OUR MP, Stephen Doughty, must understand the connection between the dearth of volunteers for the Penarth Civic Society and the deal done behind closed doors to merge the Vale Council with Bridgend, to save an inordinate number of council posts when vital public services are under threat.
He needs to work with our Labour AM, Vaughan Gething, to ensure that the best interests of Penarth are served by a merger with Cardiff Council, on the basis of the previous seven counties, which would save money at a time of the slashed budgets that are destroying local government and services.
These austerity cuts devolved from Westminster are false economy, as lack of social care results in the bed blocking that threatens to overwhelm the NHS, and we have to rely on EU funding to ease some of the pressure on school budgets.
They also make a mockery of devolved powers to the Welsh Assembly because money is power, and that is why the richest one per cent beneficiaries of Mr Osborne's tax cuts, who fund the Tory Party and who will attempt to buy the next election, can never have enough of it.
Margaret Phelps
Penarth
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