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Our county in Wales stopped school transport years ago , children need to live outside of 3 miles of the school to get transport . They also abolished 6 form in every school too and created a sixth form college instead . Labour destroyed Wales over the years .
It's a lot of money...but it's also a very serious job with a hell of a lot of responsibility. A moment of inattention and missing a signal you have got a hideous collision and a tad too fast at a bend and a derailment, costing lives and injury plus enormous financial costs.
It’s not just school. As a Welsh person, you can’t even submit a tender for work for Anglesey council unless you can speak Welsh (not everyone in Wales can speak Welsh beyond what is taught in school as a second language, so levels are similar to French or German). Lots of public sector jobs now have “essential” Welsh, even in areas where the only Welsh you would hear is in schools. What they’re doing now to Welsh people whose first language is English, is no different than the Welsh Not.
We should be encouraging Welsh. How can we fight off foreign invaders when we don’t even embrace our own heritage. Learn Welsh. Teach your kids Welsh. Ry'n ni yma o hyd
I was a School Governor for 5 years from 2012. We had one class with a Polish 10 year old who spoke no English. The class had the usual 5-6 who needed extra support from the One Teaching Assistant (TA). The Head Teacher instructed the TA ONLY to work with the Polish boy, and so ignore the needs of the English boys.
Just stop using rail. If there's no one on the trains, the unions and drivers won't have any power. I haven't been on a train now in over 20 years - and plan to keep it that way.
@@---df5srof course they are the true natives but you are talking discrimination about children. What about foster carers who foster English children. Or families that have Welsh ancestry, as I have but dont currently speak Welsh. Or children living with Welsh family members due to family situations. I am always suspicious of people who are happy to discriminate against children, it says alot about them
So yet another example of liebour's racism towards the English. How many Welsh people speak Welsh. I understand wanting to preserve their language and heritage, but will they do the same to anyone else who doesn't speak welsh or is it just English speakers who are being discriminated againest? According to the APS, there were an estimated 891,800 Welsh speakers living in Wales in the year ending 30 September 2023.which is 29.2% of the population aged three and older. This is a 0.6 percentage point decrease from the previous year.
Spot on, I'm 100% Welsh but the minority of xenophobe 'welsh speakers' here centred on the world of academe and petty politics has completely skewed the discussion. The costs to Business and government for duplicating every bit of paper, road sign et al is in the tens of millions annually. Despicable discrimination here. They all speak English and it's unnecessary expenditure at all levels.
It's hard to get accurate figures for the number of people who actually can speak Welsh and those who chose not to. My son lives with other Welsh speakers, but they all live and work over the border in England. Everyone in their house can speak Welsh fluently but hasn't spoken a word of it in the last 4 years.
They haven´t "banned" English Speakers....Why are people so gullible nowadays?? They have stopped free transport except to certain schools. Media and sheeplings love to jump on other facts..
It’s not racism . It may be a bad and unnecessary discrimination but it is definitely not racism unless you think the welsh and speakers of any other languages are different races ? Ima Welshman ,I speak no welsh and I am not a different race . I speak no welsh because Unfortunately welsh was almost an extinct language when I was in school during the seventies and never taught .It was nearly extinct because speaking welsh for my parents generation was discouraged by teachers annd the language of our homeland , our history etc was never taught and my grandparents generation would be punished with a cane and the infamous “ Welsh Knot “ , a heavy wooden board on rope hung around a child’s neck all day in school for speaking it when they had to speak English . The decimation of the welsh heritage , history and language by English hegemony failed fortunately That and this is a foolish policy that unfairly discriminates in a way that undermines a child’s education and is stupid and seemingly vindictive for no reason that benefits anyone . I’m sure there is more to it ,at least I hope so because this is very bad ,sadly the welsh Senedd and plaid Cymru and Labour Wales, are full of ideologues and fanatics making bad decisions recently .
Well perhaps the 13B (2023) sent to the Welsh government for devolved services should only be spent on English speaking residents if they want to go down this route.
how does one keep a job when you have just committed a racist act against so many . Why are the police not knocking at their doors for this hate crime ?
A Bus driver's job is far HARDER than a train driver. Your concentration driving on roads has to be much better with any mistake amplified. Don't know what the average wage is for bus drivers BUT a return train trip Leeds to Newcastle by Bus about £23 == Train over £60 before the pay increase == So use Bus when possible.
