Response to a letter in this week's Herald

This letter appears in this week's Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald by Mr Geoff Ludden, whom I've never had the pleasure of meeting but appears to have come to a firm opinion of me, without taking a balanced view of some major facts relating to dummy spitting antics of the Council "Leader" and his complaint about me to The Ombudsman. Mr Ludden writes:

CLLR Gwilym Euros Roberts doth protest too much. His statement claiming that the Leader of the Council should have referred his complaint about Cllr Roberts’ behaviour to the Council’s Standards Committee is totally misleading!
The Standards Committee does not have the power to review a complaint by one Councillor about another. The Ombudsman is the only recourse that Cllr Edwards can take to try to stop the constant personal abuse which pours forth from the notorious internet blog of Cllr Roberts.
Like others in his party Cllr Roberts seems to think that personal attacks are a substitute for policies. Cllr Edwards is right to try to stop this unhealthy trend in politics in Gwynedd.
Cllr Roberts has already announced his candidature for the Welsh Assembly seat of Dwyfor-Meirionydd in the 2011 Assembly elections and this latest stunt is part of his campaign to get elected. As an elector in that Assembly constituency I dread the thought of having Cllr Roberts as my AM.
GEOFF LUDDEN
Morfa Nefyn

My response to the above is as follows:
Mr Ludden conveniently omits even the barest of facts relating to a complaint to The Ombudsman concerning my comments regarding Gwynedd Council Leader, Cllr Dyfed Edwards and the Plaid Cymru Group, which he leads' press release on the future of the county’s Cylchoedd Meithrin.
In the statement Cllr Edwards and Plaid Cymru stated that “… Plaid Cymru will urge all councilors against including pre-schooling arrangements in a package of cuts worth £16 million, and propose a strategy to plan provision between schools, Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin (MYM) and other voluntary groups".
Naturally this stance was warmly welcomed by all and sundry not least by this newspaper that vigorously campaigned to safeguard the Cylchoedd. But when the matter came before the Council Board, and later the full Council, not a single Plaid Cymru Councillor made any attempt to save the Cylchoedd. Indeed when Llais Gwynedd proposed the Cylchoedd be removed from a package of financial cutbacks ALL the Plaid Cymru Councillors present voted to oppose the move.
I personally challenged Cllr. Edwards three times on this inconsistency in Plaid Cymru policy at the Council Board meeting but he refused to be drawn on the matter on every occasion.
One can only assume therefore that Cllr. Edwards’ press statement was misleading to the extreme and nothing more than a feeble and dishonest attempt to pull wool over the eyes of nursery teachers, parents and their children. Cllr. Edwards disagrees and is minded to put the matter before The Ombudsman. However it is his press statement that unquestionably forms the basis for my defence against a vexatious complaint and that so strongly supports my allegations against Cllr. Edwards and his Party of lying and misleading as the Cylchoedd funding is still earmarked for cutting in 2011/12 as I write.
In his letter Mr Ludden also says he dreads the thought of having me as his AM. That’s his opinion. For one thing is certain. I do not find it acceptable for politicians and political parties to deliberately mislead the public with false statements. I will always stand true to my principals and will be straight with the electorate. Sadly these characteristics have lost me Mr Ludden’s vote. Somehow I’m not unduly concerned.