IT has been a general opinion for many a year, even for chumps like me, that there's a lack of enthusiasm and an apathy among voters in the UK and across Europe for the European Parliament.
While some see the EP as dictatorial, corrupt and incompetent, others see it as not perfect, but vital to the stability for long term peace and trade. But whichever way, over the years, the turnout of voters has been declining, down to about 37% of the population this year. But the same lack of enthusiasm and apathy Colin Clarke applies to Europe, "Jobs for the boys as UKIP gets an unfair pummeling" (June 11), can also be applied to our own general and council elections, where people see no difference in a dictatorial, corrupt and incompetent British Parliament and House of Lords; doorstep opinion – "they are all the same, and only want to be elected to further their own personal interests", a suspicion reflected in declining turnouts.
At the end of his letter, Colin Clarke interestingly defends UKIP and Nigel Farage against vicious and unwarranted attacks by high establishment and cartoons of him in unpopular newspapers. I seem to remember Gordon Brown suffering the same fate, but no sympathy was shown to him by the Tories. Now if more Tory supporters show the same sympathy for UKIP, David Cameron should be more than a little concerned, as he himself has called UKIP, fruitcakes, loonies, closet racists, appalling, and a threat to Britain, not unlike the last four years of Coalition policies.
Ken Moreton
The Green
Draycott
