Crwt o Gymru🏴Welsh lad | Diffoddwr Tân/Firefighter | Cynrychiolydd FBU Representative | Often found in the hills on 2 wheels or 2 feet! Barn fy hun
Pleser o’r mwyaf oedd dderbyn bathodyn aelodaeth 25 mlynedd a thystysgrif gan Ysgrifennydd Cyffredinol yr
@fbunational
Matt Wrack a Llywydd Ian Murray✊
An absolute pleasure to receive my 25 year FBU badge and certificate from General Secretary
@MattWrack
& President Ian Murray✊
BREAKING NEWS: Couple to get married..... using funds provided by the taxpayer in spite of hiding millions of £’s off shore in tax havens!
#ParadisePapers
#RoyalWedding
‘The National Health Service was not a gift from above. It was conceived in the blood, sweat and tears of ordinary people..... in the 1920’s and 30’s modern healthcare was a luxury.’
#TheDirtyWarOnTheNHS
Rail electrification Cardiff to Swansea - scrapped.
Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project - thrown out.
Welsh flag above the Welsh office - removed.
Welsh language described as ‘visual clutter’.
Wake up Wales, can you see what’s happening here? You
@YesCymru
yet? Then you should be!
It wasn’t an accident, it was deliberate. This is what the
@WelshConserv
think of you. This is the respect they show Wales and the people of Wales… absolutely none. I will not shed one tear when this lot are wiped from the electoral map
#ToriesOut
#CymruAmByth
🏴
Another fantastic show of strength and solidarity on the
@RMTunion
picket line in Swansea this morning. A wonderful turnout and more and more people saying that
#EnoughIsEnough
At 6:03am 1st February 1996 the first of 8 calls were received reporting a house fire at Zephaniah Way, Blaina. Firefighters Stephen Griffin & Kevin Lane paid the ultimate price in the line of duty. Sadly 5 year old Daniel Harford also lost his life. Forever in our thoughts💔x
When
@LeanneWood
became leader of
@Plaid_Cymru
she turned down a quite substantial pay rise. Wales has lost such an outstanding and principled politician. Many would do well to look at her ways and follow such a lead.
Diolch o galon am bopeth Leanne
#CymruAmByth
🏴
Today, members of the North Wales Fire Authority voted AGAINST downgrading Deeside and Rhyl Fire Stations. A fantastic day for those communities, for the firefighters in North Wales and for every
@fbunational
member who has supported this campaign. Diolch o galon✊
#BudgetSpeech2020
promising Welsh Government £360m. To put that into perspective the refurbishment of
#BuckinghamPalace
is costing £369m. One house will get more money than Wales. Just think about that!
#CymruAmByth
🏴
‘
@fbunational
members of Llandudno in North Wales FRS, unanimously reject the 5% pay offer and are united and determined to fight for a better deal
#FairPayOrFireStrike
The
#Tories
and
@sajidjavid
are fixated on a
#migrantcrisis
to avert your gaze from the crisis that has become our streets. They have compassion for no one but themselves and the elite few. Their policies are vicious and they are evil
#ToriesOut
Today
#WeRemember
#firefighter
Richard Jenkins
@SWFireandRescue
tragically taken in the line of duty on this day in 2004.
Richard was one of the the first to enter a building on fire at Newgale Place Ely, Cardiff when he was caught in an explosion. Forever in our thoughts❤️x
‘.....the movement for an independent Wales
@YesCymru
is starting to pick up pace, with the campaign’s research suggesting that support for independence has grown to 19%.....’
