WHILST the Prime Minister, Tony Blair is congratulating the English rugby team on their World Cup victory and honouring them with a reception at 10 Downing Street, and rightly so, his deputy John Prescott and his EU friends have managed to delete England from the map.

The time has come for politicians of all parties to recognise England for what it is as they have done with Scotland and Wales and return to the English its own Parliament and stop the dangerous EU charade, by breaking up this great country into meaningless regions.

Despite the hype the English are a very tolerant people and ask for no more than that the freedoms they have given to world democracy be returned to them.

NORMAN HANCOCK

Chiseldon