TOM Atkinson (Review, March 21) takes me to task for  misrepresenting Messrs Guyton and Preest's letters on "immigration". 

I was, in fact, responding to P Young's letter (Review, March 14) trying to put the case for immigration.

I referred to "migration" to change the nature of the debate. Migration is the movement of people from one place to another.

Immigration is the movement of people into a place (or country in this case). It is a particular kind of migration which has taken on a particularly unpleasant political meaning.

UKIP clearly has policies about immigration and seeks to promote them.

Tom quotes from a report itself by Migration Watch UK (sic)  so, Tom, not such a faux pas on my part to use the term migration then?

Unfortunately the editor of this paper did not appreciate the argument either by heading my letter "Immigration argument" when I headed my letter "Migration".

Another faux pas, according to Tom, was to mistime my letter in the light of a report from Migration Watch UK.

He obviously didn't read the same letter I wrote as I stated that P Young's error was to engage with the immigration politics of UKIP as portrayed by Messrs Guyton and Preest  in the light of Migration Watch UK's assessment of the costs of immigration.

Migration Watch UK claims to be non-political. It is clearly nothing of the sort. (Im)migration is far from non-political, whether for or against.

That's why UKIP has adopted immigration as a vote catcher. Migration Watch UK is useful to its case because it claims to be non-political, but clearly it is not.

It is a right wing  pressure group  that opposes immigration and manipulates academic research to make its case. 

There are other assessments of the effects of migration and I would suggest anyone who wants to know more about the figures read the Politics.co.uk Factcheck: Do immigrants really cost Britain £22 million a day?

I  won't tell you what to think. Make up your own minds.  I just want you to realise that there is more than one way to look at this issue.

– Les Tocknell, Ross-on-Wye.