A "GUILTY" verdict makes a man or woman a criminal. They have committed a crime against the state. Their particulars are forever filed on a police computer file. Whose law was broken?

Not that of the United Kingdom, but that of Europe.

I refer to the shopkeeper who was convicted of selling bananas in pounds and ounces.

The manner in which this was done can be described only as entrapment. It show that the Europhiles and the Labour government will go to any lengths to abolish all that is English.

It also means that the citizens of the United Kingdom, having lost the privilege of free speech and expression, have now been deprived of the gift of free choice.

We are not allowed to use our own discretion and choose. The hypocrisy of this is that the European Commission and Blair are always bleating about Human Rights.

The fact is that any citizen has only the rights that a government will permit. Now we have none, it is nothing more than rhetoric.

It means we have lost the gift of free will, the power to choose what course of action to take with the will to carry it through.

Free speech and expression, free choice, free will - we had them all. Now, through apathy, we have lost them.

How has this come about? Basically the people of the United Kingdom have become too prosperous. In their prosperity they have cast out all that matters.

They don't know about such values as truth, loyalty, honour and honesty. Most are as corrupt as the Europeans and the Labour Government.

REV D G GRIFFIN,

Newland, Malvern.