Freedom of speech at risk

1:51pm Thursday 11th October 2012 in Letters

PEOPLE of Wales, be careful what you say! Your freedom of speech is at risk. According to Mr Glyn Davies (Argus, October 2), if any Welsh citizen dares to voice an opinion of the Welsh language, then that Welsh citizen should be deported to England! Mr Davies felt deprived without the Welsh language in his early schooldays, but year on year the people of Wales have been deprived by the municipal and language enforcers with increased council tax every year, yet lessened (fortnightly) waste bin collections, road sweeping cutbacks, less policing on our residential streets, loss of playing fields.

Furthermore, energy and utilities firm EON (and others) has warned that its prices may rise in Wales as a result of the new Welsh language legislation which includes standards private companies will have to meet. Brian Donovan, Darlington Court, Newport

Comments(11)

Mervyn James says...
7:44pm Thu 11 Oct 12

So they are using the welsh language to justify price rises now ? DOH !!! Jim Dyer will love that.

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james.dyer7@ntlworld.com says...
8:06pm Thu 11 Oct 12

merv - you are creeping round now that you have lost your case on the other entries. you are very sad man,

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Llanmartinangel says...
9:46pm Thu 11 Oct 12

Yes he clearly is in a government job where there's no cost involved in employing extra staff to do unnecessary work. Unless you're a taxpayer of course.

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james.dyer7@ntlworld.com says...
1:32am Fri 12 Oct 12

llanmartin - whatever Merv is, he is very bitter. Now that i have got th better of him, he won't comment you notice,

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Mervyn James says...
11:13am Sun 14 Oct 12

Welshies of Wales unite :)

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james.dyer7@ntlworld.com says...
11:36am Sun 14 Oct 12

merv - oh dear, you are struggling.

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Bobevans says...
9:31am Mon 15 Oct 12

The figures are there to show the cost of WElsh has increased massively and is increasing bills.

Only the other day EON stated that bills will have to go up more in Wales in order to provide Welsh


The Welsh language has little to do with Welsh culture in most parts onf Wales.In fact most WElsh culture has nothing todo with the Welsh language at all/

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Mervyn James says...
6:50pm Mon 15 Oct 12

Obviously you are an authority on it (A) Not being a welsh speaker, and (B) No authority on welsh culture. The cost of EVERYTHING has gone up as for EON they put up the price every year, I do not recall they blamed bi-lingual translations then, or, the preceding 10 years either. No doubt they are trying to justify fleecing us all (Again). I am surprised you bought it.

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james.dyer7@ntlworld.com says...
7:01pm Mon 15 Oct 12

merv = give up

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Bobevans says...
3:37pm Tue 16 Oct 12

Mervyn James wrote:
Obviously you are an authority on it (A) Not being a welsh speaker, and (B) No authority on welsh culture. The cost of EVERYTHING has gone up as for EON they put up the price every year, I do not recall they blamed bi-lingual translations then, or, the preceding 10 years either. No doubt they are trying to justify fleecing us all (Again). I am surprised you bought it.
Yes they do but this year there will be an additional increase in Wales to gove the requiremt to use Welsh

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county mad says...
10:44am Wed 17 Oct 12

Bothlocks to the imposition of a dead language

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