Madam,

I agree with Hugh Jones that Plaid Cymru does not have an exclusive right to be the party of the people of Wales, as witnessed by the very poor performance of Plaid Cymru’s Gwynedd Council in managing the Brewit Bridge project and the way it has dealt with school closures (Bontddu), closure of tourist information offices and public toilets etc. However, I profoundly disagree with him about the future of Brit-ain and the role of UKIP. Whilst we don’t know what the future holds, there are far more risks and uncertainties if Britain leaves the EU. Our allies want us to stay in. The Brexit campaigners cannot agree amongst themselves about what kind of future they envisage outside the EU and the type of international relationships we might be able to achieve. It will certainly take a long time to sort out the chaos that will ensue if we vote to leave. We can see from the current debacle the Tories are presiding over in the crisis of our vital UK steel industry how ineffective they are in negotiating trade deals. It is naive to think that any money saved by leaving the EU will be channelled into Wales to replace the EU funding we would lose, as the Tories have made it clear that they do not intend to vary the Barnet formula that determines how much financial support Wales gets from Westminster. Consequently Wales will inevitably be worse off if we leave the EU.

Yours etc

Dr David Naylor

Harlech.