IN RESPONSE to Terry Parsons (‘In My View’, May 16), I stand by my assertion of the hypocrisy of UKIP MEPs: it is hypocritical and profoundly dishonest of UKIPers to have ever stood for election to the European Parliament in the first place, where they had no business being.

A significant part of the organisation they hate and are violently opposed to and want to pull the UK out of. UKIP have no intention of participating in Europe, and yet do not scruple to draw a generous salary for doing very little at all.

In short, they’re taking the mickey!

I’d also say that he’s splitting hairs when he quibbles about my interpretation of ‘double-think’.

Is not UKIP engaging in two diametrically-opposed activities at the same time, in getting their members elected as MEPs while at the same time spewing their virulently anti-EU rhetoric, and apparently unaware of there being any contradiction in doing so?

In so doing, they merely expose themselves as the parasites and ‘cuckoos in the nest’ that they undoubtedly are, and demonstrate, as I’ve previously stated, a total lack of principles of any kind on the part of UKIP, who are unfit to be trusted with the welfare of the British public and the long-term future of our country.

I would also like to remind Mr Parsons and similarly misguided individuals who believe that ‘UKIP is the party of the proles’ that there were undoubtedly German ‘proles’ in an earlier era who believed much the same about the Nazi Party.

Linda Nadolny, Secretary, Hampshire Branch, The European Movement (UK) Rownhams Southampton