A PREVIOUS Labour Chancellor, Gordon Brown MO once said: ‘British jobs for British people’ and yet the Labour-controlled Welsh Assembly is going to spend nearly £5million (Argus, March 18) on ground preparation work so that Aldi supermarkets, from Germany can build a distribution centre, the better to compete with our own stores and corner shops. Aldi is hardly in the doldrums, it’s one of the sponsors for Team GB in next year’s Olympics (Daily Mail, March 20) Many of our home-grown retailers are cutting back so they are hardly filling a need, and where is the Assembly’s (and Plaid Cymru’s) sense of patriotism, using our taxes to give a leg-up to an already wealthy foreign conglomerate?

I’m being practical not racial. Still, what can you expect?

A Greenhalgh, Newport