SIR - As the Bradford representative of a political party specifically created to promote English identity and culture, I have to take issue with the wording of Steve Wright's article (T&A, January 9) concerning the tensions that exist between the Pakistani and Polish immigrant communities.

Let's not fall into the politically correct trap of confusing race with racism.

There is nothing racist in accurately defining the ethnicity of the groups involved, and contrary to what the article intimidated, the indigenous population of Bradford is not Asian, it is English and white.

Firstly, the immigrants Dr Malik refers to as "Eastern European" are, for the most part, Polish, descendants of the Slav tribes who joined to form an independent Poland as early as the 10th century.

Secondly, the community referred to as "Asian" are (in Bradford at least) essentially Pakistani, the descendants of Punjabi, Pashtun, Sindhi and Baloch tribesmen indigenous to what was India before partition in 1947.

The Polish community in Bradford predates the Pakistani one by at least 15 years, but neither takes chronological precedence to the native English population with its unique history stretching back over 15 centuries.

The English people, although mingled, are the descendants of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, and as an ethnic group, with their own history, language and culture, remain quite distinct and separate from their Scottish and Welsh neighbours.

The people indigenous to Bradford are English.

Andrew Clarke (The English Democrats candidate, Wibsey) Halifax Road, Bradford