IN HIS vitriolic letter about UKIP, David Furnell mentions the party’s proposed pay increase for MPs. In keeping with his own Europhile agenda, however, Mr Furnell fails to mention that this increase would apply only to members of an independent Westminster parliament, in the event of democratic self-government actually being restored to this country.

Only then would they be worth it, unlike the current rubber-stamp assembly for every diktat, large or petty, pouring out of Brussels.

COLIN HINGSTON, Southampton.