M Lewis

👏Tomorrow the @WelshConserv have called a debate for a Wales Covid Inquiry and not a review. 👏 @WelshLabour have added an amendment accusing @Plaid_Cymru of lying. 🥴Meanwhile @RhunapIorwerth et al are going to brazen it out after calling for a Wales Covid Inquiry for over 6 years! They will be repeating the previous @WelshGovernment’s arguments. Embarrassing for them 🤦‍♀️ ❓The question is why are they refusing a statutory inquiry that costs £10m and delivers in 18months? ❌and instead are choosing a non-statutory review, also budgeted at £10m (according to @mabonapgwynfor) and delivers in 26months?!?! Will any @Plaid_Cymru MSs have enough integrity to vote against the whip? 🤷‍♀️ Highly unlikely. What a bizarre world Welsh politics is 🤦‍♀️

🇬🇧The UK Covid Inquiry cost £200m 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿The Scottish Covid inquiry cost £58m 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿The Wales Covid inquiry would cost just £10m We asked for a statutory inquiry costing just £10m and delivering in 18 months. It’s not an extravagant request. We worked with @mabonapgwynfor to ensure we had tight Terms of Reference, ensuring it built from the UK inquiry and not duplicate work already done. We find it insulting and upsetting to see comments like this ⬇️ from @Plaid_Cymru MSs. The “review” will cost £1.5m to set up. It will run for 26 months and as @DafyddTrystan said will cost “some millions”. Its first task is to duplicate what the @covidinquiryuk did in its own £14m listening exercise. @Plaid_Cymru are completely out of their depth on this.

Brilliant from BBC Walescast! @RhunapIorwerth caught out in lie after lie! What a disgrace to @Plaid_Cymru More 💣 coming next week. Ps the “bereaved campaigner” who agrees with his “review” left our group last year after allegations of bullying were brought against them. We don’t stand for that in our group. Pick your partners Rhun 🤦‍♀️ @jamswilliams85

❌Our statement on today’s @Plaid_Cymru announcement of a non-statutory review ⬇️We’re heartbroken and emotionally drained. But we won’t go away. And neither will @WelshConserv @RUKWales @WelshLabour @WalesGreenParty @WelshLibDems - Diolch 💛 A message to @RhunapIorwerth - seeing you laugh and joke at the condemnation you received from all the opposition parties was vile. We could see all your Plaid MSs and they didn’t find it “funny” either. You’ve betrayed us and everyone can see that 😢 @DelythJewellAM @mabonapgwynfor @Heledd_Plaid @PeredurPlaid @Sioned_W @DafyddTrystan @Adamprice @LlyrGruffydd @cefincampbell - you’ve brought shame on the Plaid Cymru party.

We’ve presented @Plaid_Cymru with a model for a statutory inquiry that costs £10m and is delivered in approx 18months. In a new low, some PC members are defending the proposed “review” as being a money saver. Fact check- It will cost £10m, the same as an inquiry. £10m sounds like a lot, but in Gov terms, it’s nothing. So why would they waste £10m on yet another toothless review? 🤔 So, a question to PC members: Wales suffered its biggest loss of life ever. An underestimated 13k people died. One West Wales care home lost 26 of its 52 residents in one week. They choked and suffocated as their lungs filled up with no medication available, no oxygen and no end of life care. How much per head are we thinking is reasonable? What a disgusting defence to your actions 😡 You should feel ashamed of yourselves. @mabonapgwynfor @DafyddTrystan @llinos_medi @LlyrGruffydd @Adamprice @RhunapIorwerth @DelythJewellAM @Sioned_W @Heledd_Plaid @AndrewRTDavies @as_penarth @jason_oco @DarrenMillarMS @WillHayCardiff

😡 PRESS RELEASE - We are furious. @WelshGovernment knowingly hid behind the “science” to cover up for the lack of testing capacity. They misled everyone in Wales. They lied. We must now have what Scotland has, what all in @Plaid_Cymru campaigned for - A STATUTORY WALES COVID INQUIRY. Anything less will be a betrayal to bereaved families. @DafyddTrystan @mabonapgwynfor @RhunapIorwerth @Heledd_Plaid @CarrieAHarper @as_penarth @DelythJewellAM @jason_oco @DarrenMillarMS @AndrewRTDavies @WelshConserv @RUKWales