SIR - N Taylor (Letters July 6) asks why we have a regional government in operation, when we have not voted for one. The answer is that the British Government was obliged to divide the UK into regions in line with our treaty obligations to the EU.

As far as the European Commission is concerned, the UK comprises 12 Euro-Regions, each with its own assembly. This process is already well underway - Scotland, Wales and Ulster will be Euro-Regions in their own right, as will "London & the South East", and have been given their own devolved assemblies already.

The reason that England can't have its own parliament/assembly, like Scotland or Wales, is that it is to be split into a further eight regions. As Mr Taylor says, the administration for this is in place now, and these assemblies are to replace our county and district councils and, in time, our national government, as they will eventually answer directly to Brussels. By then, there will no Worcestershire, because our historic shire counties will have ceased to exist.

The only time anyone was consulted on the destruction of our country, was when our New Labour Government held a referendum in the "North Eastern Region", to try and pin a fig-leaf of legitimacy on this process. They spent a lot of time, and our money, campaigning for a `yes' vote. The result was 197,310 in favour of a regional assembly, and 696,519 against! Despite this resounding rejection, the North East still has its assembly, as do we here in the West Midlands "UK-G" Euro-Region". After this, New Labour gave up trying to involve us in such decisions, so regionalisation is being stealthily but steadily forced on us anyway. That is why our police, fire and ambulance services are to be merged into regional units.

R G SPENCER,

Malvern.