ONCE more our MEP Mr Titley extols the many benefits of the EU and, in doing so, cites the massive increase in the number of people able to fly to Europe for holidays.

As air flights are said to create more atmospheric pollution and about a thousand times more global warming than cars, I find this an incredible boast from the representative of a country which claims to be concerned about the threat of global warming and climate change to this planet of ours.

I wonder how those unfortunates who see their jobs lost to cheap labour countries due to our inability to control our outward investment and thanks to membership of the EU feel about his eagerness to defend airline jobs at the expense of the planet.

Mr Titley says European laws need to become more streamlined and less bureaucratic. He writes: "The new constitution will give the EU a much simpler and more democratic decision-making structure. We need to approve it otherwise the EU will be left paralysed."

Please. The EU has never been democratic. At least we had a certain amount of say as member states. Once we ratify and agree to this new constitution, we will be just regions of a federal European state.

Mr Titley refers to the benefits which we, apparently, take for granted. He ignores the disastrous policies which EU membership has inflicted on us. What are now just directives, apparently, will become compulsory regulations.

I, along with - hopefully - millions of others, will be voting no to any referendum on it. Also, when we are told to vote again until we get the "right" answer, and the Commission has achieved what Hitler couldn't, I won't hold my breath for any admissions that I was right, or expect any apologies.

JAMES HOMEWOOD