Ukip voices people’s anger
Oh dear! Ukip has really disturbed Matthew Parris’s normal affability and also, it would seem, his judgment (Another voice, 9 October). I usually enjoy his witty and intelligent comments, but in describing Ukip as ‘mad, bad and nasty’ he is so far from the truth as to be risible. He really ought to get out of the metropolis more, perhaps take a vacation in Middle England.
The Ukip members I know are predominantly middle class and also middle-aged, although we do have members in their twenties. What they all have in common is a concern for what is happening to their country as the EU juggernaut grinds on. Unfortunately for Parris, Ukip crystallises the views of an increasing number of the electorate as the Hartlepool by-election result shows only too clearly.
In the run-up to the European elections, I helped to man a party stand in the main shopping precinct of Bath.
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