IF a country does not have Carte Blanche over its own internal and external security, it is no better than a province of the European Union's unelected decision makers.

It is surely an anathema that an elected government, with agreement from the law courts and the Houses of Lords, should decide to remove a person from this country and have that decision blocked by judges sitting in a foreign court who have not been elected by the British people.

Our government should pass a law which will make our laws on security superior to all European Union laws, and the British people should remove from office any government that does not pass that law and deny any appeal to the court of human rights that is against our security and protection of our people.

As more and more MPs are becoming insure about the benefit of being attached to the European community, perhaps the British people should be given the options of a plebiscite to decide not only if they agree with certain Community laws, but if they want to remain in the European Community at all.

Lady Thatcher envisaged the whole of Europe as one tight trading block; but even the present members argue about the permissible bend in a cucumber or even if Britain can keep her present sausage.

The whole idea of a trading block is madness to a nation which has always thrived on the logic of the market being open to all and that free trade benefits all.

Most of us think that we should extricate ourselves from the European Community stranglehold and go back to trading with everybody.

Not just because trading is fair, Christian and honest, but because it makes better long term sense.

Roy Cross

Kent Court

Bolton