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Mabon ap Gwynfor

@mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social
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Ymgeisydd Plaid Cymru Gwynedd Maldwyn, awdur Plaid Cymru candidate for Gwynedd Maldwyn, author

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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Burnham says that Wales should not have a different arrangement to other UK nations on powers to hold an Indy Ref. He wants uniformity of powers - so can we expect the same levels as Scotland? Follow your logic Andy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Andy Burnham rules out giving Wales independence referendum powers
Andy Burnham told the BBC Westminster should have a “say on an issue of that magnitude”.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Pam fod pobl yn rhoi gymaint o bwyslais ar amcangyfrifon 'seddi' ar gyfer y Senedd? Peidiwch a chymryd *dim* sylw o amcangyfrifon seddi - gall rhai cannoedd o bleidleisiau ar draws Cymru olygu fod hyd at ugain o seddi yn y fantol. Canolbwyntiwch ar ganrhan y bleidlais yn unig.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Darlow - legend!
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
O Danny Boy! Daniel Jaaaaaaaaames! ⚽⚽⚽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Jac Larner @jaclarner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New poll in Wales, this time with constituency level estimates from YouGov(🥳). Polling in Wales has been pretty noisy over the last 24 months with some big house effects, but the general vote intention trend is clear - May 2026 is a two-horse race between Plaid Cymru and Reform
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Jac Larner @jaclarner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Finally, there is some evidence now that Reform's rise in Wales is plateauing
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Plaid Cymru will create a healthier, wealthier, fairer Wales for us all 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gyda chynlluniau difrifol i gyrraedd ein potensial economaidd, cael yr NHS yn ôl ar y trywydd iawn, a chefnogi teuluoedd gyda chostau byw 💪 🗳️ Vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May, and join our campaign at partyof.wales/volunteer
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
We were out chatting to people again. A woman in Cardiff explains why she isn't voting Reform. "I don't think to them it's about immigration anymore, I think it is about them wanting England and Wales to be white again."
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Nigel Farage keeps ranting against Net Zero, saying renewables are more expensive, This articles nails that lie. 'Spain spent the last six years investing heavily in wind and solar energy, leading to some of the cheapest power prices in Europe.' www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...
euronews.com
Spain could be the only EU country to beat energy price hikes
Spain spent the last six years investing heavily in wind and solar energy, leading to some of the cheapest power prices in Europe.
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Mae gofal cymdeithasol wedi ei danariannu ers llawer rhy hir. Bydd Plaid Cymru yn blaenoriaethu gofal ataliol i gefnogi pobl cyn iddynt gyrraedd argyfwng. Mae'n bryd buddsoddi yn ein gwasanaethau gofal a'r staff sy'n eu gwneud yn bosibl. @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Social care has been the Cinderella service for far too long. Plaid Cymru will prioritise preventative care to support people before they reach crisis. It’s time to invest in our care services and the staff who make them possible. @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social
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RCOT Policy Wales @rcotpolicywales.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Diolch! to the amazing OTs who presented to MSs at @senedd.wales today as part of #OTWeek25 It was fantastic to speak to @jeremy-miles.bsky.social - Cabinet Secretary for Health & Social Care and @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social - Plaid Cymru health spokesperson about #RightTimeOT tinyurl.com/bdf24nrb
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RCOT Policy Wales @rcotpolicywales.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Day 5 of #OTWeek25 Great to have OTs and OT week recognised in the @senedd.wales again this year. Diolch to @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social for tabling a statement of opinion supporting OTs, the benefits of prevention focused care and #RightTimeOT
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Non Jenkins @nonjenkins.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
‘Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries’ @erictopol.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @cefincampbell.bsky.social
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"The polls show conclusively that Labour cannot win (in Caerphilly), and so every vote for them... makes it more likely that Reform takes the seat... but what people do in the privacy of the ballot booth is down to them." I'll say it out loud: Vote Plaid. www.newstatesman.com/politics/wal...
newstatesman.com
The death of Welsh Labour
As the party loses its grip on power, progressives must find a new vehicle to defeat Reform
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
“The picture of Welsh politics is changing and Plaid Cymru is the voice of progressive Wales... it’s becoming more and more clear it’s a two-horse race – Reform’s division versus Plaid’s vision.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Plaid Cymru leader predicts two-horse race with Reform in Welsh elections
Rhun ap Iorwerth says 2026 Senedd vote will pitch vision against division but will not be a poll on independence
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Sara Elias @saraelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
✨Friday 9th, Main Stage @ 11.45 Join Jonathan Bone, @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social and Suzanne Cass to debate the politics of preventative health and the need for brave decisions
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Former Reform leader in Wales was Putin's shill. They have an agenda, and we're being played. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"Tackling Poverty to Tackle Ill-Health in Wales - Why Tackling Poverty is a Health Policy "Every pound invested in reducing deprivation is an investment in longer lives, healthier communities, and a more sustainable NHS." Read my piece in full here: open.substack.com/pub/mabonapg...
