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
OCB164094Yon 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.social65I take it Russian is fine?
drgonzo1.bsky.social43Can Reform still print leaflets in fluent Bollocks?
socialistandproud.bsky.social25There'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.
asparagusnextleft20English nationalism is just so far removed from the nationalism that the Celtic nations are striving for.
Paddy Roberts17Dywedwch 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)10Banning languages in voting information or forms is a common tactic to lower turnout and prevent representation
Indy lass7Jesus Christ this nutter and his Ilk is past the padded cell, 1746 is past long ago ya vile Nazi piece o 💩 and people vote for this 🤷
🎈 DarkOverord 🦔🦇7Lets be honest here, the only reason they've exempted Welsh from this is entirely just because they're second largest in the Senedd If they flopped Senedd elections in May the amendment (unlikely to pass) would ban Welsh on leaflets too. After all, they're happy to breach what ended The Troubles
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...
Aðav ap Iago3Pyth yw an ger Kernowek rag twat?
Snark3Farage , the insufferable human cretin .
Hildemara🌷3#UKpolitics #AusPol #MagaHs/MegaFs Sounds like he’s been discussing language with Pauline Hanson🤔
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.)
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.social76What 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 🏴🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾🐕35Awa 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 Bolton28These freedom of speech merchants really are hypocrites
Matt15Farage re'n kyjyewgh ha a verwelas va. Farage can fuck off and die.
Aileen McHarg14Anti-Gaelic road sign chat taken to the extreme. There's a word for people who try to suppress minority languages.
Benjamin Bedbreaker10Jail if you use a traditional language but not if you’re a corrupt bastard
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.
Matthias Eberl5Meanwhile in the country where thousands of pupils receive their education exclusively or at least in part in Irish or Scottish Gaelic, in an immersive, legally protected bilingual learning system.
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.
Simon Robert H K3After words comes the language. No more Mancunian, Geordie, West Country accents. Everyone must speak Estuary English. And click your heels when you want to make a point.
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 Hedges13how about Rubbish? Coz that’s the language they employ?
Art Gelling8Dhe dalle a dheuthons rag an Kernowyon... "First they came for the Cornish..." Not a line I ever thought I'd write. So much for "free speech absolutists". Even by their standards, "cancelling" entire languages is an extraordinary, excruciating, display of jackboot idiocy and utter hypocracy.
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?
Proud Lefty CW💚🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇮🇷🎧4Isn'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!
LouYou4It's because he doesn't understand it and doesn't want anyone talking about him in 'code'! Prick
PhdTownTrail3Why not ban blatant electoral fibbing instead?
Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧19#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.
Another Green18Yep Reform want to criminalise Cornish.
Where Seagulls Dare10Can'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.
Peter7I’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.
The Spectre Haunting Europe6The 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.
Alan Gallery5Reform and their ilk are hateful to anything that is not like them. Everyone decent and tolerant should be afraid. The languages Farage wants to criminalise were in what is now the UK before English was cobbled together, and many of the speakers had Latin as a second language.
Eileen Parkes5English politicians ignorance of the Good Friday Agreement was demonstrated abundantly in Brexit already
Chris #ChangeEverything #VoteGreen3#ReformUK and #NigelFarage are so out of touch with society and reality, it is painful...and sad that far too many UK citizens still believe or support anything they do or say! #NEVERNigel #NEVERReformUK #FuckFascists
Sustainable Us2I think that's really missing the more extreme racist angle. It would also mean excluding 'migrant' languages, which is likely to be the main aim. eg. Polish, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali... And sign language!!
Not only would this criminalise the use of Gaelic in Scottish elections, it would threaten to jail anyone who uses British Sign Language in a campaign video. At their first whiff of power Reform's priority is to make our democracy less accessible and threaten their political opponents.
needmoresleep19.bsky.social8Making the case for Scottish independence and Irish reunification easier.....easier Thanks Nige.👍
mint-jeffer.bsky.social7Had to double check this wasn't The Onion. These people are heinous. I don't believe there is a group of people that they won't oppress... other than their mates, of course.
