SIR – Coun John Cole (Letters, March 31) must have been really rattled at UKIP’s candidate in Barnsley upstaging the Lib Dems to have a jibe at our success.

UKIP has been pushing other parties down the ladder, too, in recent times. John Stuart Mills, Beveridge and even John Milton, whether he had just lost or regained paradise, were staunch Liberals, not watered-down Lib Dems.

The councillor has not kept their faith! The current ones are withering on the vines of their illustrious forbears. The day before (Letters, March 30), another of your readers labelled UKIP as a one-policy party. Nonsense. We have policies on all main issues which will all become possible and facilitated by our leaving the EU. Philip Bird, Treasurer, UKIP Bradford, Nab Wood Terrace, Shipley