SIR - I wonder how many of those, including Councillor Richard Udall and Philip Bushill-Matthews, who try to extol the virtues of the treacherous European Union as the only answer for the future of the United Kingdom and criticise myself and others in our attempts to bring out the truth are aware of how a new EU directive can become law?

There is now a general precedence of EU law over UK law by default.

While at present our Parliament still has nominal sovereignty it can still reject any EU directive, but if it doesn't, the directive then becomes law by default.

Strictly speaking, our Parliament can always reverse anything, it merely has to pass a simple Act saying so.

It is also a fundamental tenet of our system that no Parliament can bind its successors to any previously passed law.

Parliament would, though, find it difficult to pass retro-active legislation.

So, any EU law that slips through becomes valid UK law unless it's specifically repealed later. But it gets even worse. There is a little known device called the override' that's often used to bypass the UK Parliament and so thwart any scrutiny of EU directives. The override is a most powerful tool being used by the Government to replace UK democracy with EU law without the majority of our MPs even knowing what is happening.

TONY EAVES, Martin Hussingtree.