IT would appear that Tony Blair is now almost ready for his full-steam-ahead push to achieve his three wishes.

These are first to eliminate the pound and adopt the Euro, second to eliminate the countries and adopt EU-required regions and, thence, third to eliminate our sovereignty and push us into a federal state of Europe.

He must never be allowed to succeed. We were hoodwinked and conned by Ted Heath some 30 years ago and must not let Tony Blair do the same to us again.

This time it would be fatal and it must be remembered that over the past four years New Labour has honed its craft, stealth and sleaze to perfection.

No doubt Tony Blair would be the first to start loading that bullion from our gold reserves that would have to be shipped to Frankfurt but it must never happen. Did not politicians try eliminating some of our counties before and also pushing others together?

However, people's wishes prevailed and we how have Worcestershire, Rutland, Somerset and so on back with us. Did not trying to keep socialist countries together fail? Every country should keep its sovereignty and rule itself in its own way to the wishes of its people.

Tony Blair will try every trick in the book to make us follow him step-by-step - but at each step all we have to ask ourselves is - do we want to lose our sovereignty? Let us ensure that he gets and fully undertakes the message from us all. There'll always be an England.

E F SHOWELL,

Worcester.