This blog appears to have attracted the attention of Mr Llŷr Huws Gruffydd, who is a Plaid Cymru regional Assembly member for North Wales.
Quoted in the North Wales Pioneer, Mr Gruffydd suggests that my criticisms of Conwy Council’s handling of the Colwyn Bay pier issue are “potentially harmful to the council’s efforts to acquire further funds for the pier”.
He says:
“Publicly doubting the council’s endeavours will only hinder the efforts to save the pier. He really should know better.”
Mr Gruffydd clearly does not get it.
Contrary to his views, the essential problem is that nowhere near enough public scrutiny of the council’s proposals for the pier has ever taken place. If it had, the current sad state of affairs might have been averted. We need more public discussion of this important issue, not less.
It is also worth pointing out that the group running the council at the relevant time was a coalition of parties led by Plaid Cymru.
So perhaps Mr Gruffydd ought to be having a quiet word with the likes of Dilwyn Roberts, the former Plaid council leader, and Phil Edwards, former leader of the Plaid Cymru group, rather than berating those who are trying to shine a little light on the routinely opaque modus operandi that seems to have prevailed in Conwy when his party was in charge.
He really should know better.
