THE main problem with having a narrow mind is that you can’t help having a narrow view of the world.

Ukip Cllr Mahoney and devoted Ukip member D J Radford have launched an unsophisticated attack upon Karen Tyre because she dared to expose and criticise Ukip and their narrow world view.

Like Mr Farage’s shameful exploitation of the murders in Paris in order to attack our proud British tradition of multiculturalism, Mr Radford points to a tragic murder in order to tarnish the name of all immigrant men, women and children.

Ukip are at their roots a splinter group from the Conservative Party, having left in 1993 over the division caused in the mother party over the Single Currency and the signing of the Maastricht Treaty.

Mr Farage was a proud member of the Tories between 1977 and 1993, a period that saw brutal attacks on the working and living conditions of the majority of the population, on the Welsh valleys and wider communities, by the party and government he loved.

Mr Radford writes angrily “who care where they get their funding?” voters, Mr Radford, that’s who.

Your party bangs on about opposing the elite and their support of the rich, but when Ukip is itself exposed as having millionaire backers, we are told “yeah, who cares?!”

Whoever controls the purse strings controls the part. If millionaires fund Ukip, then Farage will not implement policies that go against their interests. As with their policies on the NHS, Ukips tactics and views jump back and forth on the wind of popular demand, lacking the integrity to stick to a core value for longer than a few months.

The Labour Party, for whom I have voted but to which I have never belonged, is part funded by the Trade Unions and rightly so. The unions represent the interests of millions of working and retired people. This is an under-utilised lever of influence upon the policies of that party.

As to Ukip voters, no one is suggesting that all those who vote Ukip are racist. A third of working class people have always voted Tory.

Ukip will use left-wing rhetoric on housing, the NHS and food banks to try and present themselves as an alternative whilst not giving a damn about these issues.

I have not the space here to list the almost daily homophobic, sexist, racist statements that have come from your candidates and councillors, and voters only have to look at the newsstands to see why Ukip are unfit for office.

I would like to applaud Karen Tyre for speaking out against this joke of a party and would encourage every voter out there to do the same, and to look into the truth about Ukip, to look at the real government stats on immigration, to lay the blame for society’s problems where it really lies – upon the rich elite that Ukip come from.

And as a general response to the two commentators from Ukip, I am reminded of the words of Thomas Paine “To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead”.

Dean Scurlock

Penarth