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Matthew Hexter @hexter101.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

📢 I’m proud to announce that I have been shortlisted as a Welsh Labour candidate for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf. In the weeks ahead I’m looking forward to speaking with members and hearing about the issues that matter to them ahead of next year’s election.

A graphic to announce that Matt Hexter has been shortlisted as a Welsh Labour candidate for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf. It includes a picture of Matt at Roath Park, the words 'Matt Hexter for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf' and 'Proudly Endorsed by the Wales Co-operative Party'.

The Body text reads: I’m proud to announce that I have been shortlisted as a Welsh Labour candidate for Caerdydd Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf' and 'Proudly Endorsed by the Wales Co-operative Party'.

In the weeks ahead I’m looking forward to speaking with members and hearing about the issues that matter to them ahead of next year’s election.

I can’t wait to set out my vision for a Wales full of ambition, opportunity and hope.

If you want to join my campaign, you can reach out to me directly or via email at matt4caerdydd@gmail.com

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Ramming through assisted suicide and disability benefit cuts in the space of 2 weeks. Hard to believe how little this government values disabled people.

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

That hairline at 22 is a punishment

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The refereeing of both cymru games this week has been awful. Why does the women's game not have VAR when the men's does ?

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This country is incredibly weird for how much it hates young people

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It's almost like working class people want a centre-left party, not what Labour has become

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

the gordon brown 'bigotted woman' incident broke the brains of labour centrists so completely that 15 years later she is literally the only voter they can conceive of trying to appeal to

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Judgement day X only having 28k attendance shows how much damage the WRU has done to the game. Lowest ever attendance at the Pricipality. Over 10k less than the last time it was here. Less than half of the peak attendance.

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/04/2025

getting a bit tiring to think "ah yay, the worst people you know are having a great day" several times a week, every single week

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This is one of the most ill-informed pieces about autism/ADHD I have read, which says something, and the lack of options for diagnosis people have. It shouldn't have been run once, let alone twice. Absolute lack of engagement with the reality faced by many neurodivergent individuals.

We need to stop diagnosing each other with autism and ADHD

As Bella Ramsey reveals their autism diagnosis came after a 'The Last Of Us' crew member spotted the signs, Helen Coffey questions why we've become so emboldened to pronounce neurodivergence in others

Friday 28 March 2025 05:43 GMT

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David Deans @deansofcardiff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Latest in the brewing row over benefits cuts and how they impact Wales - now the Welsh government says it won't release a response to its formal request for an impact assessment for Wales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Welsh government refuses to release benefits cuts letter

Welsh government refuses to share response after asking for an assessment of benefits cuts in Wales.

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

[every assassin’s creed game] NPC: hello it is i, your best friend wolfgang amadeus mozart! i made you this crossbow

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

When someone is housed, a local authority evicting them flys the the face of the "prevention" approach they all claim to be subscribed to. There was obviously more that Cardiff council could have done (as always), how it got this far needs to be questioned. nation.cymru/news/activis...

nation.cymru

Activists prevent eviction of refugee family from their temporary home in Cardiff

Martin Shipton An Ethiopian family of four was saved from being evicted out of their temporary accommodation by an activist group that confronted council officials and police. The mother and father an...

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I recently spoke with Mia from the BBC Wales News young reporters scheme about her experience of homelessness and how we can do more to support young people in her situation. BBC News - Homelessness: I sat my GCSEs while living in a hotel temporarily - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Homelessness: I sat my GCSEs while living in a hotel temporarily

Mia and her siblings lived in temporary accommodation for 18 months after a no fault eviction.

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Craig Berry @craigpberry.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Maybe the worst thing about today's radical, unprecedented cuts to PIP and UC health, at least from a policy-making perspective... These savings won't even be achieved. At best they'll be displaced onto NHS or reduced tax from anti-growth impact of declining public services quality

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

If he believes this then he should be arguing against cutting benefits and spending on services. Fairly obviously.

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The thing about the govt is that it wants change, but without upsetting capitalists - hence reforms to local govt & attacks on the civil service & disabled whist not recognizing that our sclerotic productivity growth might be the fault of bosses, rentiers & vested interests.

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Oxfam News Team @oxfamgbnews.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

PRESS RELEASE: Billionaires amassed more wealth in January than poorest third of humanity owns oxfam.org.uk/mc/4r9q8g/

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

One time, I heard him give a speech where he said his fight against the EU was as brace as "battle of Britain fighter pilot". When I quoted him on Twitter, he called me a liar. I now see I confused Spitfires with MIGs

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Maybe Gatland was the problem?

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Jane Hutt and Julie James gone. Welsh gov may never recover

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The Conclave Oscars campaign is getting intense.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Why is nobody talking about this?

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We should have sold Harry Darling in January

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Jay Fulton has come on. Inevitable loss now.

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John Byrne @byronchenko.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Nigel Farage: Keir Starmer won’t wrestle me in the mud, he’s too good for it. Keir: *not even allowing Farage to get halfway through the sentence*

Homer Simpson covered in mud, in the mud.

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It's taken a little while but today EYHCs new report goes live. Nowhere For Them To Go: Young People In Temporary Accommodation In Wales. End Youth Homelessness Cymru began its campaign to end the use of unsuitable temporary accommodation for young people in 2017.

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Yes, I'm trying to write. Yes, I have a headache.

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I want the Metro/arena built but the fact it means weeks on end of unbearable noise that will undoubtedly turn into months as it's inevitably delayed is getting to me.

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

South Wales police equally as bad.

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Martin Johnes @martinjohnes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

A reminder to Welsh Government: you run higher education in Wales and your party colleagues are in power at Westminster. If you want devolution to survive - indeed, if you want Wales to survive - you have to actually do something about the crises happening under your watch.

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

In the next week or two (hopefully) I'll put out a report that shows that the time children and young people are spending in TA in Wales is spiralling, up 71% in 7 years.

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Now Swansea are set to lose Matt Gimes with a week of the window left.

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Think Williams might be cooked. Not sure how he comes back from this. We need half a dozen players to stop this rot.

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

By this logic, if a second tier club qualifies for Europe, they'll have to be banned from taking part due to fixture congestion surley?

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It is remarkable that competition integrity and player welfare matters to the FA when it's the FAW trying to grow the gam. but when it's a petrosate breaking PSR or another preseason tour by an English club, it's A-okay.

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Not ideal when your entire hosuing policy is "Build more"

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Last week, the staff of a Welsh refugee charity funded by the Welsh Gov received death threats due to the actions of a Trump Cabinet appointment. Good to know the FM is taking a hard line on this eh?

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Shaun @smbendle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Not saying I'm a prophet but we won 9-4

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