SIR - It is the anti-UK writer Eric Firth who is living in cloud cuckoo land (T&A, May 23) or should that be cloud cuckoo region'. The point was I was making, which Mr Firth has not managed or wanted to understand, is that England no longer officially exists as a country, and I quoted the Encyclopaedia Britannica for evidence.

In its place we have nine EU regions', our region being Yorkshire & Humber'. As far as the EU is concerned, England as a country, does not exist and as their law has primacy over ours in most areas, that is unfortunately the case.

Mr Firth wonders why we still have English sports teams. Well, even our government is not stupid enough to do away with them yet - as that would surely wake up the man in the street', and they wouldn't want that.

Our government will continue to allow us to compete as English, although that might not be the case in 2009 when we find our country fully under EU control!

Jason Smith, UKIP Bradford & District Chairman, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury