PETE Winstanley (HAS, Mar 10) calls BNP members "riff-raff". Why is this when they only want a country their children can call their own? Mr Winstanley's version of a country divided by religion, race and culture, with English people browbeaten into accepting it, is not everyone's idea of a homeland fit to live in. It destabilises a nation in which everyone pulls together - a dangerous situation should a national emergency occur.

PC Whelan, Shildon.