Is this town really a symbol of Britain’s decline?

JOHN HUMPHRYS should have done a bit more homework before describing the travails of Lowestoft (Mail). He refers to Lowestoft’s historic role in the fishing industry — and the town was indeed a key player in offshore fishing. What he didn’t discover is that for 40 to 50 years Lowestoft has been closely involved in the offshore gas industry, bringing many thousands of jobs. There has also been a recent announcement from the Government that the world’s biggest offshore wind farm will be built off the coast at Lowestoft, bringing a further 3,000 jobs and £2 billion of investment. So Lowestoft will once again be ‘reaping the rewards of the sea’.

Mr D. B. PROVAN, Gisleham, Suffolk. JOHN HUMPHRYS’S description of Lowestoft speaks for millions of disenfranchised British people being led by the metropolitan elite of career politicians in Westminster. They create more problems than they solve and never learn, because they never listen. The Westminster Lib/Lab/Con cartel has taken this country to a place we no longer recognise, increasing our debt to £1.5 trillion, overloading our roads, services, hospitals and schools, criminalising ordinary people for minor misdemeanours, selling off Britain to foreigners and undermining key industries. No wonder parties like Ukip are on the rise; they represent what ‘ordinary’ people are shouting at their TVs, as away-with-the-fairies, never-hada-proper-job MPs tell us what they want and think. They haven’t a clue what the democracy they pretend to believe in really means. By their ignorance, the Lib/Lab/Con cartel created Ukip and, sadly, the media too seems to have its own agenda so our isolated, inexperienced and selfserving MPs are condemned to live in ignorance while we’re condemned to suffer the endless decline of this country unless we have a sea change in how we’re led.

PHIL GRANGER, West Malling, Kent.