My parents moved us to wales in 1982 , I finished my schooling in 86. From my first day it was drilled into me that not being Welsh was a problem and I was held to much higher standards than welsh speakers. I even had teachers telling me that me and my family were not welcome and should go back to England . It’s always been a problem simmering away , luckily I was robust enough to tell them to stop making a fool of themselves
As a Welsh people I found visiting Bangor a bit of a problem when I was speaking English in a pub. Not fluent in Welsh but can get by. As soon as my friend spoke to me in Welsh all was 'forgiven' . I was quite annoyed at the bias and understand how it must make English people feel.
@croonersteve I'm from Stafforshire and live on the North Wales coast. We have lived here since I was 14 months old, so since the late 1960s. Edited to add - you do see it at the Eisteddfod, even when it's a subject that doesn't actively involve Welsh - if you have an English surname, you would automatically cone lower down, but that was pretty much expected really. I came 2nd in a clarinet solo once, the guy who won wasn't as good as me on the day, even his own teacher said as much, but he had a Welsh name, I didn't (which is funny as my (step)Dad was fully Welsh, and that's whose surname I used, but as I said, I knew I wouldn't be winning once I saw who I was up against. That's really the only setting where bias was obvious, even though they didnt outright say it, but we knew about it beforehand.
The underground has been automated for years. The victoria line has been almost fully automated from the beginning, only needing the driver to open and close doors.
@tmog1000 I live in Australia but owing to several visits to London, I knew about the degree of automation on the underground. Still, they're paying people to sit up front and open doors for £70,000 a year. I assume there are some trains without much automation?
@@Parawingdelta2 Maybe on Network rail tracks, but I think that all underground lines are now fully automatic except for the doors. Even the Docklands Light Rail is automatic, they did have a LOT of teething problems in the beginning though.
No you miss the point they are Welsh children who don't speak Welsh in Bridgend it's in the west and north where they speak the Welsh language mostly during the 18 th and 19th century they stopped talking in Welsh because it was banned in schools especially in the industrial valleys where most of the coal mines were
@veryhappychappy12 fair point, and truthfully, I think Wales is a gorgeous country. I understand the need to maintain culture and heritage, England's is being eroded daily. This just isn't the way to do it.
I am Welsh but did not go to a Welsh school or speak fluent Welsh. We are the lowest of the pile of all when it comes to decisions by a Labour government.
Am I being cynical to ponder if these unionised organisations aimed to strike and cause “chaos” in the lead up to a general election to afford labour a catchphrase? …. Ie people that earn between 2 times and up to 10 times the national average wage asking for above inflation wages in sectors that don’t have recruitment issues? And yet many carers and healthcare assistants who carried on caring since covid continue to earn the minimum wage …. due in part to low funding by local councils for social care providers … this is a sector that should have been prioritised for a decent pay rise due to a massive shortfall in workers and its impact on hospital stays and the quality of life of the frail and elderly?
I was intending to move over the border into Wales. I used to visit Wales regularly and do a lot of my shopping there. rarely go into Wales now although the border is only about 4 miles away. I stopped when they bought in the 20mph speed dogma.
When toolmakers were shop floor aristocracy, train drivers were comparative paupers. With the advance of automation toolmakers have been decimated. What price driverless trains?
Not all schools are "welsh" medium. So these children may be attending school where welsh is not the teaching language. Also as fluent welsh speakers are (still) a minority, do the jobs go to the best candidate considering this is a small pool to start with?
I lived in both North and South Wales for years and now have some Welsh family members. The North & mid-Wales had quite a large proportion of Welsh as 1st language folk but all Welsh we knew near Cardiff and surrounding Towns can sing Welsh songs but can't carry on a conversation.
When I was a kid everyone wanted to be a train driver, but when you grow up you realise it's a low paid , low skill job, dear me how wrong we were , add in overtime you could probably achieve in excess of £120 K for driving a train ....dear me
All anyone needs to do is visit the office of national statistics and see how the long term devolved Welsh Labour Party despite English subsidies has performed, on roads, schools, health and social care, and make their own mind up about how inclusive and egalitarian their form of governance is. Unfortunately nationalistic ideology and culture prevents many people from making sensible pragmatic decisions. Kind regards Tim
Unions are there to look after their members - Thatcher tried to abolish the unions but fair play to them. We British just role over and accept what is given to us whilst being told by those creaming from the top. The trains are not nationalised so it´s not tax payer money. You just have to look at Europe to see that the UK has some of the worst workers rights as everything is geared towards the employer. British steel, British coal, shipyards etc....these were replaced with call centres and when call centres went to India they were replaced with Amazon wearhouses. If the books are balanced then there is no need to worry about investment, this is the Tory policy and why they hate unions...
