Ironic indeed, Alan, as I am no keener on having our decisions made by Brussells, than by Bush.

I am British! I will always be British1 I want to remain British, and I can see no way in which that can be reconciled with being ruled by a European Federal government.

I have already seen my perfectly good British passport disappear, to be replaced by one which proclaims me to be a European Community Citizen. WRONG!

This thread is, as a recent posting points out, supposed to be an American view. So, I ask our American cousins, "What would your reaction be to a president who intended to hand over US sovereignty to a foreign power, and merge your country into a federation with a different flag, a different currency, and a mishmash of different, and conflicting cultures?

I apologise for the thread drift, but the point I am trying to make is that the UK could learn a lot from America about unashamed love of country, and respect for the heritage to which one was born.

Don T.