9. 7. United Kingdom Independence Party Debate: Welsh-medium Schools

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:13 pm on 29 March 2017.

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Photo of Lee Waters Lee Waters Labour 6:13, 29 March 2017

Give me a chance to develop my argument and I’ll happily address that, but I simply don’t accept the idea that people who are concerned about the way that this policy is being implemented in Carmarthenshire are opposed to this policy. One of the things I deeply resented in the debate over the last couple of months is that people who are raising genuine concerns about the practical challenges we face are howled down as being anti-Welsh.

I must say to you, Leanne Wood, as somebody I’ve got great respect for, I was deeply disappointed about the way that the cybermob was unleashed upon me on Twitter when you decided to enter this debate, on top of Neil Hamilton entering this debate in a most unfortunate, unhelpful and incendiary way, I must say. I’ve spent, over the last year or so, a great deal of patient effort to try to take the heat out of this debate, and I found Neil Hamilton—.