SO, at last, we have David Davis MP making a stand, sticking up for what he thinks is right - and I don't care if it's a stunt or not.

I'm just so glad that our liberties are at last to be debated, talked about and brought out into the open, so we can see how over the last decade we have slowly, but surely, been robbed of some our most basic freedoms.

Restrictions that have been put in place are changing the pattern of our lives; petty rules restrict us, while red tape and bureaucracy is handcuffing and stifling enterprise.

And so it's been left to Ireland to make the stand, to say No to the European Treaty. We, of course, are not considered intelligent enough to have any say in the matter and are thereby not allowed to make a choice.

Of course, we do want to be involved with Europe and trade with them, but for us to be ruled by them, an unelected body, is a completely different matter.

We must retain the right to be governed by ourselves, with the parliament the country elects, even if it's not the one I would personally choose.

All sorts of edicts emanate from across the Channel and do we want these all these restrictions and instructions?

It's as though they are under the impression that we have no brains, or common sense.

Take sell-by dates on food - we do have eyes and a sense of smell, so we know when it's 'off'!

Oh! I could go on and on, but on to more pleasant things: it's June and the countryside is green again.

Heck, I can remember Diana Durbin singing that - I think the next line is 'And the world is 17 again.' But sadly it's not and I feel we should be bringing our troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq.

All this interfering in the governing and the governments of other countries is really not our business and should we really be asking our young soldiers to lay down their lives for what is not our concern?

What we should be concentrating on is the proper running of our own country.

Only than, when we can honestly say, hand on heart, that everything here is hunky dory' and above reproach can we dare to say others do as we do'.