C BRADLEY’S letter of 3/12/14 certainly pulls no punches on the consequences of devolution. He is right to say that there have been no real benefits to most people, but just more expensive gravy trains for politicians.

Mind you, many of them now wish we had never got involved with this tax-wasting exercise. I bet many senior Labour politicians, especially those about to lose their seats in Scotland next May, wish they hadn’t given a platform to nationalist parties that were irrelevant before 1997.

Nothing displays the incompetence and detachment of our politicians more than their promotion of the Welsh language, despite most of them knowing that it’s pointless, wasteful and irrelevant. They still insist on spending millions of pounds on forcing people, especially our youngsters, to learn it and use it. It’s small wonder that regard for politics is at rock bottom. J Evans, Grove Park, Blackwood