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Tackling Poverty to Tackle Ill-Health in Wales
Why Tackling Poverty is a Health Policy
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Reform (former Tory, quelle surprise) being openly racist (and this is his edited tweet!). This is where we're at, where people with vile views deem it acceptable to say vile racist things openly. We need to stand by our brothers and sisters and stop this sinister goose stepping towards fascism.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"Look after our own first" shout Reform and their accolytes, as they close down five adult education centres without any public consultation. Don't believe these grifters. They don't care for anybody - least of all the vulnerable, marginalised and poor. www.itv.com/news/central...
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Ben Lake @benlake.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Mae'r argyfwng dyngarol yn Gaza yn gwaethygu bob dydd. Mae gan y DU gyfrifoldeb moesol a chyfreithiol i sicrhau bod Israel yn cydymffurfio â chyfraith ryngwladol. Rhaid parhau i roi pwysau ar Lywodraeth y DU i wneud popeth o fewn ei gallu i roi diwedd ar yr erchyllterau a welwn yn Gaza.
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Ben Lake @benlake.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening by the day. The UK Government has a moral and legal responsibility to ensure Israel complies with international law. We must continue to put pressure on the UK Government to do everything in its power to put an end to the atrocities seen in Gaza.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
15 years of austerity hollowing out public services, scarce affordable housing, an NHS strained by an ageing population and poverty-related illness are being ignored. Instead we have seen the unleashing of xenophobic rhetoric that smothers rational discourse. open.substack.com/pub/mabonapg...
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Safe Passage, Not Slogans
Defusing the ‘Small Boats’ hysteria
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In the Name of Humanity: Rejecting the Fear of “Others” Rising hostility towards 'immigrants', refugees, and asylum seekers is not simply a clash of opinions—it is the product of political decisions, economic mismanagement, and deliberate fearmongering. open.substack.com/pub/mabonapg...
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In the Name of Humanity: Rejecting the Fear of “Others”
Left-Behind Places Deserve More than Fearmongering
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Wedi dod ar draws hwn - meme, o fath, wnes i greu nol yn 2011. Dal yn wir heddiw. I came across this earlier - a meme, of sorts, I made back in 2011. Still true today.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
“Ultimately it’s about giving people hope that what we have now is not as good as it gets for Wales. We are the party of ambition.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘We’re the party of ambition’: Plaid Cymru sets out to topple Labour
Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth has begun a tour that will take in every Welsh constituency before May’s Senedd elections
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Wedi mwynhau sesiwn buddiol iawn o ymgyrchu dros Victoria Evans yn Llandiloes heddiw ar gyfer yr is-etholiad ar ddechrau Gorffennaf. Mae Victoria yn ferch leol sy'n adnabod ei phlwy ac yn awyddus i chwarae ei rhan i wella ansawdd byw yn yr ardal.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Labour in Wales were frenziedly spinning the Spending Review claiming how they delivered a good deal for Wales. The truth is that Labour run Wales is one of the losers, while SNP run Scotland has gained. Can someone explain to me how this partnership in power thing is working?
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Labour frantically spinning the £445m rail funding hoping the people of Wales are too stupid to remember the £4bn owed to us because of HS2, the £300m+ we're denied because of the Cambridge-Oxford line, let alone the decades of chronic under investment. People aren't stupid.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Rhyfeddol fod Llafur yn trio gwerthu y cyhoeddiad am arian ar rheilffyrdd i Gymru fel llwyddiant. £445m, ar ol clywed yr wythnos diwethaf yn unig ein bod ni wedi colli allan ar dros £300m oherwydd gwariant Caergrawnt-Rhydychen, heb son am y £4bn o HS2, a degawdau o dan wariant.
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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
As the debate around illegal migrants is once again being voiced in the UK, I thought I'd share this piece I wrote at the end of last summer regarding young Zaghawa men I met in France. Please read before responding: nation.cymru/opinion/the-...
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The ugly face of fascism was seen again with this summer's riots
Mabon ap Gwynfor – MS for Dwyfor Meirionnydd The summer of 2024 saw the outbreak of unprecedented riots in English towns and cities as far-right extremists prayed on the vulnerabilities of left-behind...
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This is the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, a key figure who: ➡️ scrapped the winter fuel payment, ➡️ is pushing to cut PIP Payments, ➡️ has cut foreign aid, ➡️ refuses to scrap 2 child cap, ➡️ refuses WASPI fairness - and has the gall to say that Labour is on the side of love and compassion!
