Reform is boycotting today’s Welsh Parliament session in solidarity with Joe Martin, their member. “If you silence one of us you silence us all” says Helen Jenner, Reform’s newish Welsh leader…
Yesterday he was told he wouldn’t be invited to speak in the Senedd again until he said sorry for a question the presiding officer thought was “unnecessarily provocative and deliberately offensive“. He asked about “the demographic replacement of white British people taking place in the UK”…
A banana republic style move from the Senedd. People get elected to say things and ask questions…
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”