I WOULD like to reply to MEP Richard Corbett's comments on Ireland's treaty "No" vote ("We need Euro reform all 27 states can accept", Your say, June 23).

Mr Corbett believes we need to find a solution acceptable to all 27 EU states and suggests that Ireland must have a "profound internal debate to identify what they don't like".

Maybe they didn't like the EU Lisbon Treaty and its subsequent erosion of their country's sovereignty.

Mr Corbett says he wants to see a "compromise". I would like to remind him that the Lisbon Treaty states that it has to be passed by every member state in order to become law.

It is very simple; perhaps Mr Corbett should revisit the treaty's text.

Mr Corbett adds that we must respect the Irish result; then why did he and his EU federalist colleagues vote against Lisbon Treaty amendment 32, which asked that the European Parliament "undertake to respect the outcome of the referendum in Ireland".

Maybe Mr Corbett would care to explain that to the people of Yorkshire, who he has allegedly been elected to serve?

It is clear that the EU fears democracy. Bring on the EU elections in 2009 and let this be the UK's referendum on the Lisbon Treaty!

Jason Smith

(Chairman, UK Indep-endence Party, Bradford)