Madam,

Plaid Cymru has an honourable political tradition of supporting direct action and opposing war mongering. However, these days political chaos in Plaid Cymru has now got so bad that it threatens the future of democracy in Dwyfor Meirionnydd and Gwynedd.

For the Westminster member, Liz Saville Roberts, is now considering becoming our Senedd Member instead, presumably by dint of Plaid patronage.

Meanwhile our Senedd member, elected for Plaid but no longer a member, offered us, up to 10 days ago, few words in the Senedd on any matter whatsoever.

Unfortunately neither member is willing to do their ordinary political duty and properly criticise Plaid Cymru’s stewardship of Gwynedd.

Is it Westminster, I wonder, that makes a peer and an MP treat their constituents as Tory grandees treat us, and squabble with each other like Tory ministers, so helping make Plaid ineffectual in Dwyfor Meirionnydd?

As for Gwynedd Council, our councillors here in Dwyfor Meirionnydd represent Plaid, the Plaid breakaway Llais Gwynedd and Plaid-leaning independents - one might say Plaid, Plaid-lite and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Plaid! Whatever are we to make of the true values and beliefs of this increasingly chaotic party and its fellow travellers?

It is clear we need real socialist representation in Dwyfor Meirionnydd.

Over the years, the various Plaid manifestations, on Gwynedd Council, in the Senedd, in Westminster, have had every opportunity to help us here.

Yet we remain among the poorest regions in the whole of Britain. Low-income families in Dwyfor Merionnydd, working in agriculture, tourism and for Gwynedd Council, continue to languish, their circumstances improved not one jot by what claims to be the Party of Wales!

Yours etc,

Ian MacIntyre, St John’s Hill, Barmouth.

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