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Politics is an inescapable part of daily life
Sep 25 2008 by Our Correspondent, Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald
DAFYDD Edwards from Blaenau Ffestiniog seems to regard me, because things I write on are invariably of a political nature, as a person who should be excluded from all letters pages in local and presumably the Welsh national papers as well (Herald, September 11).
Many areas of our lives could be said to come within the realms of politics today. By politics one does not necessarily mean party politics.
Your correspondent asks in his letter: “Is this the same Trefor Davies who writes to other local papers on nearly a weekly basis spouting on about the same thing – ‘the evil Labour Party’”?
I am that selfsame Trefor Davies, but I would like to disabuse readers who think I am in the habit of using the word ‘evil’ to describe political parties; my preferred method of criticising is to give reasons for doing so.
The subject matter of my letters is usually of a topical nature and can range over a wide variety of issues. As far as political balance is concerned, I also have a crack at the Tories. Like most of the electorate, I regard all political parties in Westminster, except the SNP, as having virtually similar policies.
Every other letter, apart from your Blaenau Ffestiniog correspondent’s, which informs us he is non-political, was of a political nature, including the one entitled ‘Toilet traumas.’ Of the 10 of them, not one was written by me!
TREFOR DAVIES
Llanfrothen
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