Eric Leaver earns full marks for his unbiased views on the Burnley Council elections (LET, May 8). Almost the whole combined weight of the media, TV, radio and newspapers vied with each other in attempting to vilify the British National Party.

Some of these pundits even labelled the BNP voters of Burnley and Oldham as Nazis, racists, fascists, etc.

Yet these elections were held to be democratic. It is par for the course that the liberal elite cannot stomach any decision that goes against them.

Whether they like it or not, immigration is and has been for many years a major issue in this and other countries. But if anyone dares to mention this very grave problem they are immediately labelled 'racist.'

It is never stated by anyone that mass immigration into this small, now grossly-overpopulated country was and remains a policy for which no government ever had a mandate. The silent majority neither wanted it or approved of it.

No-one would have objected to a reasonable number of immigrants, as was the case with refugees from war-torn Europe in the immediate post-war period.

Had the nettle been grasped long ago and entry restricted, there would have been no National Front or BNP. There is genuine unrest in Belgium, Holland, Italy, Denmark, Germany and Austria.

Like it or not, many people all over the western world now feel threatened and branding them 'racists' will solve nothing.

J K FIELDING, St Cecilia Street, Great Harwood.