S4C yougov poll

The S4C figures are now up on yougov's site and have some pretty interesting findings.

Firstly as the earlier news reports made clear, there is serious ground for concern for S4C continuing as a Welsh language only channel. Even Plaid voters came out in favour of the channel shoiwng English Language programming (40% to 34%) whilst Labour supporters strongly agreed (57% to 16%). Personally I think that a bilingual channel would be very impractical and would be bad for the language, but expect Chris Bryant to be jumping up and down with these figures over the next few years.

Secondly I find the lingusitic breakdown of support quite interesting. Despite their poor performance in West Wales more Welsh speakers support Labour than Plaid (42% - 30%). This is a Westminster poll but still the idea that Welsh speakers all vote for Plaid is simply not true.