Madam,

It is a curious anomaly that, as a side effect of making our electoral system fairer, we are almost certain to end up with Neil Hamilton of UKIP as one of our Assembly Members.

I can only assume this realisation is coming to people slowly, otherwise there would be riots in the streets.

For the benefit of younger voters, Neil Hamilton is famous for one thing, and one thing only.

In the 1990s, Mr Hamilton was an MP who was alleged to have been paid to ask questions in the Commons.

He was alleged to have asked 22 questions on behalf of Mr Al Fayed, in return for brown envelopes of cash and lavish stays at the Paris Ritz.

He has always denied he was paid to ask lots and lots of questions on a subject of no interest to his constituents.

A 300-year-old law was changed to allow an MP to sue for libel, and he was planning to take The Guardian to court.

However, Mr Hamilton then withdrew the case before it started.

Undeterred by this, he stood for re-election in 1997, but his tired electorate threw him out.

His career after Westminster has been an embarrassing attempt to grease himself onto the celebrity circuit.

For UKIP to make him their number one candidate in the Assembly elections in one of the most pro-Eu parts of Britain is an insult to us all.

Yours etc,

Tony Jones,

Blaenplwyf,

Aberystwyth.