european union: an island no longer
WORKERS, MARCH 2003 ISSUE
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION has declared that Britain is no longer an island. EU statisticians have dismissed its physical geography as being unworthy of statistical or economic analysis. Britain cannot be an island because it is "home to the capital of an EU state".
The minimum 20 miles of sea between Dover and Calais presumably likewise no longer exist. The Channel Tunnel which attaches the two mainlands by a "rigid structure" further removes the claim to being an island, according to the EU.
This is no joke. Last year the 2002 RAC’s Road Atlas of Britain and Ireland changed British and Ireland road numbers to show them as extensions of European motorways.