the English pensioners who come to live here make absolutely no attempt to integrate and after years should be able to pronounce most names.
Why? Language is dynamic, and pronunciation isn't set in stone. English (and Scottish) place names are pronounced differently according to which region of the United Kingdom people originate from. South Wales pronunciation, for instance, is often quite different from North Wales. D'you seriously think you're unique in your self-righteous indignation? This goes on across the United Kingdom. There really are more important things in life than how someone pronounces a place name.
They are also a huge drain on the social services infrastucture of the county, free prescriptions and district nurses are over stretched.
But these are United Kingdom citizens, who - presumably - have paid their national insurance and taxes towards the upkeep of the United Kingdom for the whole of their working lives and who now actively contribute through their taxes, spending power and participation in the local communities. What gives you the right to decide in which part of the United Kingdom citizenry ought to be allowed to live?
Many live in caravans and don't pay countil taxes so I think I' entitled to whinge.
Do you have any evidence for that? I'd be interested to see it, if you have. What proportion of the population live in caravans, what is their nationality, what proportion pay taxes and NI? If you can't produce evidence, then you're simply being prejudiced, racist and bigoted. And that has no place in this forum.
It's not racisem it's aboyt fairness and erwealising that you live in a foreign country with its own customs and traditions and you should at least try and take part and make a contribution.
Sorry - so you really think Wales is a 'foreign country'? Have you any idea what constitutes a 'foreign country'? In the dictionary definition, it's "any state of which one is not a citizen". Now, that would mean you would not be a UK citizen, nor entitled to hold a UK passport. Anyone who is, however, is as much entitled to live in Wales, Scotland or England as anyone else. To suggest otherwise is - as I've said - bigoted, racist and ignorant.
I'd like to see them get away with it in France or Spain.
Well, you've clearly not lived among the ex-pat communities in those countries because, otherwise, you'd know that they do.
This sort of divisive, ignorant posting is what causes most of the problems in the world today. From Arabs and Israelis, to Chinese and Taiwanese, the two most powerful forces responsible for death and destruction on this planet are Nationalism embodied in Language and religion. The sooner everyone wakes up to the fact that this is a small world and we're all part of it, the sooner we'll all learn to live together.
