RATHER than being "wrong on both counts", I believe Mr E F Showell is entirely correct (You Say, October 25) in the views he has expressed, in various letters, over recent months.

It is Paul Griffiths who is wrong, but whether this is due to ignorance or mendacity is impossible to say.

I find it rather odd that a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (which longs for our full integration into a European superstate) does not know that it is the EU's stated aim to become a "Europe of the Regions" by 2009. This will enable it to assimilate the 15 individual nations into a sort of "United States Of Europe".

Under this plan, Britain is to be divided up into 12 Regions, each with its own Assembly. The process is already well underway. Scotland, Wales and Ulster will be EU Regions in their own right, as will "London & the South East", so they have been given their own devolved assemblies already.

It has been suggested that devolution has been "botched" by Mr Blair. In fact, it makes perfect sense, given the ultimate aim of the Euro-Federalists. The reason that England is not allowed to have its own parliament / assembly, like Scotland or Wales, is that it is to be split up into eight further regions. The administration for these are already in place now, as each area has a working "Regional Government Agency".

If all this were explained openly and honestly to the British people, by New Labour and their Lib-Dem stooges, it would, no doubt, be deeply unpopular. So, instead, they deploy the usual spin, half truths and evasions we have come to expect of them.

R G SPENCER,

Malvern.