I  WILL be surprised  if any true, left  of centre,  Labour  politicians defect to UKIP as Alan Preest hopes in his letter to you  recently. 

He may well  have had a couple of right-wing Tories joining  him recently  but  he and the kippers are  welcome to them.

Blair Smillie is not, and never has been, a Labour politician. He is a businessman from Deeside who has a scary notion that we should start burning coal again on a massive scale and re-poison our recovering ecology.

Furthermore, does  Mr Preest  really expect us to believe that the founding  fathers of the socialist movement,  in the dark satanic mills of history  would  support a  reactionary, right-wing  city slicker like Nigel Farage?

Do me a favour. – "Old Labour", Sedbury.