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Politics, lawyer, economist, husband and father. Reform Wales

Cardiff
Joined August 2009
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Worksop East (Bassetlaw) Council By-Election Result: โžก๏ธ RFM: 45.9% (New) ๐ŸŒน LAB: 37.1% (-34.4) โ—ผ๏ธ RES: 7.0% (New) ๐ŸŒณ CON: 6.8% (-21.7) ๐ŸŒ GRN: 3.2% (New) Reform UK GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2023.
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Beechwood & Heath (Halton) Council By-Election Result: โžก๏ธ RFM: 35.3% (-4.2) ๐Ÿ”ถ LDM: 26.3% (-18.3) ๐ŸŒน LAB: 25.2% (New) โ—ผ๏ธ RES: 6.3% (New) ๐Ÿ™‹ Ind: 4.2% (New) ๐ŸŒณ CON: 2.6% (New) No GRN (-13.2) or LBT (-2.6) as previous. Reform UK GAIN from Liberal Democrats. Changes w/ 2026.
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When he worked for us on @SeneddFinance I rated Daniel Greenberg, but as Parliamentary Commissioner he has taken a wrong turn. It is a disgrace that an elected MPs should be humiliated in this way. Elected MPs must take back control from lay members and commissioners.
This is the most pathetic forced apology Iโ€™ve ever heard. It makes a mockery of our parliament.
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Poor chap. What public interest is served in making an MP humiliate himself like this? It approaches a forced recantation in Maoโ€™s China. Standards regime and its lanyard class is out of control and must be reined back.
๐Ÿšจ WATCH: Labour MP Tony Vaughanโ€™s personal statement in the Commons after bullying a staffer.
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Unlike Balliol who add five German alumni war deaths at bottom, and use same engraving for Adam von Trott zu Solz - executed for his part in July 1944 plot to kill Hitler - as for the four others
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The Ivy League-educated daughter of a US ambassador is currently judicially reviewing Westminster Council while claiming disability benefits for "anxiety and long covid" >And yet Labour say it is simply "impossible" to make welfare savings in this Parliament.
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I've said it before & I'll say it again. Immigration & deportation decisions should be non-justiciable. No judges, no tribunals. It should be purely down to the Government using royal prerogative power.
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Unlike Balliol who add five German alumni war deaths at bottom, and use same engraving for Adam von Trott zu Solz - executed for his part in July 1944 plot to kill Hitler - as for the four others
Something very touching about the chapel of New College, Oxford having a memorial, separate to the main roll of honour, for its German students who went home to fight - and die - for their country
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Quite, this is ridiculous. What on earth is Nigel meant to have done wrong here?
I have watched this thrice. What I see is @Nigel_Farage, an old school Englishman, politely letting a lady, who was behind him, go before him and then joining the queue where he finds a natural gap
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I have read some suggestions that police officers who take their own lives while under investigation do so because they โ€œcannot face up to their guiltโ€. That is an extraordinarily simplistic and dangerous assumption. It also betrays a profound lack of understanding of just how punitive, protracted and opaque the process of holding police officers to account has become. I have worked in Policing Professional Standards. I believe absolutely in holding police officers to the highest standards. But accountability without due process is not accountability. Research has examined the psychological impact of misconduct investigations on officers who were ultimately exonerated. That fact alone should give people pause before casually equating distress with guilt. An allegation can mean suspension, professional isolation, reputational damage, family and financial pressure, and months or even years of uncertainty. For a police officer, their profession is often a significant part of their identity. Being removed from it while an allegation hangs over them can have profound consequences. And being cleared does not simply put everything back together. Some officers will never return to the operational confidence, professional identity or psychological wellbeing they had before the investigation began. Exoneration cannot return the months or years taken from them. Many will never get promoted again no matter how competent they are. Police officers must be accountable for wrongdoing. Equally, the institutions investigating them must be accountable for how they investigate. Due process, timely investigations, transparency and procedural fairness are not protections from accountability. They are what makes accountability legitimate.
