DID you know that the proposed constitution for the European Union could effectively end Britain's history as an independent nation?

The proposed constitution is openly federalist and would leave us only a few steps away from a unitary European state.

This new state would have no place for democratic accountability or the interest of the individual member nations, which would cease to exist in any meaningful sense.

Under its terms, Britain could lose its seat on the UN Security Council, individual membership of NATO, the right to its own foreign policy, its own police force and courts, and control over social policy, public heath, transport, justice, agriculture, fisheries, energy, the economy, consumer protection, the environment, internal and external trade and even taxation.

What red-blooded Briton could accept all of this?

D BULLEN (Mr), Albany Road, Blackburn.