Brian Regimbeau (Your Letters, March 1) thinks that the European Union can become a union of individual states. This is not so.

Although our own politicians are reluctant to spell out the facts, politicians of the eurozone make no bones of the fact that the ultimate game plan is for a centralised European superstate with harmonised taxes, a single army, European police force and so on.

It is proposed nation states will disappear to be replaced with a 'Europe of Regions'. Replacing the pound with the euro would be a major step towards the loss of this country as we know it.

Well, why not, you might ask - it is said we might be better off. Well, eurozone gross domestic product shrank by eight per cent between 1997 and 2000, while that of the UK grew by seven per cent. All economic indicators show a negative correlation between prosperity and membership of the eurozone.

Mr Regimbeau seems to think we need another superpower to match the might of the United States; I would argue that the world is a safer place with only one.

Richard Chamings, UK Independence Party, Bank Cottage

Crumpton Hill, Storridge.