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Up the pole: EU to carve up UK
By CLODAGH HARTLEY
Home Affairs Correspondent
Published: 23 Apr 2008
The Sun
Tribute ... Britain's Scottish Prime Minister Gordon Brown will fly English flag for St George's Day
GORDON Brown will today fly the flag of St George over Downing Street — as the EU plots to carve up Britain into a United States of Europe.
Secret plans reveal the South of England will be renamed TRANSMANCHE — and governed in part by bureaucrats based in France.
Two more “Transnational” zones are also being set up to “promote the territorial agenda” of the EU.
Goodbye England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland... how EU wants to get rid of nation states and create new "regions" in its quest to become one country
The ATLANTIC REGION — stretching thousands of miles from the northern tip of Scotland to southern Spain — will take in western England and Wales, along with parts of Portugal and France.
And the NORTH SEA REGION will cover chunks of eastern England and eastern Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Holland, and the Flemish part of Belgium.
The Atlantic will have its headquarters in Portugal, the North Sea in Denmark.
Ironically, news of the carve-up comes on St George’s Day — England’s national day.
Critics, including the Tories, claim the new regions “ignore thousands of years of history and wipe England off the map”.
Spokesman Eric Pickles said: “We knew Gordon Brown had hoisted the white flag of surrender to the European Constitution.
“Now the Labour Government has been caught red-handed, conspiring with European bureaucrats to create a European Superstate via the back door.”
The stated “strategic objective” of the regions is to “support the emergence of a common space of citizenship, a sense of belonging to a cross-border area with a unique identity”.
For Britain, that means issues like transport, the environment, shipping and “cross-cultural links” — which could include tourism and town-twinning.
The three regions have been granted £660million of EU funds between them, with each handling its own budget.
A Government spokesman said: “It is about support for business, boosting employment and turning around our deprived areas.”
The controversial move to reshape national boundaries — which also insists any projects in those areas must “fly the EU flag” — emerged as England celebrates its patron saint’s day.
Proud ... support for Englishness over 10 Downing Street
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For the first time on St George’s Day, the national flag will be hoisted today in Downing Street.
It follows a review of flag-flying practices ordered by Mr Brown which will see all government buildings “encouraged” to display the English national flag alongside the Union flag.
In a wider celebration of nationality, Number 10 will also fly the Scottish Saltire and the Welsh Dragon on their saints’ days.
A spokesman for the Prime Minister said: “His view is that of course we should celebrate our Britishness, but celebrating our Britishness does not mean we cannot also celebrate our Englishness, Scottishness, Welshness or Northern Irishness.”
A WHOPPING 85 per cent of English people want to celebrate St George’s Day, a new poll reveals. That soars to 91 per cent among patriotic over-55s.
The idea has been backed by Tory leader David Cameron who pledged to consider making St George's Day a national holiday if elected.
thesun.co.uk
Up the pole: EU to carve up UK
By CLODAGH HARTLEY
Home Affairs Correspondent
Published: 23 Apr 2008
The Sun
Tribute ... Britain's Scottish Prime Minister Gordon Brown will fly English flag for St George's Day
GORDON Brown will today fly the flag of St George over Downing Street — as the EU plots to carve up Britain into a United States of Europe.
Secret plans reveal the South of England will be renamed TRANSMANCHE — and governed in part by bureaucrats based in France.
Two more “Transnational” zones are also being set up to “promote the territorial agenda” of the EU.
Goodbye England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland... how EU wants to get rid of nation states and create new "regions" in its quest to become one country
The ATLANTIC REGION — stretching thousands of miles from the northern tip of Scotland to southern Spain — will take in western England and Wales, along with parts of Portugal and France.
And the NORTH SEA REGION will cover chunks of eastern England and eastern Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Holland, and the Flemish part of Belgium.
The Atlantic will have its headquarters in Portugal, the North Sea in Denmark.
Ironically, news of the carve-up comes on St George’s Day — England’s national day.
Critics, including the Tories, claim the new regions “ignore thousands of years of history and wipe England off the map”.
Spokesman Eric Pickles said: “We knew Gordon Brown had hoisted the white flag of surrender to the European Constitution.
“Now the Labour Government has been caught red-handed, conspiring with European bureaucrats to create a European Superstate via the back door.”
The stated “strategic objective” of the regions is to “support the emergence of a common space of citizenship, a sense of belonging to a cross-border area with a unique identity”.
For Britain, that means issues like transport, the environment, shipping and “cross-cultural links” — which could include tourism and town-twinning.
The three regions have been granted £660million of EU funds between them, with each handling its own budget.
A Government spokesman said: “It is about support for business, boosting employment and turning around our deprived areas.”
The controversial move to reshape national boundaries — which also insists any projects in those areas must “fly the EU flag” — emerged as England celebrates its patron saint’s day.
Proud ... support for Englishness over 10 Downing Street
Enlarge
For the first time on St George’s Day, the national flag will be hoisted today in Downing Street.
It follows a review of flag-flying practices ordered by Mr Brown which will see all government buildings “encouraged” to display the English national flag alongside the Union flag.
In a wider celebration of nationality, Number 10 will also fly the Scottish Saltire and the Welsh Dragon on their saints’ days.
A spokesman for the Prime Minister said: “His view is that of course we should celebrate our Britishness, but celebrating our Britishness does not mean we cannot also celebrate our Englishness, Scottishness, Welshness or Northern Irishness.”
A WHOPPING 85 per cent of English people want to celebrate St George’s Day, a new poll reveals. That soars to 91 per cent among patriotic over-55s.
The idea has been backed by Tory leader David Cameron who pledged to consider making St George's Day a national holiday if elected.
thesun.co.uk