Sorry for the confusion here. I thought it was English Local Elections, at the moment, was this by-election held at the same time? Is it just a coincidence?
Labour in Westminster aren’t helping things but Welsh Labour needs to wake-up and smell the coffee.
In my opinion they’ve spent too long (probably since before the time Carwyn quit) listening and pandering to the concerns of people in Pontcanna and Cathays instead of Pentwyn and Caerau. You’d never know Morgan was born in Ely, but then again she went to Glyntaf which is part of the Pontcanna bubble.
Just confirming Bridgend is a shithole.
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Starts with reform, ends with conform. Democracy is not what is promised.
This was for the Pyle, Kenfig Hill and Cefn Cribwr seat,, the ward boarders on Port Talbot.
There are a lot of people in this area who have been impacted by the Steelworks redundancies, the differences between how the UK Government responded to Port Talbot v Scunthorpe has further inflamed local attitudes.
We’re seeing the same cycle that played out during Brexit, areas that have seen nothing but decline over generations voting for the populist protest party.
To quote one life long Labour voter I know – the boys down the club have all had enough and we’ve all agreed to stuff Labour and vote Reform.
That group did the same with Brexit and agreed to vote out, They can’t see that Reform is just the same bunch grifters rebadged.
Ultimately though Welsh Labour seems to have given up on is base and Reform is more than happy to fill the void.
Labour still retains control of council in Bridgend.
Someone needs to show Welsh labour a Bell Curve.
What kind of Welsh person would even consider reform? 🤢
The old “i’m going to vote for someone who’ll make my life worse as a protest vote” play. You can’t fix stupid
just one more protest vote bro. i promise bro just one protest vote and it’ll fix everything bro. bro. just one more vote. please just one more. one more protest vote and we can fix this whole problem bro. bro cmon just give me one more protest vote i promise bro. bro please i just need one m
People say they hate trump then vote for someone just like him. Morons
I look forward to Reform doing fuck all apart from throwing some red meat to their supporters about immigration
I’m an American who loves Wales. For years I’ve been studying the history, the language, I’ve even made some friends over there, and I had hoped to one day make it my home (i know, i know.. but my intention is to live, work and contribute, not buy a summer house to sit empty for half the year)
I certainly don’t know everything, and with me being an American I don’t know if you’ll even listen to me, but I think it’s important to say this:
What the fuck?!
Do you not see what is happening over here?
Do you not see the literal shit show that results from electing far right nutjobs for want of change?
I’ve been lurking in this sub for quite a while, and it’s alarming how much you all sound like us Americans…from the brainwashed lunatics who see a boot coming towards them and promptly ready their tongues for licking; the fence-sitters who are disillusioned by the establishment do-nothing “libs” or labour in this case, and either don’t vote at all out of protest or vote for reform out of ignorance; and the exhausted, angry rational people who see trouble on the horizon and are desperately trying to get people like you to see reason before it’s too late, to no avail.
We Americans had these exact same arguments over here before the election… Are still having them actually.
And I know you don’t want to hear it, but you’re more like us than you think.
I say that as a warning —please beware and use the U.S. as a cautionary tale of what NOT to do, and you might be able to save yourselves from the same fate.
I do understand being disillusioned and let down by the party who promises meaningful change but ends up maintaining the status quo.
But please hear me— the far right will give you a change, but it is not the kind of change that you want.
Do you want to starve under a fascist regime? Cuz this is how you get to starve under a fascist regime.
I don’t know how much news out of the U.S is received over there, most of our major news outlets are now censored. Not all the facts are being reported.
A large amount of our ports are empty now.
People are dying of measles again because RFK, who literally had his brain eaten by a worm and is now in charge of our “healthcare,” pushes an anti-vaccine stance. Apparently all you need to cure the measles is Vitamin A 🙄
So now we have people dying from Vitamin A overdoses. Tuberculosis is on the rise too.
Normally these things wouldn’t be problems, but since we no longer have the ability to research, educate, and combat illness and emerging diseases due to our withdrawal from WHO and our Center for Disease Control being defunded in order to “cut down on government spending” our doctors and scientists can’t work on vaccines or get health info from WHO, or alert people about these things without doing it on their own time and dollar and using social media to spread word.
People who rely on government healthcare and food programs will soon be without. Much needed government programs are being slashed. A sociopathic billionaire now has access to all of our systems and databases and every single citizen’s personal information.
