I RECALL the rhetoric at one election when the European Parliament published a leaflet about placing the "citizen" first.

Can we now reflect upon just who, in either the Labour Party or Tory Party, has ever placed the citizens first when those from a depopulated farming and rural economy are left to the mercies as the Jobseekers Allowance Bill?

I challenge the candidates at this forthcoming European Elections to do something.

JOHN E WILLETT, Cheshire.