EU wants to spend £1.1m to rename the English channel 'The Anglo-French Pond' - Polidicks

[QUOTE][B]Holidaymakers could soon be crossing 'Le Pond' instead of the English Channel if EU plan gets the go-ahead[/B] The days of hopping on a channel ferry or travelling through the channel tunnel may soon be over if EU officials get their way. Plans are being drawn up to rename the mighty English Channel 'the Anglo-French Pond' as part of a plan to bolster the notion of an EU superstate. 'Le Pond' will link Southern England and northern France and the area will be known as the TransManche zone. 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. [IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/04/article-1263468-011D0DBD000004B0-519_468x286.jpg[/IMG] 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.' [/QUOTE]Article source: [URL]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1263681/EU-wants-spend-1-1m-changing-English-Channels-Le-Pond.html[/URL] [B]tl;dr[/B] - EU wants to recreate the map of Europe in a effort to break down national barriers by creating new regions of Europe.

don't they have bigger fish to fry

No.

Why don't we just remove all barriers and live with world pe- Whoa... time to take my crazy pills.

What the fuck. The Anglo-French pond sounds like some really bad cartoon for 5-12 year old children.

[QUOTE=Archy;25187377]don't they have bigger fish to kill[/QUOTE] Bigger fish to [I]fry[/I], son.

So the Brits are paying to have their channel taken away from them? I'd be pissed.

[QUOTE=Hostel;25187437]Bigger fish to [I]fry[/I], son.[/QUOTE] what are you talking about

[QUOTE=Archy;25187377]don't they have bigger fish to kill[/QUOTE] Disintegration of national and cultural boundaries may lead to, ideally (in the eyes of those who are working on this), a European super-state. They most probably see this as the biggest fish of all.

[QUOTE=huntskikbut;25187480]Disintegration of national and cultural boundaries may lead to, ideally (in the eyes of those who are working on this), a European super-state. They most probably see this as the biggest fish of all.[/QUOTE] Given the discontent I keep hearing about in regards to the EU, I doubt a mega-state will be able to stand for very long. Personally, I like to keep my own identity. Then again, I'm just an outmoded, brainwashed, bigoted citizen who dares to have an opinion...

I've never seen the real problem with having a more globalized/linked society. National identity never seems to lead to any good.

I don't mind if this is making us more linked, I just don't like it when they decide that they want to call it a pond instead of an channel also it makes me rage slightly inside that they remove the English from it and half-literally call it French. FRENCH.

[QUOTE=Chopstick;25187798]I don't mind if this is making us more linked, I just don't like it when they decide that they want to call it a pond instead of an channel also it makes me rage slightly inside that they remove the English from it and half-literally call it French. FRENCH.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/englishc.gif[/IMG] Hey look up top, it's England. Oh hey, down on the bottom, sharing an equal if not larger portion of the Channel, it's France.

[QUOTE=Chopstick;25187798]I don't mind if this is making us more linked, I just don't like it when they decide that they want to call it a pond instead of an channel also it makes me rage slightly inside that they remove the English from it and half-literally call it French. FRENCH.[/QUOTE] You do realize that the "Anglo" part of "Anglo-French" refers to England right?

Next up, the Gulf of Mexico is now the Latino-American Lake.

It's always been the English Channel, it always will be the English Channel.

Eurocrats can call it what they want, in Britain, we call it the English Channel.

[QUOTE=SeamanStains;25188585]Eurocrats can call it what they want, in Britain, we call it the English Channel.[/QUOTE] That's why they're using the money to buy altered maps for bureaucrats and schools. [editline]11:48PM[/editline] But hey, you guys took the Sears Tower from us, so we know how you feel.

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;25188645]That's why they're using the money to buy altered maps for bureaucrats and schools. [editline]11:48PM[/editline] But hey, you guys took the Sears Tower from us, so we know how you feel.[/QUOTE] Why don't we rename the Adriatic Sea the Italian-Croatian Puddle, it has just as much validity? Everyone knows the EU is just a Belgian conspiracy to raise the price of exported Chocolate anyway.

[QUOTE=Xen Tricks;25187833][IMG]http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/englishc.gif[/IMG] Hey look up top, it's England. Oh hey, down on the bottom, sharing an equal if not larger portion of the Channel, it's France.[/QUOTE] It's because England has traditionally had a bigger navy than France, which is exactly why Napoleon never attacked England directly. England owned the sea, hence it's called the English channel.

The EU Megastate would never work 1 You have a hot bed of activity called the Balklans who would cause major civil distress. 2 You have so many languages, just doing official Government would be a real bitch 3 NATO would have some major problems

If the EU has its way we could be dealing with a superstate by 2020, 2030 at most.

Strange, I read the same thing here on FP 6 months ago: [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=919671[/url]

Why not call it something like the Norman channel? It's less of a mouthful.

[QUOTE=Symmetry;25189862]Why not call it something like the Norman channel? It's less of a mouthful.[/QUOTE] Why not leave it alone? [editline]01:27AM[/editline] I don't care what the EU call it, I'm still gonna call it the English Channel.

Late, this was in the news several months ago.

[QUOTE=huntskikbut;25187480]Disintegration of national and cultural boundaries may lead to, ideally (in the eyes of those who are working on this), a European super-state. They most probably see this as the biggest fish of all.[/QUOTE] But England doesn't really want to be in the EU. [editline]10:34PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Zambies!;25189086]The EU Megastate would never work 1 You have a hot bed of activity called the Balklans who would cause major civil distress. 2 You have so many languages, just doing official Government would be a real bitch 3 NATO would have some major problems[/QUOTE] Don't forget about economic issues.

lmao, pond

More stupid nonsense. England fought hard for that useless body of water. The French aint done jack for it.

The English channel is a legendary name.