Your story about a Ukip meeting in Portslade (February 20) reported the anti-fascist contributions but did not report questions from three pro-EU people present.

I asked Janice Atkinson, who is campaigning to be elected as an MEP for the South-Eastern region, if she actually planned to do the job at the European Parliament if she was elected.

I asked her this because her website claims she will work hard as an MEP if elected, but I had heard her say in answer to a question that it was not worth working in the Parliament because Ukip had no chance of being influential there. So she planned to spend her salary and allowances in campaigning in the UK for Ukip.

I think if you are elected to do a job and paid a lot of money in salary and expenses you should do it properly. Ukip MEPs mostly don’t take much part in the work of the Parliament and I gather from her reply that Janice Atkinson doesn’t intend to either. So I suggest we don’t elect her to it.

Ukip can’t have it both ways – it doesn’t like the fact that we have decided to act in concert with the rest of Europe on such little matters as international trade (to the huge benefit of industry and business in this country – why else do 80% of CBI members want to stay in Europe?) but it is a fact.

Refusing to do the job one is elected to is, to use a very English expression no doubt loved by Ukip voters, not cricket.

The European Movement (www.euromove.org.uk) campaigns for people to vote in the EU elections and to vote for pro-EU candidates who will play their part in the EU.

The EU is not perfect – like any system it has its faults – but ignoring it is not a sensible approach.

Sarah Leigh, Jarvis Lane, Steyning