How an act of anti-Welsh vandalism is fuelling the push for independence
#WeRemember
6:03am 1st February 1996 first of 8 calls are received reporting a house fire at Zephaniah Way, Blaina. Firefighters Stephen Griffin & Kevin Lane paid the ultimate price in the line of duty. Sadly 5 year old Daniel Harford also lost his life. Forever in our thoughts x
Today
#WeRemember
Firefighter Fleur Lombard QGM, tragically taken in the line of duty on this day in 1996 fighting a supermarket fire in Bristol. The first female firefighter to die on duty in peacetime UK. Forever in our thoughts💔x
Remembering Firefighter Stephen Hunt, tragically taken in the line of duty on this day in 2013. Thoughts & prayers with his family, friends and colleagues. Forever in our thoughts x
#WeRemember
Firefighters went above & beyond at the
#GrenfellTowerFire
& I stand behind every single one of them for their heroism. Austerity, deregulation & flammable cladding that was not fit for purpose were contributory factors to 72 lives being lost not the F&RS
#IAmMichaelDowden
Full support &
#solidarity
with
@RMTunion
members forced to take a 3rd day of strike action. This is for all of us. It’s exposing the huge inequality that exists between ordinary working people and the elite. If you can’t see it, you’re not looking hard enough
#ToryRailStrikes
Remembering firefighter Richard Jenkins of South Wales Fire & Rescue Service, tragically taken in the line of duty on this day in 2004.
Richard was one of the the first firefighters to enter a building on fire at Newgale Place Ely, Cardiff.
Forever in our thoughts💔x
#WeRemember
Today
#WeRemember
Station Officer Colin Townsley and the 30 other people who tragically lost their lives at the Kings Cross Underground Fire on this day in 1987. Forever in our thoughts💔x
Thread👇
Quite a thing watching senior Fire & Rescue people today describing services as under-resourced, over-stretched and under pressure. The very same people that have overseen a decade and more of austerity…
Joseff Gnagbo, who fled persecution in Ivory Coast, worked hard and is now a fluent Welsh speaker, playing a lead role in a new campaign to help ensure other asylum seekers and refugees get the chance to learn Welsh
#CymruAmByth
Thoughts today with the family, friends and colleagues of Firefighter Richard Jenkins
@SWFireandRescue
tragically taken in the line of duty 14 years ago today. Forever in our thoughts x
#WeRemember
Today
#WeRemember
firefighter Richard Jenkins
@SWFireandRescue
tragically taken in the line of duty on this day in 2004.
Richard was one of the the first firefighters to enter a building on fire at Newgale Place Ely, Cardiff.
Forever in our thoughts💔x
FF Paul ‘Chuck’ Yardley, White Watch, Bridgend receiving his 25 year FBU badge and certificate.
L to R are WM Chris Smart; FF Sean Cayford; FF Paul ‘Chuck’ Yardley; FF Tristan Bowen; FF Leigh Young
@fbunational
@MattWrack
@Cayf78
‘…not a wheel turns, not a light goes on without working people…’
‘In this country there is a transfer of wealth from the working poor to the super rich…’
Mick Lynch of the
@RMTunion
speaking at today’s
#CostOfLivingCrisis
rally in
#CynonValley
today
#EnoughIsEnough
#WeRemember
At 6:03am 1st February 1996 the first of 8 calls were received reporting a house fire at Zephaniah Way, Blaina. Ff Stephen Griffin & Ff Kevin Lane paid the ultimate price in the line of duty. Five year old Daniel Harford also lost his life. Forever in our thoughts💔x
20 years on… The faces of the fallen. Remembering the 343 firefighters who went to work on that day never to return and remembering all of those affected by the tragic events of this day in 2001. Forever in our thoughts 💔
#911Memorial
#WeRemember911
#Firefighters
haven’t forgotten who you really are
@PennyMordaunt
#ToriesOut
Firefighters accuse fire minister Penny Mordaunt of misleading Parliament with worthless pension guarantee | Fire Brigades Union
'I'r rhai a garwn ac y galarwn o'u colli'
'To those we love and miss so very much'
Remembering all those lives that were changed forever on this day in 1966
#Aberfan
Since 2010:
12,000 Firefighter posts - AXED
Dozens of Fire Engines - REMOVED FROM SERVICE
40 Fire Stations - CLOSED
THE RESULT:
The time it takes a fire crew to get to you has increased.
The number of people dying in fires has increased.
This is the reality of austerity!
Today
#WeRemember
Firefighters Michael Miller & Jeff Wornham tragically taken in the line of duty on this day 2005 at Harrow Court, Stevenage. The fire, in which a woman also died, was believed to have been started accidentally by a candle.