welsh govt only fund school buses to welsh-only-speaking schools = fantastic! if British govt only funded school buses to English-only-speaking schools = RAYSIS! 😂😂😂
The headline for this piece is a bit disingenuous. It has long been the policy of a highly motived but very small minority in Wales to promote "English Not" (look up "Welsh Not" for background reading). Politicians in Wales have to negotiate a line with what the vast majority of folk are content with but also keep this vociferous passionate and very influential group happy otherwise they was seen as "Pro English Colonialism". The overall move, tacit or not, is to force all schools to be Welsh Medium anyway over the next decade or so, even private nurseries for children up to 4 being forced to tow this line or go bust. The irony is that fluent Welsh speakers are quite rare and competent reader/writers very much more so. This leads to a skill shortage and those unfit for post being given jobs beyond their ability - being fluent in Welsh does not make one an inspirational teacher or a shrewd accountant.....
It's not difficult. The law should be that any pay increase should be based on a percentage of the average wage. So any percentage is fairer, if you're on 10k or 100k.
WTF is with all the racism against my people in the comments for? The majority of us have played absolutely no part in this discriminatory action by the county borough, take your arms up with the very few who DID make this decision. More divisive bs that people need to stop falling for. Trust me when I say the majority of the Welsh DO NOT support this action.
Im very much in favour of funding Welsh language and culture, and encouraging it to flourish, but this is not a positive promotion of it, it is a discriminatory action meant to punish, which is quite repulsive. Its beyond my comprehension that we would take such a punitive action in England to stop any type of funding to children who are not fluent English speakers. Surely the answer is to fund Welsh lessons (language and culture) in all schools, fund clubs that educate on and promote Welsh culture?
It is a fairly low skilled job. Of course a lot of those drivers who find it very challenging will take a different view, but a lot of people are stressed just driving their car to the shops but that doesn’t make driving a highly skilled task. No, back in the day of steam locomotives it was, without a shadow of doubt, a highly skilled job. Not so anymore.
The NHS WAITING LISTS are higher in English hospitals near the Welsh Borders! People from Wales ask to go to them! That was before the resident doctors in England who were pretending to be 'poor junior doctors' were constantly striking!!
"Low skilled job.." 😂😂😂 No, not quite. Now, TV presenter that is a low skilled job. Sitting drinking coffee and gossiping for three hours requires zero skills! See how that works?
I don't like Labour, and that Drakeford man was an idiot, but it is true that in this country, wealth has flowed to a greedy minority in too great a proportion, and for instance in Cornwall, Cornish people can't afford to buy properties in Cornwall. So it may be that the Welsh Labour policy is intended to deter rich English people from pricing the Welsh out of their own rural houses by discriminating against their English only speaking children. If you asked rural Cornish folk if they wished the rich people got out of their duchy, most would say "yes, good luck to the Welsh".
All the drivers are doing is speeding up their demise, the network could be fully automated as it is there will come a point where they will say lets let the computer do it. The presenter says its not a really skilled job, you have to sit an exam every year in order to be able to drive a train, it isnt like you pass an exam, become employed and thats it. The exam is on the rule book can you imagine how many rules you have to memorize and new health and safety regulations. Then there is the accidents that the drivers have to face while being a driver, I have 2 family members 1 is a driver now and 1 is retired. Both of them have killed people while driving a train by people being on the tracks and as the driver its your job to attend the injured victim. The current family member driving has also taken someones arm off who has been on the tracks who put their arm in front of the train. Its not just a regular job peoples lives are at great risk but even the family member employed now doesnt like having to strike because they know that they are just speeding up the demise...
@Inquisitor_Vex Pretty awful 'promotion'. I'd be screaming from the rafters if a Welsh speaking child was denied equality with English speaking children here in England...I would be disgusted. Promotion would be ensuring all schools teach Welsh language and culture and history of Wales embedded in school curriculums, funding clubs and events that teach Welsh culture and language. I'm absolutely all for that, in spades. What I do not agree with is discrimination and punishment, especially of kids and even worse, associated with their education.
Nobody owes you anything. If the Welsh government wants to give free school transport or whatever it was to Welsh speakers then I don’t see what it has to do with anyone else?
The welsh are the true natives. We were here long before the Romans, saxons and Normans. How can we fight off foreign invaders when we don’t embrace our own shared heritage? They want us to fight amongst ourselves. Ry'n ni yma o hyd
It appears that the rule has been designed to specifically discriminate against British / Welsh children, as we know, they would never enforce the rule against families who have a 3rd world background.
