SIR - On October 3, 2014, the Worcester News published a letter from me rebutting Brenda Wheeler's 'Bring back P&R' letter of September 18, 2014.

If Brenda Wheeler had used the figures I gave her in that letter, and did a little research, she would have discovered that if the 100,000 cars I referred to were parked nose to tail they would have stretched for 284 miles, and if the same calculation was done for the figure I gave her for the number of car journeys done in our city daily, those cars would stretch for 2,272 miles. Such figures would clearly have given her 'Claines Action Group holding us ransom' letter of February 6, a somewhat different perspective, because we obviously have far more cars than major road carriageway!

I would suggest to her that if UKIP wish to supplant the existing political management of our city, or indeed our country, then UKIP needs to look at our core problems, rather than the symptoms those core problems generate. If she had asked herself why our roads cannot cope with the traffic she may have concluded there were too many cars using them, and if she had asked why there were too many cars she may have concluded there were too many houses here, and if she got that far she may have concluded there were too many people trying to live here, and so on and so forth.

The bottom line is our environment cannot support 21st century lifestyles for upwards of 80 million of us, or the 12 billion people our world will have by 2050! Somewhere along the way some politician is going to have to find the guts to stand up and say our problem is not a shortage of housing, or traffic jams, or vehicular pollution, but the fact that we are grossly overpopulated, locally, nationally, and globally! All of us have to live within our environment's means. UKIP can begin to face that reality, or ignore the fact, and thereby enter the LibLabCon bubble, in cloud cuckoo land1

N TAYLOR Worcester