The Gradual Abolition of Britain

The EU are keen to banish fears that its regional policy will lead to the bypassing of national governments and the establishment of a 'Europe of Regions'. The truth, of course, is rather different.

The regional layer of government is already in place (Prescott's tentative foray into democracy on the matter a few years ago resulted in a resounding no - which was completely ignored). Regions are able to apply directly to the EU for funding which isn't supplied by central government. Our money goes to Brussels, collected nationally through VAT and other mechanisms; then the regions cadge some of it back.

In addition to the dividing of England into eight regions, there is also another administrative imposition, under the INTER-REG programme that 'helps Europe’s regions form partnerships to work together on common projects'. It was this that the Daily Mail was railing against earlier in the year.

Brussels' claims that all this is scaremongering is typical mendacity from the unelected anti-democrats who legislated on wonky fruit, denied that they had done so, then when confronted with the truth suddenly said they had relaxed those regulations.

Such is the mendacity of our own spineless politicians, however, that they continue to carry out the behest of the EU without making any mention of their political masters. Take a look at the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill 2007: top of the first page: 'Change from two tiers to one tier of local government'. Bye bye county councils and counties; bye bye District Councils, etc. Hello to big amorphous, distant blocs.

Meanwhile Brown and his cretinous crew have been going on about 'Britishness' and British values (all the while avoiding talk about England, which will end up without a national government of its own, unlike Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) - presumably in a vain attempt to make people feel better when they realise what's actually happened.