Roger Hudson accuses me of "europaranoia" (Letters, August 5). This is a classic example of the Labour left descending to invective.

Yes, Mr Hudson, I did stand for the UK Independence Party - the country's fourth biggest in terms of paid-up members - in May.

No, we are not paranoid, just wise to those who once opposed membership of the world's biggest corruption club but who have since been seduced by all those jobs for the boys financed by Brussels - almost a third of a million and still rising.

The parallel development of Blunkett's ID card scheme and Europol's database of "troublemakers" isn't paranoia either, any more than is the ruination of Third World farmers by high import tariffs and repeated dumping, or of our own agriculture, industry and fisheries via treacherous deals conducted in secret.

Neither is it paranoia to criticise the EU's migrant labour strategy, beneficial to our politicians' owners because it means lower wage bills but which has stripped poor countries of their essential workers and which the left pathetically tries to camouflage as mere "asylum-seeking".

-Ian Hills, Brighton