THE British Retail Consortium wants to save the pinta.

I wish them well but they have an uphill struggle because John Major signed the Maastricht Agreement that agreed to the removal of all imperial weights and measures by 2000.

Knowing the pints, in particular, would be difficult to sell to the voters he secured a dispensation until 2009.

But as I mentioned in an earlier letter, after that date the pint, including beer, will no longer be a legal measure.

These are the dangers of continued EU membership that you say I imagine, A Lubin.

Not dangers to life and limb perhaps, but as dangerous to our traditional way of life as the jackboot in 1940.

A SCOTT Swindon