his job because of the President, and everyone being so lazily used to this sort of thing they don't even bother to edit it out for propriety's sake.

Owen Williams (@owswills) on Threads Dear @bbc, As a former social media lead at the corporation, I never thought I’d say this, but it’s time to close public service X accounts. The platform no longer aligns with the BBC’s Reithian pri...

Pleasing to read this.
I said the very same about the BBC’s many accounts over two years ago.

X is a cesspit, and asking people to visit to glean further information/content is contrary to public purpose and the principles on which the BBC was founded: www.threads.com/@owswills/po...

Let’s also lose the monarchy.

Diolch Aled! Nadolig llawen!

A neighbor's Christmas gift that keeps on giving In the days leading up to Christmas 2018, the Williams family were told that their neighbor had passed away. He left behind a sack of 14 gifts for Cadi Williams to be opened each year on Christmas.

If you’d like to listen to us regale @jsummers.bsky.social with the tale of Ken Watson, listen online here:
www.npr.org/2025/12/25/n...

In case anyone’s wondering what she unwrapped this Christmas…

#BeMoreKen takes pride of place on @npr.org’s All Things Considered, which will air in North America later today, streaming worldwide.

A treat to spend a short time speaking with @jsummers.bsky.social this evening.

Nadolig llawen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Loves this I does!

Watch: Plygain Welsh carol singing video enchants a new audience A video of the traditional form of Welsh carol singing is introduce new fans to the beautiful sound of Welsh language Christmas carols. One of Wales’ oldest Christmas traditions, Plygain is a traditio...

Would you look at that…
nation.cymru/culture/watc...

This is “Plygain”.
It’s an old Welsh form of harmonic carol singing.

It’s the most Christmassy thing you’ll see today.🎄

Goosebumps. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

Reform is not a new party, it’s a rehash of the Brexit Party, which is itself a rejig of UKIP.

Don’t con yourself that it’s anything other than a moneymaking exercise.

Sickening. Racist POS. The same people are anti-Welsh bigots. WHITE ANGLO-SUPREMACIST IMPERIALIST FASCISM. Yes we should be outraged. Yes he should be loudly and publicly castigated for his views. The time to fight fascism is long overdue.

Last Christmas,
I gave you my heart,
But the very next day,
MRSA.

Diolch Katherine. It was unspeakably awful, and the guilt and grief are, at times, overwhelming. She was very elderly, and very ill in her last few days – but she’d had the most wonderful, lovely life.

The hole she’s left in our hearts is unfathomable. They broke the mould when they made her.

Our girl left us Thursday. She was so unwell, and so ready to be still.

Wci was a joy. A gentle, caring little dog, and this house and this family is far emptier without her - but we are so much richer for having known her and having loved her.

And we’re so proud to have been her whole world ❤️

I'd rather that the political power to develop the Welsh economy was in in the hands of Wales' democratically elected representatives thank you.

The UK is not a single-language state. It’s time Starmer caught up Owen Williams When Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that “if you want to live in the UK, you should speak English,” he wasn’t just parroting a tired line about integration. He was exposing a deepe...

@owswills.bsky.social explains very well here why this singular concept of Great Britain is divorced from reality. What stands for Cymraeg also stands for Scottish Gaelic. Moreover, Britain is a place of many cultures and languages. We are certainly not one nation nation.cymru/opinion/the-...

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And had Reform not been standing, you'd have heard nothing about an election in a small Welsh town...