Small article in this morning’s Metro: “They want to abolish Britain!”
Anti-European British tabloids revealed secret plans from “Brussels” to split up Great-Britain.
First, I tought this was a joke. But then I found the article in The Sun (23 April 2008): Up the pole: EU to carve up UK. The map shown here illustrates the article.
As might have been expected (but I only found out after I had written this), this news was also picked up by others, such as the unequalled blog Strange Maps.
The map may be curious, but it really does reveal the allocation of funding! TransManche (a relatively tiny area) gets nearly as much as most of Eastern UK, the Low Countries and most of Scandinavia combined. Good old France, eh!
By: Martin on Thursday, December 18, 2008
at 10:42 am
They are not abolishing it as much as taking away parts. England gets to stay that uppity, little beige blot in the center.
By: Brent on Tuesday, December 30, 2008
at 2:10 am