Little things like this show what really goes on inside the minds of EU bureaucrats. The Brits are smart to keep their distance.
1 posted on
10/20/2003 7:53:19 AM PDT by
Modernman
To: Modernman
"The idea that these suggestions would be taken up as EU proposals is utter rubbish. We dont have the power to tell anybody to change their place-names, and nor should we." At least not until we establish out politically correct EU court system....
To: Modernman
Francis Carpenter wrote in a French newspaper that it would be in the interests of European harmony if "offensive" British names commemorating battles lost by the French were eradicated That would be alot of names....
4 posted on
10/20/2003 8:12:32 AM PDT by
2banana
To: Modernman
I suppose we are supposed to rename places named after French defeats too, like Waterloo, Iowa (1815), or Paris, Illinois (1940)? Many Americans proudly drive cars named for one of the greatest French defeats ever, Sedan (1870).
To: Modernman
Maybe France should just rename itself and all of its cities so they are not constantly reminded of the shame and embarassment of being Frech.
To: Modernman
EU=What Hitler wanted to do to Europe in the 1930's.
11 posted on
10/20/2003 9:21:34 AM PDT by
bmwcyle
(Hillary's election to President will start a civil war)
To: Modernman
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