Sir,

Janet Roberts titled her letter last week 'Who's fooling who?' Well let me try to answer that question with a few undeniable facts.

In her letter, Janet tells us that the lack of primary law making powers for the WAG delays the passage of 'often vital legislation by many years' and says this has cost up to £2 million.

Firstly, she fails to list any of this so called vital legislation that we can't live without, and secondly £2 million is a mere drop in the ocean to the £400 million that the assembly has cost over the past 10 years.

Janet also tells us that it seems the No voters haven't got over losing the 1997 referendum.

Could that perhaps be because over 75 per cent of us didn't vote for an assembly, and that since that time the WAG has spent five times what they said they would spend, whilst achieving practically nothing?

Our schools are worse, our health service is worse, our ambulance service is worse, our economy is worse, and we are paying £50 million a year for the privilege. All of those are measurable facts that are undeniable.

So indeed Janet, who is fooling who?

Ian Harding,

East Williamston