Madam,

Your editorial Comment in last week’s Cambrian News, ‘Confirmation of what we all knew’, hits the nail on the head, which Andrew Davies AM has confirmed.

Our area is cut-off, neglected and of little or no interest whatsoever to our Cardiff-based, professional politicians, regardless of party.

The negativity of the letters also displayed on the same page last week really gives rise to a worry that we are being passed by, with our Local MPs and AMs and councillors doing little or nothing to improve, or change things. Let me explain my worry.

Having voted Plaid Cymru since I arrived in the area, to support the local MP, I was shocked to hear the party leader, on television a few days ago, when asked to comment on Mr Trump’s victory in the US elections, say that: ”It wasn’t the result that we wanted!”

A remark like that could affect our tourism industry. Where did she learn her diplomacy?

Following that, the news that Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas had quit the Plaid Cymru party, and was going to stand as an ‘Independent’, without consulting with his supporters, got me thinking, how profes-sional are our politicians? I looked again at the letters and saw that Quentin Deakin had signed a letter on be-half of Dwyfor Meironnydd Labour Party.

May I ask Mr Deakin, through your pages, to use his influence with the Leader of the Welsh Assembly and ask him to improve our lot up here in the sticks, in rural areas, before I give up trying and am forced to join the United Kingdom (which includes Wales) Independance Party, which has no person in this area representing them.

Yours etc

Ronald Bott

Abergynolwyn.