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@RWynJones

Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

Unexpectedly, the 1997 referendum on Welsh devolution is back in the news. Setting aside Theresa May's misremembering/rank hypocrisy [delete according to taste] concerning her own and her own party's position, the lesson of Wales 1997 is actually about 'loser's consent' 1/

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

The UK govt’s paper on free speech in Unis (with implications for Wales) is getting a lot of attention. Worth noting then that an important part of the evidence-base on which it rests relates to (demonstrably false) claims about my own institution 1/

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Plan for campus free speech post prompts autonomy warning

Concerns are raised as ministers announce new free speech role to stop "silencing" in universities.

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

For those who don’t speak the language. A photo of some of the remarkable women who’ve been imprisoned to secure equal legal status for the Welsh language as well as chance for its survival... #parch

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Heð Gwynfor

6 years

Rhai o'r menywod a fu yn y carchar dros yr iaith (via Helen Greenwood). Diolch.

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This is (inadvertently) so revealing by @DPJHodges - even if one suspects that there was some last minute rewriting after it became clear that England is nowbeing forced into a longer, harsher lockdown than Wales' because it didn't go early enough... Three points stand out 1/

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(((Dan Hodges)))

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Soon we'll all be living under Mark Drakeford's "firebreak". But we won't turn the tide of Coronavirus by turning on ourselves > Mail On Sunday >

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Richard Wyn Jones

7 years

Your occasional reminder: the 'Irish border' also a huge issue for Wales. Holyhead the 2nd busiest port in Britain. How the hell does that configuration of geology and urban landscape cope with 1000+ lorries a day and a hard border? Do David Davis or Alun Cairns have any idea?

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

Loser's consent has not been forthcoming in part because Theresa May and her government has made absolutely no attempt to generate it. The lesson of the 1997 referendum is pretty much the exact opposite of the one that May is touting and reflects terribly on her DIWEDD/FIN

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Richard Wyn Jones

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**40%** Let's not mess about. This is both a poor area (av. wage 16K p.a.) and a Welsh speaking heartland. Letting the 'free' market rip *will* kill off Welsh as a community language Revealed: The proportion of houses in Gwynedd sold as second homes.

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Revealed: The proportion of houses bought as second homes in just one county

The figures show more second homes have been bought in Gwynedd than anywhere else in Wales over the past year

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

At risk of labouring this, is seems to me that the contrast between post 1997 Wales and post 2016 UK could hardly be starker. But not in the way Theresa May wants to claim. May's government has made practically no effort to secure the consent of those who voted Remain 11/

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

Losing @LeanneWood will be a bitter, bitter blow for Plaid Cymru and there will surely be recriminations But it's also a major blow to the left in Wales more generally. Wales' most high profile female socialist politicians ever?

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Richard Wyn Jones

5 months

So (allegedly) leaking messages from an (allegedly) private, non-govt WhatsApp group is against the rules & a sackable offence While accepting £200K from a convicted criminal to win a leadership race by massively outspending the other candidate is within the rules & is OK

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5 months

Full statement from Vaughan Gething on Hannah Blythyn: “Having reviewed the evidence available to me regarding the recent disclosure of communication to the media, I have regrettably reached the conclusion I have no alternative but to ask Hannah Blythyn to leave the Government.

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Yr Wyddfa - a state educated, Welsh speaking mountain 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

A narrow referendum mandate was regarded as giving carte blanche. Remoaners; Saboteurs: Remainers were simply meant to suck it up whilst the fantasies of the Brexiteers were indulged (those idiotic 'red lines') And guess what, loser's consent has never been forthcoming 12/

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

I know a lot have been watching the Welsh language election coverage via subtitles or less fluent Cymraeg (stick with it!) Thank you so much for the positive feedback. Really appreciated by all of us!

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

This is extremely serious and a must read - whatever your political colours it's obvious that Wales is being (to use a technical term) *absolutely screwed*. With very serious consequences for future public spending/investment

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Guto Ifan

4 years

In today's Statement of Funding Policy, Wales' Barnett comparability factor for UK transport spending has collapsed - from 80.9% to just 36.6%. That means Welsh Government gets much less for every pound spent by DfT in England. Mainly as a result of HS2 ...