PontsticInsect6In case any Welsh people are reading, don't think this won't apply to you the minute these cunts get power.
pastybot.bsky.social4Such hateful people. As my old mum used to say, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all".
David William Sheridan2Populists never have any real workable policies. If they did, they‘d leverage them to get elected like a proper party. They seek to gain power by amplifying disenchantment—which is why they’re more successful in tough times—then bring in silly laws to appease the thugs while they enrich themselves.
Dim_Llygoden2It's interesting that a party that paid zero attention to electoral laws should suddenly find an interest in it!
Verminous Scot15Reform gets into power they might just clear the highlands again, ban us wearing tartan, make it law that we have to support 🏴 at football, jail anyone who doesn't use "proper" English speech, but seriously who knows where these fascists would stop. Scotland needs out of this union right now.
starryfull13.bsky.social4What the actual fuck? They're announcing this during DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH???? Am gonna speak nothing but Scots noo an definitely learn gaelic while brushing up on ma sign language
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 Conghaile44Also, can you please call this our for what it is: English nationalism. This is poison, the Celtic peoples understand how it will end.
Belfast Steph14I 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
Mark Purchase 🏴 🇪🇸 🇪🇺10More 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
Elena Adaal9There 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.
Kresten5A Reform led UK will mean a fascist UK and an isolated UK. No EU, no ECHR, no nothing.
𝓔𝔁𝓬𝓵𝓾𝓭𝓮𝓭 𝓜𝓾𝓰𝔀𝓾𝓶𝓹5Thus 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.
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 Mortimer44The 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.
A wild story I’ll be following closely. As I said in this piece: banning languages in any form in the UK is plainly discriminatory. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/r...
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…..
illandancient.bsky.social4Interesting that @bylinetimes.bsky.social doesn't know that Scots is recognised as a distinct language in Scottish law and in Westminster by virtue of the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages. Scots has twice as many speakers as Welsh.
Sam2What ugly people are in Reform, doing ugly things….
An article from Byline Times has claimed that the Reform Party's proposed amendment to the Government’s elections Bill ‘would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison'
Hannah3This is the kind of crap my granny would support, but she is from a bygone era and long dead. People of Britain are multilingual. Full stop. And we are better for it!
lizziec.bsky.social2The only reason Welsh isn’t on this list is because so many people in Wales vote Reform.
Stephen 🏴1It's meant to stop to parties talking to voters in their preferred language. The Greens used Urdu when beating Reform in Gorton and Denton. It wasn't intended to catch Celtic languages. But Reform's knowledge is so shallow that they wouldn't know or care that these exist. Racist and ignorant.
Antain Mac Lochlainn7Reform ag moladh gur sárú dlí a bheadh ann ábhair thoghchánaíochta a chur ar fáil i dteangacha seachas Béarla agus an Bhreatnais. Chítear dom in amanna nach bhfuil tuiscint rómhaith acu ar Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta. 🧐
Tenchi Ohki🏴🇪🇺🇺🇦#FBPE #REJOIN4I propose that failure to declare large gifts, say £5 million quid from a dodgy crypto guy for example should fall under Misconduct in Public office. How does a maximum sentence of life in prison for Nigel sound to everyone else?
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
KayBeeLon 🕊️🙏3Shouldn’t they start with punishing candidates who use misleading statements and lies in their material (including speeches and interviews)?
The Laser Hundreds2So spiteful, so insular, so Trumpian. I despise them and everything they represent at a cellular level.
Maz2Postal votes? Some days my walking is dodgy, some days I'm at hospital appointments and too tired to do anything else. Many disabled and elderly can't get to poll stations. Especially in rural areas. He's trying to make it harder for many of us to vote. Vile arsehole
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.
Nicholas Jackson1The only surprising bit of this is "or Welsh", and I doubt very much it would last very long if they got their way.
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.