Nigel Farage accused of ‘showing his true colours’ after calling Welsh people ‘foreign speakers’
Amelia Jones
Welsh politicians including First Minister Eluned Morgan have responded to growing outrage after Nigel Farage called Welsh people ‘foreign speakers’.
The video was filmed by Farage after receiving a personalised message request via celebrity Cameo app.
According to The Guardian, the Reform UK leader was paid £106 to make a short video for newlyweds Toby and Sam.
In the video he says: “Gutted I couldn’t attend the wedding. I wanted to come, but I heard that half the guests were Welsh, and I don’t know. Who knows what would have happened with all those foreign speakers there. I don’t know.”
Farage is among a number of politicians and public figures offering personalised video messages through the Cameo platform.
Users can request short clips for occasions such as birthdays, congratulations or tributes by submitting a written prompt and paying a set fee, with requests accepted or declined at the creator’s discretion.
Bookings are made directly through Farage’s cameo profile, where customers submit their message request and payment in advance.
This is what Reform thinks of the Welsh language. 😠
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— Plaid Cymru 🏴 (@Plaid_Cymru) March 19, 2026
The video comes just months after he came under fire for recording being tricked into paying a video tribute to the convicted Welsh sex offender, Ian Watkins.
With the 2026 Senedd election approaching in May, Nigel Farage and Reform UK have been stepping up their campaigning in Wales ahead of the vote, which could reshape the country’s political landscape after more than two decades of Labour-led government.
Farage has said the election should be seen as a verdict on the UK Government, telling supporters that the Welsh vote would “double up as a referendum” on the premiership of Keir Starmer.
Reform UK has also outlined a number of policy pledges it says would “put Wales first”, including scrapping international aid spending, prioritising Welsh people for social housing, reversing the default 20mph speed limit and ending Wales’ “Nation of Sanctuary” policy.
“Sneering ignorance”
Responding to reports that Nigel Farage described Welsh people as “foreign speakers”, First Minister Eluned Morgan took to social media saying: “This is revealing from Farage. He sees the Welsh language as a wedge – something to divide people. But in Wales, it’s part of who we are – our history, our culture, our identity and it belongs to all of us.”
“We don’t divide over our language. We take pride in it. While others try to drive wedges, we’ll always stand up for our language and everything it represents.”
Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader Jane Dodds MS said:“It is disgraceful to see Nigel Farage dismiss Welsh people and our language in this way for a cheap buck.
“Welsh is the oldest living language in the United Kingdom. It is not ‘foreign’, it is a fundamental part of the history and identity of these islands, not just Wales.
“Comments like this show a sneering ignorance about who we are as a country and the rich heritage we share.
“People in Wales deserve respect, not cheap, divisive rhetoric designed to provoke and divide.
“The Welsh Liberal Democrats will always stand up for our language, our culture and our communities, and we will not let voices like Farage’s talk Wales down.”
Plaid Cymru was one of the first parties to respond, with spokesperson for Welsh language Heledd Fychan MS saying: “Farage has shown his true colours, confirming what we all know – he doesn’t care about nor respect Wales or our language.
“He’s already said Reform would scrap Welsh language targets, now here Farage is calling Welsh people ‘foreign speakers’.
“Reform aren’t fit to be anywhere near power here in Wales. In this May’s election, the people of Wales have a clear choice: backwards with Reform, or a brighter, fairer future with Plaid Cymru – we’re the only party that can stop Reform in their tracks.”
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This should be the first story on all Welsh news programmes today – a prospective Prime Minister calling Welsh speakers foreigners. Imagine if Rhun ap Iorwerth or Eluned Morgan called English born people living in Wales “foreigners”? I have no doubt the BBC and ITV would be all over it – let alone the Daily Mail and GB News.
Nigel Farage’s remarks about the Welsh language being “foreign” is deeply insulting but what else would you expect from this mule. The Welsh language is an integral part of not only Wales’ heritage but the whole of Britain with roots that date back over two thousand years.
In light of this insult, now’s the time to only refer to Cymru and Cymraeg instead of “Wales” and “Welsh”, knowing their original meanings.
We could petition the our national sports bodies to make a start.
Let’s hear, “Cymreeeeee’ rather than, “Way-uls” at sports events.
Eluned strikes a neat pose… but in reality it is little more than that. With Farage we know what we are up against, pure unadulterated Anglo supremacist cr*p. With Eluned and her ilk we get loads of patronising twaddle and minimal active support. Farage’s antics serve a dual purpose. They show him up as irrelevant to our nation’s predicament and needs, and also serve to draw out the performative side of the established Bay parties who seldom have an original thought but enjoy spouting bile about “the enemy”
Colonial contempt from a soulless racist scumbag who also believes antisemitic taunts are acceptable. It’s about time this modern day Oswald Mosley faced his own Cable Street.
Reform to the core. But what would any reform member, councillor, MP, MS be prepared to take. They will defend this. This is what they are.
They probably think it’s just a bit of bantz like you’d get down the ‘Spoons.
