WILLIAM Pitt the Younger said politics is the art of the possible - and he meant the practicable as well. It's no use depending on a can opener if you don't have one.

Those who want a UK independent of the US, the EU and NATO, are stuck in the Boer War.

Could correspondent Jim Homewood come out of the woods to market occasionally? The UK is barely 60 million. The US, Germany and Russia are a lot bigger. China and India, just by reaching the world average GNP per capita, will become the two biggest economic units on earth by 2050.

We need the "riends and family". That is the appeal of every TV soap or other drama. That does not stop marriage being a duel - but we need the "marriage".

For his benefit, the Euro Constitution is available at: HMSO, Norwich NR3 1GN, tel: 810 60 05 522. Articles 14 and 40 do not impose any more on members than NATO. The foreign and security policy is in the Council of Ministers, that is within our governments.

Lay-off sneering at the Euro Parliament while we still have such a dodgy House of Lords about which it was once said: "Doing nothing in particular, and doing it very well". No, not Marx just Gilbert and Sullivan!

FRANK ADAM