WITH the approach of the May local elections, I expect we will have the usual exhortations from the church and the media not to vote for the British National Party.

Who then are patriotic people who do not support multiculturism which has been thrust on them expected to vote for?

A Labour Party which has turned on the English people while kowtowing to immigrants?

A LibDem party which has said it will do away with our borders, or what is left of them?

A Tory party which is obviously intent on going along the same route?

The BNP's only "crime" is to want a country their children can call their own. For this they are persecuted. I can only wonder at what England is coming to.

AP Turner, Ferryhill.

A LOT of the policies that are favoured by P Rowntree (HAS, April 3) are already favoured by the BNP and the UK Independence Party. I cannot see either of those parties winning a majority at the next General Election.

Mr Rowntree advocated the abandonment of human rights. I always thought that throughout history, Great Britain had prided herself in fighting for human rights and freedoms. If human rights are no virtue why did this country fight Nazi Germany during the Second World War?

This Government is rapidly abandoning traditional British rights and freedoms. There may be some groups such as gays and religious fundamentalists whose rights are protected. The Government has put some 3,000 new laws on the statue book. More people than ever before are in prison. This Government is not doing a bad job in abolishing traditional rights and freedoms.

Both a Labour Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, and the Tory Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, described the referendum as a device of demigods and dictators.

Many people today take pride in having no interest or knowledge of politics. It would be unwise to have referendums in a situation where people are so apathetic.

Peter J Brown, Middlesbrough.

THERE have been lots of letters recently in Hear All Sides regarding the BNP. Do any of your readers know what is their political agenda and full manifesto and what the party stands to achieve when it is elected to power, because the policies that have been printed so far by various correspondents sounds exactly what this country needs right now and the sooner the better.

R Harwood, Shildon.