There is a simple reason for this as someone who lives in Wales. There are fewer Welsh-speaking schools in South Wales so children have to travel further to find them. It's not a question of discrimination; it's a question of location. It's a non story and a simple bit of investigation would show that. it's just lazy sensationalist journalism, which I'm afraid is so common these days.
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your not allowed speak welsh in westminster it's out lawed and if spoken you get band from the house
all 3 comments above are likely bots, probably from china trying to stir up chaos
@ClactonCuun but your here again 😂😂
Sounds likes discrimination to me
Sounds like racism to me.
Our county in Wales stopped school transport years ago , children need to live outside of 3 miles of the school to get transport . They also abolished 6 form in every school too and created a sixth form college instead . Labour destroyed Wales over the years .
...commies destroy evwrythign wherever they are...
#realcommunismhasneverbeentried 😂
How can welsh labour legally discriminate ?
Will this rule apply to migrants from north Africa and eastern Europe that don't speak welsh ?
The problem really is it should be free for these kids to get transport to school but they need to fund discussing how racist Wales is as a priority.
They don't speak English either, or Gaelic.
@@kylemenos
But this IS racist.
Maybe England should refuse things to people who don't speak English?
Good on Wales looking after their own people for a change.
@@Prospero-z1s
Welsh speakers are a very small minority of Welsh people.
If the English did the same there would be hell to pay.
Discrimination and disgraceful .
£73k for driving a train on rails.....😂
It drives itself
All greedy bastards
So very wrong
It's more than one of my relatives gets paid as an airline pilot.
It's a lot of money...but it's also a very serious job with a hell of a lot of responsibility. A moment of inattention and missing a signal you have got a hideous collision and a tad too fast at a bend and a derailment, costing lives and injury plus enormous financial costs.
It’s not just school. As a Welsh person, you can’t even submit a tender for work for Anglesey council unless you can speak Welsh (not everyone in Wales can speak Welsh beyond what is taught in school as a second language, so levels are similar to French or German). Lots of public sector jobs now have “essential” Welsh, even in areas where the only Welsh you would hear is in schools.
What they’re doing now to Welsh people whose first language is English, is no different than the Welsh Not.
We should be encouraging Welsh. How can we fight off foreign invaders when we don’t even embrace our own heritage. Learn Welsh. Teach your kids Welsh. Ry'n ni yma o hyd
It's completely different because our language was taken away from us.
@@---df5srSo our heritage is the language? Bols.
@@---df5sr if the Welsh cared about "fighting off foreign invaders" they wouldn't vote for a Labour government that wants to import the invaders.
@@andromeda_25 don't give this guy the pleasure of a reply, most are not like him, just spouting crap.
I was a School Governor for 5 years from 2012. We had one class with a Polish 10 year old who spoke no English. The class had the usual 5-6 who needed extra support from the One Teaching Assistant (TA). The Head Teacher instructed the TA ONLY to work with the Polish boy, and so ignore the needs of the English boys.
Seriously?? Welsh Labour are nuts.
English Labour have put the Welsh to shame, and in a record 2 months
@@ClactonCuun Most definitely, they’re both nuts.
brianpotter: as are scottish labour and english labour...
and all socialist and commie governments anywhere ever... 🤪
All Labour Governments seem to be nuts
That like.... kinda racist. :D
Not really. They are discriminating against indigenous Welsh children who don't speak Welsh.
@@jsemplefelton5348Correct, it is discrimination, not racism.
75k for driving a bus on rails, you couldn't make it up.
unions behind em are shit house too expect the world for sleeping all night on the night shifts.
Just stop using rail. If there's no one on the trains, the unions and drivers won't have any power. I haven't been on a train now in over 20 years - and plan to keep it that way.
thats literally was the class 142/143/143 pacer trains are lol
Decriminalisation of the highest order picking on kids just because they are being educated in English
What an utter disgrace! Get this stopped right now you Welsh people!
Why? we want to encourage welsh schools. Welsh are the true natives.
Ry'n ni yma o hyd. Gogoniant i Gymru
@@---df5sr It's children FFS.
@@---df5sr yea inbred ✔️
@@---df5srof course they are the true natives but you are talking discrimination about children. What about foster carers who foster English children. Or families that have Welsh ancestry, as I have but dont currently speak Welsh. Or children living with Welsh family members due to family situations.
