The BNP letters (26 April) are really quite disgraceful. They are so crude and it seems, self-deceiving.

R Weale doesn't appear to understand the definition of racism which certainly doesn't refer to inter-party criticism.

He mentions - and only mentions - three policy areas: health, education and immigration.

All three would be horribly distorted if the BNP were ever to find themselves in charge.

In fact, because of their distorting racism, the BNP (and, from their comments, UKIP are little better) will never be able to manage politics-economics effectively.

There is no evidence that they have any grasp of underlying issues because they want to place responsibility for these onto sections of the population, on a 'racial' basis.

After nearly 30 years of market economics, there is a long list of problems confronting us, eg. personal debt, gross inequality, gang violence, inflated house prices, excessive consumerism, congestion, resource depletion, global warming.

We need to debate these and seek their solution.

What we don't want is for focus and blame to be shifted onto race and immigration.

John Payne, Agent Respect, Belle Vale Ward