Are the Welsh-Not Tories showing their true-blue colours ?

ARE THE Welsh Tories showing their true colours in these Euro-elections ?

The election leaflet pushed though my door contains NOT ONE word of Welsh.

Apart from a line saying that if you want to read the election manifesto in Welsh (in pamphlet form), you have got to phone a number in Cardiff (and it’s not a freephone number), presumably only during working hour.

Or you can get on your computer and send Conservative Central Office in Whitchurch an email (the purchase of the computer, and the cost of the email are both, of course, paid by yourself).

Across the front of the leaflet are emblazoned the words “Vote for Change”, and a picture of David Cameron.

Old Etonians can, of course, easily afford buying a computer to contact Central Office.

But, clearly, if you want to vote for a change of language, you will have to vote for a party which does not so insultingly condemn the Welsh language to the land of nothingness.

If you want to change the language, the message is plain, Vote for anyone but the Tories.

Now, let it not be thought I am only bashing the Tories. Admittedly the leaflet is that for South East; but the same total lack of Welsh applies to South Central. What happens in areas where more Welsh is spoken ?

What are the other parties doing ?  Plaid is not always a good exemplar; the party’s leaflets for Caerffili council are usually only in English. Even worse than the Tories, as they don’t give an option of receiving a Welsh version.

Labour, to be fair to the old crows, is totally bilingual, at least in South Central.

That still leaves the Lib Dems and the British National Party (blacks and continental barred from membership, or indeed entry to Britain.

I know, running a pamphlet bilingually costs more, or means less can be said. Labour’s dealt with the problem by using quite small type.