Scenes right now on the steps of @SeneddWales ๐Ÿ‘‡
Hordes of people drinking drinking with chants โ€˜open the pubsโ€™ Iโ€™m told.
Griff from Cardiff who is attending the event explained it by saying: โ€œDrakeford shuts the pubs...we get pissed at his houseโ€
The event is still going on despite police turning up. Iโ€™m told at least one chant of โ€œwe pay for your hatsโ€ broke out when the police arrived.
UPDATE: I understand Police have issued a Section 35 order on Cardiff Bay to prevent further Covid-rule breaking on the steps of the Senedd.

The order gives police the authority to exclude people from an area for a period of up to 48 hours.
UPDATE II: The entire area has now been fenced off. ๐Ÿ‘‡

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24 Mar
BREAK: New guidance published today by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will see the Union flag flown on UK Government buildings every day.
Easily the most handsome flag in the world.

Up there with Japan and maybe Switzerland. Much nicer than the US flag which let's face it is a vexillological mess.
Currently, Union flags are only required to be flown on UK Govt buildings on designated days.

New guidance will ask the flag be flown all year round, unless another flag is being flown โ€“ such as another national flag of the UK, a county flag, or other flags to mark civic pride.
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21 Mar
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6 Mar
Looking forward to the census results revealing just how many Brits actually feel european as a primary *national identity*.

Does anyone seriously think itโ€™ll be higher than 0.1%?
I think most Brits who feel โ€˜europeanโ€™ do so in the same way we feel feel โ€˜progressiveโ€™ - as a social signifier, not a national identity.
Saying โ€˜I feel europeanโ€™ is not a pledge of allegiance to Ursula von der Leyen, or the twelve starred flag.

Itโ€™s overwhelmingly a social indicator, not a political one.
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Nicola Sturgeon likes to suggest that Scotland would be better off with its highest level of Government resting in Brussels rather than Westminster.

Shall we put that to the test with a topical example?
๐Ÿ’‰Say... vaccinations?๐Ÿ’‰
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๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บIf Scotland had vaccinated at the rate of Denmark (a country of similar size and demographics and one judged to have done the best out of all EU countries so far) it would have seen just 3.73% of the population vaccinated. ๐—๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ,๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ.
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First daily vaccine data (just for England, mind) - 2,333,764 doses administered as of yesterday.

With Scottish, Welsh, and NI figures to add it's easy to see how this surpasses 2.4 million. Image
Looking forward to seeing this soar ๐Ÿค“ Image
Oh. Image
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This pandemic is exposing the fundamental problem with our current devolution settlement. No one can answer the fundamental question of Who Governs with any consistent hierarchy. It's a mess.
Council leaders and metro mayors have a pulsating bully pulpit, engorged on and off by a government implying it has to cut deals to exercise the power it already has.
Meanwhile the lower leaders of devolved nations are acting as rivals to the national executive- unwitting beneficiaries of unprecedented power accidentally falling their way in a hurried muddle.

So keen to flex their newfound power, they strive for difference for the sake of it.
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