People are losing jobs like there’s no tomorrow, the stock market is crashing, the economy is tanked.
Unless you’re rich, you’re completely fucked.
People are starting to hoard food and essentials because we know they’re going to be scarce real soon. People who’d never considered owning a gun are now arming themselves.
History is literally being erased and retold. Our own government website took down pages discussing the Constitution and Bill of Rights, reworded things before putting them back up. Many books are being banned.
Any government pages, monuments, history texts, and museum exhibits discussing or displaying any contributions made by people of color, or women, or any minority are being dismantled.
Pages with Science and medicine were taken down and rewritten. False reports with medical disinformation are being released.
They’re replacing facts with religion in schools.
They’re making databases of people who have autism.
There are talks of “Wellness Camps” in lieu of medication for those of us who are disabled and/or have mental illness or neurodevelopmental disorders.
They’re demanding schools compile lists of students who are immigrants to turn over.
They’re threatening judges and institutions who oppose them.
They’re deporting people without due process, which is a constitutionally protected right for every single person on U.S. soil, not just citizens.
Innocent people have been sent to CECOT in El Salvador, never to be heard from again.
ICE, the immigration enforcement, are basically brownshirts. They’re snatching people off the streets, out of their work places, out of churches even. They don’t have to wear identifying clothing or badges, and it’s now “illegal” to ask them to identify themselves, so as far as you know you could be being rounded up by ICE and detained even though you’re a citizen, or you could be getting kidnapped by thugs who are taking advantage of the fact that grabbing people off the streets and stuffing them into unmarked vans is now acceptable.
ICE no longer needs a warrant to enter your house looking for illegal immigrants, they can just burst in and haul you off, or order you and your kids to stand out in the rain in your underwear in the middle of the night as they raid your house, take your money and your phones… This just happened to a U.S citizen and her two kids.
Every day things are escalating.
Citizens are now carrying passports at all times, in case we need to show papers to prove we’re citizens, and even then it’s not a guarantee of safety. God help you if you can’t afford to get a passport.. And even if you can, it’ll take ages for you to receive it, since so many of our government services don’t exist anymore.
The regime ignores court orders, lies, and places us all in new dangers with each rising sun.
And the maga cult is so deep in it that they can’t see what is happening. And the ones who can see it are cheering it on because they’re racist, homophobic, transphobic, “fuck you, I’ve got mine” pieces of shit. And Maga is only a quarter of the population! This is what happens when you don’t vote or vote far right, thinking any change is good change.
The world hates us, we’ve lost our allies, some of us are probably going to die soon, martial law is on the horizon, civil war is a possibility, trans people and minorities are in grave danger, and 79 million women are losing their ability to vote, if we even have any more elections to vote in, that is.
This is not exaggeration.
I don’t want to fucking wake up anymore because each day brings more devasting and terrifying news.
I’m seriously scared for mine and my families lives… So many of us are now.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, my friends.
I hear you, you’re right that something needs to change, but the answer is NOT the far right. Never ever the far right.
Sorry for the lengthy rant.
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So much for us being smarter than the Americans.
Embarrassing, yet again, like wales voting for brexit
Disheartening that so many people in the country are this fucking thick. This party showed us all how inept they were when brexit went through and they had no plan.
I’m continually baffled worldwide how many idiots can be duped into voting for anything, no matter how dodgy, as long as the party promise magic undisclosed immigration solutions, which mostly seem to revolve around yelling about immigrants and not doing anything.
It seems we’re only a couple years away from the right wing of the UK being a US Republican proxy and puppet.
Reform is a limited company formed by a bloke with very little common with working class welshmen.
He’s using the same playbook as he did with Brexit which relied heavily on ideology and social media misinformation. Do not fall for it again. It impacted the poorest parts of Wales and continues to put us at a disadvantage.
If you want a change from labour, you should really be going with Plaid which will put the interest of Wales first. They might not be perfect but their views are far more balanced and has a pro-Wales agenda.
Rule 1: Don’t vote for fascists. They work for no one bar themselves and could not give a solitary shit about anyone or anything else. They will say and do ANYTHING to get the power they desire to enrich themselves. Anything. No matter how poor your current situation, fascists will not make it better.
Rule 2: See rule 1.
Chickens for KFC
Just looking at this post and thinking to myself “How does Farage manage to look like such a twat in every photo of him”
Never underestimate the the ability for people easily swung by the right wing to just dig deeper no matter how bad things get :/
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Sorry for the confusion here. I thought it was English Local Elections, at the moment, was this by-election held at the same time? Is it just a coincidence?
