Madam,

I thank Cllr Hughes for her comments. It is vital that opposition to Plaid Cymru’s Gwynedd Council is united so that their cuts of public toilets and so many other vital services are properly challenged in the council, as, indeed, their underlying policy of unnecessarily increasing reserves by more than the cuts they proposed should be. Sadly Plaid is using its ‘Gwynedd Survey’ to claim, without real evidence, that the people of Gwynedd favour cuts.

Independents do not have the benefit of fellow party councillors’ wise advice in the strategies of opposition that they adopt. They are literally one-person shows, dictators in a party of one.

Welsh Labour, united and now largely autonomous, already has councillors from Dwyfor. There is a great deal of opposition to Plaid in the wards which, unfortunately, gets dissipated into as many disparate directions as there are independent councillors.

That is why Welsh Labour, the anti-austerity party, reinvigorated by their Dwyfor Meirionnydd Assembly election results, is on track to unify the excellent opposition to Plaid’s programme of unnecessary cuts inwards across the county, by standing in force in Gwynedd, the coastal towns and the cefn gwlad, at next year’s council elections.

Yours etc,

Ian MacIntyre.

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