SIR – I recently exchanged correspondence with the Conservative MP for West Worcestershire, Harriett Baldwin, initiated by a simple question from me.

I asked her to explain what the advantage was for the UK in agreeing the ‘open door’ immigration policy foisted on the UK by the undemocratic EU, more particularly at a time when almost a million of our own young people are unemployed and looking for work.

Unfortunately, and in true politician style, she obfuscated instead of answering my question, saying that local farmers say that eastern Europeans are the only workers who will do the agricultural work they have, implying wrongly that agricultural work is the only significant area affected by mass immigration from eastern Europe, when the impact is felt in the hotel, retail, construction, pub, and coffee shop arenas, to name but a few.

She then attempted to justify the policy by referring to a million Brits living and working across the EU, before accusing me of possessing a simplistic understanding of EU immigration.

While it is not at all satisfactory or acceptable for an MP to communicate with her constituents in this way, it is encouraging in that insults are usually an indication of an argument lost.

While it should clearly have been unnecessary, I did explain to her that eastern Europeans had always been able to come and work in the fields of the UK, long before the unfolding EU nightmare.

I also pointed out the obvious fact that the UK citizens she alluded to had left our shores with their brains and money, to benefit other EU economies, whereas because of the open door policy, the UK (among others) are compelled to allow undefined numbers of eastern Europeans, whatever their language abilities, qualifications, skills, or intentions, to come to Britain on the flimsy basis that they belong to countries that have been absorbed into the EU club.

I do not blame the migrants.

After all, which of us would not seek to better our lives given the opportunity to?

I do blame our three main political parties who cooingly reassure us that we still live in a democracy, while they sign away our nation’s sovereignty, and run and hide if the R (referendum) word is mentioned.

WILL RICHARDS

Malvern