I am always suspicious of people who are happy to discriminate against children, it says alot about them
Train tickets will go up to pay for it. Thanks very much!!!
This is unacceptably discriminatory wtf 😬 is going on ?
All planned
antiwhiteism
@@charliereedie6803 Really? Your itching for Kemi and Suella, both non natives to join reform and riddle the party with multi culti
What about the kids who were born in Wales who speak Welsh ?
Or some born in another country who speak fluent Welsh ? How about school kids born in any of the devolved UK states who speak Welsh ?
So yet another example of liebour's racism towards the English. How many Welsh people speak Welsh. I understand wanting to preserve their language and heritage, but will they do the same to anyone else who doesn't speak welsh or is it just English speakers who are being discriminated againest?
According to the APS, there were an estimated 891,800 Welsh speakers living in Wales in the year ending 30 September 2023.which is 29.2% of the population aged three and older. This is a 0.6 percentage point decrease from the previous year.
Spot on, I'm 100% Welsh but the minority of xenophobe 'welsh speakers' here centred on the world of academe and petty politics has completely skewed the discussion. The costs to Business and government for duplicating every bit of paper, road sign et al is in the tens of millions annually. Despicable discrimination here. They all speak English and it's unnecessary expenditure at all levels.
Overall the numbers are low but in the North the propertion of speakers is high.
It's hard to get accurate figures for the number of people who actually can speak Welsh and those who chose not to. My son lives with other Welsh speakers, but they all live and work over the border in England. Everyone in their house can speak Welsh fluently but hasn't spoken a word of it in the last 4 years.
@@andromeda_25 Welsh is tricky but I've always struggled more with the grammar in French, for example. There are harder languages to learn.
They haven´t "banned" English Speakers....Why are people so gullible nowadays?? They have stopped free transport except to certain schools. Media and sheeplings love to jump on other facts..
This is what genuine racism looks like.
It’s not racism . It may be a bad and unnecessary discrimination but it is definitely not racism unless you think the welsh and speakers of any other languages are different races ? Ima Welshman ,I speak no welsh and I am not a different race . I speak no welsh because Unfortunately welsh was almost an extinct language when I was in school during the seventies and never taught .It was nearly extinct because speaking welsh for my parents generation was discouraged by teachers annd the language of our homeland , our history etc was never taught and my grandparents generation would be punished with a cane and the infamous “ Welsh Knot “ , a heavy wooden board on rope hung around a child’s neck all day in school for speaking it when they had to speak English . The decimation of the welsh heritage , history and language by English hegemony failed fortunately
That and this is a foolish policy that unfairly discriminates in a way that undermines a child’s education and is stupid and seemingly vindictive for no reason that benefits anyone . I’m sure there is more to it ,at least I hope so because this is very bad ,sadly the welsh Senedd and plaid Cymru and Labour Wales, are full of ideologues and fanatics making bad decisions recently .
Well no british money for Welsh speaking people as they use british money
Train drivers living in luxury while our pensioners starve to death ! God will be the judge of this evil transgression 🙏
A train driver at my golf club was celebrating a pay rise of £800 a month for a 4 day week.
Did you get Teed off with him. 😂
Disgusting
@@ninabaker6829 That's what we thought.
Yes they are hardly creating wealth with new technology or anything like that, they are driving a highly automated train!
Well perhaps the 13B (2023) sent to the Welsh government for devolved services should only be spent on English speaking residents if they want to go down this route.
labour being divisive again...
welsh govt: "...its not discrimination...its only discrimination when YOU do it..." 🤪
how does one keep a job when you have just committed a racist act against so many . Why are the police not knocking at their doors for this hate crime ?
A Bus driver's job is far HARDER than a train driver. Your concentration driving on roads has to be much better with any mistake amplified. Don't know what the average
wage is for bus drivers BUT a return train trip Leeds to Newcastle by Bus about £23 == Train over £60 before the pay increase == So use Bus when possible.
Not now that you’ve basically told us it’s more dangerous! 😄
And if they were black?
Then Swahili would be made a national language
My parents moved us to wales in 1982 , I finished my schooling in 86. From my first day it was drilled into me that not being Welsh was a problem and I was held to much higher standards than welsh speakers. I even had teachers telling me that me and my family were not welcome and should go back to England . It’s always been a problem simmering away , luckily I was robust enough to tell them to stop making a fool of themselves
I've never had that. Where were you out of curiosity?
