Best of luck with this. Though I should say that some have expressed concerns to me. For example, I’m told the Cantref is the biggest employer in Castell Newydd Emlyn and, as you yourself say, most of the staff are good people who deserve better. So let us hope that the baby is not thrown out with the bath water.

Please keep me informed, or contact me at any time, via, editor@jacothenorth.net.

I knew all those Jones’ were imposters!

Rev. Francis Kilvert. “Of all noxious animals the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.”

A civilised greeting that’s in strong contrast to the way some Brits behave when outside of Ingerland. http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/daily-mail-cyprus-paedo-scare.html

The data regarding South Ceredigion and North/West Carms is particularly startling to me as I always perceived that area to be most at risk from sundry good lifers, moderately well off retired Sais ( or Anglos from S.E.Wales ), and residual New Age types looking for a plot to grow/manufacture various substances! I had not cottened on to the role played by 3rd sector in that part of Wales.

I wrote on here some weeks/months ago about a programme on Radio Cymru which told stories of a number of displaced English who headed into these same parts in the 1939 – 1970 era and had almost all acquired a fluency in language and had integrated into communities. Some of them were horrified by the attitude of the recent arrivals who make no effort and, indeed, expect the natives to fit in around them ! which of course most of them graciously do other than a few uncouth types who see fit to speak in their own idiot tongue !!

I see little merit in debating the precise length and breadth of this problem, as some of your contributors seem to do about NCE. If &when I visit such an area I open up in Welsh with a line like “Bore da, popeth yn mynd yn iawn heddiw ?” and if I get a Sais response I just look a bit puzzled – ” dim Cymraeg ? ” and then shrug and leave. Individually not much , bit if that was to happen often that trader would wise up and either employ a Welsh speaker or get his/her head out of his/her arse and start learning. We are far too welcoming and accomodating and it gives an impression of being totally compliant to their wishes and preferences.

Much of Europe is multi lingual with folks able to engage in passable exchanges in 2, 3 or more languages, other than out in the backwoods. We in UK, and the Welsh can be included in this, are lazy about adapting to other languages but the English are the league leaders in developing ignorance into a fine art.

That’s right, I’m working the Illuminati (Tue – Fri) and the Bilderberg Group on the weekends, with Monday off to do my shopping, have a bath, cut my toenails, etc.

I do hope you are not a Britlander troll. They have a very short life on this blog.

And is there a “J” in the Welsh alphabet “J”ac? Seems you might be an imposter also.