SIR – Your correspondent S Pickup could not be more wrong when he says that UKIP MEPs are irrelevant within the EU (Letters, May 26).
We need to be in the European Parliament so that we have our research team who delve into the thousands of regulations and directives churned out each year.
Time and time again it is UKIP researchers who reveal the stories about crazy, and often totalitarian, EU plans which otherwise would crawl under the media radar.
The public then get the chance to voice their views to their MPs and MEPs, albeit usually fruitlessly.
S Pickup is, however, right to say that the UK Independence Party needs to get elected to Westminster to pursue withdrawal from the EU tentacles.
That is exactly why those who care for the future of our country should vote UKIP at every opportunity.
Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, 108 Main Street, Wressle, Selby, Yorkshire
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