#Llanelli

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The Prince of Wales visits Swiss Valley Community Primary School to meet pupils who took part in the 2024 Urdd Eisteddfod in Llanelli, Wales -September 10th 2024.

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The Prince Of Wales Visits South Wales

Llanelli, Wales - September 10, 2024

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Quite looking forwards to Fascist-in-Chief Stan Robinson's laughable Donald Trump LARPing fail spectacularly

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The Prince of Wales Visits South Wales

Prince William arrives for a visit to Swiss Valley Community Primary School to meet pupils who took part in the 2024 Urdd Eisteddfod on 10 September 2024 in Llanelli, Wales.

The Prince of Wales visited Llanelli in South Wales on Tuesday to celebrate the region's rich culture and sporting achievements, while engaging with local residents.

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Prince William arrives for a visit to Parc y Scarlets, the home of the Scarlets Rugby Union team, on 10 September 2024 in Llanelli, Wales.

The Prince of Wales visited Llanelli in South Wales on Tuesday to celebrate the region's rich culture and sporting achievements, while engaging with local residents.

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Guess Who Won an Award?

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Shakespeare In The Ruins (@sir_winnipeg) Michele Boulet, Sarah Constible and Lisa Nelson-Fries accepting the award for best film feature. My first time with Shakespeare in the Ruins was five years ago, doing an all female version of Timon of Athens. Macbeth on film was my second experience with them, and it was delightful. Looking forward to another…

[critlore]

Fuck yeah, Nia Griffith is my local MP. City Hall has been known to fly the trans pride flag at times when TERFs are getting a lot of attention, too.

Wales isn't perfect, and Llanelli itself isn't perfect, but I love living here nonetheless.

her name is dame nia griffith, labour MP for llanelli since 2005. she is speaking in a june debate about whether we should alter the category of ‘sex’ to mean ‘biological sex’ in the 2010 equality act.

the scottish MP who also speaks up is hannah bardell, SNP MP for livingston since 2015.

[feckcops]

This horror story visited on South Wales by Suella Braverman could be coming to a street near you

“What began as complaints about the loss of a four-star hotel and 100 jobs is now a swamp of conspiracies about invaders and foreign rapists. A leaflet recently given out around the town asks: ‘Is it racist to protect your home from unknown unvetted illegals?’ Last week, some of the people at the camp stormed the hotel. One leader of the original protest, Robert Lloyd, is now hounded outside his home for not being hardline enough. He says that friends whose weddings he attended now threaten him, and the night before we met last week, the police were doing hourly patrols outside his house.

“Every jobbing demagogue is now making a beeline for South Wales. Katy Hopkins and Richard Tice have done selfie stops, while GB News and TalkTV have piled in. And this weekend, sad-sack fascist Anne Marie Waters addressed a capacity crowd, following on from the fascist organisation Patriotic Alternative, which has papered the town with its hate literature. At Hope Not Hate, Rosie Carter has spent years monitoring extremist organisations, but what she sees in Llanelli troubles her: ‘It’s far-right radicalisation in real time.’

“A couple of hundred miles away in Westminster, ‘culture wars’ is just another electoral sport, to be indulged for a couple of points in the polls or a mention in the papers. But in South Wales or Dunstable or Knowsley, you see what’s really at stake, where the mainstream and extremist right effectively collaborate in poisoning the very soil of a place so that supposedly subterranean prejudice voiced after last orders has become chest-out, finger-jabbing racism.

“The Labour Party in Llanelli, as elsewhere, has not reacted honourably. The most outspoken opponent of this bigotry has been the local Senedd Cymru member, Lee Waters. Among the abuse he has received as a result are direct threats to him and his family. Despite that, one county councillor turned up at the camp, posing in a camouflage jacket alongside a placard reading Welsh Lives Matter. No action has yet been taken against him, for all Labour’s protests of being an anti-racist party. Other Labour Party representatives have been rather circumspect, perhaps out of a sense that their electoral base mustn’t have any prejudices challenged. By their silence, they are effectively allowing some of the basest rhetoric to be normalised.”

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The Prince of Wales visits the Wales Air Ambulance in Llanelli, Wales -September 10th 2024.

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The Prince of Wales meets members of the public duing visit to the Swiss Valley Community Primary School in Llanelli, Wales, on September 10, 2024...

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WHY IS LLANELLI'S CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE USING THE CHARLIE BODY SPRAY LOGO AS HIS SIGNATURE

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Tagged by @maggiemaybe160 and @nickelkeep to share a random photo

I was recently in my home town and when I was a kid I really loved this abandoned building on the main street for the fun paintings on the side. It's like decades later and it's still there and still derelict

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I was tagged by @cr-noble-writes to share a random photo on my phone.

Those who know me know that I am a huge player of Magic the Gathering and I love the game and the lore. I've finally decided to complete the 32 challenge, in which you create a EDH/Commander in one of each of the 32 color combination possible.

In the most recent set, I found not only the card I wanted for my Jund (Black/Red/Green) Commander, but also a new character to love: Winter.

In the very first pack that I cracked, not only did I grab Winter, I also grabbed the alternative art that I wanted. Best. Luck. Ever.

Tagging: @casblackfeathers @kingdumbass @queerwolfsstuff @anyreiart @eyesofatragedy67 @twinone1221 @maggiemaybe160 @a-insominia and anyone else who wants to play!

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you heard it here first! gwych!!!!!

[tallymali]

In your opinion, is Wales worth a visit as a tourist?

if you’re looking for cities, absolutely not imo. but if you want little beaches or mountains or castles, its pretty good! definitely try come in late spring or summer bc its wet and grey and windy the rest of the time. i LOVE tenby (and pembrokeshire in general) in the summer. i rly wanna go to portmeirion this year tho

[mosswolf]

Home for me, or least one of the definitions of home, is Llanelli. The largest town in Carmarthenshire and just ten miles from the nearest city, Swansea, it was once a thriving trading port, and later known for its tinplate industry — and churches, of which there are over 40, at least, and many of them in various stages of disintegration. Now, Llanelli is known for having the slowest economic growth of any town in Wales in the past decade and has a bad reputation for organised drug-related crime, and ‘county line’ gangs. Llanelli, like The Valleys and many towns in the Western areas of Wales, are some of the poorest regions in Europe. What the future of Llanelli is, and what that future looks like, is yet to be decided. How do you treat a town with such a serious case of identity crisis?

The concept of a hometown is haunted right through to its construction. How do you begin to exorcise this particular haunting, that of my hometown upon me, when the town is choking on its own ghost? I have wrestled with my guilt; the feeling that I have abandoned my family, my class, my Welshness, to pursue something ‘better’. Better education, better opportunities, a better way of living. Even though I now live in Wales again, in Cardiff, and learning to find love and comfort in my Welshness, I still feel like some sort of traitor, for abandoning Llanelli and the more ‘Welsh’ West, for the Anglicised, wealthier East. Fisher states that, through the lens of Derrida’s theory of hauntology, that nothing enjoys a purely positive existence. All memory is tainted, nostalgia is inherently melancholic. I am grateful for my family home, everything my parents have done for me. I love them and my brother very dearly. But that gratitude and love is tainted by my feelings towards the town I grew up in. The two cannot exist without the other, all I can do is write about it.

ghost town of mine: reflections on llanelli, joshua jones