This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
Again, this isnโt the point. Weโre at an ideological impasse here.
โUK taxpayers pay for it anywayโ isnโt the point.
The question is who exercises democratic authority over devolved policy. Voters in Wales and Scotland elect institutions to do that.
If Westminster spends around them whenever it feels like it, devolution is a courtesy rather than a settlement.
The UK is a sovereign state and a political union. Scotland is a country.
You realise that the executive and the legislature are two different concepts, right?
Either we have national governments in our own country elected to make decisions on our behalf, or we have a government in another country overruling our own. Regardless of your personal dislike of either the SNP or Plaid, you surely have to recognise the disconnect?
Starmer directly refers to overriding devolved governments. Thatโs not coordination, Alex.
UK Government legislating in devolved areas is a direct threat to the devolution that Wales, Scotland and Northern Irelandโs electorate voted for.
Itโs an anti-democratic (verging on authoritarian) position for Starmer to take.
Thatโs not what the memorandum says.
I refer specifically to this:
โearly engagement with the Cabinet Office Union and Devolution Directorate on the design and delivery of policies UK-wide, particularly when considering the use of the Financial Assistance Power or legislating in devolved areasโ
Scotland set the legal precedent in 2011. Weโll get a referendum if Plaid add it to their 2029 manifesto and win the subsequent election.
It all depends on the governments we elect after independence, doesnโt it?
Welsh Government is legally-bound to provide a refugee resettlement scheme under UK Law. It created Nation of Sanctuary to support the people sent here by UK Government. Scotland and Northern Ireland also have their own resettlement schemes. The only way a future Welsh Government can โopt outโ of providing a resettlement scheme is for Wales to leave the UK.
If in doubt, share it out. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
He should be censured by the Electoral Commission for this utter nonsense. Deliberately dangerous disinformation.
Starmer doesnโt lead Welsh Government and isnโt standing for election to the Senedd.
Challenge based on the facts, not fantasy.
He clearly doesnโt know what the Senedd is.
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
Immigration and Asylum are decided by UK Government.
โNation of Sanctuaryโ 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. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
Graphic asset: Schrรถdinger's Alba (n.) A paradox in which Scotland is too poor to survive as an independent country and simultaneously too rich to let go
Schrรถdinger's Alba ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#indyRef2
Graphic asset: Schrรถdinger's Cymru (n.) A paradox in which Wales is too poor to survive as an independent country and simultaneously too rich to let go
Schrรถdinger's Cymru.
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โYou can tell the mood has changedโ: How Plaid Cymru led the Welsh fightback against Reform
Alt text:
Graphic titled โNation of Sanctuary explainedโ. 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 wouldnโt allow me to copy and paste the alt text Iโd 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.
โNation of Sanctuaryโ 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. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
And a referendum wouldnโt 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 thatโs still too slow for you, just spoil your ballot. Itโll 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.๏ฟผ
Hard truths for people voting Reform in Wales to โstop immigrationโ:
1. It wonโt 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 โ 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.
Pleasing to read this.
I said the very same about the BBCโs many accounts over two years ago.
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