AFTER reading your article about the far right's success in the French presidential elections, I feel a response is in order. I would put a different emphasis on the phrase "wake-up call". Le Pen beat the French prime minister in a democratic election, so what are the French demonstrating about?

The chairman of the CRE says he hopes similar things don't happen in Britain.

If they do he should not be surprised that the aboriginal British feel that their national identity is under threat from so many incoming foreigners, including asylum seekers.

It's not foreigners coming to Britain that's the problem, it's just the numbers.

When a council in the south can ban the flying of the flag of St George, the English national saint, on St George's day because it might upset the ethnic minorities, who came here of their own free will, no wonder the English wonder what is happening to our once-proud country.

If the French are concerned about their nationality so should the rest of Europe be, especially as the migration from other countries appears to be mainly towards Europe.

As far as Britain is concerned, this should be a wake-up call to the here today, gone tomorrow politicians of all parties to do what they were elected to do, to put Britain first and listen to the views of the aboriginal British.

If they don't they may well see a rise of the right wing movements.

Mr R Osborne,

Springbank Avenue,

Dunnington, York.

Updated: 10:18 Monday, April 29, 2002