Tue Sep 28, 2021 8:05 pm
#1873183
TravellerBob wrote:..
Because for every truezealotbeliever you turn 100 people who were agnostic about bbc excesses, bias and narrative, into 100 more who want it shut down.
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Now, let's get back to the Welsh Government's failure to provide a sensible plan to enable a decentralised service, DVLA, to function.
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England funds their other silly signs-in-sing-song-language folly so it's quid pro quo.
As a news junkie I do compare various sources in various media; and have been zealous in indignation about the pre-Hutton effect of the various BBC 'news magazines' and their editorial whims in the "producer choice" era on the restrictions of use on the truly independent and diligent 'newsroom discipline' BBC specialist correspondents. But clearly others will disagree; although I am tempted to wonder at the precision of the 1-to-100 ratio cited (which I hope has some statistical evidence to support it).
But, yes, back to topic: DVLA is an Agency of Central Government. The Welsh Government has no authority over any aspect of its local, let alone central, management's successes or failings, any more than the Scottish Government has over the internal management or organisation of Faslane NB.
Oh, and if 'silly signs-in-sing-song-language folly' was a serious reflection of an attitude (rather than a deliberate but tongue-in-cheek provocation), then that is another topic on which I may not be the only Forumite sorrowfully to disagree. Neither English nor Welsh was my first language, but I would not call signage in either 'silly' nor the phonemes of either 'sing-song'; but there are some excellent Welsh songs, sacred and secular, with excellent tunes by Welsh composers - and, of course, English analogues of both (although this, of course, is a matter of subjective aesthetics, so I claim no special authority in that judgement). I do appeciate that the traditional (ie, poor, too little, starting too late) teaching of non-English languages in many English [sic] schools, public and private, may partly account for a common and commonly comfortable monolingualism (with, sometimes and in some, a comfortable or arrogant xenophobia) among those who have been schooled only in them. However, as I have also had occasion to note, it is often worse among anglophone Americans
My own experiences of the DVLA's online services (including the age 70 and paper to photocard transitions) have been fine; but that was before Covid.
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