Letter: This island race

Sir: Like Robert Craig (letter, 17 June), I used the occasion of the European elections to register a protest against Labour government "spin" and its appalling record on freedom of information legislation and environmental issues. Unlike Mr Craig, however, I went and voted for another party.

Subsequently I discovered that several acquaintances did the same, one even after a lifetime of voting labour. I suspect that the efforts of voting and non-voting protesters will go unnoticed by the Labour Party post-election forensics team, however. They are probably busy rounding up focus groups for testing attitudes to the euro.

V St CLAIR

London WC1