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2 years

Not my Prince...

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England

2 years

The #ThreeLions heading to @FIFAWorldCup were given a special send-off by being presented with their tournament squad numbers by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.

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4 years

Even worse, it's an example that actually demonstrates the opposite of what's being claimed: Cardiff University supported the principle of free speech rather than undermine it But, hey ho: true is false; false is true. Let's invade Oceania… /FIN

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

THREAD Why this attack on the very principle of public broadcasting is an existential threat to *all* Welsh language broadcasting and therefore to the future language itself Which you might not care about but I do… 1/

@NadineDorries

Rt Hon Nadine Dorries

3 years

This licence fee announcement will be the last. The days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors, are over. Time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling great British content.

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

Mae'r ddeddfwriaeth wedi ei phasio: bydd yn nifer o etholaethau (San Steffan) Cymreig yn syrthio o 40 i 32. Newid mawr yn yr arfaeth It's done: the legislation reducing the number of Welsh (Westminster) MPs from 40 to 32 has reached the statute book. Massive change on its way

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Richard Wyn Jones

2 years

Is Wales following Scotland in a bid for independence?

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Is Wales following Scotland in a bid for independence? | Richard Wyn Jones

The cause is growing in popularity with young remainers, but there are dissenting views, asks Richard Wyn Jones of the Wales Governance Centre

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

Loving the fact that the UK Prime Minister is carrying her own umbrella but not the Secretary of State for Wales... what a guy!

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Adrian Masters

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6 years

Theresa May at the Royal Welsh showground

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

But instead it seems to be so much easier to sneer and spout disingenuous nonsense about an allegedly authoritarian Welsh Government and an allegedly cowed and suspicious Welsh population. /FIN

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Richard Wyn Jones

5 years

🔥🔥 The rest of the UK now knows what Wales has long known - Alun Cairns is a fool

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

Presumably @Simonhartmp and @AndrewRTDavies you were both fully consulted on this? After all, on the face of it, it will mean the end of *all* Welsh language broadcasting ( @S4C & @BBCRadioCymru ) What did you say to her? What are you going to say to us? Diolch

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Rt Hon Nadine Dorries

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This licence fee announcement will be the last. The days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors, are over. Time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling great British content.

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Richard Wyn Jones

5 years

According to the UK Govt's own figures, the stupidly expensive HS2 project *will* have a negative impact on the Welsh Econ. But the UK Govt also says no APD devo to Wales in case it has a negative impact on one English airport... 🤔 ever got a feeling that you've been had?

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BBC Wales Politics

5 years

UK ministers worry the Welsh Government could cut Air Passenger Duty to give Cardiff Airport an advantage over Bristol Airport

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

Worth taking a moment to note how momentous a time this really is... Here's a unionist FM tweeting from his official account, and only a week after we discover that a majority of Welsh Labour voters (sic!) would vote for indy in a referendum. And now this... Bloody hell

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Eluned Morgan

4 years

This is an enormous power grab – undermining powers that have belonged to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for over 20 years. This Bill will do more to hasten the break-up of the Union than anything else since devolution began. We'll oppose it every step of the way.

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

But the fundamental point was that they realised that the narrowness of the referendum result meant that they simply had to make every effort to build consent among those who had been opposed as well as those who just hadn't bothered to participate in the vote. 7/

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Richard Wyn Jones

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Un peth bach olaf (am y tro) am yr etholiad... Roedd cyfrif yn ystod yn dydd yn well ym mhob ffordd! Ond yn bennaf oll yn cynyddu ddiddordeb *yn sylweddol* yn y canlyniad. Tua hanner yr oedolion Nghymru wedi gwylio'r trin a thrafod ar y teledu. Rhyfeddol! Sticiwch at hyn!