Really need to see this as mission directive. This is what they are. This isn’t bantz, its policy. And to be in this club you must endorce policy.
The party that is safe haven for racists.
Heard Pochins missives at the Scottish convention? Vile.
Oh yeah, BadEnoch is off on the same racist bandwagon now. See her failure to reign in Nick Timothy.
Unfortunately he’ll be supported in this, the brits have been programmed all of their lives to treat us, and their other occupied lands as lower than them.
Being racist towards the Welsh is just the way they’re bred, it’s the way both the mainstream media and social media are set by their rulers so don’t expect any apology, any kind of disciplinary action or any kind of cessation of the Wales hating.
Reform supporters are bitter Wales haters, and they’ll continue their verbal attacks on our culture untouched
I’ve got a screenshot of the Guardian illustration on my phone ready for when Reform comes knocking.
Targetting the ‘hate Wales’ vote. There really are only two languages in Farijworld – English & Foreign.
English Nige kicking cacka around as usual. Come election day, let’s make sure that he gets a mouthful of it. Just showing off his ignorance and stupidity.
If any language is foreign in the UK it’s English for Welsh was spoken on this island about a millennium before English emerged from Anglo-Saxon (11th – 12th Century). Thanks to the Normans it then incorporated between 7,000 and 10,000 words that were either French or modified French words (verifiable via Google). It’s probably the most mongrel language in the world.
If he’s happy to say that for £100, imagine what he’s happy to say for 100 times that.
Imaging what he is happy to say for a few million in crypto, untraceable.
When he was at school he said all sorts of revolting things, and all for free!
Will say anything for a quick buck, imagine if someone offered lots of money what he’d say…
Like most Imperialists he is a complete ignoramus.
Its the oldest surviving language of this islands of Britain and it was spoken in a Celtic form before the arrival of the ancestors of the English over a thousand years before the invasion by the Saxons so BOG OFF FARAGE
Classic Farage to introduce a divisive element to Wales. Whether you’re an English or Cymraeg speaker fades into insignificance in the face of Reform’s toxic brand. Don’t rise to the bait.
Nigel Garbage = rectum
He cant bury this as some schoolboy faux pas
This was last summer when he cam eto the Royal Welsh to recruit Jodhpurs Jones
What is someone earning £900kpa+doing these Poundland videos for
Is he that desperate and greedy ?
He was happy to toss Wales down the toilet for £106
This needs reposting and re-reporting everywhere possible until the elections, as it could and should be the death knell for this odious racist pillock and his merry band of Tory rejects.
On a connected matter, why has it not been much noticed that the only MS to vote against rules to prevent politicians from lying was Reform’s Laura Ann Jones?
Only a self-hating Welshman (or woman) could ever consider voting for a vile racist English Nationalist party like Deform UK.
Don’t you believe it. They think they’re right. They will twist any bad news (or ignore it totally). They cannot envisage a world where they were wrong to pin their colours on a clown like this. This is where they become entrenched, oblivious to common sense and the sheer weight of evidence against them. These are the flat-earthers of the electorate. I fear there is very little that will dissuade them from following their imbecilic, fear-mongering messiah.
English imperialism is still alive. Did anyone except anything different. Tell alot of England you speak Cymraeg, negative response. Tell someone in Greece or anywhere else and they are fascinated.
The mask is slipping, Reform UK. This shows Nigel Farage for what he really is: a money-grabbing, anti-Welsh language, Wales-hating egotist who is a danger not only to our NHS and Welsh devolution, but to Wales itself—God forbid he ever holds the reins of power. No doubt his minions will make excuses in a damage limitation exercise, but the images don’t lie. He said it, so own it.
#VotePlaidCymruMay7th 🏴 #ReformUK 🏴 🇬🇧 #WelshNot ⛔🏴
I knew this would slide off his forked tongue at some point. Unfortunately it will embolden the anti-Welsh language factions still alive and well in our fair country. We came so far over the last 30 years. Yet now he will give rise to more dinosaur-like outbursts from the sizeable minority here. I was in a bar in Pontyclun a few days ago and heard a group of women saying, very loudly, how they d be voting Reform and how they hated Plaid Cymru and all that Welsh language tosh. They then went on to complain about choose your language… Read more »
The only foreigners on these islands are immigrants and the English (also immigrants in their time).
Not immigrants, Germanic expats.
Says he in the West Germanic language
What an ignorant buffoon. Doesn’t Farage and his band of clowns realise that us Cymru Cymraeg were the original Britons. We’ll be here long after him. Yma o hyd ….. or ‘Still here’ to the uninitiated !!!
So we are foreigners in our own country.
Sums up the English establishment and their imperialist view of their world.
Has he ever denied running Dulwich College’s chapter of Hitler’s Youth?
He is not wrong. I am a non Welsh speaker and cannot and do not wish to learn.
My language is ENGLISH SO BY definition is a foreign language.
Your proud ignorance of your own language does not make it ‘foreign’.
That said it’s probably for the best that you stick to one language… based on your comment, I suspect it’ll be quite a while before you achieve any level of proficiency in English.
No shame. Beneath contempt.