Labour in Westminster aren’t helping things but Welsh Labour needs to wake-up and smell the coffee.
In my opinion they’ve spent too long (probably since before the time Carwyn quit) listening and pandering to the concerns of people in Pontcanna and Cathays instead of Pentwyn and Caerau. You’d never know Morgan was born in Ely, but then again she went to Glyntaf which is part of the Pontcanna bubble.
Just confirming Bridgend is a shithole.
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Starts with reform, ends with conform. Democracy is not what is promised.
This was for the Pyle, Kenfig Hill and Cefn Cribwr seat,, the ward boarders on Port Talbot.
There are a lot of people in this area who have been impacted by the Steelworks redundancies, the differences between how the UK Government responded to Port Talbot v Scunthorpe has further inflamed local attitudes.
We’re seeing the same cycle that played out during Brexit, areas that have seen nothing but decline over generations voting for the populist protest party.
To quote one life long Labour voter I know – the boys down the club have all had enough and we’ve all agreed to stuff Labour and vote Reform.
That group did the same with Brexit and agreed to vote out, They can’t see that Reform is just the same bunch grifters rebadged.
Ultimately though Welsh Labour seems to have given up on is base and Reform is more than happy to fill the void.
Labour still retains control of council in Bridgend.
Someone needs to show Welsh labour a Bell Curve.
What kind of Welsh person would even consider reform? 🤢
The old “i’m going to vote for someone who’ll make my life worse as a protest vote” play. You can’t fix stupid
just one more protest vote bro. i promise bro just one protest vote and it’ll fix everything bro. bro. just one more vote. please just one more. one more protest vote and we can fix this whole problem bro. bro cmon just give me one more protest vote i promise bro. bro please i just need one m
People say they hate trump then vote for someone just like him. Morons
I look forward to Reform doing fuck all apart from throwing some red meat to their supporters about immigration
I’m an American who loves Wales. For years I’ve been studying the history, the language, I’ve even made some friends over there, and I had hoped to one day make it my home (i know, i know.. but my intention is to live, work and contribute, not buy a summer house to sit empty for half the year)
I certainly don’t know everything, and with me being an American I don’t know if you’ll even listen to me, but I think it’s important to say this:
What the fuck?!
Do you not see what is happening over here?
Do you not see the literal shit show that results from electing far right nutjobs for want of change?
I’ve been lurking in this sub for quite a while, and it’s alarming how much you all sound like us Americans…from the brainwashed lunatics who see a boot coming towards them and promptly ready their tongues for licking; the fence-sitters who are disillusioned by the establishment do-nothing “libs” or labour in this case, and either don’t vote at all out of protest or vote for reform out of ignorance; and the exhausted, angry rational people who see trouble on the horizon and are desperately trying to get people like you to see reason before it’s too late, to no avail.
We Americans had these exact same arguments over here before the election… Are still having them actually.
And I know you don’t want to hear it, but you’re more like us than you think.
I say that as a warning —please beware and use the U.S. as a cautionary tale of what NOT to do, and you might be able to save yourselves from the same fate.
I do understand being disillusioned and let down by the party who promises meaningful change but ends up maintaining the status quo.
But please hear me— the far right will give you a change, but it is not the kind of change that you want.
Do you want to starve under a fascist regime? Cuz this is how you get to starve under a fascist regime.
I don’t know how much news out of the U.S is received over there, most of our major news outlets are now censored. Not all the facts are being reported.
A large amount of our ports are empty now.
People are dying of measles again because RFK, who literally had his brain eaten by a worm and is now in charge of our “healthcare,” pushes an anti-vaccine stance. Apparently all you need to cure the measles is Vitamin A 🙄
So now we have people dying from Vitamin A overdoses. Tuberculosis is on the rise too.
Normally these things wouldn’t be problems, but since we no longer have the ability to research, educate, and combat illness and emerging diseases due to our withdrawal from WHO and our Center for Disease Control being defunded in order to “cut down on government spending” our doctors and scientists can’t work on vaccines or get health info from WHO, or alert people about these things without doing it on their own time and dollar and using social media to spread word.
People who rely on government healthcare and food programs will soon be without. Much needed government programs are being slashed. A sociopathic billionaire now has access to all of our systems and databases and every single citizen’s personal information.
