Whilst agreeing wholeheartedly with Mrs West's condemnation of the BNP party she ended by asking us all to support the Labour candidates on May 3.

I would simply ask Mrs West to indicate to us all, just what has the Labour Party (i.e Tony Blair) done for 'Great Britain' since coming to power, all those years ago. Don't listen to the "spin". There is a UKIP candidate in every ward for the first time at this election which shows the strength of support they have. Read their manifesto and decide whether, as a resident of Dudley borough and a householder you want to go on paying one and a half times your council tax each year to be a member of the European Union. It is not just a matter of Europe though is it? What about Education, National Health, Police, Social Services, Mrs West? Your government have poured our cash into them but to what end? Our daily lives have become impoverished through bad government.

Not only the pensioners either, of which I am one but all who have seen their savings and standards eaten away over the past ten years, by a spinning Chancellor and a spinning 'President'.

Let's have a change with UKIP.

R Heeley, Hayley Green