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

In other words, they realised that the referendum result was only a fragile mandate on which to build a new constitutional dispensation for Wales. That mandate had to be shored up. Undergirded. Supported. 5/

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

A final point (for now) on the election Daytime counting was better in every way! Above all it massively increased interest in & awareness of the result. About half the adult population of Wales tuned into the TV coverage. That's remarkable Can we *please* do this every time?!

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Richard Wyn Jones

5 years

Fy nhad wedi derbyn Cymrodoraeth er Anrhydedd gan ⁦ @prifysgolbangor ⁩ am ei waith ar ddatblygiad cynaliadwy mewn ardaloedd crâs. Falch ohono. My father just received an Hon. Fellowship from ⁦ @BangorUni ⁩ for his work on sustainable development in arid zones. Proud son.

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

"We will be very, very angry with you and we will write you a letter telling you how angry we are"

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

Hopefully of interest.... Mark Drakeford – the anti-Boris Johnson who surprised us all | Richard Wyn Jones

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Mark Drakeford – the anti-Boris Johnson who surprised us all | Richard Wyn Jones

After his handling of Covid, even hard-nosed colleagues marvel at the Welsh first minister’s popularity, says Richard Wyn Jones, director of the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

Gair i ddiolch i bawb am eich ymateb caredig i'r rhaglen ganlyniadau ar @NewyddionS4C - wedi bod yn fraint cael rhannu'r cyfan hefo @bethanrhys , Betsan Powys , y criw i gyd, A CHI!

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Richard Wyn Jones

5 years

Ych a fi... Ugly and ignorant in equal measure

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The Scotsman

5 years

Educating pupils in Gaelic could harm academic achievement say Scottish Tories

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Richard Wyn Jones

7 years

It was through Rhodri Morgan's leadership that the Welsh embraced devolution as the natural order of things. A giant in every sense. Diolch

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

The problem with this is that it never happened! Greer was not de-platformed While there were student protests against her talk, it went ahead with the university’s full support; support premised on the institution’s strong support for free speech 5/

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

By the way, this isn’t some kind of secret. Several UK newspapers who’ve tried to repeat the claim about de-platforming Greer have had to print corrections Yet the Policy Exchange 2019 report remains uncorrected on its website And is now being cited by the UK govt 7/

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

Given that US politics seems to be such an obsession for UK politicos here's one for you... Did you know that President McKinley was on his way to an eisteddfod when we was assassinated in 1901? An EISTEDDFOD!!

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

That is the assumption that London knows best. Not only that, but that any decision by a devolved government (bar Northern Ireland, of course, because, well, nobody gives a sh*t about there) to deviate from the London line must be motivated by nefarious or sinister goals 8/

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

Unwaith eto’n Nghymru annwyl.... ⁦ @S4C ⁩

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

Thanks to all 25 Members who voted in favour of the motion. Kurds played a decisive role in the military defeat of Daesh and thousands of them have sacrificed their lives in the process. We owe them a huge debt of honour. Such a shame that 11 were unwilling to recognise this.

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Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

6 years

MAJOR BREAKING: Wales becomes the first country worldwide through its national Parliament to show its solidarity with the Kurdish hunger strikers. ✊

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 months

Extraordinary headline Many more of these and people might start to conclude that our new First Minister really isn't very good at this politics business...

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Museum Wales: First Minister Vaughan Gething defends cuts

First minister offered no new help for the museum which warned it may need to shut Cardiff site.

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Richard Wyn Jones

2 years

Trafodwch//Discuss

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

Commentators: Chris Grayling is obviously the worst UK Cabinet Minister in living memory... Alun Cairns: Hold my beer...

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Mark Mansfield

@MarkMansfield10

6 years

Another impressive showing from Alun Cairns. 😀

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

If this is confirmed then presumably @AlunCairns will feel duty bound to resign after his second major failure to deliver an infrastructure project key to the future of Wales? After (non)electrification and assuming this, he will simply have zero credibility as Secretary of State

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Jim Pickard 🐋

6 years

ministers will reject £1.3bn Swansea Bay tidal lagoon as early as next week: my understanding is the announcement will come alongside government promising to invest equity in new Wylfa nuclear power station in Anglesey

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Richard Wyn Jones

1 year

It's a fair cop. In that part of Wales they talk of little else but Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse... 🤯🤣 Brecon Beacons has become a frontier for cultural Marxism

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Now woke progressives have come for the Brecon Beacons

Will the park authority calculate and publish the carbon cost of the re-branding exercise?