Forever in our thoughts💔x
Nope! Not all of us! When
@Plaid_Cymru
leader
@LeanneWood
says she doesn’t trust the Tories on anything I completely agree with her. Shrewsbury Pickets, Orgreave, Hillsborough..... cover up after cover up! Forgive me, but you haven’t got the best track record, have you Andy?
Thankfully the rest of the world seems to disagree with the far-left ‘Russian apologist’ rhetoric being pushed by the leader of Plaid Cymru and Labour’s Mr Corbyn...
A week on.....
Privileged & humbled to be elected the FBU in Wales’ Executive Council Member. To all who have put their faith in me, thank you. I hope in the coming months & years that I can repay that faith time & again. Diolch o galon.
Unity is Strength✊Mewn Undeb Mae Nerth✊
Today
#WeRemember
Firefighters Michael Miller & Jeff Wornham tragically taken in the line of duty on this day 2005 at Harrow Court, Stevenage. The fire, in which a woman also died, was believed to have been started accidentally by a candle.
Forever in our thoughts💔x
So no apology from the boss of
@TragoMillsUK
in Merthyr Tydfil but instead defends his comments when he describes the Welsh language as ‘visual clutter!’ He also said that he won’t ‘pander to minorities.’
Wales🏴, you know what to do
#BoycottTragoMills
Today
#WeRemember
firefighter Richard Jenkins of South Wales Fire & Rescue Service, tragically taken in the line of duty on this day in 2004.
Richard was one of the the first firefighters to enter a building on fire at Newgale Place Ely, Cardiff.
Forever in our thoughts💔x
And just like that, in what feels like an instant, 30 years goes by… (29 years 51 weeks for The
@GoosemanPG
)
Penblwydd hapus iawn👩🚒Happy birthday Recruits Course 1/94.
The absolute brass neck of
@grantshapps
saying ‘we’re reaching out to unions to have an honest conversation on pay, conditions and reform’ when his government continues to do exactly the opposite of this is something else…
Today
#WeRemember
#Firefighter
Josh Gardener
@mawwfire
who tragically lost his life in a training accident one year ago today. Thinking of his family, friends and colleagues. Forever in our thoughts
#RestInPeace
Bro💔x
Today
#WeRemember
Firefighter Fleur Lombard QGM, tragically taken in the line of duty on this day in 1996 fighting a supermarket fire in Bristol. The first female firefighter to die on duty in peacetime UK. Forever in our thoughts💔x
Today
#WeRemember
firefighter Richard Jenkins of South Wales Fire & Rescue Service, tragically taken in the line of duty on this day in 2004.
Richard was one of the the first firefighters to enter a building on fire at Newgale Place Ely, Cardiff.
Forever in our thoughts💔x
Today
#WeRemember
firefighters Kevin Lane and Stephen Griffin tragically taken in the line of duty on this day in 1996. Also remembering young Daniel Harford who lost his life in that fateful fire. Forever in our thoughts💔x
‘There’s a pillar box in Cardiff, where the mayor has arranged,
To buy some tins of yellow paint, and have the colour changed,
And down in Cardiff city hall, I’ve heard the council say,
We’ll change the name of the Severn bridge, to the Geraint Thomas Way.....’
#WelcomeHomeG
Great show of strength and solidarity on the
@RMTunion
picket line at Cardiff Central this morning. Wonderful to see so many Trade Unions and comrades out in force
#ToryRailStrikes
Thatcher destroyed communities across the UK. Those communities have never recovered. It was absolutely NOT ‘meaningful change’ it was industrial vandalism in pursuit of an ideology. An ideology that will haunt us for decades to come. Starmer is an absolute fraud…
These have been delivered to a fire station in the heart of the Welsh valleys. There, a community will be forever grateful for the work carried out by firefighters, not only during the recent flooding but on all occasions they are called to do so.....
An absolute pleasure to share a platform with
@Plaid_Cymru
leader
@LeanneWood
this afternoon in Llanelli to remember those that lost their lives in the 1911 Railway Strike. Once again Leanne delivered and excellent and inspiring speech.
