Go for Members of the Parliament of Wales

SO, Assembly Members don’t want to be called MWPs! But that could so easily be the case if the Welsh Assembly is renamed the Welsh Parliament as every AM would become an MWP – formally a Member of the Welsh Parliament but, possibly more informally, it’s feared, a mwp, which rhymes too easily with twp and is pretty close to muppet.

Funny, yes, but the AMs who have raised this matter really do have a point. The Assembly does a good job for Wales but there are still whole swathes of the people of Wales who know nothing or very little about the work and significance of the Assembly. And funny doesn’t really help the process.

Changing the name of the Assembly to Parliament would be a good move forward. People know what a parliament does. But instead of calling it the Welsh Parliament, why not choose one of the other names mooted earlier, Parliament for Wales?

In fact, the Assembly is not formally called the Welsh Assembly. It is the National Assembly for Wales. So, Parliament for Wales would follow in this tradition.

It would also appeal much more to both the majority non-Welshspeakers and non-Welsh-born people living and making a living in Wales.

Like the Welsh Assembly, it would sometimes informally be called the Welsh Parliament. But it would avoid some of the difficulties that can come from the political overtones of the lovely Welsh language – something that doesn’t really happen in Scotland, where language is not a real issue.

It would also solve the mwp-twp dilemma. Members would be MPW – Members of the Parliament of Wales. Now, that sounds better!

Dr Jean Silvan Evans Peterstone-super-Ely,

Vale of Glamorgan mooted to allow voters the final say on a complex issue.

The wording of such a hypothetical referendum question would occupy columns of newspaper space and parliamentary debating hours but the concept of referenda is alien to us all.

If the reality of such high-wire negotiation and diplomacy is that it is no longer practically feasible for any EU state to secede then a second referendum may be considered imperative.

What did David Cameron initiate? Ian Roblin

Cardiff