Rachel Garrick

#NewportRising marching out to Bella Ciao. Commemorating our #Chartist history.
We see your flags and we raise our torches. #FlagsIsIt?

Not to detract from a great win from Lindsay Whittle. We just can't let some 💩 takes on the routing of Reform lull Wales into a false sense of security. The Senedd election in May remains a threat to the social fabric of our country if we don't take it tactically as a nation.

Is it though? Plaid's always been a strong 2nd in the Senedd constituency in Caerphilly. Its run the council twice in the past and is in opposition there with councillors concentrated in the constituency itself. This isn't the bellwether it's being made out to be - we still need tactical voting.

Dragons V Ospreys.
2 Teams. One opinion. #WRU
#WorstRunUnion
#Ospreys #Dragons

How do you humiliate a fascist? Caerphilly.

Bore da iawn, Gymru.

YouTube video by ManicStPreachersVEVO Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (Official Video)

Soundtrack of the day.
Da iawn #Caerphilly.
Dal ati #Cymru
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That's unfair on a very savvy gen Z 😀

Legends, Cole and his mum made a massive difference in the Caerffili by-election. Hope Cole gets involved in politics, Wales needs more Cole's 👏🏼👍😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I've seen it before. I lived in Rochester when Mark Reckless got the seat for UKIP for 9 months. At the general there were life long Labour voters putting a cross down for the Conservatives to boot them out and it was a landslide for them.
This is a hell of a message for May.

So proud of my home town today. Kicking Reform to the kerb is just *chefs kiss*. Not even close. And on a huge turn out that normally favours them!

Hard to disagree here.

Yup. If Keir Starmer is coming to Welsh Labour Conference, he should speak Cymraeg. It's common sense.
And probably the only olive branch available.

I think she worked it out without help.
We are forming a cheer squad though!

A very extensive report of the Visitor Levy that makes no mention at all of the fact I've done a load of economic modelling on its likely economic impacts for Welsh Government, looking at high mid and low impact scenarios, including 'ripple effects', and impacts are... minimal.

Former power station site set to host major battery energy storage plant Nicholas Thomas – Local democracy reporter  A former coal-fired power station in Newport is expected to become one of the UK’s largest battery energy storage plants. Uskmouth B, near the village of Na...

A former coal-fired power station in Newport is expected to become one of the UK’s largest battery energy storage plants

This is an interesting proposal. With the right regulatory reform that Labour is pushing through, the investment in modular reactors will rapidly return profit. It would be a good social investment for the area too.

Good day on wordle.

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Very hard to disagree with this sentiment. UK Labour is giving me huge concerns over its position on HS2, Crown Estate and Steel. Wales appears to be second class at every turn and it challenges my ability to represent the party.

Starmer steps in to seize control of British Steel with nationalisation likely Parliament recalled on Saturday for emergency vote to pass bill taking assets into public control

Every penny spent on British steel nationalisation should generate payment to Wales for Port Talbot.
Government in England really needs to articulate why it finds English steel jobs more important than Welsh steel jobs.

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#UKNuclear I feel we are missing raves from modern nuclear professionalism.

Looking forward to David Lammy having a conversation with J D Vance about free speech.

Parliament to be recalled to debate nationalising beleaguered British Steel Parliament closed for the Easter recess on Tuesday, but MPs will be recalled on Saturday to discuss plans for the company

*Stares in Welsh*
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Is it unprecedented? Sydenham had a similar incident in 2008. I arrived to take over the substation for refurb after 72hrs and it was still smouldering. Thousands of homes were out of power.
Transformers are terrible when they go.

See @garrickbad.bsky.social - my need to go camping is pathological

The difference a Labour Government makes.

I just saw a lad getting a bit of a char from a police officer on the hard shoulder of the M4 by Newport.
I think it was something about him riding his push bike on the motorway....

Photo of members at the Civil Aviation Authority on the picket line

Solidarity with our members at the Civil Aviation Authority, they are on the picket line today for a second round of strike action in a dispute over pay ✊

Dropkicks are awesome. They were awesome when I saw them pre kids and they were awesome this year, coming on to Yma O Hyd in Cardiff. Amazing way to warm up a gig.

I've done a fair bit ...