A HUMBLE greengrocer is given a suspended sentence, for selling a pound of bananas to an undercover trading standards officer, and is made into a criminal.

District Judge Bruce Morgan ruled that European Union law takes precedent over our parliamentary law.

This is the one and only statement, verifying that Brussels now runs this Country, which has not been subject to government spin!

Edward Heath handed over our sovereignty in 1972 and now we are no longer in a position to make our own laws. At last the EU's cover, maintained by New Labour, has been blown.

However, we'll soon have the chance to vote for a mainstream, democratic party that cares for our freedom and sovereignty; that is, the UK Independence Party, which is campaigning for a referendum on our continued EU membership.

Mr Hague wants to "be in Europe but not run by Europe"; how can this be possible? Mr Kennedy wants us to integrate still further into the EU; possibly so he can become a EU Commissioner later on?

We'd be better off out of the EU. We would still trade with the EU (which actually needs to trade with us far more than we need to trade with it) but not under the corrupt and incompetent regime that presently operates by diktat from Brussels.

ALAN JULIER, Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire.