24TH AUGUST 2010: Over the past fifty years the former mill towns of East Lancashire have changed beyond recognition. They have been colonised.

The towns that provided the brave Pals regiments for the First World War now look more like part of Pakistan than part of the Red Rose county.

Many residents of these areas write to their MEP expressing their bewilderment and anger at the change to their neighbourhood which has taken place without their consultation. Sometime the letters, especially from the older generation, are desperate and all hope seems to have ebbed away.

This was one received yesterday from a lady in Nelson.

"I'm 80 years of age and looking forward to the end of my life, hopefully it will be soon.

"Since the 1960s my beloved town has been systematically ethnically cleansed. Nelson folk have left and have been replaced by families from the other side of the world. It's not the same town where I was born and brought up in, and my parents and their parents before me.

"I don't want to live here any more but don't want to go any where else either. I think about my dear uncle who at just 17 left these very streets along with his friends and neighbours to die for this country in the trenches in France.

What did he died for? To give Pakistanis a future in Britain? For Britain to become an Islamic country? Because that's what it seems like looking out from my front room window.

"Living here I no longer feel at ease in my home, in my own street, in my own town or in my own country. My friends, neighbours and family have all gone and there is nothing left for me but isolation in an alien environment.

"I have no qualms about meeting my maker because I have nothing now to live for."

It was a desperate letter and Constituency Office manager Tina Wingfield replied immediately.

"Thank you for your letter to Mr Griffin regarding the despair you feel.

"The situation certainly does look incredibly bleak sometimes, and must seem especially so for the older generations who have witnessed such fundamental changes in our population and culture.

"You are not alone in your feelings of frustration and despair and many who feel the way you do have joined the British National Party - the British resistance - and find by taking this small step it helps them to feel more positive.

"The introduction of a few common sense policies, such as a complete halt on any further immigration, withdrawal from the European Union, and the cancellation of foreign aid until the needs of our own people are addressed, could reverse Britain’s headlong descent into chaos. If enough people join together and add their voices to the call for change, it is possible to alter our fate.

"If you would like to speak to a representative about the British National Party, or to receive an information pack, please contact our Enquiries Line: Telephone: 0207 078 3269. 

"I hope you can gain some comfort from the fact that there is one political organisation that is championing the rights and needs of the indigenous British people."

Above one of the TEN mosques in Nelson.