THE headers you gave to A Nutt’s last two letters are most fitting: “Think Positive” and “Loss for Labour”.

Thinking positively, this correspondent must get out into the real world and talk to real people who are not inflicted with tunnel vision.

The greater majority of the Welsh population do not want further devolution and the associated increase in second rate bureaucracy.

There is little, if any, analogy to the Scots who want the penny and the bun – independence when it suits them.

Yes, there was a loss for Labour, however, they were not rejected to the extent that Plaid Cymru was.

Had Plaid been that attractive then they would have gained more than three seats.

The cost to Wales of this election result will only be known in years to come and, for those who did not vote, do not complain. You have no right. You could have made a difference.

Time now to bring in compulsory use of the ballot form as in Australia.

The Welsh have more ‘selective vision’ than to look positively at Plaid. Separatism plus division equals weakness.

Nigel Pearce, Risca