SIR - Terry James is wrong about Tony Blair "losing the plot" - in fact our Prime Minister is putting the successful final touches to a job started by Mrs Thatcher 25 years ago.

Mr Blair should receive the credit he's due - a congressional medal for being the best confidence trickster ever to work for the USA.

He will be able to look back on a very successful career in Britain dismantling our democracy, turning the Labour party into a laughing stock and making the EU a carbon copy of the Dickensian USA.

It's not everyone who could do such an effective hatchet job, Terry - but the question we should be asking is: will America's next UK puppet government be any better? Somehow I doubt it. If I was younger I'd be off to live in France without a backwards glance.

JIM EVANS,

Worcester.