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She is correct. Silly to claim Brexit caused the migrants to come over in small boats from France
Shabana Mahmood strongly disputes (to a rather smug Lib Dem MP) the notion Brexit caused the small boats crisis. Feb 2026
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Behold ATM BAR AND RESTAURANTS LTD! A "cocktail bar" in Wickford was assigned 40 Skilled Worker visa certificates in 2023 and 2024. One of the 2023 roles was a web designer, for a bar with no website There's no sign it ever opened. Its only premises was an empty former Santander branch. Betfred plans to run the same unit with 6 staff (124m^2). It never filed a single set of accounts. It had ยฃ1 of share capital. It got three compulsory strike-off notices while sponsoring dozens of workers. Its licence was gone by June 2026. The company was dissolved in September. How was this business EVER allowed to sponsor visas? What "genuine business need" could they possibly have shown for ONE worker, let alone FORTY workers? What on earth is UK Visas and Immigration doing?
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Britain's biggest ever petition wasn't about Britain. ๐Ÿ“œ 1814. We'd just beaten Napoleon. The peace treaty gave France five more years of the slave trade. โš“ Our own government had signed it. The country erupted. ๐Ÿ”ฅ One in every seventeen people signed. Children included. โœ๏ธ Castlereagh took those names to Vienna. He could have asked for anything. He asked for an end to the slave trade. โš–๏ธ France never got its five years because of the British people. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿซท๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Be part of us. โ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Be Proud Of Us. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Great work by @RobertJenrick with a serious and deliverable @reformparty_uk growth plan
Britain is broke. And to fix it, we need to start growing again. Thatโ€™s why Reformโ€™s Economic Rescue Plan includes these 64 pro-growth measures Iโ€™d take if I were Chancellor: ๐—จ๐—ป๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ 1. Approve Rosebank 2. Restart oil and gas licensing 3. Legalise onshore exploration 4. Abolish the Energy Profits Levy 5. Restore maximum economic extraction as the North Sea regulator's objective ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป 6. Abolish the Emissions Trading Scheme 7. Halt the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism 8. Repudiate AR7 contracts for difference and scrap AR8 9. Implement the Fingleton Review on nuclear in full 10. Automatically approve French and South Korean nuclear designs ๐—š๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—›๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ข๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—–๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ 11. Cut affordable housing requirements on brownfield sites 12. Permitted Development Right for brownfield housing 13. Repeal Biodiversity Net Gain 14. Exit the Aarhus Convention 15. Repeal and reform the Habitats Regulations, including Nutrient Neutrality 16. End the boiler ban 17. Legalise air conditioning to meet overheating rules 18. Remove mandatory EPC improvements 19. Revoke the Future Homes Standard 20. Repeal the Renters' Rights Act ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—–๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ก๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ 21. Legislate approval for new runways at Heathrow and Gatwick 22. Auction airport landing slots 23. End 'target-consistent' carbon pricing in project evaluation 24. Ban carbon emissions considerations in planning applications 25. Fast-track all water reservoirs as nationally significant projects 26. Make Development Consent Orders a true one-stop shop 27. Restrict judicial review of ministerial planning decisions 28. Scrap Net Zero construction rules 29. Scrap the social value test in procurement 30. Lift launch limits at SaxaVord Spaceport 31. Open completed sections of East-West Rail ๐—๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป 32. Review regulatory barriers to AI adoption 33. Permit on-site gas generation for data centres and industry ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—›๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต ๐—ช๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ 34. Cut Employer NI back to 13.8% 35. Introduce a migrant worker levy 36. Repeal the Employment Rights Act 37. Clarify that workplace rights don't require mandatory training courses 38. Let experienced tradesmen work on government contracts without CSCS qualifications ๐—จ๐—ป๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—˜๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—บ๐˜† 39. Review bank capital requirements to boost lending 40. Rule out Net Zero in financial regulators' remits 41. Repeal climate-related financial disclosure rules ๐—š๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐— ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐˜€ ๐— ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด 42. Scrap airport 'surface access strategies' 43. Abolish the electric vehicle mandates 44. Apply domestic GB hours to all UK HGV trips 45. Ban Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods 46. Back the M4 Relief Road 47. Move a new car's first MOT