People are losing jobs like there’s no tomorrow, the stock market is crashing, the economy is tanked.
Unless you’re rich, you’re completely fucked.
People are starting to hoard food and essentials because we know they’re going to be scarce real soon. People who’d never considered owning a gun are now arming themselves.
History is literally being erased and retold. Our own government website took down pages discussing the Constitution and Bill of Rights, reworded things before putting them back up. Many books are being banned.
Any government pages, monuments, history texts, and museum exhibits discussing or displaying any contributions made by people of color, or women, or any minority are being dismantled.
Pages with Science and medicine were taken down and rewritten. False reports with medical disinformation are being released.
They’re replacing facts with religion in schools.
They’re making databases of people who have autism.
There are talks of “Wellness Camps” in lieu of medication for those of us who are disabled and/or have mental illness or neurodevelopmental disorders.
They’re demanding schools compile lists of students who are immigrants to turn over.
They’re threatening judges and institutions who oppose them.
They’re deporting people without due process, which is a constitutionally protected right for every single person on U.S. soil, not just citizens.
Innocent people have been sent to CECOT in El Salvador, never to be heard from again.
ICE, the immigration enforcement, are basically brownshirts. They’re snatching people off the streets, out of their work places, out of churches even. They don’t have to wear identifying clothing or badges, and it’s now “illegal” to ask them to identify themselves, so as far as you know you could be being rounded up by ICE and detained even though you’re a citizen, or you could be getting kidnapped by thugs who are taking advantage of the fact that grabbing people off the streets and stuffing them into unmarked vans is now acceptable.
ICE no longer needs a warrant to enter your house looking for illegal immigrants, they can just burst in and haul you off, or order you and your kids to stand out in the rain in your underwear in the middle of the night as they raid your house, take your money and your phones… This just happened to a U.S citizen and her two kids.
Every day things are escalating.
Citizens are now carrying passports at all times, in case we need to show papers to prove we’re citizens, and even then it’s not a guarantee of safety. God help you if you can’t afford to get a passport.. And even if you can, it’ll take ages for you to receive it, since so many of our government services don’t exist anymore.
The regime ignores court orders, lies, and places us all in new dangers with each rising sun.
And the maga cult is so deep in it that they can’t see what is happening. And the ones who can see it are cheering it on because they’re racist, homophobic, transphobic, “fuck you, I’ve got mine” pieces of shit. And Maga is only a quarter of the population! This is what happens when you don’t vote or vote far right, thinking any change is good change.
The world hates us, we’ve lost our allies, some of us are probably going to die soon, martial law is on the horizon, civil war is a possibility, trans people and minorities are in grave danger, and 79 million women are losing their ability to vote, if we even have any more elections to vote in, that is.
This is not exaggeration.
I don’t want to fucking wake up anymore because each day brings more devasting and terrifying news.
I’m seriously scared for mine and my families lives… So many of us are now.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, my friends.
I hear you, you’re right that something needs to change, but the answer is NOT the far right. Never ever the far right.
Sorry for the lengthy rant.
Edited for spelling
So much for us being smarter than the Americans.
Embarrassing, yet again, like wales voting for brexit
Disheartening that so many people in the country are this fucking thick. This party showed us all how inept they were when brexit went through and they had no plan.
I’m continually baffled worldwide how many idiots can be duped into voting for anything, no matter how dodgy, as long as the party promise magic undisclosed immigration solutions, which mostly seem to revolve around yelling about immigrants and not doing anything.
It seems we’re only a couple years away from the right wing of the UK being a US Republican proxy and puppet.
Reform is a limited company formed by a bloke with very little common with working class welshmen.
He’s using the same playbook as he did with Brexit which relied heavily on ideology and social media misinformation. Do not fall for it again. It impacted the poorest parts of Wales and continues to put us at a disadvantage.
If you want a change from labour, you should really be going with Plaid which will put the interest of Wales first. They might not be perfect but their views are far more balanced and has a pro-Wales agenda.
Rule 1: Don’t vote for fascists. They work for no one bar themselves and could not give a solitary shit about anyone or anything else. They will say and do ANYTHING to get the power they desire to enrich themselves. Anything. No matter how poor your current situation, fascists will not make it better.
Rule 2: See rule 1.
Chickens for KFC
Just looking at this post and thinking to myself “How does Farage manage to look like such a twat in every photo of him”
Never underestimate the the ability for people easily swung by the right wing to just dig deeper no matter how bad things get :/
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