Well, of course, it’s up to them.

So, you’re telling us that non-British people who come to live in this country should be compelled to speak and write English, but it’s a matter of personal choice as to whether British people who go to live in non-English speaking countries should learn the local lingo.

That’s a rather…… interesting policy.

Presumably you’d demand the same of British expats in Spain, France and Italy?

it is when you think in terms of the number of Welsh speakers in Wales, though.

That seems a more valid comparison to my mind.

You may be right, but curiously the same principle doesn’t seem to apply to, for example, a union ballot on industrial action in which the majority of the votes cast are in favour of a strike but only a minority of the membership took part in the ballot.

In that case, we are told in no uncertain terms that the union has no mandate for action.

Mind you, there I go expecting politicians to be consistent and even-handed…. :rolleyes:

So?

The question was whether Welsh is spoken to any extent anywhere else in the world, not whether more people in Argentina speak German or Italian than Welsh.

Party politics has no place in operational policing anyway, so the whole exercise wsas flawed from the outset.

How anyone can claim with a straight face, as Grant Shapps (aka Michael Green, or whatever name he’s using this week) did yesterday, that these newly appointed PCCs have any kind of democratic mandate is beyond me.

Where else in the world do they speak Welsh, to any extent ?

Argentina.

Patagonia, to be more precise.

Edit: Ah, I see someone has already pointed this out.

Some splendid shots in there, Andrew.