Reform UK proposes jail for candidates using Irish, Gaelic or Cornish on leaflets
So apparently we aren't even allowed to use our own language any more Reform can fuck off
OCB164084Yon sleverin glakait cockwomble can gaun bile his heid. Scots is an official language in Scotland, it’s spoken natively by fair mair fowk than yer toff Kings English. Fur a sleekin cowrin beastie lik Farage, kent is a place in England. In Scots it means “I knew”.
shabbyroads.bsky.social62I take it Russian is fine?
drgonzo1.bsky.social37Can Reform still print leaflets in fluent Bollocks?
socialistandproud.bsky.social22There's an S4C cymraeg documentary out there somewhere about Welsh speakers who vote reform and fucking idolise Farage. I watched it and pissed myself at their stupidity.
asparagusnextleft18English nationalism is just so far removed from the nationalism that the Celtic nations are striving for.
Paddy Roberts15Dywedwch wrth Reform i fynd i fuck eu hunain Or something like that.
Stéphanie says… 🏴☠️🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️24Ah! Imposing the good ol’ British Empire on the ‘natives’ once again…
Elinor Elliot22If you want to see an openly fascistic policy, here it is. Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Cornish are native languages of these islands. They are all recognised by law in the UK. And you can bet Reform wouldn't stop there.
Because Language (becauselangpod)9Banning languages in voting information or forms is a common tactic to lower turnout and prevent representation
Darryl Mott6Reform: England for the English! Respect our history! English person: *speaks Cornish* Reform: Not like that. Scottish person: *speaks Gaelic* Reform: Not like that either. Irish person: *speaks Irish* Reform: I don't think you're getting into the spirit of the thing...
Ken Mooney 4Way to make sure that NI happily chills with the rest of us...
Stick 🏳️🌈🏴🩸3Might explain why my local Reform MS still hasn't responded to any of my Welsh language emails. (that she's legally mandated to respond to yn Gymraeg.)
Andy Hollandbeck3I don't know much about British political parties, but anyone who thinks this is a fair and reasonable rule shouldn't be allowed to run a bulldog look-alike contest, much less a country.
D Franklin2Fuck off, you nationalist small minded fascist little shits!
deidan.eurosky.social2Can't believe how well they did in the Senedd 34 seats blows my mind. These people despise Cymru and her people language and culture.
acommonblackbird2😳 “What’s funny is that, to police this, you’d probably need multilingual policing. You’d actually require language skills to enforce it. [idk] if Reform were planning on creating multilingual jobs — I wouldn’t recommend this as the way to go about it — but that’s accidentally what they’ve created.”
Reform UK plans to jail candidates for using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish on their election leaflets. Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/r...
marino11.bsky.social73What a shower of little Englander pricks Reform are .Nothing would ensure the breakup of this farcical union than this shower of socially illiterate morons turning the clock back to attack the native tongue of the captive nations
Sylvia Booth42I thought he wanted “ Freedom of Speech”.
The Lady Lucy 🏴🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾🐕32Awa an bile yer heid, Farage, yer bawbag! (Doric is still good then 👍)
Eamonn Griffin 29Seems remarkably unaware of the Scottish Languages Act 2025 www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/10/...
Gill Godfrey29What is wrong with them? (Doesn’t really need an answer). Hatred is all they have.
Gerry Bolton27These freedom of speech merchants really are hypocrites
Buck Frexit71All they have is this kind of shit. What’s their approach to the economy, our debt, education, the NHS, public transport? Who the hell knows! All they have is pathetic scraps aimed at looking pure bred and hostile to anything not English. They’re absolutely pathetic and totally unfit for office
Matt14Farage re'n kyjyewgh ha a verwelas va. Farage can fuck off and die.
Aileen McHarg11Anti-Gaelic road sign chat taken to the extreme. There's a word for people who try to suppress minority languages.
Benjamin Bedbreaker9Jail if you use a traditional language but not if you’re a corrupt bastard
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉9Odd that Farage & Reform want to ban what they consider foreign languages like Irish, Gaelic & Cornish.. but seem fine with Welsh 🤷🏼♂️
Casket Based6Farage is so hard to look at. Such an ugly, repulsive man, inside and out. The kind of disgusting wretch you have to be to find him even remotely likeable.
David Hearn4And yet he and his MPs constantly talk b*ll*cks - perhaps it would be better to ban that and make it an offence for politicians to tell lies?!
Conlangery4Horrified at this proposal, but also fascinated that Welsh is not to be suppressed. I wonder if that has a correlation with where Reform has more support...
A Poor, Lazy, Sexy Fraud.4Lmao the original white supremacy is so fucking funny, honestly. “Our pasty skin is SOOOOOO much better and different superior from THEIR pasty skin, on the same fucking island.”
John Kilbride4Gaelic is an official language in Scotland, so I doubt this can stand.
Reform: For the "you couldn't make it up" file. “It’s discriminatory to the other indigenous languages of the UK." bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/r...
Carol Hedges8how about Rubbish? Coz that’s the language they employ?
Alan Smith7Insanely discriminatory even by Reform’s standards. Utterly bats back-of-fag-packet stuff and ultimately unenforceable - unless, like the piece says, they hired a load of multi-lingual police recruits. Also, where are they going to put all these heinous new language criminals?
Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧3Should be popular in Wales and Scotland. 🤣
LouYou3It's because he doesn't understand it and doesn't want anyone talking about him in 'code'! Prick
Sandie RejoinEU🇪🇺💙🌈🇺🇦2More like fTrumpism on daily basis!
