Editor

Today our friends and neighbours are risking a lot for us in order to go to work as bus and train drivers, shop workers, delivery drivers, care and health workers and we thank them from the bottom of our hearts.

There are also many of us who, in better times, are “key workers” in our local communities.

We cook breakfasts, change bed linen, pull pints, shovel coal into the steam trains, check the zip wires, clean the campsite toilets, make the welsh cakes, wait at tables in tea rooms and restaurants, steer the white water rafts, take the school children climbing and kayaking, wash the hotels’ laundry, cut the campsite grass, we drive visitors back from the pubs in our taxis, we lead the donkeys on the beach... and many, many more.

We all survived the winter and were looking forward to our summer pay but we have none. We would dearly love to go back to work and welcome visitors when it is safe to do so.

So, we are shocked and angry that the leader of Plaid Gwynedd Council is not supporting us. When Cllr Siencyn writes about “the fear that when restrictions are lifted these areas will be inundated with visitors from the cities” we feel total despair that our work and incomes may not return for a long time, if at all.

These unnecessary and divisive words of the council leader send a bleak message, not only to our valued visitors, but to the thousands of workers and their families that depend upon them.

Anne Bennett, Barmouth

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