SIR – Re the letter from Euro MP candidate for the Green Party, Will Duckworth ‘It’s a scandal that we need food banks’ (Worcester News, July 30).

Perhaps if people weren’t paying ‘green’ taxes of 11 per cent on their gas bills and 26 per cent on their electric bills to build virtually useless windmills or equally useless solar panels, both of which are only viable when given huge taxpayer-funded subsidies, they’d have more to spend on food.

I have said many times that we cannot sustain our population from our own farms. Indeed we have double the number of people our farms can feed.

I have warned that Government knows we are soon going to face food shortages, indeed a United Nations report has warned global food prices will rise by 40 per cent by 2023 because of global population growth.

Even the boss of Tesco says the era of “cheap food” is over.

Mass immigration, and the lunacy of concreting over up to another 600 square miles of our farmland for millions more houses, is going to make our food prices even higher. But I’m lucky, I won’t be around when the food runs out.

Those my generation leaves behind are in deep trouble even now, and they can’t – won’t – see what’s coming.

They can’t see our country has doubled the number of people its agriculture can feed, and that nationally immigration is adding massively to the problems we have.

They can’t see our world isn’t going to support the 10 or perhaps even 11 billion people it will have by 2050.

You only have to look at the number of letters to the Worcester News concerning Worcester’s road network to see people are clueless when it comes to what is strategically environmentally sustainable.

It’s not housing or roads, or indeed “growth” they should be discussing; it’s where their food is going to come from and how much it’s going to cost, especially as millions more people are poured into our nation, by Westminster’s barmy army, by order of their European commanders.

We’re going to need a lot more than an inquiry into the link between welfare and food poverty.

We should be demanding that our MPs explain how, and at what cost, they are going to feed our 80-plus million people in a world that will soon have twice the people global agriculture can feed.

Then there’s the question of how badly catastrophic climate change is going to affect global agriculture.

N TAYLOR

Worcester