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

Cynllun a ddatblygwyd gan Gymro sydd wedi gwella/newid bywydau miloedd di-rif. Am golled... A scheme developed by a Welshman that's transformed the lives of countless thousands. Senseless...

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Steve Peers

4 years

Barnier confirms that UK will not participate in Erasmus programme. #BrexitDeal

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

Tra fod y cyfryngau Cymraeg fel petaent yn gwlychu eu hunain fod 'un ohonom ni' bellach yn Rhif 10, mae ymdrechion Boris Johnson i achub ei groen ei hun wedi esgor yn uniongyrchol ar hyn...

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Covid Radicals 🇺🇦

3 years

NEW 🌹💉⛔️: ‘Freedom Convoy’ supporters verbally abuse Labour leader Keir Starmer. Shouts of “Pedo protector” and references to Jimmy Savile can be heard 1/2

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Richard Wyn Jones

1 year

Fair play to the @MailOnline for spotting the sneaky attempt by those pesky Welsh to control tourism in Eryri by...er...moving it...

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 months

A mae nhw'n deud fod y Gymraeg yn iaith farw...

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

Serious journalists might be asking the question, what might the UK government learn from the Welsh or Scottish or NI experiences of implementing second lockdowns? (The devolved have already learned from March not to leave it too late.) 11/

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

I mean what's wrong with these people? What could be more natural than drapping a 100 foot long Union Jack over a building named to commemorate William Morgan, the person who translated the Bible into Welsh in 1588? It's what he would have wanted...!!

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Sign the Petition

STOP UK GOVERNMENT FROM PLACING A GIANT UNION JACK ON CARDIFF HMRC BUILDING

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇳🇴

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

And to the extent that these things are possible, they deliberately set about trying to generate 'loser's consent' for the result. * By involving opponents of devolution in discussions about the internal processes that would be adopted in the new National Assembly 3/

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Richard Wyn Jones

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* By being unusually cross-party in their approach during the parliamentary passage of what became the 1998 Government of Wales Act (kudos here to the Wales Office team of Ron Davies, @PeterHain and Win Griffiths) 4/

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

I’m confused! VAT isn’t devolved, is it? So are the Welsh Tories proposing to devolve some or all of VAT to allow this cut to be made? But then what happened to last week’s ‘no new powers’ pledge? Or is it ‘no new powers unless our party fancies using them’? 🤔🤯

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Welsh Conservatives 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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🚨 Welsh Labour are refusing to rule out imposing a disastrous tourism tax on #Wales ... ❌The tax would be a hammer blow to businesses and jobs. 👷 But we will build a better Wales by cutting VAT to 5% for the tourism industry to allow the sector to recover.

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

It's now over 30K. How excruciating for @AlunCairns . His attempted stroke has backfired. In the process, he's exposed the heir to the English throne to widespread ridicule. And there's no obvious way out of the impasse. But at least they didn't announce it on St David's Day, eh?!

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Richard Wyn Jones

7 years

Quite an achievement by @AlunCairns .15K+ now signed a petition suggesting that the heir to the throne has achieved nothing for Wales, which must be a major embarrassment to @ClarenceHouse . And he's got no meaningful public cover or support. A political stunt gone wrong?

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

Where the nearest ICU beds are located? How far does it take to get to them from somewhere like Harlech? What the public transport situation is like if there's no car in the family? You know, the basic questions that a serious journalist might ask... 5/

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

Hence the sneering tone of this article. Hence @bbclaurak 's absurd question about Wales, Scotland and NI following England into its belated circuit-breaker. A final thought about the opportunity cost of all this. Devolution is an opportunity to learn from each other. 10/

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

How do I know? Because to use a phrase familiar to supporters of Welsh rugby, ‘I was there’. I even had a chat with Greer after her talk… 6/

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

BONUS If you're interested in what happened in Wales then copies of this by @roger_scully and myself are no doubt still available. See Chapter 2, especially. Oh, and apologies for the various infelicities of grammar (etc.) in the above. Ych a fi!

