Dr David Clubb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @davidoclubb@toot.wales

This is pretty big news for the #indywales movement

#Wales green party formally supports policy of supporting independence at conference

#ukpol #brexit

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There's much to like in the Electoral Reform Society's manifesto for the #Senedd21 elections #Wales #ukpol https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/ers-cymrus-2021-manifesto-for-democracy/

Compulsory political education for children - as long as it's entirely non-partisan - is a healthy approach

An interesting article from #Unherd, arguing that #Wales has never been a nation, but acknowledging that independence is a possibility.

Sadly I'm so poorly schooled in the history of my own country that I'm ill equipped to respond to the article itself...but I note that #IndyWales is now starting to enter the consciousness of fringe media in England.

https://unherd.com/2020/10/wales-has-never-been-a-nation/

#UKPol

The importance of #IndyWales, but not at any cost https://www.voice.wales/finding-indywales-postcapitalist-desire-gareth-leaman/

#UKPol #Wales

#Cardiff's #ChapterArts centre re-opens next week https://www.chapter.org/news/details/were-re-opening-next-week

I'm looking forward to supporting this cornerstone institution ✊🥳💃🍾

#Wales

An 'iconoclast' government is boosting support for independence in #Wales and #Scotland - so says the former head of the UK Government's #Brexit department

https://www.globalgovernmentforum.com/an-iconoclastic-government-former-dexeu-chief-philip-rycroft-on-the-threat-to-uk-democracy/

#IndyWales #UKPol

"#Wales is beginning to split from the test of Britain"

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wales-is-beginning-to-split-from-the-rest-of-britain/

Article in #TheSpectator

#ukpol #indywales

Brilliant article about the risks for #labour to continue opposing #indywales

http://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/10-crumbling-commandments-welsh-labours-common-sense-unionism/

#wales #ukpol

Interesting article here about electric scooters in #Wales. I tend to agree - legislation needs to catch up with what's actually happening on the streets otherwise unregulated use is going to cause us a problem.

(I'm someone who uses a 'push' scooter and finds it incredibly useful!)

https://www.iwa.wales/agenda/2020/10/the-futures-brightthe-futures-electric/

"for #Scotland see #Wales" #indywales

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/13/scotland-new-currency-independence-sterling-euro

#ukpol

Latest edition of #YesCymru podcast now available, discussing the economics of an independent #Wales.

Featuring #MarkHooper and #TegidRoberts

"Radio Yes Cymru: Yes Cymru Radio TX 08/10/2020 - Siôn Jobbins interviews Tegid Roberts & Mark Hooper"
https://soundcloud.com/radioyescymru/yes-cymru-radio-tx-08102020-tegid-jones-mark-hooper

Interesting blog post here about the forthcoming elections in #Scotland - though it's amusing to note that all the chatter about independence and the UK focuses predominantly (still) on Scotland, with #Wales scarcely getting a look in! https://fedtrust.co.uk/scottish-politics-heading-into-turbulent-waters/

Something - maybe - of interest to @athairbirb @YesTVdotScot @Yes2020 @sgudal @GreumMaol @Jkp @Nod64

#Estonia's Government investigates creating a digital currency. #Wales might consider something like this. In, say, the 2200's

https://www.globalgovernmentforum.com/estonia-launches-research-into-digital-currency/

#Blockchain

I believe that Petitions to the UK Government are utterly futile, but I've signed this one on a referendum for #IndyWales anyway.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550579

#Wales #UKPol

The mind-bogglingly expensive #HS2 project, which citizens and businesses of #Wales pay for through our taxes, yet see a negative 'benefit' according to official calculations, comes in for criticism from Leslie Budd, Professor of Regional Economy in the #OpenUniversity https://centreforbrexitstudiesblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/05/nonsense-on-stilts-the-economic-analysis-of-hs2/

This paper on #ScienceCapital is extremely interesting, and I understand that it's being considered with interest by policymakers in #Wales

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10080166/1/the-science-capital-teaching-approach-pack-for-teachers.pdf

This week's #Mastodon activity stats for the toot.wales instance @jaz

Continuing the upward trend...Go Mastodon! Go #Wales!

I enjoyed this article #ukpolitics #ukpol

Applicable in a more modest way to #markdrakeford in #wales

Covid has reduced Scottish independence to a basic question: Sturgeon or Johnson? | Scottish independence | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/24/covid-scottish-independence-sturgeon-johnson

I was a bit busy last week, so I didn't get to post the latest figures on activity on the toot.wales instance. Here's the graph....

Even though that last number may be an outlier, the trend is clear. Activity on this instance continues to grow ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📈

#Wales #Cymru #Mastodon @jaz