Reform accused of having no interest in Welsh speakers as Farage pledges to scrap one million target

This chap needs his own comic strip on here, call it the Goon Show...

He needs a history lesson and realise the importance of the Welsh language to the nation of Wales. I wonder if he would extend his stance on immigration policy to the Welsh language itself.

If they get to do this, it’ll be the first step on a very dark path. The abolish wing of the party is openly anti-Cymraeg and they’re prepared to say that bit out loud. What would they like to do, but don’t feel comfortable saying out loud (yet)? You just can’t be both pro-Wales and pro-ReformUK - it’s like being pro EU and voting Farage - the two aren’t compatible.

Next year's election will be between Hope and oblivion, independence and decimation of our culture and language. There's no grey area, like with a usual election, it's either black or white. If you are reading this as an undecided voter who loves Cymru - vote Plaid Cymru and save that country you love.

He will bring in the Welsh Not.

How can you 'force' anyone to speak Welsh?

No surprise. Reform may style itself as a 'British' patriotic national political movement, but in actual hard reality it's an English one.

In terms of the sentiment of the majority of posters here, I'd say that it isn't. But then only ideologically committed folk tend to post on forums of this sort. 'X' marks the other sorts of spot!

How do you mean...?

I can't see the point of Nigel Farage. He should clear off back to Clacton and do the job he's paid for, most of his constituents will have forgotten what he looks like.

The mask is slipping Nigel to reveal your true intentions. Reform UK like the Brexit Party and Ukip before are Anti-Devolution and Anti-Welsh language. Who can recall the 2016 Nigel Farage appointee in the then Welsh Assembly, Ukip group leader Gareth Bennett, who made numerous derogatory comments about the Welsh and suggested scrapping the 1 million Welsh language target again suggested by Nigel Farage and Reform UK in 2025. They are merely regurgitating old policies. He & they are a threat to Wales, the Welsh language , culture and Senedd democracy. If he wants a fight , bring it on. He will regret his decision.

That's a big slip up. Where in Wales are you pretending to be from Reform loser?😂

Targets are not pointless, they are used to hold governments to account. If you have none, how do you scrutinise their actions and strategy? Very dangerous rhetoric.

Will he be abolishing NHS waiting list targets? Of course not, he needs them to justify abolishing the NHS.

This also plays well with the economic incomers, especially those with children and grandchildren, who see Cymru as a twee version of England. A bit like the 'ex-pats' in Spain, they want out of England to somewhere new, but they want everything on their terms, and that includes English over Cymraeg (which they see as frivolous). Farage knows this, indeed this is how he thinks, and he'll push back on the Welsh language at every opportunity. I can hear his rhetoric now "do you want Welsh lessons or more bobbies on the beat?".

So with 678,000 learners on duolingo, 78,000 in Welsh medium education, the exam halls rammed each and every exam with adult learners, not to mention the many other roads to dysgu cymraeg I think your strange comment is inaccurate. I completely understand why you'd stay anonymous, saying things like that.

Not. Knot is for ropes and trees.

Seriously? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not

Reform has no interest in the Welsh language? This is correct, however. All the chickens are coming home to roost. The welsh people will have their say.

The original one on display in St.Fagans Museum of Welsh Life actually says WELSH NOT, as in" Fear ye not ".

"I'm bored with gov targets, none of them ever get met" says the man who promised to leave the country if Brexit was a failure, but still he remains, still spouting garbage.

Reform wants to plant the idea in people's heads that the Welsh language is a "waste of money". It is targeting the areas which generally have low concentrations of Welsh speaking. Notice that Reform largely targets the mainly English speaking Valleys, he doesn't seem to have much interest in Ceredigion or Gwynedd. Farage thrives by creating resentment then exploiting the people who sit on his side of the divide by claiming he's the only one standing up for them.

I find it ludicrous that anyone thinks plaid cymru would change anything for the better for Wales, they're as useless as Welsh labour but speak a different language.

Cyfrifoldeb ni'r Cymry yw sicrhau dyfodol ein hiaith a'n diwylliant. Efallai ein bod yn rhy barod i ddefnyddio Saesneg er hwylustod. Mae'n rhaid i ni frwydro dros ein hiaith drwy'r amser. Mae ein llywodraeth wedi gosod targed o filiwn o siaradwyr Cymraeg erbyn y flwyddyn 2050, ond nid yw hyn yn esgus i ni ar lawr gwlad laesu dwylo. Ein dyletswydd yw defnyddio'r Gymraeg ar bob achlysur posib. Gyda'n gilydd, byddwn yn gallu chwalu pob cynllun Farage a'i griw o labystiau i ladd ein hiaith.