SIR – I refer to David Barlow’s letter ‘I don’t want us to lose our farmland,’ of November 9. I didn’t write, ‘growing families require extra housing’.

Your quote is wrong. How am I to know the title I quoted wasn’t in your original text? Your oft repeated question has been answered. No further amplification will be provided.

Your contumelious language shows Labour cannot answer the questions put to it on the changes we can see happening to our global climate. And with Cumbria devastated for the second time in four years by Atlantic storms, we oldies can see our climate has changed considerably in half a century. Labour’s Climate Change Act, designed to slash our carbon dioxide emission by 80 percent, is going to cost us taxpayers £18 billion a year, or about £750 per family, for the next 40 years. And while Labour are loading green taxes on our backs, Labour are also planning to increase our country’s population to about 100 million by 2050, which means doubling the number of houses we already have. Somehow ‘stark raving bonkers’ just doesn’t capture Labour’s lunacy. Labour should focus upon the fact that England has far more people than it can sustain.

N TAYLOR
Worcester