THE European Union is at it again. This unelected, interfering bunch of bureaucrats now wants to end the football transfer fee system.

Not content with undermining our fishing industry, farming, road haulage, legal system railways, and so on, transfer fees have now been declared illegal under EU law.

Every football fan knows that our smaller clubs rely on spotting and signing up new talent.These young players are then brought on, over a few seasons, and transferred to the premier league clubs for a substantial fee.

This money is then reinvested in the game by the smaller clubs and so the process goes on.

Why do we put up with this increasing level of interference in our daily lives? Will nothing shake Britain out of its complacency, not even this threat to our national game? We voted to join a "Common Market" not a political "Union".

We were asked if we wished to have closer trade links with Europe, not if we wanted them to take over our country and replace our Parliamentary democracy with an unelected and uncontrollable bureaucracy.

How is it that most people have failed to spot this gigantic EU confidence trick which is being played on them? It is simply that the three main political parties are not bothering to discuss it with us ordinary voters.

The Labour Party and the Liberals are both in favour of full EU integration. The Conservatives still cling to the ridiculous notion that we can be "in Europe but not run by Europe", despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Never mind our football or the Pound. If we want keep an independent country, we had all better wake up, before it's too late for us to escape.

RICHARD SPENCER.

Court Road, Malvern.