THE entry of the BNP into local politics in Wiltshire comes as no surprise to me.

While neither condoning or criticising their extreme policies, I would rather like to ask the reason why?

My age group, 70s plus, probably make up at least one third of the total vote, certainly on a national basis.

During our childhood in the 1930s we were brought up to adhere to family religious principles.

We were taught the Ten Commandments not only at home but in the schools.

There was also a strong sense of defending one's country's freedom or rights.

The strongest link of all was the discipline of the people. In no way did we have the crimes of violence and murder that are tolerated today.

But not all was positive, there was great social injustice, slum property was prevalent.

After the Second World War the authorities made real progress to improve the standards of the underprivileged, .

Then in the 1960s and thereafter it was downhill all the way, helped for decades by the preaching of secular, agnostic and atheist indifference to religious thinking.

A further negative development is now political correctness which in a way has led to us ultimately handing over the fiscal rule of this country to a European bureaucracy.

The voters of this once great nation no longer have control over their own destiny, this has come about because the various governments over the past decades had forgotten they were voted in to carry out the wishes of the people.

There is now a cry from the nation, that many of us do not agree with what has happened to us, this is why BNP is getting heard.

High taxation, increased crime and general public dissatisfaction is an omen.

BASIL DAVIE

Kennel Row

Netheravon