BECAUSE I got so fed up with listening to politicians, national and local, bickering and spouting yet coming up with no answers to the way society is today, I have just joined the Green Party.

Let's take the foot and mouth debate -- it is the green view that globilisation is the main cause of the outbreak and that foods should come from local sources.

Also, rather than offering large subsidies to ecologically-damaging agri-business, farmers should be given this funding to help with organic non-polluting farming methods. To do this, the EU should be reformed as a confederation of regions providing a framework for local and regional, sustainable economic activity.

GRAHAM CARTER, Kingsway, Lower Darwen, Blackburn.