I SIMPLY cannot believe that so many people in the Forest of Dean voted for UKIP.

Has no one seen their policies? Their views on foreigners, gay people and animals? Not to mention what they're thinking of doing with maternity leave.

I am glad to say I did not vote for this party. Leader Nigel Farage and the rest of them are nothing but racist, homophobic bigots.

They back fox hunting as well. As if the badger cull wasn't enough.

People vote for different parties because they agree with their manifesto another but what has this party got to offer?

Nothing but people living in fear of being deported, people being, for lack of a better word, bullied for being gay and our wildlife being exterminated.

We are not a communist country, so why vote for a party that wants to make us one?

– SJ Turley, Cinderford