IN his latest letter to The Argus regarding fracking, Kenny Lloyd says: “I would like to ask Nigel Furness (Ukip) the following question: If our water becomes polluted, who do we blame?

“Is it the politicians who told us they will frack, or the electorate who voted for those politicians knowing they are going to frack?

Well, Kenny, in the first instance, my party would blame any politicians who had high-handedly imposed such a process upon any area of our country without first involving the local community and getting them on board.

One of Ukip’s core beliefs is the empowerment of the electorate, nationally and locally, by means of referenda on key issues, such as Brexit.

While on that subject, I might add that the ridiculous Cuadrilla farce at Balcombe would NEVER have come about had West Sussex County Council’s Tory administration adopted such a sensible stance.

What they did was attempting to ride roughshod over the local residents, and we all remember how that ended in tears for them.

In the second instance, were the fracking issue to rear its head during the term in office of a future UKkip administration, we would, prior to any local referendum having been agreed, require any scientists involved to provide us with cast iron proof that our water supplies would suffer NO contamination whatsoever.

And furthermore, no such processes would ever be considered near any centres of population or in national parks or Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

So, Kenny, should this ever happen, on the scientists’ heads be it.

In finishing, Kenny, when you talk of “Brextremists” and go on to refer to “the infinite wisdom of the electorate”, little do you realise the sheer irony of your further comment on fracking that “Here in Sussex, we have an old Saxon phrase: We wunt be druv”.

How right you are because, you see, the vast majority of Sussex electors vote for Brexit.

Be careful what you wish for, Kenny.

Nigel Furness Brighton and Hove Ukip