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🌼Change is coming. In Wales we have a positive alternative to the tired Labour Government, giving new hope and a clear vision on how to improve the lives of the people of Wales, stand up for Wales, and give Wales a disitinct voice. That's why people are coming over to @plaidcymru.bsky.social
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Llongyfarchiadau anferthol i ferched Dan 12 Gwylliaid Meirionnydd ar ennill cwpan rygbi gogledd Cymru merched dan 12 ym Mharc Eirias! Prowd iawn ohonyn nhw. Gem wych yn erbyn Ceirw Nant, sy'n dim llawn talent.
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Asthma + Lung UK Cymru @asthmalungcymru.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Thank you @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social for meeting us at the Senedd today to talk about the launch of our new domestic burning report. We are calling on the Welsh Government to do more to reduce domestic burning and make people aware of the dangers www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/domestic-bur...
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Welsh NHS Confederation @welshnhsconfed.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Thank you to all the @plaidcymru.bsky.social MSs, councillors and members who dropped into our Health and Wellbeing Alliance manifesto marketplace this afternoon. Great chatting to @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social @siangwenllian.bsky.social @peredurplaidas.bsky.social
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Joe Castle @joecas71.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Great to represent @abpi.bsky.social at the @thecsp.bsky.social roundtable @plaidcymru.bsky.social Conference discussing inequality of services across Wales. Useful discussion with @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social and Luke Fletcher #RightToRehab
#RightToRehab event at Plaid Cymru Conference - 21/3/25
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Welsh NHS Confederation @welshnhsconfed.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
@mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social addresses @plaidcymru.bsky.social conference highlighting the key priorities for the party, including prevention, social care, digital and performance targets
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Let's put this into perspective: the number of open pathways (waiting for treatment) is higher now than it was when Eluned Morgan became FM. Those waiting 36+ weeks is still higher today than they were in November (283,997) and 17,500% more than March 2012 (1,614)! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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NHS Wales: Hospital waiting times drop for second month
In January, 613,000 patients were waiting for treatment, down from 800,395 in December.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Huge thanks to the brilliant @profdevisridhar.bsky.social for sharing her knowledge and thoughts on the H5N1 Bird Flu, government preparedness for any future public health crisis, and the links between ill-health and poverty. Her expertise and wisdom should be heeded by all policy makers.
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Sharp End @sharpenditv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚨Is Wales' health service in a critical condition and can it be saved? @mrrobosborne.bsky.social asks @jeremy-miles.bsky.social Joining our MS panel is James Evans, Julie Morgan, @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social 📺10:45pm
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Sioned Williams AS/MS @sionedplaid.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The Israeli Government’s illegal, genocidal actions against the people of Gaza continue. As does the complicity of UK Labour Government. #ArmsEmbargoNow
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A poignant Covid-19 commemoration at Hafod y Bwch and Erddig on the Covid-19 5th anniversary. Thanks to Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru for organising. The stories shared were moving and important to remember. Disappointing the Labour Government failed to organise an official event.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Mae'r problemau yn ein gwasanaeth iechyd yn wybyddus i bawb. Ond rheswm ganolog am hyn ydy'r methiant i gasglu data cyson a da a'r methiant i ddigideiddio. Er mwyn canfod datrysiadau cefais gyfarfodydd hynod fuddiol gyda OneLondon, Uned Weithredu y King's College, ac adran iechyd ddigidol Sweden.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We're all aware of the crises in the Welsh NHS (Waiting times, A&E, lack of GPs, Ambulance queues etc). A fundamental problem is poor data and lack of digitisation. It was great to have meetings with OneLondon, King's College's Implementation Unit and Sweden's Health Agency to learn best practice.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus i bawb - a phenblwydd priodas 50 hapus iawn i fy annwyl rieni 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎉 Heb fod ar-lein am sawl diwrnod oherwydd ein bod ni yn dathlu fel teulu yng ngodidogrwydd Cwm Maethlon a Bro Dysynni.
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Mabon ap Gwynfor @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Mae Cymru wedi colli cymrawd. Roedd cred Sel yng ngallu y gymuned i drefnu ei hun a darparu ar gyfer ei hun yn ddiysgog, a rhoddodd yr athroniaeth yma ar waith ym Mro Ffestiniog. Dyn addfwyn, annwyl, a diymhongar oedd yn weledydd a meddyliwr Mae fy meddyliau gyda'u deulu annwyl a'i ffrindiau lu.
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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Diolch i bawb am droi mewn ac am y sylwadau a chwestiynau treiddgar. Neuadd Goffa Cricieth yn berl, yn tydi!
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