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

So, here’s the thing. The UK govt is planning to open a new front in culture war focused on the alleged indifference of unis to free speech. But to justify this they are relying on a report that is not only based on a falsehood (Germaine Greer was *not* de-platformed) 8/

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

Mewn unrhyw wlad ddifrifol bydda’i hwn yn ddiwedd gyrfa’r Prif Weinidog. Gwr a flaenoriaethodd ei hun ar draul gwneud ei swydd, gyda miloedd yn marw o’r herwydd... Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster | News | The Sunday Times

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Richard Wyn Jones

2 years

Wir Dduw, beth bynnag eich barn am @PrifWeinidog mae'r ffaith ei fod yn mynychu rhywbeth fel hyn yn llonni'r galon. Gwaraidd, hynna be 'dio The fact that Wales' FM found time to attend the launch Daniel Huws' new book on medieval Welsh manuscripts brings me great joy...

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CATRIN M S DAVIES

2 years

Gyda’r @PrifWeinidog yn hapus i fod yn Aberystwyth.

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

But this was a notably inclusive, non-sectarian approach. And it succeeded. By 1999 - Indeed before the National Assembly first met - opposition to devolution had fallen substantially from the levels of 1997. Two decades later it bumps along at about 10-15% of the electorate 9/

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Richard Wyn Jones

7 years

A fo ben bid bont. Trwy Rhodri Morgan yn anad neb y daeth pobl Cymru i goleddu datganoli fel rhan o'r drefn naturiol. Cawr ymhob ystyr

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Richard Wyn Jones

7 years

Quite an achievement by @AlunCairns .15K+ now signed a petition suggesting that the heir to the throne has achieved nothing for Wales, which must be a major embarrassment to @ClarenceHouse . And he's got no meaningful public cover or support. A political stunt gone wrong?

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Richard Wyn Jones

5 years

So what the UK Government is really saying is that if Scotland were to become independent, that would free up an extra £192M per week to spend on the NHS in the rest of the UK... Have I got that right?

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The prosperity of the UK delivers greater funding for Scotland's public services.

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Rather the story of public attitudes towards Welsh devolution has become that the Welsh population tend to want more of it (though not independence) even as the powers of the National Assembly expand. Loser's consent was obtained and Wales has moved on to other questions 10/

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

May 2022 and Wales' favourite son, John Redwood, leads work brigade consisting of former hedge fund managers back to the countryside...

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John Redwood

3 years

Let’s make 2022 the year to grow more of our own food and produce more of our goods. Government needs to use Brexit freedoms to make that easier and to buy British itself.

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

And the only way to do that was to be cross-party and to do what they could to reach out to and address the concerns of their opponents. It helped, of course, that this approach 'went with the grain' of that particular ministerial team. There were also willing interlocutors 6/

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Richard Wyn Jones

7 years

Ah, our old friend the non-apology apology...

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Huw Thomas

7 years

BBC statement on the #Newsnight Welsh language debate

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

It’s not just Airbus. The serious bits of Whitehall have long been seriously worried about Ford and Tata. They’re also getting increasingly concerned about GE. Outside the single market and the customs union (NB @WelshGovernment ) Welsh manufacturing is buggered...

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Brexit supporter @AndrewRTDavies on Airbus’ announcement:

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Richard Wyn Jones

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Bydd colli @LeanneWood yn ergyd chwerw i Blaid Cymru a cawn weld beth fydd yr ymateb Ond fe fydd hefyd yn ergyd drom i'r chwith Gymreig yn fwy cyffredinol. Y gwleidydd sosialaidd benywaidd uchaf ei phroffeil erioed o Gymru?

