British kids face 'peculiar DISCRIMINATION' as Welsh Labour AXES free transport for English speakers 

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How can welsh labour legally discriminate ? Will this rule apply to migrants from north Africa and eastern Europe that don't speak welsh ?

Sounds likes discrimination to me

Our county in Wales stopped school transport years ago , children need to live outside of 3 miles of the school to get transport . They also abolished 6 form in every school too and created a sixth form college instead . Labour destroyed Wales over the years .

Discrimination and disgraceful .

£73k for driving a train on rails.....😂

75k for driving a bus on rails, you couldn't make it up.

Decriminalisation of the highest order picking on kids just because they are being educated in English

That like.... kinda racist. :D

I was a School Governor for 5 years from 2012. We had one class with a Polish 10 year old who spoke no English. The class had the usual 5-6 who needed extra support from the One Teaching Assistant (TA). The Head Teacher instructed the TA ONLY to work with the Polish boy, and so ignore the needs of the English boys.

What an utter disgrace! Get this stopped right now you Welsh people!

Seriously?? Welsh Labour are nuts.

It’s not just school. As a Welsh person, you can’t even submit a tender for work for Anglesey council unless you can speak Welsh (not everyone in Wales can speak Welsh beyond what is taught in school as a second language, so levels are similar to French or German). Lots of public sector jobs now have “essential” Welsh, even in areas where the only Welsh you would hear is in schools. What they’re doing now to Welsh people whose first language is English, is no different than the Welsh Not.

Train drivers living in luxury while our pensioners starve to death ! God will be the judge of this evil transgression 🙏

This is what genuine racism looks like.

Yes they are hardly creating wealth with new technology or anything like that, they are driving a highly automated train!

how does one keep a job when you have just committed a racist act against so many . Why are the police not knocking at their doors for this hate crime ?

Train tickets will go up to pay for it. Thanks very much!!!

This is unacceptably discriminatory wtf 😬 is going on ?

A train driver at my golf club was celebrating a pay rise of £800 a month for a 4 day week.

welsh govt: "...its not discrimination...its only discrimination when YOU do it..." 🤪

So yet another example of liebour's racism towards the English. How many Welsh people speak Welsh. I understand wanting to preserve their language and heritage, but will they do the same to anyone else who doesn't speak welsh or is it just English speakers who are being discriminated againest? According to the APS, there were an estimated 891,800 Welsh speakers living in Wales in the year ending 30 September 2023.which is 29.2% of the population aged three and older. This is a 0.6 percentage point decrease from the previous year.

A Bus driver's job is far HARDER than a train driver. Your concentration driving on roads has to be much better with any mistake amplified. Don't know what the average wage is for bus drivers BUT a return train trip Leeds to Newcastle by Bus about £23 == Train over £60 before the pay increase == So use Bus when possible.

That's fine... the payout will pay for my boy's Uni tuition. Discrimination is not welcome here!

If anyone was to challenge this decision in court they'd win. It's clearly and illegally discriminatory.

Wonder if the Scots would accept a ruling only free transport for the children who speak Gaelic.

These guys know nothing about Israel ! I wish the ignorant wouldn't speak 🇮🇱🙏🇮🇱

Well perhaps the 13B (2023) sent to the Welsh government for devolved services should only be spent on English speaking residents if they want to go down this route.

labour being divisive again...

Maybe England should cease all financial support to Wales. See how far you get on your own two feet

So too bad if they dont have a car ,that sounds like a case for their human rights being jumped on ,time for court sounds like for me .

My parents moved us to wales in 1982 , I finished my schooling in 86. From my first day it was drilled into me that not being Welsh was a problem and I was held to much higher standards than welsh speakers. I even had teachers telling me that me and my family were not welcome and should go back to England . It’s always been a problem simmering away , luckily I was robust enough to tell them to stop making a fool of themselves

They've just guaranteed full automation of trains and a whole lot of redundancies in ten year's time.

Welsh racism rides again! My grandkids are Welsh but don’t speak the language because it’s synonymous with racism

In the 1960s, "Wales for the Welsh" was a slogan on hillside rocks.but it didn't mention " only Welsh speakers" !!!!

