Community council's decision to scrap use of Welsh is 'blow to the language'

This is outrageous. People can by maw speak in Welsh in council meetings. It is up to the council how ut deaks with this, but it cannot rule out speaking in Welsh, and all documents inc minutes and accounts should be bilingual if not in Welsh alone. Tge Llanpumpsaint councillors are in any case showing themselves as people who consider themselves racially and linguistically superior to local people. Tge answer lies in local hands however. Make sure a cohort of local candidates who speak Welsh or are sympathetic to it should be waiting for any election or byelection.

So the colonists have overtaken Llanpumsaint now.

Mae’n amlwg bod y rhan fwyaf o aelodau Cyngor Cymuned Llanpumsaint ddim yn sylweddoli nad oes angen offer cyfieithu ar y cynghorwyr sy’n medru’r Gymraeg. Yn hytrach y rhai sydd ddim yn siarad yr iaith sydd angen cyfieithydd. Rwy’n awgrymu bod y rhai sy’n siarad Cymraeg yn parhau i wneud hynny ym mhresenoldeb neu yn absenoldeb cyfieithydd. Dyna wnes i yn ystod fy amser fel Cynghorydd Sir a Chymuned (28 mlynedd) ac yn ystod fy nghyfnod yn aelod o Awdurdod Heddlu Dyfed-Powys. O ganlyniad, roedd y di-gymraeg ar y pwyllgorau yn mynnu cael cyfieithydd yn o sydyn.  

I agree with Cymdeithas, make it law that they have to do it – it's the only language these people will understand.

This is the cost of unmitigated in-migration and lack of cultural integration. Llanpumsaint would probably not have heard a word of English in its lanes 50 years ago. Live there a year and put yourself up for election. Reduce our fair lands to your insipid, globally-despised monoculture. Gwarth!

I actually sympathise. There's probably very little money in the budget and they have to be careful about where every penny is spent. They probably thought they would be doing people a favour if they spent the money in the community instead. If people are so desperately concerned that there HAS to be a Welsh language version of the minutes taken and a translator in hand so that members of the community can speak in either English or Welsh at meetings, then why doesn't a Welsh-speaking member of the community join the committee for this purpose? What? No volunteers? Everyone too busy? Exactly!!! People are quick to judge these local councillors but they can't be bothered to turn up to do the job and attend the meetings themselves!!! If they actually cared about the language they'd be on the committee and keeping Welsh going in those meetings but they're not.

This is what you will get if Reform takes over Wales. Beware.

Whoever has made this decision has an obvious agenda. Cost is always the excuse. Can you imagine if a community council in Gwynedd announcing they were scrapping their English translation. Their would be outrage with the usual attacks made towards nationalism and nationalists. This is a retrograde step to the bad old days of the Welsh Not. Welsh and English equal status lol. Yeah sure. What next on their to-do agenda? Replacing Llanpumpsaint, although even that is a corruption of the original. Using the English-only name. Church/dwelling of the five saints? It's a slow drip drip undermining of the Welsh language and services. To undermine anything, you start from the bottom up. Wonder what political affiliation these community councillors have if indeed they are non-Welsh speaking or incomers from outside the county?

Always recall saying a few words in Welsh (which I then repeated in English) at a public meeting several years back. One Councillor approached me after the meeting and said "there's no need for that in this day and age". When I responded, this person came back with the immortal line that "hearing Welsh upsets some people". Rest assured, there's plenty of folk out there with these inward-looking opinions, and they'll certainly multiply as Farage's Anglo Army marches assuredly across our land.

That is wrong, common. Sense needs to prevail If they are Welsh speaking let them speak Welsh as long as it does not disadvantage English only speaking residents, Welsh language rules state both languages have to be treated equally. Seems it seems this equality is very selective

I'm not sure that there are really strong grounds to object to this decision, given that if enough folk living in the community council area find it objectionable, they're perfectly free, at the next opportunity, to identify and to elect different folk to serve as councillors who are committed to reverse the decision in question.

Easy - turn to 'Google Translate'. Not that great an effort to make,

Maybe you should learn it or move to a neighbouring nation who speak your language?

Dim ond un siaradwr yn y cyngor, so beth sy'n problem? Os ydych chi'n moyn mwy Cymraeg yn y cwrdd, mae angen mwy siaradwyr yn y cwrdd onid e? Yn seml.

Yes for colonizers

I remember when they used the name of Five Saints to describe the Horse Riding Center.It was visible on a Brown Tourist Sign. Including this article is this going to suggest that Llanpumsaint and other similar communities are now becoming a Celtic version of West Bank Settlements.

Disgraceful- this community council is failing to heed the future generation(well being) act at the very least. How many welsh speakers are discouraged from being a community councillor when community councils demote the welsh language as not important.

Troll post. Who are the "zealots"…? Speakers of the native tongue of the area? How dare they! English is a great international language, but its monoglot speakers have also suffered from a unique fragility and fear of anything "other". What they do not understand, through their own ignorance, they seek to destroy.

What sn absolutely disgusting vile view of life you have. I genuinely hope that you haven't procreated.

Does na ond un ateb i hyn, a hyny ydy i Gymru Cymraeg yr ardal sefyll fel Cynghorwyr Cymuned ac i ddefnyddio yr iaith.

The last paragraph in this article is the most significant one. It's certainly a pattern repeated over many parts of this country.