Madam,

Margaret Hall (Letters, 28 September) seeks to support Liz Saville Roberts, the Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP - by talking about anything but the matters I raised! I ask again of Mrs Roberts:

1. Why is she opposed to the Welsh Labour government housing developments that Gwynedd Council has approved of, but which, she says, will dilute Welsh language and culture, when special funds have been set aside for Welsh language teaching and when concern for the poor and dispossessed has been central to Welsh culture from the Patagonia settlement times to Aneurin Bevan’s towering work on the NHS?

2. In these straightened times, why is Liz not critical of the way, as a whole, Plaid Gwynedd Council is underspending, compared with the funds it has available, on vital sevices for the poorest among us and on toilets, leisure centres, tourist offices etc?

3. Does our MP, or does she not, support Micheal Gove’s ruling that post-Brexit support for Welsh farmers here, right here in Gwynedd, should only be made if ‘the environmental benefits are clear’, ie without any concern for hill farming families and villages?

4. Why is she not campaigning for Lord Elis-Thomas to resign as our AM, and stand for re-election of course if he wishes, now that he has left Plaid Cymru and so has disenfranchised every one of the people who voted for him, so that a by-election can be held?

I had also expressed the hope that she would ensure that Plaid would not continue to accuse the Welsh Labour government of failing to spend on vital projects, which it itself supports but cannot afford because of the cruel limits to the Welsh grant imposed by this appalling Tory government. Sadly, Margaret Hall continues the politics of misdirection. Nurses’ pay is something I’m sure Carwyn Jones would dearly love to be able to afford to hike. Corbyn’s Labour government will give Wales the funds to meet all such urgent needs.

As for Brexit, regretably Wales voted to leave. My concern is about the alternatives offered by the Tories.

My own understanding is that Labour plans, by investment here, to return industrial production to the UK and to provide for everyone in the UK a quality and breadth of housing, education and health provision that ensures there is no overcrowding whatsoever here. That is how austerity will end. And Labour plans to conduct trade with Europe wihin a single market and a customs union, a policy made possible by the implications for Europe of their economic policy.

I ‘demanded’ nothing of Liz. Liz ‘challenged’ Jeremy Corbyn. I think that sort of divisiveness helps the Tories keep in power.

Yours etc,

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

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