I’m a season ticket holder at STFC. I’ve just got over the disappointment of missing out on the play offs following the two epic encounters with Brentford. The club clearly needs to restructure following the departure of Paolo Di Canio who, compared to other League One clubs, had a massive budget, which unfortunately was allowed to get out of control. Fans will undoubtedly continue to compare PDC with Kevin McDonald and rightly so, but please remember the revised budget afforded to him will be massively different to PDC.

Now it is back to reality with a massive bump as we pick up the pieces of PDC’s erratic spending. Whoever is in charge, and I hope it is Kevin McDonald, will have to adapt accordingly. Hopefully it will see more younger players coming along, with the likes of Flint and Thompson, who are hungry to succeed in a red shirt, rather than ones, such as Roberts, who appear to be here to pick up inflated salaries rather than perform on the pitch. Supporters want success but we need to be realistic. In my opinion, the club’s at a major crossroads again both on and off the pitch.

We all remember what happened after our last play off campaign with relegation to Division Two. God forbid season 2013/14 will be the same.

Next season will be extremely difficult, so I will happily settle for consolidation.

Alan Wilson Shapwick Close, Swindon

Where are MPs now?

Where’s our Referendum?, the question asked of the Labour Government by then Councillors Justin Tomlinson & Robert Buckland in a Conservative 2010 pre-election publicity leaflet (now available on the Swindon UKIP website). Posing in front of our nation’s flag, both men accurately stated that Labour had failed to honour their promise of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty (EU Constitution).

They correctly said that the treaty would “massively shift more power to Brussels”. They said that David Cameron promised to hold a referendum after the 2010 election and that Gordon Brown could not be trusted as his promise had merely been “just the same old spin”. But once Tomlinson & Buckland were safely lodged in Westminster following the 2010 General Election, they and their party immediately broke their EU referendum promise.

As MPs, they have voted for yet more costly EU integration and loss of democracy in this country, as their publically available voting records show. As they said in 2010, “so much for trust”. Will they pose in front of our flag in 2015 and tell the people of Swindon that it is not “just the same old spin”, that if they are both voted back to Westminster, we will get the long promised referendum?

Why would anyone believe them on this, or indeed any other matter, given their record? John Short Chairman, Swindon UKIP

Climate issue ignored

What planet does Conservative MP for North Swindon Justin Tomlinson thinks he is on?

His article in the Adver (May 10) regarding the State Opening of Parliament is concealing the reality of the failed austerity programme, where millions of working people are suffering loss of income, both in wages and benefits. Is it fair that those unable to pay the bedroom tax are evicted? Is it fair that millions are denied justice through almost complete cutting of legal aid?

Is it fair for every foreigner who enters this country is automatically dubbed a “scrounger” with the Conservatives bending to UKIP’s xenophobia, driven by a tabloid press out of control? To ridicule human rights is a dangerous path to follow and is the first step towards fascism.

The biggest threat facing this country and the whole world is climate change, but no mention is made in the Queen’s Speech in the week when scientists universally warn that climate change is rapidly nearing crisis levels with CO2 levels reaching a record 400 parts per million.

Bill Hughes Swindon Green Party Goddard Avenue, Swindon

Brits glad to leave

UKIP is voice of voters I just had to reply to Mr Thompson attacking UKIP.

Thank goodness most voters are coming to realise they have been the only party to speak with the general voters.

Regarding the number of people leaving here, well Mr Thompson, let me tell you something. 90 per cent of them were British, glad to get away I expect.

G Ing Newcastle Street, Swindon