CHANGING the parliamentary boundaries of Dursley does indeed seem to be a waste of taxpayers’ money and would add much unnecessary red tape.

Not exactly a priority spend when you have the elderly having to sometimes lie in their own discharge until morning because government cuts have reduced the budget for their carers.

On this point I agree with the sentiment from Ukip’s Dean Turner (Letters, October 55.10.16) who also points out that there is: “n “Not much joined-up thinking,” when considering the consequences of removing Dursley from Stroud constituency. I would like to encourage more “joined- up thinking” from Ukip too.

For instance, Ukip seems happy to accept the projections from science which lead to say -– safe aeroplane travel –– but, when scientific projections are applied to global warming (and the extensive loss of species and human suffering which will result by unabated CO2 emissions), then Ukip just buries its head.

Ukip does not follow the logic of science when it comes to global warming nor does it incorporate that reality into it’s policies.

In fact they are glaringly absent.

We cannot trust a political party which ignores such a huge thing – arguably the largest humanly controllable issue ever.

Even if you genuinely didn’t care about global warming and were only selfishly motivated by money, then Lord Stern has demonstrated it will cost us less to address CO2 now and mitigate than pay for the consequences later.

Bringing the issue to current time -– within the last month, data released shows that large corporations have started to include the Paris Climate Change Agreement into their plans. T- these global companies have a total combined market cap of $12 trillion – yes that’s 1,000 billion dollars in value. They are so large they affect our lives in Dursley and Stroud.

The point is: governments and large corporations across the world have accepted global warming and are addressing it.

Ukip does not! Ukip does not have joined up thinking. Ukip actually denies science when convenient (upon which our industrial society has been built) and you cannot trust a political party that does this – even when they sound reasonable on a local level (and keeping Dursley is reasonable!).

It is time to realise that Ukip was successful as a single issue party – (and has made a point with the EU) – but they are incapable of taking on the bigger picture as a political party and should therefore not be supported any more.

Adi Lawton

Stroud