'A HIGHLAND councillor has warned of a “backlash against Gaelic” because of a continuing multimillion-pound investment in the language at a time of council cutbacks including school closures.
Prompted by fresh criticism of council taxpayers’ money being spent on road signs in Gaelic, Fort William and Ardnamurchan councillor Donald Cameron revealed at the weekend that people had posed the question: “Is there a Gaelic word for ‘recession’?”
Airing the comment risks a further wave of protest from the Gaelic community amid commonly felt persecution.
Mr Cameron, a member of the newly formed four-man breakaway Independent Alliance, said: “While I support Gaelic, I have concerns in the current climate of the rate of progress, with the push that’s on, to promote Gaelic.'
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