So, we now have a thousand convicted foreign criminals, including murderers, rapists and paedophiles, walking our streets when they should have been deported years ago at the end of their sentences - and our Government does not even know where they are. It beggars belief.

Almost all the recent opinion polls indicated the BNP would do well in Friday's local elections. And can you wonder why, when they would have ensured that the feet of these people would not have touched the ground from the minute they left the prison gates?

What this country is crying out for is the smack of firm patriotic government and this is where the three main parties have been failing for years, petrified by the race-relations industry and political correctness.

And what does the timid leader of our "Opposition" Party do? Why, he trots off to the Arctic to watch a glacier melt. And Mr Tony Blair visits a Hindu temple for yet another photo opportunity.

The British public should have risen in outrage when the poor Norfolk farmer Tony Martin was imprisoned for simply defending his home and livelihood.

But we can now see the criminal is king and woe betide those law-abiding taxpayers who defend themselves too strenuously.

-Jeremy Hall-Morris, The Drive, Hove