IN reply to the recent article in The Bolton News by the UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall on roaming charges within the EU costing British pensioners more to ‘Pay as you Go’.

This law seeks to end the excess profits that mobile phone operators have been making from roaming charges and overcharging users up to five times the amount it costs to make calls.

It does not stop mobile operators making a decent return, so there is no excuse for them to push up domestic charges to try and recoup lost profits; Labour Euro MPs asked the regulator OFCOM to closely monitor this to ensure operators do not attempt to do this. Mr Nuttall is simply parroting an industry line that they used to oppose this law. Is he now the self-appointed spokesperson for the mobile industry? What happened to representing the interests of his constituents?

Was Mr Nuttall even present in the European Parliament when this vote took place? Or was he, as is usual among UKIP MEPs, representing his constituents from his office in Lancaster?

Paul Egan Bolton