SO we are blessed, for another four years or so, with a member of parliament who will soon support the effective ending of our national independence by the tried and trusted means of scrapping our currency.

There has never been a currency without a state and Europe, or more accurately Greater Germany, will soon be that State.

Some people have short memories or, alternatively, are too dense to realise that anything that has happened twice can happen three times.

The results of this will be calamitous. When we have, as we shall have and as has already been proposed by the European Commissioners (or Commissars), German policemen goose-stepping along our streets they will make the riot squad that raided the Warehouse night club look like a bunch of liberal social workers.

It is quite understandable that Hilton Dawson would support the scrapping of our currency.

After all, he and his colleagues find pounds very hard to deal with. They quite recently lost two million of them.

Why, though, in view of that indisputable fact, was Mr Dawson recently re-elected?

Step forward Dr John Whittaker of the 'UK Independence Party'.

He agrees with William Hague that the pound should be saved. His recent Tory opponent, Steve Barclay, feels the same way.

So what did Dr Whittaker do? He obtained more than 700 votes, nearly all of them from Steve Barclay, Euro-sceptic.

Result? Hilton Dawson, Europhile, elected by just 500 votes.

Dr Whittaker is an economist. One doesn't need to be. Any reasonably educated 10 year old child can see that what Dr Whittaker did was to succeed in keeping out of parliament someone who broadly agrees with him and facilitating the entry into parliament of someone who disagrees with practically everything Dr Whittaker stands for.

I have no doubt that the good doctor is a decent, honourable man. But, for God's sake, why did he do it? Can it be true that, 'He whom the gods would destroy they first make made?'

William Hill

Clarendon Rd Skerton