I live in Bettws Newydd near Usk where my family have farmed for generations.

Between 1988 and 1992 I built and developed the Alice Springs Golf complex which lies three miles north of Usk Town.

I have two elder sons involved in the supply of grass cutting machinery primarily to the golfing industry. My two younger children are both seeking to become golf professionals.

I have become increasingly concerned about the level of bureaucratic interference in our lives. I believe the Assembly government is another tier of politicians we could well do without.

A vote for UKIP on the list vote will send a clear message to those politicians that it is taxpayers' money they are spending and not theirs.

The National Assembly costs £110 million a year to run and this figure is rising every year.

We believe that this money would be better spent on schools, hospitals, doctors, nurses, and policemen rather than a "talking shop" of politicians in Cardiff Bay.

Our aim is to reduce bureaucracy and the ever increasing amounts of regulation and legislation by abolishing the Welsh Assembly and withdrawing from the European Union.

These are no pipe dreams. Only 25.3 percent of the Welsh population voted for an Assembly and 58 percent of the UK wants immediate withdrawal from the European Union.

We would return to a " trading partnership with our friends in Europe".

The Assembly Government has had little or no impact on the ordinary man in the street (other than the bribe of free prescriptions and bus passes) both of which could have been provided out of the cost of running the Assembly.

The UK Independence Party proposes a Welsh National Council which will be made up of the 40 MPs we already pay for at Westminster. These would meet one week in every four to discuss any new legislation which might affect Wales differently to England and to draft proposals for Wales which would be debate at Westminster.

UKIP is the only major Party which believes mass immigration (1.4 million in the past two years) is unsustainable and will lead to a destabilisation of the way of life for the indigenous population and those already domiciled here.

UKIP believes in a strictly controlled immigration policy. We would reinstate our island borders, (only possible if we regain our independence from the European Union).