Demise of Britain?. or just England and Wales.

[Lonnie]

Going back a bit, for those that remember, I said this was going to happen under this goverment, and if it comes to pass, the next thing will be the extinction of the country name England.

I know its the DM, and there will be those that rubbish this story because of this, but it it happening.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=403522&in_page_i d=1770&ct=5

[jake-the-peg]

ROTFL!

Straight bananas!

[sp1814]

Lonnie

Brilliant...very funny.

About as likely as Madonna starring in a hit movie.

[jake-the-peg]

Er actually isn't this a repeat of a Daily Mail Euro myth from 1997?

http://europa.eu.int/unitedkingdom/press/eurom yths/myth49_en.htm

Have the Mail journalists all gone on holiday and left the paper running a "best of" tape?

[sp1814]

My favourite bit is:

"I fear Eurocrats could literally wipe Britain off the map and hardworking families and pensioners should be concerned that Europe wants the authority to build a database of their homes"

Why is it ALWAYS "hard working families and pensioners"?

Why are they so special?

[Gromit]

Saw this rubbish in the Express yesterday. Has anyone actually read it or understand what it means?

The beaurocrats don't what to abolish any place names, it is just a map for a specific purpose.

Just because the post office calls your town eg (AB14 1YZ) doesn't mean its name ANYTOWN has been abolished.

The EU map is just a way of categorising different areas for administrative purposes. It would be stupid to apply channel tunnel legistation in the north of Scotland, better to apply it to the Channel Tunnel Region (which includes parts of England and France).

This non story is just pathetic.

[IggyB]

doesn't that map include areas that aren't even in europe; like iceland... when are we invading then?

good link very funny

[admarlow]

I think it is great!!! link london with Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and get rid of Walles etc!! Great Wheat and chaf anyone???

[beryllium]

Bonjour from kent then :-) !!! je m'appelle beryl lol.....

[aristotle]

As you might expect, the Daily Mail has yet again twisted and distorted the facts. A Transmanche Region has existed for many years, since the Channel Tunnel opened.
It allows regions on either side of the Channel to obtain joint funding for regeneration projects e.g. tourist authorities in Hastings and the surrounding 1066 Country have joined up with Normandy to create the William the Conqueror Trail to encourage tourists from both sidesto visit the other.
This doesn't stop East Sussex and Kent remaining as English as they have ever been though some might argue that we ceased to be English on that dark day in October 1066.

[jno]

good point aristotle - nobody here now but us Normans!

[PhilBy]

ROFL Lonnie. It is being forced to plant spaghetti plants that I object to most of all :)

[Lonnie]

Great responses chaps, I knew it would create the kind of answers you've given, but possibly, I am, as has been pointed ou before, a bit gullible, but I really believe, in one way or another, that this goverment stands for the destruction of this country as we know it.

Admittedly, this article is a bit far fetched, but I don't think its too far from the truth.

[PhilBy]

Can you just remind me Lonnie which prime Minster signed the Single European Act in 1986 ... you have me rather confused!

[Lonnie]

True Philby, but she never presided over devolution, doing away with border controls, mega casino's, political correctness etc,.

I have no problem with whichever party is in goverment, just this one, it appears to me, and I admit, I seem to be in a minority, that this goverment is doing its best to destroy Britain, or more to the point, England.

We all have our views, this is mine.

[jgs]

I agree Lonnie. Britain is now often referred to as 'the nations and regions of Britain'. The nations being Wales and Scotland, the regions being 9 bits of the nation formerly known as England. Prescott has been quoted as saying "there's no such nationality as English" and he's the one in charge of the drive for carving us up into regional assemblies!

If Britain is to be part of a 'US of E' then England should remain intact. I don't think this government have that in mind though.

[Lonnie]

Thanks jgs, i'm often the lone voice on this subject, and collect a lot of ridicule for it, nice to know there's someone else of a like mind.

[PhilBy]

Under which goverment did you last hold an English passport jgs :)

[jno]

I suppose historically, the reason for the eclipse of 'England' is the English desire to take over other countries. They didn't have to subordinate Wales, Scotland or Ireland, but they did; and calling these merged home territories 'Britain' was, as far as I know, an English decision. Likewise the extension of the 'British empire' further afield.

Nobody has taken the name England away - the English themselves threw it away.

[Lonnie]

To a certain extent jno, your right, the Empire coming back to haunt us, but, as you indicate, its being done from within, and even though I have to grin and bear it, I don't like it.

[cucuhullan]

For literally hundreds of years this has been the most civilised country in the world.A large part of it's charm is that it allows nonentities like John Major to become Prime Minister,idiots like Graham Taylor to become manager of the England football team and comics like the Daily Mail to class itself as a newspaper.
It's heritage is too strongly forged to allow itself to lose it's identity and culture.The supreme test came when a certain Mr.Hitler (whom incidentally the Daily Mail supported in the 1930's.)tried it on.This country said No to him and in so doing saved the world from tyranny.This country will endure till the end of time.