Madam,

The tax credits are the only way that the people of the working class - like those of the quarrying areas of north Wales - can survive. They depend on these credits since the mining has stopped years ago.

We have been depending on hand-outs and even those who have their own houses are finding it’s getting hard to pay the rent, electics, water rates and so on. It’s of no use us moving to England to find better work and wages - the jobs are mostly taken up by incomers. So please back this cry for help and stop these Tory cuts.

David Thomas, Bryncir Terrace, Penmorfa, Porthmadog.