I FULLY support the case for the Yorkshire Assembly put forward in the Press by Mark Hill of the Green Party (June 20). The Conservative case against, advanced by MP Anne MacIntosh conveniently ignores that it was 'Mummy' Thatcher who introduced the first unaccountable Regional Development Agency arrangements - the quangos.

Now we have the 'democratic deficit' of the newly-created Scottish Parliament giving a better deal on tuition fees for Scottish university students and long-term care costs for NHS patients.

I can introduce Anne to students affected in her constituency if she wishes.

A directly elected democratic Yorkshire Assembly is the logical next step of the welcome devolution process. We need the referendum early in this Parliament.

Stan Wilson,

Vale of York Liberal Democrats,

Blakey Close,

Sowerby,

near Thirsk.

...THE EU ordered local government reorganisation in 1974 to mirror the 11 EU regions. In Britain this removed England from the EU map and created the Yorkshire and Humberside EU-region.

For 26 years the people of East Yorkshire fought against the imposition of Humberside on them and regained their Yorkshire identity in 1996.

The Evening Press and the Archbishop of York (who chairs the EU-sponsored campaign for Brussels-controlled Yorkshire regional government) continue the EU's bidding by still calling East Yorkshire Humberside.

Speaking to the Campaign For Yorkshire at a seminar in York recently Austin Mitchell said: "There is no way we will win a referendum for regional government in Yorkshire so we will have to find another way." The use of media and the Church is an example of the "another way".

Regardless of the 2001 general election result - in which the media perpetuated the myth that the Liberals, Labour and Conservatives are still separate parties - the people of Yorkshire will never give up the fight to stop the EU-sponsored campaign to control the Yorkshire people.

Bob Lewis,

Boothgate Close,

Howden, East Yorkshire.

Updated: 10:33 Monday, June 25, 2001