@@ChrisAndCats I’m from Walsall live in n mid wales . If you never had it then I’m glad for you
As a Welsh people I found visiting Bangor a bit of a problem when I was speaking English in a pub. Not fluent in Welsh but can get by. As soon as my friend spoke to me in Welsh all was 'forgiven' . I was quite annoyed at the bias and understand how it must make English people feel.
@croonersteve I'm from Stafforshire and live on the North Wales coast. We have lived here since I was 14 months old, so since the late 1960s. Edited to add - you do see it at the Eisteddfod, even when it's a subject that doesn't actively involve Welsh - if you have an English surname, you would automatically cone lower down, but that was pretty much expected really. I came 2nd in a clarinet solo once, the guy who won wasn't as good as me on the day, even his own teacher said as much, but he had a Welsh name, I didn't (which is funny as my (step)Dad was fully Welsh, and that's whose surname I used, but as I said, I knew I wouldn't be winning once I saw who I was up against. That's really the only setting where bias was obvious, even though they didnt outright say it, but we knew about it beforehand.
@@croonersteve yeah they are backwards there ,come to Cardiff you are welcome .
They've just guaranteed full automation of trains and a whole lot of redundancies in ten year's time.
The underground has been automated for years. The victoria line has been almost fully automated from the beginning, only needing the driver to open and close doors.
@tmog1000 I live in Australia but owing to several visits to London, I knew about the degree of automation on the underground. Still, they're paying people to sit up front and open doors for £70,000 a year. I assume there are some trains without much automation?
@@Parawingdelta2 Maybe on Network rail tracks, but I think that all underground lines are now fully automatic except for the doors. Even the Docklands Light Rail is automatic, they did have a LOT of teething problems in the beginning though.
Thanks you all
Interesting!!
Well said, I agree
Love GB News
Welsh racism rides again! My grandkids are Welsh but don’t speak the language because it’s synonymous with racism
Told you to vote Alan, but did you listen?
Why is Welsh synonymous with racism? Are any other languages, in your opinion synonymous with racism? I’m intrigued.
Wonder if the Scots would accept a ruling only free transport for the children who speak Gaelic.
Not a laughing matter, English children are being discriminated against on many levels in Welsh schools.
No you miss the point they are Welsh children who don't speak Welsh in Bridgend it's in the west and north where they speak the Welsh language mostly during the 18 th and 19th century they stopped talking in Welsh because it was banned in schools especially in the industrial valleys where most of the coal mines were
Maybe England should cease all financial support to Wales. See how far you get on your own two feet
These Welsh xenophobes are a tiny minority of the population. Don't lump us all together.
@veryhappychappy12 fair point, and truthfully, I think Wales is a gorgeous country. I understand the need to maintain culture and heritage, England's is being eroded daily. This just isn't the way to do it.
Same for Scotland as well.
I am Welsh but did not go to a Welsh school or speak fluent Welsh. We are the lowest of the pile of all when it comes to decisions by a Labour government.
@@Dontlikefruit we are also all the tax payers watching these clowns waste it .
Hopefully the train bosses use pagers and walky talks!
That's fine... the payout will pay for my boy's Uni tuition. Discrimination is not welcome here!
Am I being cynical to ponder if these unionised organisations aimed to strike and cause “chaos” in the lead up to a general election to afford labour a catchphrase? …. Ie people that earn between 2 times and up to 10 times the national average wage asking for above inflation wages in sectors that don’t have recruitment issues? And yet many carers and healthcare assistants who carried on caring since covid continue to earn the minimum wage …. due in part to low funding by local councils for social care providers … this is a sector that should have been prioritised for a decent pay rise due to a massive shortfall in workers and its impact on hospital stays and the quality of life of the frail and elderly?
I was intending to move over the border into Wales. I used to visit Wales regularly and do a lot of my shopping there. rarely go into Wales now although the border is only about 4 miles away. I stopped when they bought in the 20mph speed dogma.
When toolmakers were shop floor aristocracy, train drivers were comparative paupers. With the advance of automation toolmakers have been decimated. What price driverless trains?
In the 1960s, "Wales for the Welsh" was a slogan on hillside rocks.but it didn't mention " only Welsh speakers" !!!!
This country is in self destruct mode
Not all schools are "welsh" medium. So these children may be attending school where welsh is not the teaching language.
Also as fluent welsh speakers are (still) a minority, do the jobs go to the best candidate considering this is a small pool to start with?
Homeschooling is the way
I lived in both North and South Wales for years and now have some Welsh family members. The North & mid-Wales had quite a large proportion of Welsh as 1st language folk but all Welsh we knew near Cardiff and surrounding Towns can sing Welsh songs but can't carry on a conversation.
