HOW disingenuous of Andrew RT Davies to describe the proposed reorganisation of local councils as a shambles when the real shambles was the one the Assembly inherited from the last Tory government after Lord Hunt created 22 councils in a piece of Tory gerrymandering in order to gain control of some of them.
He now admits that 22 chief executives, 22 directors of social services and 22 directors of education, with some of them on salaries higher than the Prime Minister's, and more councillors per head of population than any other part of the UK, is unsustainable.
He should also admit that when his party had control of the Vale Council, Penarth's ruined seafront was all too clear an indication of what a Tory smaller state will look like.
Margaret Phelps
Penarth
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