AS a member of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) I should like to thank all the voters in this area sensible enough to realise there is only one answer to the idiotic bureaucracy stemming from Europe.

Let us remember that in 1974 we voted to enter a trading agreement with our European partners. All well and good.

We did not vote for our country to be dictated to by Brussels.

Many "political pundits" have been calling UKIP a one-policy party. To an extent we are. However, that one policy covers almost everything we do in our daily lives.

I am sure everyone can think of a better way to spend the £25 million we are giving to Europe every day - a better police force, more hospitals, more and better schooling etc. Yes, we do get money back from Brussels, but less than a quarter of what we give them, and that will go down with the new states joining in the free-for-all.

Think what Brussels has made us change in the recent years - can you buy such things as Vapona fly killer cassettes, creosote (as it was), moth killers, your favourite garden chemicals, all banned because of an instruction by Brussels? What will it ban next?

So when the next General Election is called, just remember that UKIP is not just to vote for in the European elections, our plan is to give us back the country we love and live in so our children and grandchildren can enjoy the freedoms we once had.

Jeremy Banyard,

Bramham Grove,

Acomb, York.

Updated: 11:45 Wednesday, June 16, 2004