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Seems as if these types infiltrate easily and then reek havoc which obvs make them very happy - seems the Welsh are going down the toilet like SNPLand..

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“The most marginalised and oppressed” have, yet again the loudest, most aggressive, best politically-connected activists batting for them and secure the biggest share of the pie.

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I love you The Welsh Resistance! What a digest. I've passed rage into fury. What the hell is 'post-humanist'? Yeah, yeah, yeah I know all about humanist theories and social science phenomenological ontological ogicalisms, and the pedagogy of ogy and this is just crackers. Indefensible crackers. Swansea and Cardiff Universities what the hell are you doing? I also loved the visualisation - it's a powerful way to show how skewed and unrepresentative this is. So, Welsh Government, what are you doing about the growth of religious extremism, any connection do you think?

These people are not 'experts', should not be 'consulting' on 'consultations' or 'advising' and not to government. They speak in unprofessional and alarming ways and apparently deliberately. They have PhDs in bilge and it's more than chilling. How did these departments and staff escape the bonfire of academic institutions in the past few years? This woo seems seeded everywhere. There are strict rules about research, public engagement and the consultation process (or there used to be). I have worked with all UK governments and am very alarmed. This is anti-science, anti-logic, anti-Enlightenment and they've snuck this into all areas of our civil society. The laws we have are being flouted with impunity. I don't know how to start to unpick this and their wazzocky invented uses of fake stats, and that really scares me. Did too many of us take our eye off the ball? I didn't think I had, but I'm getting hoarse from shouting warnings.

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Thank you for this - heartbreaking though it is and relentless and seemingly never ending I worry for girls and women so much these days. I just don’t see how this nonsense has gripped so many in such an unrelenting and vice like grip.

Getting ready for work this morning I popped the tv on at 4:45 (don’t judge) and there was some filler programme on tuning through the top 10 most successful book to film franchises. It’s fodder that fins for about 10 mins between programs. What was interesting was that The Devil Wears Prada, the Hunger Games were both mentioned along with the usual expected offerings leading up to number 1 and not one entry was the Harry Potter franchise. They covered lord of the rings. (Number 1 apparently) 50 shades (not kidding) the girl with the dragon tattoo and the deVinci code

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That was a car crash. The "independent" panel is no longer viable.

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Sep 2, 2021Liked by Graham Linehan

I want to cry.

I responded to the RSE consultation asking exactly where educational material would be sourced from and who would vet the validity. I also asked about the diversity of resources to be used… Reading this I am seriously worried.

As it stands, as a home educating family the enforced curriculum will have no bearing on my child’s education but I’m so pissed off this will be foisted onto other people’s children, hence my response. (Anyway each consecutive education minister keeps coming for HE)

I shall be responding to this too.

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Jeez, this is deplorable! When you lay it all out like that, it's all so clear what is going on!

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FYI Catherine Burton is no longer chair of Race Equality First. According to Companies House he resigned directorship in July 2021 and his LinkedIn says the same. But your point is correct.

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Is the Welsh Government run by 5 year olds? How can they take anyone seriously from a lobbying group with Glitter in its name? Typing that it just occurs to me, I hope to God there's no connection with Gary! The people bringing their whole selves to work presumably won't mind anyone examining their hard drives either because the last thing they should be having anything to do with is Relationship and Sexuality Education. I am so sick of these Trans Identifying Men and their stupid female groupies steamrollering over everybody else's rights for their own sexual gratification. Very angry.

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Something I have noticed is that both the Scottish and Welsh governments behave like the ever present contrary child. They see the Westminster government as the 'authority figure' against whom they must rebel and so, in their devolved activity, they do just that. It is all very puerile. The electorate in Scotland and Wales deserve better.

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"On Linkedin, Crash is listed as an ‘Ambassador’ for ‘Welsh Women’s Aid and apparently has manned their phones..."

Lol- 'manned' their phones. Pun intended?

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The people commenting on Glinner's updates are AMAZING. Just saying.

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Yup. Ůğłý old people 🤬🤮

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Diolch yn fawr!

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Graham, the individual named as Rahim el Habichi actually tweets as Abderrahim El Habachi. Which is why, if you tried to find him on Twitter, you were unable to do so. He's an asylum-seeking belly dancer. Clearly an expert, then.

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I have to say that I am sick and tired of the influence of LGBTQ+, but I am not sure that we need the renewed LGB Alliance in its place........it really is getting too much, an overkill, which will just make people turn against normal gays and lesbians

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