Proud Lefty CW💚🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇮🇷🎧1Isn't discriminating against the Cornish, Welsh and Scots racial hatred? If so why wasn't he arrested? How much more racial hatred do we have to put up with? PROSCRIBE REFORM!
Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧10#Auspol If One nation decides it will seek to ban First Nations Languages and other non English languages, we know what Policy came from Hansons England trip.
Peter4I’m disappointed in the reporting from @bylinesnetwork.co.uk not featuring any representation from people Reform are clearly meaning to target; e.g. those who need Arabic, Urdu, Bengali translations. If this bill were amended to exempt languages “indigenous to the UK” it would be no less egregious.
Where Seagulls Dare3Can't help but feel the framing of this story misses the point, almost to the level of being a bit disingenuous. Yes, use of Irish, Gaelic, Cornish etc. would be criminalised, but I suspect that's incidental and borne of Reform's ignorance and the target is more likely to be Urdu, Arabic, Hindi etc.
The Spectre Haunting Europe3The 2029 Reform government (made inevitable by the inability of the Labour Party to do literally anything other than fluff the far-right) will massively accelerate the Balkanisation of the UK - so there will be upsides.
Eileen Parkes3English politicians ignorance of the Good Friday Agreement was demonstrated abundantly in Brexit already
The penalties are drafted to apply across the UK – including in Northern Ireland, where the Irish language and Ulster-Scots are protected in law and under the Good Friday Agreement designed to end the decades-long civil war. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/r...
Josiah Mortimer41The ban on languages other than English or Welsh would appear to criminalise election material published in Irish, used in parts of Northern Ireland, and Scottish Gaelic – including the bilingual leaflets routinely used in constituencies such as Na h-Eileanan an Iar – only exempting Welsh
Susanita2Good luck with that ! Tell us Nigel , where is the spare capacity in our prisons to put those you seek to incarcerate ? Who are you going to release to make space ? Another load of verbal diarrhoea from the Stupid Party .
Andrew Crompton2Reform’s politics just boil down to spite, vindictiveness, prejudice and cruelty, all wrapped in whininess, grievance and self-pity.
Freedom of speech latest: Reform want to ban political campaign material in Scottish Gaelic... But weirdly not Welsh. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/r...
Steve Murdoch1Carson? De tha cearr leis na h-amadain seo? #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
Rob Loasby1They want to ban any language other than English/Welsh, but forgot about Gaelic and Ulster Scots in their desperate haste to go after Hindi, Gujarati, Polish, etc.
Julia Adamo1They probably don’t know Welsh is even a language else they’d jail them too…..
There is nothing that Reform want more than opening a front in the culture wars against Scotland, Wales and revolution, or Ireland, Europe and the Good Friday Agreement. This would run afoul of the UK's international commitments, not least the ECHR bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/r...
Niall Ó Conghaile25Also, can you please call this our for what it is: English nationalism. This is poison, the Celtic peoples understand how it will end.
Mark Purchase 🏴 🇪🇸 🇪🇺5More proof, if any was needed that these idiots are totally unserious and could never govern the country Their record shows they never consider the consequences of their ludicrous policies Their desperation to appease their racist base makes them blind to facts and reality
Belfast Steph4I tend to think the real target here is Urdu, Hindi etc and they didn’t realise it would cover Gaelic and Cornish. Even so it’s a huge red flag
Elena Adaal3There are advantages to a far-right English government: NI and Scotland can liberate themselves from a Union where they have only a notional say. The English nationalists will have no problem with that.
jameslongsdonprice2Franco banned minority languages. Classic ur-fascism.
𝓔𝔁𝓬𝓵𝓾𝓭𝓮𝓭 𝓜𝓾𝓰𝔀𝓾𝓶𝓹1Thus spake the self-proclaimed champion of free speech, cutter of red tape and voice of the people. 🤦🤦🤦 In reality, this is just another dead cat to distract people from asking about the true sources of Reform party funding, and particularly his £5m bung.
1/3 Language is ever the furtive companion of empire and colonialism. Its word are deliberately placed within the annexed language to beguile and obfuscate. They offer untold advantages to bending the knee. Cont. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/r...
asparagusnextleft10English Nationalism is all about excluding others that don't fit into their tight little groups, whether it is by language, skin colour or practices, whereas the Celtic nations embrace those differences, & welcome those that wish to join us. That is the difference between us.
Gerry Flynn42/3 That the subjugated should be grateful that the colonisers deigned to see them as worthy of their rarified attention. That if they allow themselves and their resources to be guided by the magnominity of their betters, great things would emerge. Cont.
Dawn Robertson 🇪🇺🏴🇫🇷3There’s also Cumbrian Celtic, similar to Welsh.
4 amendments from Reform UK to the Representation of the People Bill 1. Removal of right to vote from Commonwealth citizens 2. Election material to be in English or Welsh 3. Postal voting 4. family voting
cptjspaulding.bsky.social2What is actually wrong with these people? They really do seem to be trying to create the same myth of Aryan supremacy that the Nazis did. Are they just Nazi’s?
Aaron 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 🏳️⚧️1Bet some Commonwealth leaders will be paying very close attention to this and possibly want to leave said Commonwealth and rescind King Charles III as their leader if this is how the "Motherland" - to use a term - treats their citizens.
