SIR,

When are people going to realise and stop wasting our council tax money on something the majority of people in Monmouthshire do not want? The Welsh language, as I have previously stated and will repeat, 91 per cent of Monmouthshire residents do not want to speak or have forced upon them. The nine per cent that do speak Welsh also speak English; is Wales a democratic country or not?

The cost of bilingual signs and information is very high (in the millions). Signs in Welsh and English as you enter Wales are ridiculous as no one understands the Welsh part and it is dangerously distracting.

As an English-speaking Welsh person I find it offensive to have Welsh before my native tongue and a vast majority of paper waste in Monmouthshire is literature printed in Welsh that goes directly in our bins.

Unfortunately we have a party of fanatics in Wales who are hell-bent on trying to force us all to correspond in Welsh only, the DVLA are but one example.

I have been falsely accused of not 'SORNing' a vehicle although it was, but I only received correspondence in Welsh – one letter from the DVLA and four from a debt collection company in Northampton on behalf of the DVLA. I do not understand Welsh (by choice) and neither did the debt collection agency when contacted by CAB; the agency were sent the correspondence from the DVLA to pass to me, a racist and illegal act.

So let's save money on council tax, litter waste and confusion. Let those who want Welsh have it and leave the rest of us alone.

R Bradley

(Monmouth)