I REFER to the orrespondence that David Andrews' letter has generated on "Europe."

We are all familiar with the publicity, gained by supermarkets attempting to sell branded goods, obtained on the so-called "grey market", at prices charges way beneath those normally charged.

Who now remembers that the high prices being charged for those "designer" brands were cobbled together in "Europe"?

If my memory is correct, "Europe" gave the suppliers of branded goods an open licence to rip off the public. The comment was made that "things", like CDs and cars, were cheaper in "Europe".

Those goods are also very much cheaper in the US, where the anti-price fixing, and anti-cartel laws would prevent the sort of stitch-ups we see in Europe.

That people are quick to take sides in something like the fox-hunting debate, while largely ignoring the way we are being ripped off, on many of the things we buy, shows how gullible and apathetic we have become.

N TAYLOR,

Worcester