Here we go again! The Taffia are out to force-feed the welsh language on the unsuspecting populace of Carmarthenshire.
Following the shock! horror! finding that welsh is rapidly being dumped as a language by those in the county - which has a rather troubled council, to say the least - the Taffia are out in force (usually about four teenagers, typically kids of ministers, teachers and public sector workers).
The Taffia want the situation reversed. One wonders about their mandate, but one can only presume, given the downward spiral in the use of welsh, that such a mandate is weak, at best.
It is a damning indictment of the Welsh Government that it readily gives in to the Taffia, and so fails to force-feed 'modern languages' - that is, those which will be of real, practical use - to kids at primary level. Instead, in the state schools, welsh is seen as somehow a terribly worthwhile language that will somehow drag Wales out of the economic, educational and other doldrums it variously occupies.
The sad reality is that welsh is in decline for a number of complex reasons. But in simple terms, it is a language spoken by only 250,000 people and falling, is of no use outside Wales (or even, much, within), and the kids of today are looking for something more rewarding than a secure but dull 'job for life' with the local council.
Good luck to them, because the best thing anyone in Wales can do is - yes - join the Germans, French, Polish and Russians, the vast majority of whom speak at least three, useful languages.