When I was a kid everyone wanted to be a train driver, but when you grow up you realise it's a low paid , low skill job, dear me how wrong we were , add in overtime you could probably achieve in excess of £120 K for driving a train ....dear me
These guys know nothing about Israel ! I wish the ignorant wouldn't speak 🇮🇱🙏🇮🇱
Isn't that racial discrimination?
are we all sick of the antiwhiteism of the establishment yet?
Email your Nana, see what’s her take on it
All anyone needs to do is visit the office of national statistics and see how the long term devolved Welsh Labour Party despite English subsidies has performed, on roads, schools, health and social care, and make their own mind up about how inclusive and egalitarian their form of governance is. Unfortunately nationalistic ideology and culture prevents many people from making sensible pragmatic decisions. Kind regards Tim
So too bad if they dont have a car ,that sounds like a case for their human rights being jumped on ,time for court sounds like for me .
I remember the British tv ad saying, Come home to a real fire, buy a cottage in Wales. 😂
Not the 9 O'Clock News circa 1980.
If anyone was to challenge this decision in court they'd win. It's clearly and illegally discriminatory.
Thankyou GB News. Instead of foreign influence to cause ignorance and hate, You do it for them ❤
Unions are there to look after their members - Thatcher tried to abolish the unions but fair play to them. We British just role over and accept what is given to us whilst being told by those creaming from the top. The trains are not nationalised so it´s not tax payer money. You just have to look at Europe to see that the UK has some of the worst workers rights as everything is geared towards the employer. British steel, British coal, shipyards etc....these were replaced with call centres and when call centres went to India they were replaced with Amazon wearhouses. If the books are balanced then there is no need to worry about investment, this is the Tory policy and why they hate unions...
£73,000 a year .. to "drive" a thing that is on tracks?
What the….
Why oh why do they keep with these stupid rules
Bridgend council are being ridiculous! What level of Welsh do the children need - basic 'bore da, shw mae' kind of stuff or fluent?
That is fluent for me
It proves public transportation doesn't work , get your car out and sod the government and the train unions
welsh govt only fund school buses to welsh-only-speaking schools = fantastic!
if British govt only funded school buses to English-only-speaking schools = RAYSIS!
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The headline for this piece is a bit disingenuous.
It has long been the policy of a highly motived but very small minority in Wales to promote "English Not" (look up "Welsh Not" for background reading). Politicians in Wales have to negotiate a line with what the vast majority of folk are content with but also keep this vociferous passionate and very influential group happy otherwise they was seen as "Pro English Colonialism".
The overall move, tacit or not, is to force all schools to be Welsh Medium anyway over the next decade or so, even private nurseries for children up to 4 being forced to tow this line or go bust.
The irony is that fluent Welsh speakers are quite rare and competent reader/writers very much more so. This leads to a skill shortage and those unfit for post being given jobs beyond their ability - being fluent in Welsh does not make one an inspirational teacher or a shrewd accountant.....
Discredits the whole protected status system as discrimination needs to be a symmetrical concept and only followed up when significant.
Meanwhile HGV drivers are treated like garbage......hours, pay....awful
Welsh should be maintained, but not all non Welsh people are able to learn it, I tried, but with a stutter it was damned near impossible.
It's not difficult. The law should be that any pay increase should be based on a percentage of the average wage. So any percentage is fairer, if you're on 10k or 100k.
Do Train Drivers pay tax or is this cash in hand
WTF is with all the racism against my people in the comments for? The majority of us have played absolutely no part in this discriminatory action by the county borough, take your arms up with the very few who DID make this decision. More divisive bs that people need to stop falling for. Trust me when I say the majority of the Welsh DO NOT support this action.
I remember when they were burning down English holiday homes, so.this seems much milder in comparison!
commies gonna commie...
I wonder what the word "british" is a code word for GBNews !!!!....
The way the hosts sound they dont mind having trouble paying their bills ,,all work is low skilled if you look at it in depth
I suggest junior doctors should be called Licentiates..
Im very much in favour of funding Welsh language and culture, and encouraging it to flourish, but this is not a positive promotion of it, it is a discriminatory action meant to punish, which is quite repulsive.
Its beyond my comprehension that we would take such a punitive action in England to stop any type of funding to children who are not fluent English speakers. Surely the answer is to fund Welsh lessons (language and culture) in all schools, fund clubs that educate on and promote Welsh culture?
Boycott the Southern bell
Trans English speaking school children in Wales going to have to pay more to go to school on the Train; basically.
