WE are hearing a lot from MPs about when we will accept single European currency. Are they assuming the referendum they promised us will go the way they want? After being ripped off by joining the Common Market and decimalisation and being told what to do by the European Parliament and Courts, Joe Public may decide enough is enough and vote against monetary union - that's if we get chance to vote.

D WHITEHEAD, Blackburn Road, Darwen.

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