Letter: Shropshire Star

Lucky this one was published on the Shropshire Star website as our new paperboy didn't bother turning up tonight.

Language is being promoted

The Shropshire Star published a letter from Eleanor Burnham which bemoaned the merger of the Welsh Language Board with the Welsh Assembly and expressed concern that there will now be no body to promote Welsh language and culture.

Perhaps Ms Burnham is not aware that the Assembly she works for is there to look after Wales’ interests.

The Welsh are to be commended for their success in reviving their defunct language.

Ms Burnham might like to cast her gaze over the border into England and see if she can find any Government organisations promoting English culture.

The Welsh, along with the Scots and Northern Irish, have a seemingly endless number of quango’s and organisations representing their interests and promoting their culture.

England, on the other hand, has seen the equivalent English organisations disbanded.

The trouble with our ’partners’ is that they just don’t realise how good they’ve got it.

I don’t want to see the English nationality deliberately wiped out and for that reason I support the Campaign for an English Parliament.

It’s time we started sticking up for ourselves.

Stuart Parr, Telford