Thread by @sam_bidwell

Wales has quietly become a hotbed of historical revisionism, anti-white discrimination, and DEI 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

For decades, the Labour-led Welsh Government has pushed dangerous ideas about race, culture, and history onto an unwilling population.

A 🧵 on the disaster unfolding in Wales

But first, some context.

Since 1999, Wales has had its own parliament - the Senedd - with devolved responsibility for a number of issues.

Over time, the Senedd has received more powers from Westminster, allowing them to make decisions on things like healthcare and education.

But despite this transfer of powers, the UK press is relatively disinterested in Welsh affairs.

This has allowed successive Welsh Governments to pursue radical agendas, without the kind of scrutiny which similar policies might face if they emanated from Westminster.

This is made worse by the fact that Wales has been a one-party state for years.

Since 1999, every Welsh Government has been led by the Labour Party.

And often, Welsh Labour politicians are consigned to the Senedd because they are not talented enough to make it in Westminster.

Increasing powers, little scrutiny, one-party dominance, and an unimpressive talent pool - this is a poisonous mix.

So what have Welsh Labour been doing, away from the prying eyes of the British press?

Well, despite the fact that Wales is 94% White, the Welsh Government has actively discriminates against White people in public sector hiring.

Just last week, news broke that the Welsh Government was offering £5,000 more to student teachers from ethnic minority backgrounds.

This explicit discrimination is drawn from the Welsh Government's 'Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan', published in 2022.

'Anti-Racist Wales' aims to make Wales an anti-racist nation by 2030, and was shaped in consultation with a number of ethnic minority charities based in Wales.

'Anti-Racist Wales' proposes a transformation of Welsh society.

Every senior civil servant in Wales is now required to have one performance objective related to anti-racism.

It also sets a 20% recruitment target for ethnic minorities - despite the fact that Wales is 94% White.

The plan commits to establishing a 'community mentor' scheme - hiring ethnic minority representatives to advise the Welsh Government on every area of policy.

Furthermore, it commits the Welsh Government to a regular 'Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Stakeholder meeting'.

The list goes on and on - the plan even called for 'dog-free' areas in the countryside.

I won't list every proposal in 'Anti-Racist Wales' - the entire document is 265-pages long.

However, I will highlight some examples of how the Plan is shaping every area of Welsh life.

In September 2024, the Welsh Government launched its 'Anti-Racist Heritage and Sport' Fund, providing grants of up to £20,000 for organisations which actively further 'anti-racism' in Wales.

The fund is managed by Diverse Cymru, an activist charity focused on 'racial equality'.

Unsurprisingly, a litany of other race-obsessed charities have benefitted from the Welsh Government's agenda.

Race Council Cymru, which pushes revisionist agendas about the role of ethnic minorities in Welsh history, has received £1.4 million from the Government since 2017.

Last year, RCC ran an entire week of seminars about the 'Windrush Generation' and its impact on Wales.

That's despite the fact that there's no evidence at all to support the idea that any passengers from the Empire Windrush settled in Wales. It is pure conjecture.

In June 2024, the Welsh Government made it mandatory for all publicly-funded museums to teach 'decolonised' perspectives - including the National Coal Museum.

Teaching material at the former mine must “tell stories through the lens of black, Asian and minority ethnic people”.

Guidance from the Group for Education in Museums warns that such connections may not be “obvious”, but suggests that all Welsh museums “will have some evidence of colonial and imperial trade and wealth”.

Guidance urges museums to search for material linked to “slavery, empire”.

In October 2022, Wales became the first part of the UK to officially make 'Black History Month' a feature of its historical curriculum.

By any real measure, Black people have had a negligible impact on Welsh history - in 1991, there were less than 10,000 Black people in Wales.

Meanwhile, in August 2024, librarians in Wales were warned against holding meetings with BAME colleagues in historic buildings, which might be perceived to be racist.

Local librarians in Wales are all expected to undertake 'decolonisation' training.

Official guidance issued by the Welsh Government in March 2023 suggested that statues of 'old white men' could be torn down - particularly in cases where these figures might be viewed as 'aggressors'.

The guidance particularly highlighted figures such as Nelson and Wellington.

This guidance was reiterated in 2024, when the Welsh Government made clear that all public art would need to be 'decolonised' - or face removal.

All public art in Wales must now "celebrate the achievements of our diverse society".

In 2020, Cardiff Council voted to pull down a statue of Thomas Picton, the British Army officer who fought at the Battle of Waterloo.

In the same year, a plaque at his birthplace in Haverfordwest was removed. In 2022, the National Museum Cardiff removed all references to Picton.

And what is the aim of this? The funding of obscure race-focused charities, the changing of curriculums, and the removal of 'offensive' historical statues?

The Welsh Government has explicitly stated that it intends to 'change the beliefs and behaviour' of Wales' white majority.

This seems particularly sinister in the context of Wales' demographics.

According to the 2021 Census, Wales is 94% White, and 91% White British.

Hardly a place with a long history of racial diversity. In fact, as recently as 1981, Wales was literally about 99% White.

But without much scrutiny from the national press, the Welsh Government has been allowed to get away with this agenda.

It's time that we started paying attention to the quiet examples of progressive ideology which have taken root in provincial Britain.