I SEE Mel Stride MP (last week's Courier: "News from Parliament") has started his re-election campaign early; he needs to!

After last week's shambles in the Commons and Lords over immigration and the very conditional EU referendum, it is clear that the Tories remain split three ways over our EU membership.

Ken Clarke can't wait for Westminster to become "like a county council under Brussels"; David Cameron pretends that he would like to give us a choice, but has made it clear that he would vote to stay IN, however puny the concessions made by Brussels (likely to be very puny indeed).

Then you have the Cashes and Carswells, who continue the Tory tradition of talking a good game but achieving virtually nothing.

Some of you may be aware that later this year a whole raft of further powers are to be transferred overseas, when Qualified Majority Voting displaces unanimity (ie, we lose our veto, so can and almost certainly will, be outvoted on all sorts of issues; for instance immigration and criminal law).

It must be clear by now to many of you that the Conservatives remain as committed as ever to our membership of the EU - and if you study Mr Stride's voting record, it is clear that he appears unconcerned about the unceasing transfer of powers to Brussels.

If this concerns you and you desire REAL change, then there is only one Party you should vote for, and it is neither Lib, Lab or Con.

They like to pretend that they are all different, and they may be, but the constraints put upon them by our EU membership prevents any of them from carrying out the reforms this country so desperately needs.

Bob Edwards

UKIP Chairman

Central Devon

Salmonhutch

Crediton