Madam,

Ian Macintyre questions why Plaid Cymru is opposed to Welsh Labour’s housing policy (Letters, 9 November). That policy entails so called “affordable housing”, purchased or rented at 80 per cent of an obscenely overpriced housing market. This is further fuelled by a massive increase in the government’s ‘help to buy’ housing scheme, resulting in yet higher prices and largely of benefit to the housebuilders, at the expense of the buyers.

Nick Clegg revealed in his recent memoirs that either Cameron or Osborne (an intriguing ambiguity) said: “Why build council houses when it only creates Labour voters?”. Which is all that needs to be said to define their characters. One, schooled in public relations, a spin doctor, and the other ‘chancer’ of the exchequer.

We have an unprecedented housing crisis, an entire generation is locked into an insecure and overpriced rental market and government policy is dictated by political Gerry mandering.

Plaid Cymru might consider that council house tenants would be local residents of little or no threat to the Welsh language.

Yours etc,

Roger Louvet, Tanlan, Llanfrothen.