Happy for Wales to support the indigenous Welsh, England should follow suit and support the indigenous English. I won’t hold my breath.

When toolmakers were shop floor aristocracy, train drivers were comparative paupers. With the advance of automation toolmakers have been decimated. What price driverless trains?

Stop the Welsh using English NHS services.

And if they were black?

When I was a kid everyone wanted to be a train driver, but when you grow up you realise it's a low paid , low skill job, dear me how wrong we were , add in overtime you could probably achieve in excess of £120 K for driving a train ....dear me

Thankyou GB News. Instead of foreign influence to cause ignorance and hate, You do it for them ❤

Homeschooling is the way

Am I being cynical to ponder if these unionised organisations aimed to strike and cause “chaos” in the lead up to a general election to afford labour a catchphrase? …. Ie people that earn between 2 times and up to 10 times the national average wage asking for above inflation wages in sectors that don’t have recruitment issues? And yet many carers and healthcare assistants who carried on caring since covid continue to earn the minimum wage …. due in part to low funding by local councils for social care providers … this is a sector that should have been prioritised for a decent pay rise due to a massive shortfall in workers and its impact on hospital stays and the quality of life of the frail and elderly?

Bridgend council are being ridiculous! What level of Welsh do the children need - basic 'bore da, shw mae' kind of stuff or fluent?

It proves public transportation doesn't work , get your car out and sod the government and the train unions

I remember the British tv ad saying, Come home to a real fire, buy a cottage in Wales. 😂

Unions probably warned them to accept because they will not allow any more strikes when Labour is in power.

Meanwhile HGV drivers are treated like garbage......hours, pay....awful

Wont be long before most of the UK will be able to travel around Wales for free then.

Welsh should be maintained, but not all non Welsh people are able to learn it, I tried, but with a stutter it was damned near impossible.

commies gonna commie...

Not all schools are "welsh" medium. So these children may be attending school where welsh is not the teaching language. Also as fluent welsh speakers are (still) a minority, do the jobs go to the best candidate considering this is a small pool to start with?

are we all sick of the antiwhiteism of the establishment yet?

It's not difficult. The law should be that any pay increase should be based on a percentage of the average wage. So any percentage is fairer, if you're on 10k or 100k.

Not a laughing matter, English children are being discriminated against on many levels in Welsh schools.

I lived in both North and South Wales for years and now have some Welsh family members. The North & mid-Wales had quite a large proportion of Welsh as 1st language folk but all Welsh we knew near Cardiff and surrounding Towns can sing Welsh songs but can't carry on a conversation.

Well no british money for Welsh speaking people as they use british money

Thanks you all Interesting!! Well said, I agree Love GB News

All anyone needs to do is visit the office of national statistics and see how the long term devolved Welsh Labour Party despite English subsidies has performed, on roads, schools, health and social care, and make their own mind up about how inclusive and egalitarian their form of governance is. Unfortunately nationalistic ideology and culture prevents many people from making sensible pragmatic decisions. Kind regards Tim

Trans English speaking school children in Wales going to have to pay more to go to school on the Train; basically.

welsh govt only fund school buses to welsh-only-speaking schools = fantastic! if British govt only funded school buses to English-only-speaking schools = RAYSIS! 😂😂😂

This country is in self destruct mode

Unions are there to look after their members - Thatcher tried to abolish the unions but fair play to them. We British just role over and accept what is given to us whilst being told by those creaming from the top. The trains are not nationalised so it´s not tax payer money. You just have to look at Europe to see that the UK has some of the worst workers rights as everything is geared towards the employer. British steel, British coal, shipyards etc....these were replaced with call centres and when call centres went to India they were replaced with Amazon wearhouses. If the books are balanced then there is no need to worry about investment, this is the Tory policy and why they hate unions...

I wonder what the word "british" is a code word for GBNews !!!!....

