ALL Ukip representatives may not, of course, be xenophobic personally but they have encouraged xenophobia by being part of Ukip (xenophobia means an unreasonable hatred of foreigners – a shortened dictionary definition).

Stuart Love’s letter (September 28) about Nigel Farage being in this position is rather confused.

Basically, Mr Love does not differentiate between someone who incites xenophobia from actually being xenophobic.

Given the rise of racist comments I have experienced from members of the public – I have no doubt that xenophobia has been on the increase.

There has actually been a rise in xenophobia from within the UK recently. So, let’s assume for a moment that Nigel Farage is not xenophobic himself, which is Stuart Loves point – well Molly Scott Cato is still completely correct in what she wrote – when she asserts that Nigel Farage “ferments xenophobia”. Ferment in this context is akin to incite.

Scott Cato did not say he personally was xenophobic.

Molly Scott Cato has been a good political representative as she promotes policies which correlate to the phrase “think globally, act locally”.

All Ukip representatives may on first impressions be doing a good job on the bit of the phrase “act locally” but they fail dismally when it comes to the other part, “think globally”.

For instance, Ukip doesn’t even have any environmental policy at all. What a failure!

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