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The once-great nation of England

A bunch of pencil-headed pin-dicks in Brussels are dismembering the nation of England with a few strokes of a pen. A big hat tip to Kate at small dead animals for the link to this article in the UK Telegraph:

On St George's Day, EU wipes England off map
England has been wiped off a map of Europe drawn up by Brussels bureaucrats as part of a scheme that the Tories claim threatens to undermine the country's national identity.

The new European plan splits England into three zones that are joined with areas in other countries.

The "Manche" region covers part of southern England and northern France while the Atlantic region includes western parts of England, Portugal, Spain and Wales.

The North Sea region includes eastern England, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and parts of Germany.

A copy of the map, which makes no reference to England or Britain, has even renamed the English Channel the "Channel Sea".

Each zone will have a "transnational regional assembly", although they will not have extensive powers. However, the zones are regarded as symbolically important by other countries.

I hope that someone over there shows some bloody backbone and tells those effing twits in Belgium where to get off. This is absolute lunacy... Posted by DaveH at April 26, 2008 6:23 PM