SIR – The recent strikes at Lindsey Oil Refinery has once again seen government spin spin back around and bite them.

‘British jobs for British workers’ is something the Government cannot deliver, even if it wanted to, as it is illegal under EU law.

I fear this is the first of many strikes as workers, and indeed trade unions, are beginning to realise what it means to be a subordinate state of the EU.

Of course, the Government’s former EU Commissioner, Lord Mandelson, has come out to defend the EU policy, which is hardly surprising, as he is still being paid £78K per year from the EU and is set to receive his EU pension in just a few year’s time. Gordon Brown’s new master plan is to create more jobs for the British. This will be funded, of course, by tax increases. So we will be paying the bill for job creation without any guarantee these jobs will be available to British people.

Only as an independent country could we guarantee ‘British jobs for British people’, and only one decent party can deliver this.

Jason Smith, UKIP Bradford chairman, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury