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Will Hayward Profile picture
@WillHayCardiff
Sep 21, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Breaking news.

A local lockdown has been ordered for:
- Newport
- Bridgend
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Blaenau Gwent.

This will be coming it at 6pm tomorrow.

More details below:
On the Merthyr lockdown - cases appear to be mainly focused around two distinct clusters, linked to a large employer and a pub.

Two new, smaller clusters have also been identified.
In Newport, the rise in cases appeared to start with a house party at the end of August and was subsequently linked to a number of pubs.

There is a wide spread of cases across the city, which are not linked to a particular cluster or showing links with existing cases.
In Blaenau Gwent, there were cases linked to pubs and a lack of social distancing but there have also been cases in care home staff (gulp) and in secondary schools in the area.
Bridgend is a growing concern because there has been a sharp rise in cases in a short space of time.

PHW found a small number of clusters in the borough but are worried the pattern is similar to what we have seen in RCT.

Mobile testing will be introduced in Bridgend this week.
The restrictions mean:
- People not be allowed to enter or leave these areas without a reasonable excuse.

- People can only meet outdoors. People will not be able to meet members of their extended household indoors or form an extended household for the time being.

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- All licensed premises in these areas will have to close at 11pm.

- Everyone over 11 must wear face coverings in indoor public places – as is the case throughout Wales.

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May 17
A crash course on the bombshell that just dropped in Welsh politics

Plaid Cymru has just dropped out of the co op agreement with Welsh Labour.

This is a big threat to Wales' new First Minister Vaughan Gething.

Let me catch you up on how we got here & what it means:

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There are 60 Members of the Senedd (MSs) in the Welsh Parliament.

Welsh Labour have 30. This means they are just short of a majority.
To get business done they entered into an agreement with the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru in 2021.

This wasn't a coalition, it just means that Plaid will help Labour by voting with them if the pursue polices close to Plaid like Senedd expansion and free school meals.
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May 15
Oh dear, I think it is time for a fact check.

Are the Welsh Government really teaching "sex education to 3 year-olds?

Let's find out!

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It's worth a look as ARTD has quite a history of making misleading statements having recently made demonstrably untrue claims about both the 20mph limit & child asylum seekers.

The second of these claims led to him being investigated by the standards commissioner in the Senedd.
What is Mr Davies referring to?

Mr Davies is referring to the new Welsh curriculum being taught in schools.

In it there is a section called the "Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) Code" which lays out the mandatory curriculum that schools in Wales need to follow.
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May 5
The attitude of Welsh and UK Labour to the Vaughan Gething donation scandal is astonishing.

They have both refused to answer any questions put to them about where the left over money will be going.

Let me talk you through this ongoing battle I am having.

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Anything left over from the £200k that Mr Gething accepted from a criminal was due to go to the Labour Party.

(Btw you can see the full breakdown of this scandal in this tweet:)
This was going to cause quite a headache for Keir Starmer.

He had two options:

1. Accept money from a company found guilty of environmental offences into Labour coffers

Or

2. Reject the money. Thereby making Mr Gething's decision to accept it look even worse.
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Apr 22
Remember the companies that gave £200K to Vaughan Gething's campaign to be First Minister?

Well 11 months before they received a £400k loan from the Welsh Gov-run Development Bank of Wales.

This was when Mr Gething was economy minister & the bank was in his portfolio.

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The loans were given to Neal Soil Suppliers, part of the Dauson Environmental Group empire run by Cardiff businessman David Neal which funded Mr Gething's campaign.

Most recently the Cardiff-based development bank gave Neal Soil Suppliers a £400,000 loan in February 2023 to fund the purchase of a solar farm.
Talking of solar farms...

This is the same group who, on the very day they made a donation, also put in an application to build a solar farm outside Cardiff that would need Welsh Government approval.
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Apr 18
This is Labour politician Alun Michael.

He currently occupies 1 of the most pointless jobs in Britain - a Police and Crime Commissioner.

Banking a tidy £86,700 a year as PCC for South Wales he is, IMO, a perfect example of what a missed opportunity the PCCs are.

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This man is named Dimitris Legakis.

He is a freelance press photographer based in Swansea.

In October last year he was wrestled to the ground and arrested while trying to do his job. Image
He was attending the scene of car fire in Swansea where it would later emerge that a man named David Clarke had murdered his wife Helen Clarke by hitting her with a hammer, dousing her in petrol and setting her alight.
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Mar 29
I have gone through every donation Jeremy Miles and Vaughan Gething accepted during their leadership race.

Barring any late declarations the final tally was:

Miles - £58,800
Gething - £254,600

There are some really interesting things in here so let's have a look.

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Let's start with Jeremy Miles.

Lancehawk - £9,000

This is a company in the wired telecommunications activities sector.

Interestingly, one of the directors is a man named Robert Lovering...Image
This man is interesting for several reasons and seemingly has a history of bankrolling politicians for both Labour and Tories.
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