Mark Hooper
@markjhooper
Plaid Cymru Cllr in Barry, work at @commenergywales & @banccambria, ex SpAd. Published & Promoted by Mark Hooper, CF63 4EE
I have had a BS account for a while, but only just posted on it. If anyone wants to find me over there, my handle is the same markjhooper.bsky.social
😡 "It's terrible!" - just one of thousands of personal stories about the #NHS in #Wales under Labour. Plaid Cymru has a plan to tackle waiting lists from day one 👉 partyof.wales/nhs It's time for new leadership 🏴
😡 "It's terrible!" - un o filoedd o straeon personol am yr NHS yng Nghymru o dan Lafur. Mae gan Blaid Cymru gynllun i dorri rhestrau aros o'r diwrnodau cyntaf 👉 plaid.cymru/nhs Mae'n amser am arweinyddiaeth newydd 🏴
If your current govt won't stand up for you, choose another. Vote @Plaid_Cymru next May.
A Freedom of Information request by Plaid Cymru has revealed there has been no official correspondence between the UK and Welsh Governments about the East-West Rail project’s reclassification as an England and Wales project wp.me/p8Mk4U-13l8
Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse reports the Guardian theguardian.com/society/2025/j…
As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy
Well...
I spelt Zarah's name incorrectly in this tweet. This was my human error and I apologise unreservedly for that. I have written to Zarah directly to apologise to her.
Not my party but you have to say how ungracious and spiteful this looks. Leadership credentials in free fall for this fella.
So Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana are indeed starting a new party. This blows Zack Polanski's leadership pitch out of the water. It's crucial now more than ever that we maintain a distinct Green Party identity as Ellie and me are arguing. Let's not become the support act.
the room next door - When Donald Trump was Called Out
Something deeply disturbing when a Labour Chancellor chooses to protect huge banking interests over the interests of those who’ve been ripped off by car loan sharks. theguardian.com/business/2025/…
Join us in Bristol in Sept at the Anti-Austerity Conference, hosted by @mmlabuk Our Co-Director Sasha will join @ZackPolanski & @markjhooper on a panel about the political economy of the UK, & damage caused by decades of austerity. Get tickets here! 👇 modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/bristol…
"We've got to the state where a man is arrested for carrying a joke." Private Eye editor Ian Hislop on the arrest of a man under the Terrorism Act for holding up a cartoon from the magazine during a protest against the ban of the group Palestine Action at the weekend. #BBCPM
🚨History will judge those who cannot look back and say with sincerity that they did everything within their power to halt this genocide. @LSRPlaid and I have written to the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the ongoing inhumane situation in Gaza.
What difference does issuing a currency make? In brief, when the Welsh government issues its own unit of account, it changes the rules of the game. It now controls where it was once controlled. It is a rate setter rather than a taker ✍️@Williamgallus wp.me/p8Mk4U-135D
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV
Wow
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
Male life expectancy in Glasgow is also 73, meaning if the pension age were to rise to 74 that the average Glaswegian man wouldn't even claim a state pension. There's massive class injustices in these proposals, including the forms of work we'd be asking folk to do in their 70s.
State pension age could rise to 74. Male life expectancy in areas such as Blackpool is 73 years. Something needs to change.