Being totally disenchanted with the main three "democratic" parties, I cast around for an alternative and finally decided that UKIP would be the best choice.

Imagine my surprise, therefore, when the results showed the British National Party had beaten them in virtually every area where they both stood, in some cases many times over.

If this is not confirmation that proportional representation where every vote has an equal weight is long overdue, I don't know what is.

To describe this country as a democracy when the present govenment has only 35 per cent of the vote and less than a quarter of electors voted for them is the mathematics of a madhouse - did not the actual number of votes cast for the Conservatives exceed those cast for Labour?

They say we get the policiticians we deserve and, if David Davies had been Conservative leader, I might have voted Tory.

The fact he was passed over and who was responsible calls for an inquiry into who actually runs the party.

-Andrew Harrington, Hove