Let us opt outSIR – Your correspondent Sioned Haf (Letters, December 10) says: “As we await the announcement of the Legislative Competence Order (LCO) on the Welsh Language, Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg wish to summarise our expectations of this transfer of legislative power to the Senedd”, known to most of us as WAG (or Welsh Amateurs Gravytrain).
It’s a pity they are not as confident in their beliefs as the rest of the 98% of the British public who, like me, have zero interest in the
long-dead, incomplete Welsh language.
I have often complained that we have it stuffed down our throats whether we like it or not, and that is not a matter of debate but fact.
I have just received my annual renewal for a TV licence, one bill in English and one bill in Welsh, one separate leaflet encouraging direct debit in English and one in Welsh, a second marketing leaflet from them in English, another in Welsh.
If that is not stuffing it down peoples’ throats I don’t know what is.
Can I phone or write to the TV licensing authority, the DVLA, my local council etc to opt out of this claptrap? NO! And that is what is so objectionable about it.
The WAG is playing a very dangerous game if it thinks it can impose the foolish notions and expense onto business in Wales and get away with it – all they will do is drive jobs back into other parts of the UK and then we can all stand in the dole queues together and moan about our misfortune – in Welsh of course.
We all know that bilingualism is costing all British taxpayers many millions of pounds a year and helping to destroy our planet by such an unnecessary and disgraceful waste of the resources used to produce it.
If the nationalist hypocrites in the WAG or elsewhere had any pride, courage or genuine confidence in their agenda, they would welcome an opt-out option for everyone in Wales, but, of course, those are qualities nationalists know nothing about.
PETER REED
Cadoxton, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan