SIR - The latest commentator on UKIP’s success is Labour PPC Joy Squires (Worcester News October 14th). Whilst correct in acknowledging our threat to Labour, I fail to see how UKIP ‘isn’t being honest with people’ on immigration.

I would have thought that our victory in the European elections was mainly due to delivering our message clearly and honestly to the electorate.

If any party is guilty of misleading the people of this country, it is Ms Squires’ own. Andrew Neather, former assistant to Tony Blair, asserted in 2009 that opening the borders to mass immigration was a deliberate attempt by Labour to ‘radically change the country’ by increasing multiculturalism.

In his words, Labour sought to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’.

He also stated that many ministers were nervous about this out of fear of alienating their ‘core vote’. Consequently, they chose to spin the alleged economic benefits of mass immigration to obscure the negative effects of such a policy on working people.

We can see the results of that approach today. Even Jack Straw has called the move a ‘spectacular mistake’. Labour clinging on in Heywood and Middleton in a so-called Northern ‘safe seat’ shows the chickens have come home to roost.

Pulling out of the European Union and asserting a points-based immigration system is the answer to this issue. Boris Johnson and others have begun recommending the selfsame points based system that UKIP has championed for many years

James Goad

UKIP PPC for Worcester