The UK Government, which is cutting heating allowances for pensioners in England, is specially employing people who speak Welsh for telephone and other enquiries in departments like Work & Pensions (DWP).
Um, how many people in Wales speak Welsh fluently, if at all? How many people in Wales speak Welsh only and not English?
Recruiting people specially to speak Welsh is a huge waste of money, while other things go hang.
There are around three million people in Wales and they speak English. Quite a number of them are not even Welsh.
This is not to say that people shouldn't learn Welsh, appreciate Welsh, study Welsh, etc, etc, but employing people to speak it specifically in 'UK' Government departments is absurd.
The grip of asymmetric national devolution - the Barnett Formula (which was loathed as unfair by its own creator, Lord Joel Barnett) sees higher spending in Wales per head of population than in England already.
Before people talk of different spending levels within England, the Barnett Formula applies only nationally to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The 'UK' Government is mad. And its support of the Welsh nationalist thing, the fake white Celtic myth of 1707, historical victimhood revisionism, etc, is way over the top when you consider the far larger and far more ethnically diverse population of England today.
Asymmetric national devolution discriminates against every living soul in England, regardless of the origins of the person.
Spending money to appease Welsh nationalists is simply not on. The Welsh are not an ethnic minority struggling with the English language. There are plenty of people who have genuine difficulties in understanding English to whom any such initiatives would be better directed.
Or how about spending the Welsh language cash on pensioners' winter fuel payments?
