Monday - April 05, 2010

The English Channel’s status could be reduced to that of a mere creek if Brussels has its way

I hope this is nothing more then a very late April Fool joke.  And even then, it isn’t funny.  Assuming it’s true and I really have some doubts, the sooner this country pulls out of the EU the better it will be.  I might be in a minority for thinking so but I hate what’s happened to this country over the years. 

Invited for coffee and visit this morning with friends back from a four day visit to Italy. More specifically, Florence.  Interesting to learn that while the Italians are members of the EU, they casually ignore rulings and laws passed outside their own country.  In fact, they don’t pay much attention to the rules passed in their own country either.  Seems like only the Brits even make an attempt to obey while other countries obey so long as it doesn’t get in the way.  Older generation of Brit a mostly law abiding citizen you might even go so far as to say, Germanic in attitude to rules.  ??  Lyndon? How far off am I?
So they went to Italy and were surprised to find how many people were still smoking everywhere, even where they weren’t supposed to.  Those folks apparently don’t take well to being told what to do in their personal lives where govt. has no place.  Which is not to say they do not have their share of left wing, we know what’s best for you PC libtards.  But so far at least, they’ve managed to hold on to their sovereignty, thus rejecting an EU super state.

Good for the Italians.  Bravo Italy.  Meanwhile back here in the UK (or maybe not so U) there is an election coming up and the politicians who ALL want to stay in power and others who want on board the gravy train will of course take note and make political hay out of this.  The various parties are engaged in promise making and proposals as all those slippery folks do at election time everywhere in the world.  Cept maybe Italy. (?)

How Eurocrats want to spend £1.1m changing the English Channel’s name to ‘Le Pond’

By Gerri Peev

Without it there would be no British Isles, no White Cliffs of Dover and Captain Matthew Webb would never have found fame as a nifty swimmer.

Yet the mighty English Channel’s status could be reduced to that of a mere creek if Brussels has its way.

Officials want to rename it ‘the Anglo-French Pond’ as part of a plan to bolster the notion of an EU superstate.

More than £1million, much of it coming from the British taxpayer, is being spent drawing up a new map to be distributed to schools and bureaucrats.

It defies centuries of history by wiping out current national borders to foster ‘cultural
identification’ between regions and encourage greater integration.

Under the plans, Southern England, from Cornwall to Kent, is joined with northern France and becomes known as the TransManche zone.

Its capital is Paris and it has its own socialist president, Alain Le Vern.

The West of Britain is parcelled off with parts of France, Spain and Portugal as part of a new Atlantic region.

Eastern Britain along with Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway
becomes the North Sea region.

And Scotland breaks away from Britain to become part of the Northern Periphery with parts of Norway, Greenland, Iceland and Finland.

The mapmakers state: ‘The channel has become a zone of multiple interacting and overlapping activities.

‘It is a shared space, a small Anglo-French internal sea; the interplay of activities both on and around what has become known as the Anglo-French Pond.’

Eurocrats admit they are trying to undo the work of the geographer Ptolemy, who named the Channel Oceanus Britannicus in the second century AD.

They declare: ‘A 1,000-year period, beginning with the Norman invasion of England, now nears its end as that same island becomes physically linked to the continent of Europe.’

The Tories accused the Government of backing plans to erase Britain’s history.

Communities spokesman Caroline Spelman said: ‘Labour ministers have already sought to replace England and its shires with government office regions.

‘Now British taxpayers’ money is being used literally to wipe our nation off the map, erase 1,000 years of history and downgrade the English Channel to the insulting status of a pond.

‘A Conservative government will scrap these Euro plans and save the English Channel.’

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