Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:46 pm on 7 February 2017.
Well, the Welsh-medium education strategy says that Wales should be a country where people may choose to live their lives through the medium of either, or both, Welsh or English, and I think that’s a very reasonable objective. Here we’ve had a consultation process in Llangennech, 18 months after the decision was actually made, in which five people have opposed the proposal for every one in favour, and there have been 757—which is an enormous number for a small village—responses against this proposal by Carmarthenshire County Council. It’s not a consultation, it’s a ‘nonsultation’.
Does he agree with Michaela Beddows, who’s leading the people who are against this proposal, when she says that ‘Welsh by compulsion breeds resentment’?