I CERTAINLY feel that Ralph Prothero (Letters, August 11) should take off his rose-tinted glasses and have a good look around at the world (including the UK) and digest what is happening all around us today.

He seems to believe we are building a world of peace and harmony and quoting DR Smith, “EU needs co-operation to work”, well we’ve tried it for the past 40 years and it isn’t working, and so far the world is not a better place, so to accuse UKIP of wanting to smash it, I have to ask “What is there to smash?”

Yes we want out of this shambles, we want a better world, but the EU is not the way to achieve it.

The citizens of the UK are being led up the garden path by a pathetically incapable government, while they continue to give handouts of our hard-earned wealth to other countries, some of which have more cash than this country will ever have.

Then we have the EU itself gobbling our cash, while at the same time allowing all and sundry from greater Europe to come here and bleed our benefit system dry while thousands queue in Calais with nothing in mind but to jump on the bandwagon. The truth hurts, doesn’t it?

This is the world UKIP is trying to ‘smash’ (or put right) and I feel I should quote a couple of lines from one of my poems.

Cast off your shackles, awake to freedoms call. “We are the British, true Britons, one and all”.

Take-care all ye who dare to doubt this boast, lest ye may fall before this heavenly host.

If we should live to see this land go under, there would be no life with England torn asunder.

We are the saviours of this precious land, we are its earthly guardian angel band.

I think Ralph Prothero should think again before making such statements and weigh the world up as it is, not as he would like to see it.

We would all like that.

I would suggest he looks at what is going on in Israel, in Syria, in Ukraine, (the things he is turning a blind eye to) and ask himself whether he feels it is the kind of world he wants.

Of course it isn’t, but most of these conflicts are caused by one country encroaching on another and that is exactly what the powers who govern the EU are endeavouring to pin on us, to melt us all into one gigantic country so that the United Kingdom will end up being just a northern region of Greater Europe.

Quote UKIP as a “one issue” party if you will, but that issue quoted is the most important issue and whatever else is in their manifesto will be irrelevant today because you cannot place the cart before the horse, and you cannot be cured until you relieve yourself of the poison therein.

L. A. O’Bee, Southampton.