Madam,

Liz Saville Roberts, our widely-respected MP, was asked, (Cambrian News, Letters, 3 August), if she supported Michael Gove’s announcement that subsidies, post-Brexit, to Welsh agriculture “can only be argued for against other competing public goods if the environmental benefits of that spending are clear”. It would clearly force Welsh hill farmers off their land because only huge highly diversified land holdings could remain viable with the low level of subsidy the Tories would offer. She was also asked whether she supported Gwynedd Council’s under-spend, compared with what resources it has, on vital services and why she isn’t supporting new housing for the poorest Welsh families in Gwynedd.

Of all of these questions, we have heard not one word from her! All three issues are Brexit - and/or austerity- related.

Instead our MP sought to ‘challenge’ Jeremy Corbyn on Brexit (Cambrian News, 17 August).

Shouldn’t our MP, rather, be asking his advice and that of the Labour Party? For austerity and Tory Brexit are policies of unnecessary suffering. The Labour Party, by contrast, will end austerity and plans to work within the Customs Union and the Single Market. These are policies that genuinely will benefit the many, ending their suffering, and are not for the benefit of the rich few.

Liz should issue no ‘challenge’ whatsoever to the Labour Party.

Better, surely, that our Plaid MP follows our ex-Plaid AM’s epiphany and apparent conversion to Labour.

She can capture the anti-ruling class spirit of so much recent voting by joining Corbyn’s anti-establishment parliamentary party.

Yours etc,

Ian MacIntyre. Shelbourne Court, St John’s Hill, Barmouth.

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