Yet again Welsh nationalist Mr Nutt (Letters, July 2) shows Plaid’s support for Tory cuts. Labour policy is to pay down the deficit over a longer period, thus enabling growth.
Austerity has delivered record youth unemployment, a 12 per cent increase in benefit payments, an 8 per cent reduction in tax revenues and a £15 billion increase in government borrowing.
As with all right wing parties, Plaid Cymru see the cuts as inevitable and offer no alternative to the Tories’ failed economic policy.
As for Mr Nutt’s comments on my opposition to greater powers for the Assembly, I am a conviction politician willing to criticise my own party. I firmly believe that more powers were unnecessary and device, True Wales, an organisation of Labour, Tory and none aligned were the only ones prepared to take on the vested interests in the Assembly.
Readers will remember that Labour, Plaid, Tory and Lib Dem politicians all worked together in the Yes campaign, arguing for more powers. I believe in a United Kingdom, not one divided by culture, religion or race, whereas Plaid seek to sow division with the aim of breaking up the UK.
Nigel Dix, Montclaire Avenue, Blackwood
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