Letter to Editor – ‘If gold rusts, what then can iron do?’

Dear Sir/Madam. ‘If gold rusts, what then can iron do?’  I’m sure many of your readers will remember this quote from their schooldays when studying Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. It’s certainly memorable as it sums up all that we should rightly expect in terms of behaviour primarily from our elected officials. What has gone wrong these days that this dictum seems no longer to pervade the corridors of our elected institutions? 

I refer here of course to the outrageous behaviour of the silly MS member for Mid and West Wales, Helen Mary Jones. An elected MS clearly displaying an act of contempt of court in relation to a manslaughter trial still in progress which could have jeopardised the whole proceedings. Surely a fourteen year old knows better? 

I understand that the protocol of these ghastly sites is that by retweeting your are saying ‘I agree with what this other person is saying’. In this case, another woman showing total disregard for the integrity of our judicial system. 

So come on Adam Price and the national executive of Plaid show your moral fibre on this one and set in motion a de-selection process, and if that doesn’t happen the constituents would do well to elect another person come the May elections regardless of political affinity in order to shame this kind of behaviour. 

‘If gold rusts, what then can iron do?’ 

Gareth Cowell