THE founders of the European Union and their successors  have long cherished the dream of union extending from the Atlantic to the Urals.  For the most part, our own political class supports the creation of a European state and accordingly shares this expansionist  dream; in the pursuit of which, the British people, whose state is in the hands of the aforesaid dreamers, are being dragged into a conflict with the Russian federation against their will and against their interest.   The sanctions so far applied by us, together with the retaliatory sanctions applied by the Russian Federation, are having a damaging effect on British industry and on our agricultural industry in particular (for example, Russia has blocked milk imports from the UK).    Despite declaring how important exports are to the UK economy, our Prime Minister is proposing more sanctions which will have a negative effect on our exports. Joined up thinking? I believe that Britain should refrain from involvement in the Ukrainian situation but, if this is too much to ask, why doesn't our Prime Minister urge the Ukrainian Government to follow his own example and offer the people of the Eastern provinces a  referendum on independence as he himself did to the people of Scotland?   He should make the aid and political support that we now give to the Ukraine conditional on the Ukrainian Government following the example he so recently set in Scotland.    After all, if the Prime Minister was able to contemplate the dissolution of the UK, why is it so difficult for him to accept the  break up of the Ukraine if that were to be the result of a referendum?   Why indeed should the Ukrainian Government, which is described by us and self-describes itself as democratic, not embrace this solution to the problem of reluctant citizens in its Eastern provinces?  Such  a peaceful resolution to the problem of conflicting loyalties within the Ukraine  must surely have been considered by the Prime Minister but presumably rejected by him.  Why was it rejected?  We should be told before more sacrifices are made by the British people in furtherance of a cause (EU expansion) that is not theirs. A L Romilly   Crapstone