Tories stance on Welsh language thrown into turmoil after Andrew RT Davies blast

It's clear that having had a taste of how much malice he can spread and the notoriety it gives him on social media, Andrew RT Davies is rapidly running out of control. Mad dogs are either muzzled or else they're shot. I wouldn't wish the latter even on 'Blanket' Davies - or his tame neophyte Joel James - but the 'Welsh' Conservative party needs to get a grip on its wayward member before he starts to do serious damage to its image

Don't you just wish he'd hold his tongue, fade into the woodwork and spare us his 'wisdom'. His own lot don't want him - and I'm sure we all feel the same.

Nid gwlad ddwyieithog yw Cymru, ond gwlad lle mae prin deunaw y cant yn ddwyieithog, ac yn siarad Saesneg trwy orfodaeth a grym gwladychu.

As usual, Andrew RT Davies is talking through his hat. On the other hand, I worry sometimes that with the Senedd's current policies we're on the way to being a country where all the placenames and roadsigns are in Welsh but no-one actually speaks it. I wouldn't mind so much if the constituencies and national parks had English names, so long as the education system taught Welsh properly so that pupils left school completely fluent, and the economy was buoyant enough that young Welsh-speakers didn't have to leave the country to find work. Substance, not symbolism. But neither the Conservatives, nor Labour, and certainly not Plaid Cymru, are offering that option. Gwlad is the only party in Wales which is serious about the economy and the long-term future of the language - the two things are bound closely together.

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The true ugly face of Welsh Conservatism revealed. They cannot hide their anti-Welsh anglophile views anymore out of desperation because of the threat of fellow English extremists Reform UK who are breathing down their red necks.

How many of us goto other countries & pick up a few word's? This isn't "learn the whole Welsh language". It's pick up a few more Welsh word's. I simply don't see the problem with being able to use 100 worlds of the native language of the country you are living in

As I understand it to be disenfranchised is to have your right to vote removed. Is he suggesting English speakers will have their right to vote taken away if they live in a constituency with a Welsh name? I know it’s a bonkers theory but to be fair ARTD started it and it’s in the Daily Mail so it must be true.

I have been mulling this issue of bilingual names over a bit recently. I grew up a Cymraeg speaker in Welshpool, a town where "nobody" spoke Welsh. However, many of the houses, streets and estates in the town have Cymraeg only names. Bron y Buckley, Cae Glas, Bronwylfa, Erw Wen, Gungrog, Bryn Glas. My monoglot friends used these names without so much as a second thought, in the same way as they used the Cymraeg names of the villages Meifod, Llanfair Caereinion, Pentre'r Beirdd etc without getting lost. The Gymraeg really does belong to everyone here, even if they dont realise it. And RT doesn't realise it, although he went to school in Porthcawl, farms in Llantrithyd, served Rhondda and Cwm Cynon as MS etc Cymraeg only names have been ok for him, but he doesn't want them for our children

The most popular new name for a boy in England is Muhammad, so if the English and their quisling believe in immigrant power over indigenous history maybe they should all be given muslim names?

This man genuinely has zero morals, no intelligence, his dignity has long gone and now he's using the usual vicious cowardly tactic of slagging off the native languages. All the signs of a perfect Tory.

When you go to Germany, do you speak loudly at the locals with hand gestures and try to get everything in a loud voice but critically, in English? Or try to speak German? I found that attempting to speak the local languages, I would get coached, corrected but "well done for trying have another drink on the house" sort of attitude. I speak english only, smattering of School Welsh, but my family 2 generations ago, Welsh and English (Welsh main) then 2 past that, Welsh only only language. Using Welsh only names will not alienate me. It will encourage me. Reform will be for one reason and that will be hate and lies.

The Senned chooses to represent minority groups not the majority of Wales population. It does not matter which area of Wales you talk about the majority are NOT Welsh speaking. English is the first language in Wales spoken by virtually 100% of the population. The polls also clearly indicate that the vast majority do not want the Senned enlarged anyway !