Diolch yn fawr “Cymraeg nid Prydeinig”!
I’m glad you enjoyed it. The BIG hurdle is getting the whole national curriculum changed root & branch in Wales. If we could do that we would reboot our nation within one generation. We are being strangled by ignorance.

Very good read Gee Fawr, I particularly liked the following…

“It is just like leaves withering on the tree – there is no purpose in expending energy on restoring the leaves if the tree is being poisoned through its roots – in the end, it will all die, and the leaves will disappear anyway. ”

I shall share it as best I can

She may be “Welsh ffs” that hardly gives her a head-start knowing ANYTHING about our country, it’s history, culture or traditions. Since 1879 the “British” have been busy air-brushing out any specks of knowledge about ourselves in our schools.

Read this essay I wrote on the subject in the early naughties:
http://sccambria.com/essays/erth-add_saesneg.htm

In the original version of today’s post, and in my haste to make a valid point about Englandandwales bodies transferring English staff into Wales, I made the erroneous suggestion that Ms Taj, a newly-appointed union bigwig, belonged to this group. She is in fact Welsh by birth and upbringing. This explains the apology.

Backroom staff at this blog are now clearing their desks (amid a welter of tears) and I am grovelliing to my proprietors. This may even necessitate a trip to the C.I.

The complainant who pointed out my error also suggested that I had “smeared” a journalist, presumably Martin Shipton. Perhaps ‘Luke’ – a Plaidista, I believe – may think an apology is also due to Shipton. Keep thinking, son; and dreaming . . . cos that’s as far as you’re gonna get on this one.

Seeing as the complainant may be a member of Plaid Gwynt, I do hope it wasn’t the unfavourable mention of wind turbines in the same post that provoked him into attacking old Jac.

Mind you I also remember that Simple was virtually the only columnist in London who had the slightest sympathy for Cymdeithas yr Iaith in their struggle for the most basic rights for Welsh speakers. The right-on, left-wing types couldn’t give a toss. Just as they don’t give a toss for free speech nowadays.

I’m obviously missing something about Ms Taj though.

I thought you were referring to Caroline Hitt. I apologise to Ms Taj.

To what ‘smear’ do you refer? And where do I say, as you quote, “no knowledge of our country”.