TWO very different letters in last week’s Chard & Ilminster News raised some very valid points about the current state of the UK.

The first from Nick White highlighted the ever-increasing congestion on our roads following the destruction of our railway system and the massive influx of immigrants over the past 50 years.

The second from Neil Arnold referred to a variety of social problems, again caused by mass immigration, and I might add the total failure of the present and previous governments to take matters in hand and offer the British people a clear choice on EU membership so we can run our own affairs again.

To cap it all, we now have Nicola Sturgeon saying she does not want the UK to have such a referendum, despite the Scottish people having had one of their own on whether to remain part of the UK or not, and the great democrat Tony Blair saying the British people cannot be trusted with a vote on their own future.

How hypocritical and totally shameful on both counts.

The choices are clear. Vote Tory and continue the same old rhetoric we have had for the last five years, vote LibDem and get nowhere, vote Labour and get the SNP, or vote Ukip and get our country back. I believe in Britain, and so should the rest of us.

Serena Lonton, Ilton