6 THE Commission for Racial Equality represents just nine per cent of the population in this area. Yet nationally (Evening News, March 28), it has obtained a pledge from major political parties not to play "the race card" in any election campaign.

Does that mean there should be no mention of asylum seekers or the question of immigration? No potential MP, councillor or party manifesto dare now mention this or anything which could be construed as having a racial connotation.

This is censorship in an ugly form imposed on British politics by a vociferous minority, something never seen before in any British general or local election. Whatever happened to freedom of speech?

F L JONES, Malvern.