Gaelic Language attack

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S'e amadan a th'ann. Bith mi a'sgriobhadh ris gun teagamh!

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S'e amadan a th'ann. Bith mi a'sgriobhadh ris gun teagamh!

And so I did!

Dear Mr Charteris,

I’ve recently read of your comments/attack on the funding of Gaelic and your view that it should be pumped into modern European languages.

Frankly I’m staggered, but not surprised, by your public display of ignorance. You obviously belong to the same camp as my erstwhile MP, Nicolas Fairbairn, whose description of Gaelic as being akin to sign language and something that a minority use to communicate amongst themselves rightly earned him the enmity of many and lost him a fair proportion of his vote.

I’m sure that I won’t be the first to point out that your comment that ‘You’re not going to speak Gaelic in Western Europe, I can assure you of that’ was both crass, and wrong. The last time I looked we were part of Western Europe.

Gaelic is a rich part of Scotland’s national identity and helps define who we are within the United Kingdom, Europe and the World. He who forgets his history forgets who he is! If you want to redirect money into languages I’d fully support that but can think of many other areas that could be cut.

Perhaps it’s fortunate for you I’m not a voter in your area because you’d have lost mine.

Yours sincerely

[Oldhiker]

S'e amadan a th'ann. Bith mi a'sgriobhadh ris gun teagamh!

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