PHILIP Bushill-Matthews, MEP, claims that the EU Constitution is as dead as a dodo. I suggest he speaks to his fellow MEPs who would clearly dispute this statement.

Apparently the main proposal is that a new treaty should be drawn incorporating many of the points included in the Constitution.

This new treaty would then be approved by the Parliaments not the people of the member countries. Then in 2009 on the day of the next EU elections a retrospective vote could be held across the EU to ratify the decision of the parliaments.

This would allow the EU fanatics three-and-half years to embed it into the bureaucracy of the EU from whose warm embrace it would never escape. Our only hope is a referendum on whether we remain in the

EU as suggested by the Independence and Democracy Group in the EU Parliament.

PETER LLOYD,

Malvern.