Westminster isn’t working for Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#indyWales#Annibyniaeth
⚡️ We generate twice as much electricity as we use ⚡️

We're a net exporter of electricity to:
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
🇮🇪 Ireland
and continental Europe 🇪🇺

But:
• Revenues
and
• Profits
leave the country 💸
🚰 Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water) customers can expect the second-highest bills anywhere in Wales or England in 2020-21 💷

💧 Even though Wales exports around 660 million litres of water a day 💧
🛤 Wales has 11% of Wales and England's rail network but receives only 2% of the funding for enhancements to improve services 🛠
Wales won't receive any extra funding from the £80bn HS2 scheme 🚅

@GOVUK says it's a “UK-wide project” despite it being located entirely within England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

HS2 will cost the Welsh economy an estimated £150m a year 📆
The majority of:

📰 newspapers
📺 commercial TV
and
📻 radio stations

are headquartered outside Wales and regularly fail to serve Welsh audiences
🇬🇧 Being part of the UK:
• Puts 28% of Welsh children in poverty
• Puts 26% of Welsh households with at least one adult in work in poverty
• Puts 37% of Welsh households where at least one person has a disability in poverty
Wales should have received tens of millions as part of @London2012 @Olympics funding 🏅

👊 But @WelshGovernment had to fight before settling for less than £9m 😩
If Wales were independent, athletes could represent Wales at the @Olympics, flying the Red Dragon around the world! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌏
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 We’re YesCymru

👉 We’re the non-partisan independence movement
👉 We believe in citizens’ right to self-determination
👉 We believe power should be closer to the people
👉 We believe in an #indyWales

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