Madam,

In reply to Ronald Bott (No butter for the bread, only margarine or dripping), anyone who has committed themselves to live here has an equal right to express an opinion.

My connections with this area go back almost 40 years. I do understand how poor this area is and this is precisely why I voted ‘Remain’ in the EU referendum with the majority in Gwynedd, in the knowledge of our debt to the EU for the support it has provided to north Wales.

To address another of his points, as Ian MacIntyre rightly points out, with Mr Trump in power in America the real danger would be to draw too close to the USA.

A combined EU army would surely have to reach a collective decision before any nuclear button was pressed in Europe. Can we imagine Trump exercising restraint?

Trump has also said he will kill off the Paris agreement committing nations to slow down further man-made global warming. The EU is a great supporter of environmental progress and, until the change of UK government in 2010, the UK too was a leader in the field.

It’s tragic that the enormous potential of a Green economy to create jobs in Wales as well as to leave a world still habitable for future generations may now be destroyed by a combination of Brexit, government underfunding and local fears, exemplified by the rejection of the plan for a wind turbine at Llanaelhearn.

Yours etc,

Quentin Deakin, Corbett Avenue, Tywyn.

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