NICE try Mr Gillard but your letter (Times, July 13) is so full of red herrings that the EU would declare them well over quota and insist they are discarded.
Although the pound (sterling) has indeed been decimalized, the sign to which you refer is clearly talking about the Imperial pound.
The U K Independence Party is not an 'English-only' party, it is fully in favour of a United Kingdom.
We see the regionalisation of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as a sign of our pro-EU Government's determination to fall in line with the EU's policy of transferring power from Westminster to the proposed 'regions', all of which are directly responsible to Brussels. Since the Mayoral Assembly was set up in London, four of the 12 regions are already in place precisely following the boundaries shown on the EU's 'Regionalisation' map.
I am not an apologist for previous British governments and agree that government aid to poorer areas of the UK has not been fairly distributed in the past. Their decisions on interests and tax rates have also been questionable.
But, outside the EU, such decisions can at least be made at Westminster and if they get it wrong, the British electorate can kick them out every five years.
After countless years of government by the same two parties (they are now so close on policy that we almost have a single party state), is it not time for a completely new party — one dedicated to seeing Britain's future as an independent, self-governing country.
Lord Pearson of Rannoch has recently issued a pamphlet called 'Better Off Out' in which he sets out 60 simple points stating the case for the UK to leave the EU and he concludes: 'There is nothing frightening, "extreme", right-wing, or negative about leaving the EU and keeping our hard-won right to govern ourselves. It would be a liberating, positive thing to do. And we would be very much richer as well.'
Dave Weeks
UKIP member
Courtlyns
Exbourne