The Liberal Democrats are once again guilty of blatant hypocrisy over their attitude towards the New Welsh Language Measures. They may have a point when attacking Plaid Cymru as AM Eleanor Burnham does on Subordinate Centre, or call for Welsh to be given full official status. as her leader La Pasionaria did in her speech in the debate but since English does not in fact actually have official status in the UK it would not at the moment be possible.
Plaid's timorous attitude is appalling. A the only Party that treats Welsh equally in its own publications, then it should use this as an example of how the rest of Wales should treat both the Languages of Wales.
But when the Welsh Liberal Democrats do not practice what they preach why should we listen to them on Welsh language legislation?
Their website is not even remotely fully bilingual and their election leaflets and other publications (at least where I live) are solely English.
Even if the Welsh Language does not have official status then they could treat it equally themselves. The same applies to Labour and the Tories. But when we have posts such as "Plaid Cymru’s Welsh Language Betrayal" it clearly only those Parties and Organisations who treat the Welsh Language equally in what they produce should be entitled to ctiticise Plaid's lack of backbone on this matter.
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