EU wants to change English Channel's name to "Anglo-French Pond"

Blackleaf

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You'll be forgiven for thinking that it was still April Fool's Day, but like the recent stories about the world's oldest hot cross bun (baked in 1821) and the council workers who painted KEER CLEAP on the road instead of KEEP CLEAR, this story is, in fact, true, no matter how unlikely it sounds.

The EUSSR is to spend £1.1 million of taxpayers' money to re-name the English Channel.

The body of water separating Britain from France is to be re-named "the Anglo-French Pond."

And the new European map, laced with unfathomable Euro-speak, will include new "regions", wiping out entire European nations. Napoleon and Hitler will be proud.

Britain is to become part of the region known, somewhat sinisterly, as Espace Manche Development Initiative.

Southern England, from Kent in the east to Cornwall in the west, is lumped with northern France in a region known as the TransManche zone. Its capital is (obviously) Paris and it has its own unelected socialist president, Alain Le Vern.

And the Scots won't be pleased to see their land separated from the rest of the UK and thrown in with the Scandinavian countries in a region with the insulting name of Northern Periphery.

Other parts of Britain are also to be grouped accordingly.

And Britain only joined the EU in 1973 thinking it was just for trade, not to become part of an undemocratic superstate.

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

By Gerri Peev
04th April 2010
Daily Mail

The English Channel is to be wiped off the map and replaced with the name ‘the Anglo-French Pond’ under plans by Brussels to bolster the notion of an EU superstate.

A new map to be distributed to schools and bureaucrats will downgrade the English Channel dividing Britain and France and rebrand it at a cost of £1.1million.

British taxpayers will pick up the bill for the revamped atlas, which creates new EU regions and wipes out 1000 years of history.

The rebranding is meant to foster ‘cultural identification within this transfrontier region’.

Britain is parcelled off to different parts of the continent under the Espace Manche Development Initiative, which phases out national boundaries to foster greater EU integration.






Re-branding: The EU want to call the English Channel the 'Anglo-Saxon Pond'


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 also admit they are trying to un-do the work of geographer Ptolemy who named the Channel the Oceanus Britannicus in the second century AD.

‘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.

Shadow communities secretary Caroline Spelman said: ‘Labour ministers have already sought to replace England (though not Scotland and Wales) and its shires with government office regions.

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

‘Hard-working families and pensioners will be outraged. A Conservative government will scrap these Euro plans and save the English Channel.’

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AnnaG

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The word "clown" comes to mind. Which lame-brain schemed this?
 

Curiosity

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Ummmmm how about Le Trench????

Have they decided on a Uni-Language yet? Oh boy I can see the fun with this one..... a Literal Pot Pourri of tongue twisters...
 

Bar Sinister

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I believe that the French already refer to the English Channel as La Manche and have done so for centuries. What's the big deal? Changing a name makes little difference if no one pays any attention to it.