to four years 48. Abolish the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation ๐—จ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—บ๐˜€ 49. Replace GDPR with a New Zealand-style Privacy Act 50. Fully re-legalise Imperial units 51. Review all unchanged EU law 52. Automatically repeal remaining EU law in 5 years unless retained ๐—š๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€ 53. Make quarterly Making Tax Digital reporting voluntary 54. Reduce legal obligations on SME Non-Executive Directors 55. Double permission-free event days from 28 to 56 56. Make pavement dining licences automatic and permanent 57. Let shops open until 10pm, except Sundays 58. Repeal board diversity and inclusion rules 59. Remove the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate 60. Abolish the packaging tax 61. Scrap BBC and Channel 4 priority on streaming platforms 62. Remove the Public Sector Equality Duty 63. Five-year sunset on all QUANGOs 64. Five-year sunset clause on all new regulations And there are more to come! Britainโ€™s full potential is waiting to be unleashed ๐Ÿš€
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209 years ago today, Britain ARMED an African king. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Muskets. Gunpowder. Ten thousand gun flints. Four hundred red coats. ๐Ÿ’‚ British sergeants to train his army. A salary in gold and silver, every year. ๐Ÿ’ฐ Britain wanted him to win. ๐Ÿ‘‘ Valley after valley. Chief after chief. Until two-thirds of Madagascar was under his rule. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ On purpose. ๐Ÿ‘€ Why? ๐Ÿค” Because on that island, chiefs raided villages and sold the people. To French slave ships. To Arab dhows. To other African kingdoms. โ›“๏ธ Then they bought guns with the money. To raid more villages. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Guns for people. People for guns. ๐Ÿ” Britain had banned its own slave trade in 1807. But it couldnโ€™t guard every beach on an island nearly a thousand miles long. ๐ŸŒŠ So a sergeant from Cork travelled 28 days, by canoe and on foot, to reach the king. ๐Ÿ›ถ For two months they bargained. Then he made an offer nobody had authorised. ๐Ÿค Every gun the slave trade gave the king, Britain would give him free. If he stopped selling people. โœ‹ On 23 October 1817, the king signed. Selling his people abroad would be punished by death. โœ๏ธ Then Britain helped him take the island. Port after port, every one closed to the slave ships. โš“ They teach you Britain profited from slavery. ๐Ÿ“š They never teach you how we got them to stop selling their own people. ๐Ÿคซ Britain armed an African king. On purpose. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Be part of us. โ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Be Proud Of Us. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Oxfam pays white staff 33% less on average than ethnic minority colleagues while Cancer Research UK and the British Red Cross aren't far behind, despite commitments to equality and fairness. dailysceptic.org/2026/10/22/โ€ฆ
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It is a scandal. Charity Commission and then Conservative government share responsibility for allowing
Rebecca, the Charity Commission was responsible for making the 1995 scheme which permitted this charity to use its surplus income in any given year for a wider range of purposes than its primary obligation of maintaining some named City bridges. This is not the scandal you think
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Another British #WarOnPrices Judges determine a market rent. Judges also determine the wage of store staff relative to warehouse staff unless the company can prove the market rate is justified. NUTS.
Property Tribunal judgment Tenant challenges ยฃ50 rent increase for rent at ยฃ1,650 per month. Judgment decides that market rent is ยฃ1450. assets.publishing.service.goโ€ฆ
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It isn't even remotely surprising any more
๐ŸšจJUST IN: BBC AI chief previously jailed for immigration offences after al-Qaeda manual found. โ€ข An Algerian migrant who was once found in possession of an al-Qaeda training manual is now principal data scientist in the Responsible AI division at the BBC. โ€ข Hicham Yezza was working at the University of Nottingham in 2008 when the document was discovered on his computer; he and a colleague were arrested under the Terrorism Act but released without charge after he said it had been sent for printing. โ€ข He was then rearrested under immigration rules and sentenced in 2009 to nine months in prison for an offence related to his claim of having permission to remain in Britain; he served five months and is now a British citizen. โ€ข Before joining the BBC he worked as an editor and later as an Al Jazeera consultant, and held editorial roles at the corporation including as a Middle East and North Africa expert. โ€ข Prior to his BBC employment he posted online about the occupation and apartheid in Israel and described rockets fired from Gaza as resistance.
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So basically, you can accept any rent a landlord asks for and then retrospectively claim you were desperate, and a tribunal will change your rent because some properties that aren't the same size or even in the same building are being advertised at a lower price.
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