REGARDING Kieron Marsden's comment -- "Shocked, stunned, saddened and ashamed" -- about the BNP victory in Blackburn (Letters, November 28), having left Blackburn to live in Bristol, which, according to his sense of morality, must be a perfect location to reside in.

The only thing Keiron was correct about was that we are still decent people and, yes, once proud of our town. But that it is starting to disappear bit by bit as we are overburdened by people who don't give a damn about our town, either the history or the future.

They seem to be just preoccupied with what they can get out of it with the least effort. Kieron, I think, wouldn't recognise the Blackburn of old -- vast areas not safe to walk in, a skyline that is being depleted of church spires and being added to by the domes of mosques, a racial equality committee that cannot agree on anything and going by the photo in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, is composed completely of Asians, which beggars belief.

I also assume Kieron thinks we are stupid and don't understand what the BNP stands for. But we do, as we know what all the political parties stand for.

He seems to think that the BNP are subverting the decent people of Mill Hill. Well, let me tell him, they couldn't if they tried.

The truth is, the people of Mill Hill are using the BNP, which is a completely different situation. The voters are using the BNP to bring Blackburn to the attention of the politicians living in a cloud cuckoo land in such places as London and perhaps Bristol who don't have a grasp on the reality of life in places like Blackburn and Burnley.

I have read with some amusement the thoughts of people who don't live anywhere near here, who don't have a clue what it is like. All I can say is: either keep quiet or move back here to live.

PAUL DUMON, Calgary Avenue, Lammack, Blackburn.