Wont be long before most of the UK will be able to travel around Wales for free then.
The average wage for everyone should be 60k
It is a fairly low skilled job. Of course a lot of those drivers who find it very challenging will take a different view, but a lot of people are stressed just driving their car to the shops but that doesn’t make driving a highly skilled task. No, back in the day of steam locomotives it was, without a shadow of doubt, a highly skilled job. Not so anymore.
Unions probably warned them to accept because they will not allow any more strikes when Labour is in power.
Stop the Welsh using English NHS services.
Everyone else use our nhs service here in Wales. Including English.
The NHS WAITING LISTS are higher in English hospitals near the Welsh Borders!
People from Wales ask to go to them! That was before the resident doctors in England who were pretending to be 'poor junior doctors' were constantly striking!!
"Low skilled job.." 😂😂😂
No, not quite.
Now, TV presenter that is a low skilled job. Sitting drinking coffee and gossiping for three hours requires zero skills!
See how that works?
HOMESCHOOL
in Brighton it will be a LGBTQ123 Bar.
18 k back pay lovely 😂
Let’s see what inflation is like in 2 years a loaf of bread be touching £5 signallers deserve more than drivers
Wtf is going on with uk
I don't like Labour, and that Drakeford man was an idiot, but it is true that in this country, wealth has flowed to a greedy minority in too great a proportion, and for instance in Cornwall, Cornish people can't afford to buy properties in Cornwall. So it may be that the Welsh Labour policy is intended to deter rich English people from pricing the Welsh out of their own rural houses by discriminating against their English only speaking children. If you asked rural Cornish folk if they wished the rich people got out of their duchy, most would say "yes, good luck to the Welsh".
There's a black hole say Labour...😂😂
All the drivers are doing is speeding up their demise, the network could be fully automated as it is there will come a point where they will say lets let the computer do it. The presenter says its not a really skilled job, you have to sit an exam every year in order to be able to drive a train, it isnt like you pass an exam, become employed and thats it. The exam is on the rule book can you imagine how many rules you have to memorize and new health and safety regulations. Then there is the accidents that the drivers have to face while being a driver, I have 2 family members 1 is a driver now and 1 is retired. Both of them have killed people while driving a train by people being on the tracks and as the driver its your job to attend the injured victim. The current family member driving has also taken someones arm off who has been on the tracks who put their arm in front of the train. Its not just a regular job peoples lives are at great risk but even the family member employed now doesnt like having to strike because they know that they are just speeding up the demise...
Quite right. Go on Wales.
Yet more gammon outrage. Ofcom where are you?
Racist
@@Bangtaneu Gammon is not a racist term.
It’s not discriminating against English speakers, it’s promoting Welsh speakers.
It’s all in the framing.
Cymru am byth 🏴 🏴 🏴
Promoting the Welsh language by discriminating against Englsh speaking children. Sounds fair.
@Inquisitor_Vex Pretty awful 'promotion'. I'd be screaming from the rafters if a Welsh speaking child was denied equality with English speaking children here in England...I would be disgusted.
Promotion would be ensuring all schools teach Welsh language and culture and history of Wales embedded in school curriculums, funding clubs and events that teach Welsh culture and language. I'm absolutely all for that, in spades.
What I do not agree with is discrimination and punishment, especially of kids and even worse, associated with their education.
Nobody owes you anything. If the Welsh government wants to give free school transport or whatever it was to Welsh speakers then I don’t see what it has to do with anyone else?
Happy for Wales to support the indigenous Welsh, England should follow suit and support the indigenous English. I won’t hold my breath.
The welsh are the true natives. We were here long before the Romans, saxons and Normans. How can we fight off foreign invaders when we don’t embrace our own shared heritage? They want us to fight amongst ourselves. Ry'n ni yma o hyd
Completely bonkers.
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I’m 💯 behind preserving the Welsh language but disagree with discrimination based on hate. Labour once again showing they are a truly nasty party
It appears that the rule has been designed to specifically discriminate against British / Welsh children, as we know, they would never enforce the rule against families who have a 3rd world background.
Take a DNA test and count your fingers and toes.
GBNEWS is dying. Absolute bollocks.
Ry'n ni yma o hyd
There is a simple reason for this as someone who lives in Wales. There are fewer Welsh-speaking schools in South Wales so children have to travel further to find them. It's not a question of discrimination; it's a question of location. It's a non story and a simple bit of investigation would show that. it's just lazy sensationalist journalism, which I'm afraid is so common these days.