Comments on: Na h-Eileanan an Iar

By: Blake Reynolds

Blake Reynolds — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:03:54 +0000

conservativeDOTcom has got Sheena Norquay as the selected conservative PPC for this seat.

By: Dewi

Dewi — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:08:00 +0000

“Dewi, given the language profile of Caergybi, shouldn’t it be Ynys Mon ac Holyhead, to be (in)consistent?”

Ynysoedd Mon a Chybi – Anglesey and Holy Island (Holyhead still 47% Welsh speaking btw)

“What are we doing discussing yr Iaith Gymraeg this far north anyway? ” No idea – let’s desist…

By: Ben Foley

Ben Foley — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:45:51 +0000

What are we doing discussing yr Iaith Gymraeg this far north anyway?

By: Ben Foley

Ben Foley — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:42:31 +0000

Dewi, given the language profile of Caergybi, shouldn’t it be Ynys Mon ac Holyhead, to be (in)consistent?

By: Ben Foley

Ben Foley — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:56:35 +0000

There I was, posting on Bury St Ed., talking about “intelligent opinion from David Nettleton”, and then I discover what he has posted here! I take it back!
If the locals don’t have a better name for a place than the name from over the border, then fair enough – let the Welsh speakers call the town Wrecsam, or the English speakers of South Herefordshire talk of Pontrilas and Llangarron (to name a couple of wards – although I wonder how they pronounce them!), or let them call it Grimsby in Lincolnshire (from Danish). But it is a bit much imposing a constituency name on a place just because you can’t pronounce the local name. Should we be giving constituencies north of the Humber different names, just because most people don’t know how to pronounce Ull ?

By: Skigersta

Skigersta — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:01:21 +0000

Re Tolluch Gorum

And then behaved with incredible inertia when the jobs of his constituents at the Uist Range were threatened…?

The plaudits of the press are not the best way of judging the effectiveness of an MP. Neither is self-promoting publicity.

There’s a lot more to the job than that!

By: Dewi

Dewi — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:56:25 +0000

Very good Mr Marder!

By: Barnaby JL Marder

Barnaby JL Marder — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:00:27 +0000

Chybi Brown?

By: Dewi

Dewi — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:31:04 +0000

Ynysoedd Mon a Chybi?

By: benjamin

benjamin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:00:29 +0000

Since about 1 in 5 of the population of Ynys Mon constituency don’t actually live on Ynys Mon, the seat should really be called Sir Fon.