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Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets

EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's party propose amendment to the Government's elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison

Proposed amendment can be seen here, search for NC107 https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/59-02/0004/amend/rop/_rm/_rep/_0713.pdf

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I'm pretty confident that it went down like

"We should ban all foreign languages" "Okay, English only" "Oh wait, don't forget Welsh. We got in trouble when Nigel said it was a foreign language"

And then the other languages of the UK never even crossed their minds

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