lol, talk about a can of worms.

Ummmmmm in short NOTHING. I'm sure she's a nice woman personally but let's be honest on a professional level....

No retail park, no enterprise, unpopular land "development" decisions the list goes on and on.

Also, and majorly, she backed up Tony Bliar in the WMD scam that caused an illegal war for Israel/Neocon American interests.

Ann Who ???????

http://www.aberdareonline.co.uk/content/reply-ann-clwyd

Do you mean the right honourable member for Vietnam or is it Iraq. She's achieved sod all for the people of the valley. But whose's fault is that? Simple. The people of the Cynon Valley.

Only one investment going on here, the anne clwyd retirement fund KERCHING

Don't knock her; the people of Cynon Valley are quite happy with the lack of concern, and even contempt that she shows for them. They are more than willing to tolerate her absence, her lack of commitment by refusing to live here as her permanent residence, her greater concern for Baghdad than Aberaman, her fleeing from too many awkward questions at election time, and the backing she receives from her Labour associates, who are themselves riding the gravy train, generously provided for them by the same gullible voters of course.

All in all, it's what Cynon Valley voters want and have come to expect from a Labour Party that hangs like a millstone around their necks. Until eyes are opened and the truth revealed, Cynon Valley will continue to be milked dry by Labour councillors and a Labour MP out for their own ends, and feathering their own nests at our expense.

It's a situation that has gone on for as long as I can remember. Democracy is a myth in Britain anyway; nowhere is that more apparent than right here on our own doorstep, where what the people actually want for their communities is always ignored in favour of what the Labour Party and its corporate pals want. Your opinions count for nothing. Attend any planning committee to see the proof of that.

In the meantime, Anne Clwyd and her fellow travellers will continue to rule the roost here and likewise to ignore their duties to the people they should represent.

Very good post and all absolutley correct.

I'd like to expand on your point re democracy, or lack thereof in the UK and in particular Aberdare.

As my name suggests, I am vehemently against the destruction of peat bogs at the top of the Cwmdare mountain in the name of useless inefficent wind turbines, which just so happen to be a lucrative money maker for energy firms. I am glad to say so are the vast majority of cynon valley residents.

Yet they still went ahead.

The whole of Abernant opposed to "development" of land adjacent to Richmond terrace.

It still went ahead.

Wherever a planning application for land gets put in, it invariably by hook or by crook gets the nod.

It may be just me but the dare valley country park is busier than ever, which I honestly believe is due to the ever shrinking amount of green wooded areas in Aberdare.

Also, is anyone else here privvy to what happened when a lady who lives in Aberdare approached Ann Clwyd after her disabled son was assaulted in town one Saturday night?

Let's just say Clwyd's response was far from sympathetic, in fact as I recall it was more like sneering contempt which sparked a protest outside her election office opposite the market. Few years back now.

Baroness Clwdy of iraq will be shortly leaving for her retirement vacation(paid for of course) in the House of Lords (aka the stealing robbing fraud shop attached to parliment)

To no doubt fill her coffers with even more tax payers funds, her and Neil kinnock of money bags and his tribe of schemeing grasping hangers on will welcome another low life ex mp.

Nice one, russell, though I'm somewhat disappointed to see you've used such restraint in your very apt description of our MP and the rest of her political gang.

A shyster is a slang word for someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law, politics or business.

Yes i feel as if Mr Clwyd has been stealing the brown stuff off us for years. Her nest must be gold plated by now , 18 carat stuff lined with virgin silk and dodo feathers.

Our MP she must have some balls staying in office and not representing the people of aberdare fairly, how about mp's should servce no more than two terms of parliment and retire at 65 plus have worked in a job other than being a councillor or parlimentarian or Student

yeah ok, the Labour robots would vote in a dead body before any other MP of another party. 210 year old mp atill claims benefits off parliment(head lines of aberdare leader in 150 years