Editor

Why, from Monday of this week on, are the little coastal towns along Cardigan Bay, to be open to as many day-trippers as care to get here, from the Midlands, thus threatening the local people, especially the café workers, shop personnel and bar staff, and so their families, with Covid-19?

Why isn’t the UK government providing sufficient funds for all in pub and café etc employment to be on furlough until this appalling disease is crushed?

Why? Because the only sane way of financing all the necessary and catch-up expenditure that austerity, Brexit, Covid-19 and the climate catastrophe demand of us, is by sequestering the assets of the one per cent of super-rich households.

But the Tories want to get the ‘economy moving’, which risks the health of us all. Ideologically and politically, they are committed to maintaining the profits and assets of their political financiers, the rich.

So the richest one per cent hold on to their £2.9 trillion of assets, including the £600 billion we need from them now to get straight, whilst towns like mine are threatened with an outbreak of Covid-19, that hideous disease.

We should strip the richest of their riches to guarantee health and happiness in the long suffering little tourist towns of Gwynedd. We, and the people of the Midlands, who, to date, have resisted the temptation to take beach breaks here, deserve a better UK government, one that cares for us all, not just the richest one per cent.

Dr Ian MacIntyre Shelbourne Court St John’s Hill Barmouth

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