I WOULD like to applaud all the Cardiff residents who expressed their anger for, and distaste towards Ukip at the ‘Stand Up To Ukip’ stall on Albany Road, Cardiff last Saturday.

When the media seem determined to exaggerate the standing and popularity of this fringe group of, in the words of David Cameron in 2006, ‘Loonies, fruitcakes and closet-racists’, the majority of people who don’t consider themselves racists, or who see that the politicians and the tax-dodging rich are to blame rather than immigrants, can feel as if they are alone in their opposition to Ukip.

On March 21 the ‘Stand Up To Racism’ demonstrations will be held in Cardiff, London and Glasgow and welcomes everyone, regardless of political loyalties, who is against racism, fascism and Islamophobia.

In an atmosphere of anti-Semitism, the rise of the far-right in Europe and the negativity being spread by anti-immigrant parties, it is essential that as many Cardiff and South Wales people come to Cardiff on March 21 and say to all the racists out there that they do not speak for the majority of people in this great country that stands for tolerance and not for hate.

Dean Scurlock

Penarth