Sir - Nick Clegg must regret calling for those debates he lost so heavily to Nigel Farage, and worry about the possible damage to his career and party. However, the real issue is the damage he and his party’s policies are doing to this country and its people.

He has that metro-centric liberal elite view that hostility towards mass immigration and Europe is based on reactionary ‘Little Englander’ prejudices and lack of information. In reality, it is Clegg’s views that are based on prejudice and dogma, whilst the opposition is based on experience and common sense.

Clegg is as wrong about three million UK jobs depending on our EU membership as he was when he argued we should join the Euro. Being outside the EU does not stop China, Japan and Korea selling goods into it. We run a trade deficit with the EU, so a trade war with us would harm them more than it would us.

The real threat to jobs and wages actually comes from the virtually limitless supply of labour from the mass immigration the LibDems support so strongly.

Clegg lost to Farage because of his own personal style, but also because he was plain wrong.. His privileged background might shield him from the consequences of mass immigration, but ordinary people see the impact on their lives. Lower wages, higher unemployment, disrupted communities and disappearing countryside. It is hard to see why LibDems are happy to do that to their fellow citizens. But they clearly are.

Steve Davis,

Chairman, UKIP Worcester.