Let’s see what inflation is like in 2 years a loaf of bread be touching £5 signallers deserve more than drivers

The way the hosts sound they dont mind having trouble paying their bills ,,all work is low skilled if you look at it in depth

The average wage for everyone should be 60k

Discredits the whole protected status system as discrimination needs to be a symmetrical concept and only followed up when significant.

I was intending to move over the border into Wales. I used to visit Wales regularly and do a lot of my shopping there. rarely go into Wales now although the border is only about 4 miles away. I stopped when they bought in the 20mph speed dogma.

It is a fairly low skilled job. Of course a lot of those drivers who find it very challenging will take a different view, but a lot of people are stressed just driving their car to the shops but that doesn’t make driving a highly skilled task. No, back in the day of steam locomotives it was, without a shadow of doubt, a highly skilled job. Not so anymore.

That's illegal, literally.

I suggest junior doctors should be called Licentiates..

Boycott the Southern bell

Do Train Drivers pay tax or is this cash in hand

Isn't that racial discrimination?

I think it's to increase those going to Welsh medium schools (where all teaching is meant to be in Welsh. These kids all speak English whether in an English or Welsh medium school (language topics are taught in). You'd be hard pressed to find a non-English speaker in thise born in Wales. Plenty outside of that demographic who can't, don't or won't speak English (self-segregation by choice perhaps).

HOMESCHOOL

18 k back pay lovely 😂

Yet more gammon outrage. Ofcom where are you?

in Brighton it will be a LGBTQ123 Bar.

WTF is with all the racism against my people in the comments for? The majority of us have played absolutely no part in this discriminatory action by the county borough, take your arms up with the very few who DID make this decision. More divisive bs that people need to stop falling for. Trust me when I say the majority of the Welsh DO NOT support this action.

What the….

The headline for this piece is a bit disingenuous. It has long been the policy of a highly motived but very small minority in Wales to promote "English Not" (look up "Welsh Not" for background reading). Politicians in Wales have to negotiate a line with what the vast majority of folk are content with but also keep this vociferous passionate and very influential group happy otherwise they was seen as "Pro English Colonialism". The overall move, tacit or not, is to force all schools to be Welsh Medium anyway over the next decade or so, even private nurseries for children up to 4 being forced to tow this line or go bust. The irony is that fluent Welsh speakers are quite rare and competent reader/writers very much more so. This leads to a skill shortage and those unfit for post being given jobs beyond their ability - being fluent in Welsh does not make one an inspirational teacher or a shrewd accountant.....

All the drivers are doing is speeding up their demise, the network could be fully automated as it is there will come a point where they will say lets let the computer do it. The presenter says its not a really skilled job, you have to sit an exam every year in order to be able to drive a train, it isnt like you pass an exam, become employed and thats it. The exam is on the rule book can you imagine how many rules you have to memorize and new health and safety regulations. Then there is the accidents that the drivers have to face while being a driver, I have 2 family members 1 is a driver now and 1 is retired. Both of them have killed people while driving a train by people being on the tracks and as the driver its your job to attend the injured victim. The current family member driving has also taken someones arm off who has been on the tracks who put their arm in front of the train. Its not just a regular job peoples lives are at great risk but even the family member employed now doesnt like having to strike because they know that they are just speeding up the demise...

There's a black hole say Labour...😂😂

Wtf is going on with uk

There is a simple reason for this as someone who lives in Wales. There are fewer Welsh-speaking schools in South Wales so children have to travel further to find them. It's not a question of discrimination; it's a question of location. It's a non story and a simple bit of investigation would show that. it's just lazy sensationalist journalism, which I'm afraid is so common these days.

It’s not discriminating against English speakers, it’s promoting Welsh speakers. It’s all in the framing. Cymru am byth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Quite right. Go on Wales.

The welsh are the true natives. We were here long before the Romans, saxons and Normans. How can we fight off foreign invaders when we don’t embrace our own shared heritage? They want us to fight amongst ourselves. Ry'n ni yma o hyd

GBNEWS is dying. Absolute bollocks.

Ry'n ni yma o hyd

Hopefully the train bosses use pagers and walky talks!