Madam,

Having read Ian MacIntyre’s rather convoluted letter on the contentious issue of saving public toilets in Gwynedd, in which he referred to the only opposition being from, and I quote, “disparate highly independent political personalities” and “local individualists”, I had an inkling that he might, given my ongoing battle to save the toilets, be alluding to me.

Firstly, I’d like to thank him for his generous praise in calling me “disparate” (dictionary definition: different in every way), “individualist” (dictionary definition: someone who is different or original) and even hinting that I have a personality. I blush, sir!

On a more serious note, I cannot understand why the provision of public toilets should be a political issue as, correct me if I’m wrong Mr MacIntyre, politicians of all persuasion have to ‘go’, do they not?

The fact is, it is those very politicians, who probably don’t even use public toilets, who make the decisions to close them.

Mr MacIntyre then suggested the need for a ‘well-organised large opposition party’ to take up the cause.The rest of the letter then extolled the virtues of the Labour party.

With the leaders of the Labour party in complete disarray and publicly denouncing each other, it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that they can achieve anything other than squabbling like fishwives. Who’d be a politician, eh?

Yours etc,

Cllr Louise Hughes, Tywyn.

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