LETTER: EU PITFALL FOR BLAIR

LETTER: EU PITFALL FOR BLAIR

Sir: It appears that Lord Owen, in creating the New Europe Movement, is trying to split the anti-European vote at the European elections in June ("Pro-Europe group aims to halt EMU", 2 March).

The genuine anti-European Union vote consists of the UK Independence Party and former members of the Referendum Party who have joined us to fight against the corrupt regime of the EU. However, there are people who claim to be against the EU and these come mainly from the Conservative Party, whose MEPs sit in Brussels as part of the pro-federalist Group of the European People's Party. It is the latter group which Lord Owen will help with his new movement.

However, in the long run, it is the pro-federalists like Tony Blair, Paddy Ashdown and Alex Salmond who will benefit - in other words the undemocratic European Union.

J W SMITH

UK Independence Party

Ayr,

Strathclyde