Western Mail

Opt out of receiving bilingual mail

- Peter Reed Penarth

IN order to bring about enormous cost savings, as well as accommodat­ing many people’s wishes, I would like to call on legislator­s to introduce the absolute and unconditio­nal right for people to opt-out of bilingual mail from all public bodies. Nothing can justify the huge waste of printing and posting out the same notices and correspond­ence in two languages, only for one of them to end up straight in the bin, and we all know which one.

We should be able to register with hospitals, schools, colleges, councils, DVLA, TV licencing, Royal Mail, HMRC etc, that we do not want to receive further correspond and ence in Welsh (or English) and apart from the obvious cash savings, it would not only be much greener and kinder to planet Earth, but would have the added benefit of exposing the ever-present lie by those nationalis­ts in any political party or institutio­n that there is a demand for the Welsh language. of State for Education, he asserted that all schools could be above average, even allowing for the fact that his subject is English rather than maths.

This state educated Tory Minister has already played his part in ensuring that the profession­s are now the preserve of the privately educated because exam pressures, combined with cuts, do not allow enough time for discussion and debate in English state schools. After seven years of stagnating wages, whose fault is it when Gove tells us “we are still far too unequal a society, with wealth and power concentrat­ed in too few hands... and we don’t invest enough in science and technology.” Could this possibly be because FTSE CEOs earn on average £5.3m a year, 386 times more than workers on a

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