MY thanks to Bernard Holmes for his perceptive comment, “he has nowhere left to go”, in his letter (Star, April 9). I am glad that he has enjoyed reading my letters over the years.

Let me assure you, Bernard, that my intention to vote Ukip by no means signals that my politics have moved to the right, simply that Ukip produced a fully costed manifesto which addressed issues that concerned me. Would you call investing an extra £12 billion into the NHS and £5.2 billion more into social care together with the abolition of hospital parking charges right wing? Or ending income tax on the minimum wage, cutting income taxes for middle earners and abolishing the so-called “bedroom tax”?

Would students taking a degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics or medicine – the subjects this country desperately needs to compete in the global economy – feel aggrieved when they had their tuition fees waived? I doubt it.

Will young homebuyers who buy a house on a brownfield site not benefit from the removal of stamp duty; a tax on aspiration?

The media and the political class have labelled Ukip right wing because of their opposition to the European Union, in particular the free movement of labour, and I am fully behind them on this issue. Only this week it was revealed that mass immigration has forced down wages.

Ukip proposals to introduce a points-based system and place a moratorium on free movement of unskilled labour for five years make sense.

On May 7 four million people voted for Ukip – 12 per cent of the turnout. The fact they only have one MP compared to the SNP’s 56 with only 4 per cent of the vote is a travesty. But remember if the Government carry on ignoring the will of the people there will be more than four million in 2020.

Mike Perry,

Prescot Road