Madam,

Re: Gwynedd Council’s block grant.

Your writer asks your readers if they disagree with Cllr Dafydd Meurig that the amount Gwynedd is to receive from the Welsh Government “is disastrous”. Few of us are in a position to judge since Cllr Meurig produced no evidence to support his claim that the settlement for Gwynedd was inequitable.

Of course, your reporter might have published the views of the two people who are best able to answer your Leader writer’s question from a position of knowledge. They are the two Assembly Members who represent Dwyfor Meirionnydd and who are also government ministers.

Both Baron Dafydd Elis-Thomas, of Nant Conwy, and Baroness Eluned Morgan of Ely are fully familiar with the financial facts and as Welsh Government ministers will surely have been appraised of the needs of their constituents in Dwyfor Meirionnydd.

Is Cllr Meurig suggesting that they may have supported the Welsh Government settlement for Gwynedd although they knew that the settlement was “disastrous”?

Madam, we are subject to far too much moaning from Cllr Meurig and his colleagues about their inability to deliver our facilities and services effectively with the funds that we entrust to them.

They continue to moan despite their bold statement in Newyddion Gwanwyn 2017 that they had “a comprehensive plan to address the shortfall Gwynedd faces”.

Competent management teams are adept at delivering improved services and quality of life from reducing resources. Regrettably, your paper seems to regularly publish proposals from Gwynedd Cabinet to cut civic facilities in Gwynedd and/or to reduce the quality of our services.

If the current Gwynedd Cabinet is incapable of identifying the means to provide us with increased services from their more limited resources and can only offer its residents more cuts to council services, might it not be better for the Cabinet to resign?

If they did step aside they would make way for other Gwynedd councillors, some of whom certainly possess the necessary talent to give our residents the improvements we deserve.

Yours etc,

Tom Brooks, Borth-y-Gest, Porthmadog.

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