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

Welsh devolutionists (led by Ron Davies) fully realised that there was a real legitimacy question resulting from the very narrow referendum result. They worried about it, thought about and got people like myself to brief them about it in pretty lurid terms 2/

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

Coming soon, a book by @ailsa_henderson and myself *Englishness: The political force transforming Britain* Attitudes in England toward the governance of England, the union & Britain's (sic) place in the world We hope it's accessible; we know many will find it v. challenging!

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

But no, it's much easier to treat the locals like curtain-twitching, banjo playing extras from 'Deliverance' than people with legitimate concerns. 6/

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

‘Never in the history of the role can there have been such dedicated service’ Yep, here’s the Head of the Church of England talking about the current Prince of Wales in a ceremony held in London yesterday... You couldn’t make this shit up...

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ROBERT HARDMAN: Prince Charles party was a celebration of Wales links

Yesterday’s party was not so much a golden jubilee for the prince as a celebration of his links with Wales before and since. He had been created Prince of Wales as a boy in 1958.

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Richard Wyn Jones

5 years

Except that two of the three are clearly not ‘UK-wide’ parties and neither is the other one in any meaningful way... At least have the honesty to what you mean: “the three big parties in England...”

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Sky News

5 years

BREAKING: Sky News is proposing a live TV debate between the leaders of the three main UK-wide national parties in the run up to next month's #GeneralElection2019 . @BorisJohnson , @JeremyCorbyn and @JoSwinson have all been invited to take part. More here:

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Richard Wyn Jones

10 months

Wedi sgwennu hwn i'r Guardian i nodi ymadawiad @PrifWeinidog . O ddiddordeb gobeithio. I've written this for @guardian in response to the news that Mark Drakeford is stepping down. Hopefully of interest. @WalesGovernance @cardiffuni

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As England suffered the chaos of Boris Johnson, Wales had Mark Drakeford. Here’s why we’ll miss...

Despite a recent dip in popularity he was a steady hand, and leaves behind a solid legacy for country and party, says academic Richard Wyn Jones

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Richard Wyn Jones

5 years

Every specific community/area mentioned by RLB is in England. Yet ‘England’ never mentioned. ‘Progressive patriotism’ all v very well, but until Labour is comfortable talking about Englishness suspect it’s going nowhere. PS ‘towns’ does not equal England

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We can take the Labour party back into power. Here’s how | Rebecca Long Bailey

We need to win back trust, champion progressive patriotism and unite communities failed by the Tories, says shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

Dan Hodges implies that this is because the locals are somehow unwelcoming or worse. But a better journalist would have had a look at what it might mean to a person living in Harlech, for example, if they or their relatives get infected. 4/

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

Pan oeddwn i yn iau roedd ‘na ganwr pync, GG Allin, oedd yn cachu ar y llwyfan er mwyn cael sylw. Sef, yn y bôn, be’ mae Katie Hopkins yn ei wneud ynde. Hyn yn haeddu rhaglen hefyd, @S4C ?

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

*So* many hot takes on attitudes in Wales where we are all apparently struggling under the yoke of Drakefordist tyranny... But what do the Welsh people actually think? Here's the latest evidence and it's very, very, very (enough verys?) different... 1.

Evaluation of Welsh and UK Governments’ pandemic response

*Data discussed in this blog was collected before the discovery of the Omicron variant and before the Downing Street party scandal came to light * In April of 2021 the pre-election wave of the Wels…

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

The idea that these are governments facing real challenges, forced to make difficult and no-doubt imperfect decisions, all in a context in which they can't simply turn on the financial taps in the way the UK government can and does, is clearly too much to take. 9/

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

First, generally speaking, and to the author's fairly obvious irritation, people in areas where transmission is high are clearly understanding of the decision to go for the firebreak - which is what the Welsh polling has already told us, of course. 2/

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Richard Wyn Jones

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Secondly, and to the author's very obvious irritation, people living in rural areas where the health infrastructure is weak are very concerned about the potential public health impact of people coming into those areas from other places where the infection rate is much higher. 3/

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

Appreciate the efforts of @fmwales and @RhonddaBryant to create an opportunity to promote my study of the previous, dismal attempts to label @Plaid_Cymru as fascist. Will a 10% cut suffice, I wonder? Here's the link for purchase. A bargain!

