IN RESPONSE to Cllr Mann letter (3.10.13) where he tries to riddle out of his party’s responsibility for the £218,000 unlawful pay out to officers who lost their essential car user allowances. Cllr Mann claims he and his Plaid colleagues did not know about this lavish pay off. Readers will remember the same words being employed by Plaid’s former leader Cllr Whittle when he was asked about the £15 million invested in failed Icelandic banks. One can only conclude the Plaid administration (2008-2012) was so incompetent it had no control over officers and that many of the failing in governance stem from Plaid’s maladministration,.

Cllr Nigel Dix Montclaire Avenue Blackwood