‘
@fbunational
General Secretary
@MattWrack
‘We need to build a mass movement of resistance…
You have no mandate to attack working people and we will resist you every step of the way…
Let’s build a movement the likes that this lot have never seen before.’
#RightToStrike
21 years on… Remembering the 343 firefighters who went to work on that day never to return and remembering all of those affected by the tragic events of this day in 2001. Forever in our thoughts 💔
#911Memorial
#WeRemember911
It’s National
#PostalWorkersDay
So a big shout out to all
@CWUnews
members who are delivering to us on a daily basis in all winds and weathers. Right now they are also fighting to save a much treasured institution from decimation. Solidarity one and all✊
#StandByYourPost
Fy nghyfweliad ag ITV Cymru ynghylch ymosodiadau ar weithwyr brys a galw am fuddsoddi yn y gwasanaeth tân ac achub a'n gwasanaethau brys.
My interview with ITV Wales regarding attacks on emergency workers and calling for investment in the fire & rescue service
#SaveOurServices
‘Scientific reports commissioned by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU)
@fbunational
found that instances of cancer among firefighters aged 35 to 39 are up to 323 per cent higher than in the general population in the same age category.’
Just a short message to those
@WelshConserv
members who are constantly peddling the lie that Fire Services in Wales will be enforcing the new speed limits and that firefighters will be fining speeding motorists…
#ToryLiars
Being born on the 29th February means my Mam today celebrates her 18th (proper) birthday. Wishing her a very happy birthday. Love you Mam❤️xx
Pen-blwydd hapus iawn i fy Mam annwyl heddiw. Caru ti Mam❤️xx
An emotional & moving day with
@fbunational
friends and comrades working alongside
@Care4Calais
collecting and distributing aid to refugees fleeing conflict and persecution. Some heartbreaking stories from those caught up in these awful situations
#BuildUnionsNotBorders
Today
#WeRemember
Firefighters Ian Reid, John Averis, Ashley Stephens and Darren Yates-Badley, tragically taken in the line of duty at a Warwickshire warehouse fire on this day in 2007. Forever in our thoughts💔x
Full support & solidarity with
@RCNWales
@theRCN
members forced into taking strike action again tomorrow. They’re understaffed, undervalued & underpaid. They’re professionals that deserve professional pay. Care for them like they care for us
#NHSStrike
#NHSWorkersNeedAPayRise
This Tory government is systematically destroying your public services. Today again, the lead story is about pressures on the
#NHS
and the delays in response from the ambulance services. Yet, when Trade Unions warn that cuts will cost lives we’re accused of scaremongering…
1/6
At 6:03am 1st February 1996 the first of 8 calls were received reporting a house fire at Zephaniah Way, Blaina. Firefighters Stephen Griffin & Kevin Lane paid the ultimate price in the line of duty. Sadly 5 year old Daniel Harford also lost his life. Forever in our thoughts x
An absolute privilege to stand for a minutes silence with firefighters from Cardiff Central to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty
#FirefightersMemorialDay
#FMD22
Today,
#FirefightersMemorialDay
#WeRemember
more than 2,300 firefighters who have tragically lost their lives in the line of duty. We will honour them with a minute's silence outside fire stations across the country at midday
#FMD2022
Such sad news this afternoon hearing of the sudden and tragic death of Mules flanker and firefighter Dan Jones.
Heartfelt condolences to Dan’s family.
#RIPDan
Proud to be able to attend and support the launch of this year’s
#WhiteRibbon
campaign. Lovely to chat to the wonderful and remarkable
@Ruth_ITV
as well. Thank you
@JoyceWatsonmsas
for the invite and for organising again this year
#NotInMyName
Today
#WeRemember
Firefighters Michael Miller & Jeff Wornham tragically taken in the line of duty on this day 2005 at Harrow Court, Stevenage. The fire, in which a woman also died, was believed to have been started accidentally by a candle.
Forever in our thoughts💔x
If, as is being claimed, that the cladding involved in the
#BoltonFire
is different to that involved in the
#GrenfellTowerFire
then it surely raises the question as to how many different types of cladding are out there? Because it sure as hell burnt in a similar way!