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Richard Wyn Jones

5 years

One of (many) problems with this framing is that SK doesn’t seem to realise that, whatever their views on the constitution, the vast majority of people in Wales think this country is poorly treated within the UK. For very few does it feels like we ‘punch above our weight’...

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Stephen Kinnock

5 years

The Welsh are patriotic realists who care deeply about Wales' position on the world stage & who know being part of UK helps us to punch above our weight. The independence Welsh nationalists seek wld diminish Wales' stature & wld have disastrous impact on Welsh jobs & livelihoods.

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

It goes without saying that they almost certainly didn't get everything right. With the benefit of hindsight, there are things that might have been done differently. "Heb ei fai heb ei eni", as we say in Welsh. 8/

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Richard Wyn Jones

6 years

PARCH... RESPECT...

@WalesPolitics

BBC Wales Politics

6 years

'I'm not allowing myself to feel bruised' @LeanneWood says she's staying 'level headed' about losing the Plaid Cymru leadership More:

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

The thinking here is apparently that the Union is in trouble because the UK level lacks 'visibility' in Scotland. But what if visibility is part of the problem? The more Scots see of the Johnson-Cummings government, the less they like it...🤔 1.

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

Prisoners in Wales fear they are being singled out as troublemakers for speaking Welsh... because guards can't understand them via

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Prisoners in Wales fear they are being singled out as troublemakers

Inmates at HMP Berwyn, a 2,100-capacity 'super prison' in Wrexham, North Wales, complained to jail chiefs that warders were threatening to remove their privileges if they caught them speaking Welsh.

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Richard Wyn Jones

8 years

Good day to remind ourselves that 90% of Welsh agricultural exports go to the EU and that 80% of farm income comes from the CAP...

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Richard Wyn Jones

5 years

Labour Manifesto December 2019: offer significantly fewer powers to Wales than on offer in 2017 version Also Labour but January 2020: more powers to Wales! May be going out on a limb here, but they're making this shit up as they go along, aren't they?

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Keir Starmer: only a federal UK 'can repair shattered trust in politics'

Labour leadership frontrunner calls for new powers for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland after Brexit

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Richard Wyn Jones

3 years

🤯 Caerdydd gefeillwyd hefo Pyongyang... (Over) compensating for something? Or is satire just really, really dead...?

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Cardiff Online

3 years

Huge eight-storey Union Jack to be stuck on Cardiff city centre tax office

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Richard Wyn Jones

4 years

This is untrue and it's depressing that, of all people, the @FT don't have a better grasp of how devolved government is financed

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hir-iaith

4 years

Is this true? Can the devolved administration really "charge" Westminster on an ad hoc basis for their spending? Or do they have to make spending decisions only within the grant they get? @ThatsDevolved @RWynJones

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Richard Wyn Jones

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Wedi sgwennu hwn i'r @guardian ⁩ - o ddiddordeb, gobeithio Hopefully this will be of interest. Vaughan Gething’s leadership crisis is a disaster – for Wales, for Labour and maybe even for devolution | Richard Wyn Jones | The Guardian

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Vaughan Gething’s leadership crisis is a disaster – for Wales, for Labour and maybe even for...

The first minister’s supporters insist that he can survive a no-confidence vote, but his position is surely untenable, says Cardiff University’s Richard Wyn Jones

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Richard Wyn Jones

7 years

Today of all days it's appropriate to thank Ron Davies. Few Welsh politicians have come close in terms of legacy (And let he without sin...)

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Richard Wyn Jones

5 years

Struggling to understand why this is seen as a 'gaffe' rather than an obvious dog whistle to his core support base?

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Jeremy Vine

5 years

As gaffes go ... "Boris Johnson says 'We have an England-only parliament. It’s Westminster’"

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