WHAT is the Government thinking of?

While we the people are reading and watching the sad news from Kosovo and our minds are taken up with the horror of it, Chancellor Gordon Brown goes behind our backs and sells off £2.5 billion of Britain's Gold Reserves.

He is spending it on Euros.

As the Euro keeps plummeting, is this his way of propping it up to make it look good, so we shall be brain-washed into thinking it's doing well?

It also means he has made up his mind we shall lose our pound whether we like it or not. What has happened to the democratic referendum we were promised?

Now Mr Prodi, European Commission President-elect wants our Army, which means Brussels has us where it always wanted us.

We shall be clones of Europe.

What gives this generation the right to give our sovereignty away ? We are only caretakers for the future.

Mrs B Mackfall,

Scoreby,

Gate Helmsley,

York.

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