In another email, passed to the Labour Party, he said: "Please do not think this is a racist enquiry as I personally dislike racists. It is not. "Local people are concerned as we seem to be having a lot of people coming in and just hanging around the town doing nothing all day long only going to the local pubs etc - but not working." He said housing such people was a "massive problem" when "we have so many of our own who desperately need housing". Local Labour AM Christine Gwyther said Plaid should discipline Mr Speake if it wanted to "change its image of being an extreme fringe group". She said Plaid had "chosen to side with criminals and thugs instead of hard-working, law-abiding citizens" on anti-social behaviour. "That makes the comments of Councillor Speake even harder to stomach," she said. "His solution is not to get on board with Labour's tough action but to blame serious problems on English incomers. This is a misguided and bigoted view that will do nothing to help Carmarthen town." Mr Speake, 60, last night said: "I detest racists and racism and it makes me very sad and a bit angry. "Christine Gwyther, who I did have some respect for, I think she has lost that now." He said his comments were directed at about a dozen people in Carmarthen. | 
