Is the Torygraph correct ~ has the invasion begun?

From here;

The new European plan splits England into three zones that are joined with areas in other countries.

The “Manche” region covers part of southern England and northern France while the Atlantic region includes western parts of England, Portugal, Spain and Wales.

The North Sea region includes eastern England, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and parts of Germany.

A copy of the map, which makes no reference to England or Britain, has even renamed the English Channel the “Channel Sea”.

Each zone will have a “transnational regional assembly”, although they will not have extensive powers. However, the zones are regarded as symbolically important by other countries.

We have to consider that it is our national day, and that this story presses all the right buttons for their readership. Interestingly, all of the links on google that point to the Daily Mail & Evening Standard article are now dead. The Express has this, naming the plan ~ ‘Interreg IV’

As we can see from this website, this plan has fairly broad aims;

Wholly financed by ERDF and with a budget of ¤192m, it will focus on the following priorities:

* Encouraging entrepreneurship, in particular the development of SMEs, tourism, culture and cross-border trade;
* Encouraging and improving the joint protection and management of natural and cultural resources, as well as the prevention of natural and technological risks;
* Supporting links between urban and rural areas;
* Reducing isolation through improved access to transport, information and communication networks and services, and cross-border waste, water and energy systems and facilities;
* Developing collaboration, capacity and joint use of infrastructures, in particular in sectors such as health, culture, tourism and education.

In addition, the Programme may contribute to promoting legal and administrative co-operation, the integration of cross-border labour markets, local employment initiatives, gender equality and equal opportunities, training and social inclusion, and sharing of human resources and facilities for R&D.

A plan to reduce the sovereignty of England? Quite clearly ~ 192 million Euros (of taxpayers money) allocated by unelected ‘regional assembly members’. No taxation without representation, and all that. But there is nothing ’secret’ about the plans. The information has been placed on the web since about 2007. No, this isn’t a secret plan, it is yet another conspiracy of silence by the political class ~ standard fare for the federalists.

As the reduction in our democratic freedoms marches on unabated, Harry Haddock wonders ~ what will be our equivalent of throwing boxes of tea into the sea, and will it have the same outcome?

Let us hope we can rise up and say ‘no’ through the ballot box, rather than leave a far more gruesome solution for future generations.