I'm writing because I know you'll listen. Thank you so much for your message of solidarity to Occupy Cardiff the morning of our attempt to set up camp.
Thank you for coming out to support us, as you have so many other demonstrations. You were stood in the cold and the rain next to the Plaid Cymru deputy leader of Cardiff Council, Neil McEvoy. This tableau raises the theme I wish to address: contradictions.
Cllr McEvoy offered us the choice of decamping to Callaghan Square, invisible to the working class of Cardiff. This surprised me: McEvoy lobbied extensively for £60 million of public money to be handed to Callaghan Square – to the very kinds of big business, banks, insurance companies, mega-law firms, which caused the banking crisis and contribute to many of society's biggest injustices; this money being extracted from the budget for Cardiff's public services.
