THE Labour party of 2014 are full of hypocrites. During the recent Ukip conference the Labour party had an advertising van driving around Barry with the face of Nigel Farage on the advertisement board stating he was a Thatcherite, this coming from the Labour party is rank hypocrisy.

Labour’s shadow secretary of state for Wales took to the streets along with Vales Labour candidate Chris Elmore. Mr Smith states that Ukip is a party led by bankers, oh so who leads the Labour party then? Umm, oh it must be the trade unions.

Reading the rank lies coming from these people is a joke, the trouble with Labour is they are running scared due to the ever growing popularity of Ukip, where was Labour at the last two by-elections, if my memory serves me right Ukip won both.

Mr Elmore and Mr Smith must have forgotten why this country is in such a state, with over 500,000 people using foodbanks, the NHS both in England and Wales is in dire straits due to savage cuts by the Tories in Westminster and the Welsh Government.

Let me just remind them both why we are facing more austerity, and the councils hammering us residents with massive cuts and job losses. Yes its due to the Tory cuts in Westminster BUT the real fault lies with the Labour party who wrecked the economy when Gordon Brown was in charge, yes we all remember Gordon Brown, this is the prime minister who called that poor woman a bigot.

These Labour party figures driving around in a van knocking Farage when they should all be hanging their heads in shame for what the Labour party have done to the good people of this country. Ukip is not responsible for the foodbanks, or the bedroom tax, or the sick and elderly dying because they cannot afford the heating. Yes it was the Tories who implemented the cuts but it’s all due to what the Labour party left them, don't you remember the note left by a Labour politician, ‘there’s no money left'.

Voting Labour is like putting a cross next to the Tories. Ukip are not perfect by any means but Labour after the last lot of clowns, with Milliband in charge, now God help us if he gets in. He will suck up to Merkel and keep us in the most corrupt, undemocratic, dictatorship, called the EU. We the people have not given any government a mandate to be part of the EU, the people voted for a common market, not an EU, so much for democracy by our wonderful politicians.

D J Radford

Coleridge Crescent

Barry