ANOTHER writer, D. J. Cook (In My View, May 25) questions my letters from UKIP and says we are quite right wing for a mainstream party, this is quite a strange statement when we are already being ruled by a right wing party, the Conservative party. If our love for our country is being too right wing, so be it!

I would personally describe UKIP as a very mainstream party in-as-much apart from the EU itself, they cater for a very wide range of differing opinions and people are not absolutely radical in their dealing with other’s views, in fact we listen to any views or problems others may put our way.

The many who describe us as a one issue party have obviously never read our 2013 manifesto, and the fact as D. J. Cook points out that we have no Westminster MP is a sad fact of life, but this of course does not advocate that we will not endeavour in the meantime to get a voice in the British parliament with resolve to retaining our sovereignty and eventually exiting the EU.

On the question of our MEP’s sleeping, one doesn’t need to have one’s eyes open to listen, and that is the function of our MEP, to listen.

On the subject of percentage of laws dictated by Brussels, 75 per cent or 16 per cent makes no difference, there should be none, we should be ruling ourselves completely from Westminster.

Where our fish stocks are concerned, of course they are depleted as he says, but they weren’t before we were ensnared in the EU and overfished by European countries, and could possibly recover if left alone for a year or two.

NI is in fact a tax on work as it is a tax paid not only by the worker but also by the employer, whether it is a profitable arrangement or not.

L. A. O’BEE, Southampton.