WAS I the only one who felt steam coming out of my ears when our very own Dame Rosemary Butler said that nasty Conservative cuts were responsible for the state of Newport and she was acting like a modern-day, female Robin Hood, standing up for the city?

Is this the same assembly, Rosemary, which manages to spend £0.5 million per annum on chauffeur-driven cars to shuttle her well-fed colleagues to work?

Is this also the same hard-up Welsh Assembly Government that spends more than £1 million per annum on jet-setting to Anglesey to work? Is it also the same assembly that found another million pounds to add to all the other millions spent on a dead language?

Is this the same, hard-up Welsh Assembly Government that bought an airport for a grossly-inflated price, and spent millions per annum on subsidising it?

Is this the same Welsh Assembly Government that managed to find millions to refurbish its headquarters while telling the gullible people of Newport the pot was bare?

Come on, Rose, old girl, pull the other one.

C Bradley, Caerleon Road, Newport