Plaid Cymru Member, Pro Independence. anti-fascist, soc-dem. CCFC 💙🐦 All views are my own
🏴
Joined September 2022
- Tweets7.6K
- Following280
- Followers83
- Likes18.8K
Pinned Tweet
Don't think I can put into words how i feel or how seismic this result is. We have battered the far right by 6% and 9 seats. Labour have been punished for their failures in Wales and in Westminster. Wales will finally have a government only for Wales and not England. YMA O HYD 🏴
491
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
This is the real reason he said what he said yesterday, and if you can't see how Reform and Restore have clearly joined forces I don't know what to tell you.
It's not about free speech, they just wanted to enrage everyone to subvert our democracy.
Nobody should be ok with this – at Swansea, Wales
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
Reform's boycott of the Senedd is a disgrace to democracy.
They're not serious about Wales' future nor doing the job they were elected to do.
Plaid Cymru will always call their racism out and stand up for our communities. 🏴
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
Let’s get this straight: this isn’t about free speech, this is about Reform wanting to make hate speech with no consequences.
Joe Martin now refuses to be in the chamber and, by doing so, fails to stand up for his constituents.
His words have consequences in the real world.
Fucking hell seemed to have pissed off the russian bots and those gullible enough to believe them 😂
Free speech isn’t freedom from consequences. Martin advocated a racist neo-nazi conspiracy theory in the Senedd yesterday, and he is being banned as a consequence of his words until he apologises. By not disavowing the racism you are proving Reform are a racist party
6
275
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
Whatever you think about Plaid, Labour,Conservatives, Lib Dems, Greens, on the whole they have decorum. Disagree with their views but their conduct in the Senedd since 1999 has been one of civility. Reform exude the uneducated barbarism of the braying masses at the gallows.
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
almost cannot belive conservatives are unironically moving like this
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
It's funny that the far right pretend to like Poland, when visceral hatred towards Polish people was a national sport for 20 years and led to Brexit.
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
Reform care so much about free speech that when they hold a press conference about free speech they tell off a journalist for asking a question:
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
Reform are boycotting the Senedd on Armistice Day.
This means that the official opposition won't be taking part in a debate THEY TABLED on how we can better support the armed forces and veterans.
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
Six months of Plaid Cymru in office and they’ve just reversed Senedd expansion.
Rhun just can’t stop winning!
There’s a difference between debating facts and racist conspiracy theories. No legislature should waste its time debating neo nazi ideas instead of serving the people. MS’ are there to serve their constituents and not to argue for nazism like some edgy sixth former
Worth saying he’s promoting kooky great replacement nonsense.
But if the Senedd wants to call itself a Parliament it’s going to have to allow people to say things in it that are disagreeable.
It’s *astonishing* that the left is trying to police what the right is allowed to be debated *in a legislative chamber*.
You’re not a democracy if some things are forbidden from being said or debated.
The basic tenet of a *DEBATING CHAMBER* is you hear things you disagree with. Christ alive.
1
82
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
The big elephant in the room for Martin, Reform, and Restore is that their arguments about 'replacement' aren't used when they're quite happy to replace Welsh culture with a homogenised 'British' (English) one. Plaid's nationalism is civic; theirs seems to be ethno-nationalist.
I suspect a defection from Reform to Restore by Senedd Member Joe Martin will be coming soon.
Mr Martin gave a speech about "white people" being "replaced".
The Llywydd (speaker) said that his language "detracted from the dignity of the Senedd" and said he wouldn't be called to speak again until he apologised.
Almost as though it was choreographed, Restore leader Rupert Lowe offered Martin his "full backing" and criticised Reform.
Mr Martin has been making kissy faces at Restore for a while.
The leader of Reform in the Senedd Helen Jenner has tried to keep him in the tent by giving him the...err... "prestigious" position of "shadow minister without portfolio".
Reform sources within that group tell me the party are deeply concerned at Restore eating into their vote and potential defections.
I strongly suspect that the only reason that Mr Martin hasn't defected is because he wants four other MSs to come with him. That way they would be able to form an official group in the Senedd which give them substantial resources and Mr Martin (if he was leader) a big bump in salary.
Full analysis in my pinned tweet.
Free speech isn’t freedom from consequences. Martin advocated a racist neo-nazi conspiracy theory in the Senedd yesterday, and he is being banned as a consequence of his words until he apologises. By not disavowing the racism you are proving Reform are a racist party
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
You genuinely couldn’t make this up.
Reform UK called a press conference at the Welsh Parliament claiming that they were boycotting the Senedd because their “free speech” was being impinged on.
Joe Martin then said “how dare you ask that” to a journalist who asked a question he didn’t like then when I asked a question they walked off.
Quite an ending to a press conference about free speech…
Scum, the lot of them. Every single MS who supports such disgusting racism should be removed from office.
Reform Wales leader backs politician who said white people are being replaced bbc.in/48i1kH8
2
33
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
My favourite thing about Plenary is it's essentially the same question 8 times in a row and Rhun has to work out how to answer this in a different way each time. – at Swansea, Wales
Jack T. Parnell 🏴 retweeted
Wales is the poorest nation in Northern Europe. It was a global manufacturing and industrial leader. It had abundant natural resources and smart people.
Then look at the story of Iceland and Finland over the last century.
There is - clearly - something wrong with our model.
