The UK Government Squanders Money On Appeasing Welsh Nationalists While Cutting Pensioners' Heating Payments...
We're Celts! We were here first! We are wonderful! We were oppressed by the English! Oh, do go away! The UK Government, which is cutting heating allowances for pensioners in England, is specially employing people who speak Welsh for 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, and forking out money to attract applicants is absurd. The grip of asymmetric national devolution - the Barnett Formula (which was loathed as unfair by its own creator, Lord Joel Barnett) s