[eu constitution] the eleven regions of what was the uk

Parker Joseph sets the cat among the pigeons with his article and I have mixed feelings. Though a lot of it is assuredly happening [and I've seen much on the regional assemblies], it's hard to get hard data and not just assertion.

Common Purpose [whom I began to pursue but was sidetracked] have definitely gone to ground after recent publicity and one wonders why.

This is part of Parker Joseph's thesis:

South West RDA divisions will be:

1. Bristol
2. South Gloucestershire
3. North Somerset
4. Bath and North East Somerset
5. Swindon
6. Bournemouth
7. Poole
8. Torbay
9. Plymouth

These will be the new area names within the region. Each Region will be run by RDA’s, supported by personnel headed by graduates in each district from Common Purpose.

The same will happen to each and every county of England.

Scotland and Wales are safe, and will remain as they are, with their own new parliaments, each being a region to remain intact, but they will lose national status, and be downgraded by our new master in Europe to regional status. England will no longer exist as a country, just 9 regions.

The UK as represented in Europe will be known as the 11 regions of the UK.

This is not unique to the UK, it is happening to every member state of Europe.

The headlong rush to get the Reform Treaty ratified by 1^st January 2009 is so that there can be ‘elections’ on a regional basis to the European Parliament later in the year, which under the EU Constitution will be a rubber stamp parliament ruled over by the European Commission and the Council of Europe, run by EU commission president Jose Manuel Barroso until the new Presidential office is set up.

With Monday’s extension of RIPA powers, the government has created an apparatus of control only matched in sophistication by the system in China known as the Gold Shield Project.

Wake up and smell the milk burning, Doris. Gold Shield is coming here, too.

Right, so a detailed assertion has been made. Now it's a question of whether it holds water or not. The problem with this is that the structures recently brought in are, on the surface, innocent development agencies. While they could easily swing over to command and control administrations, are the personnel in place the type who could run such a show?

I'd like to look at the CVs of Juliet Williams and colleagues or perhaps they're not planned to remain in charge post 2010. All of it is a tricky question and one of two things is true - either pundits are interweaving snippets of truth with flights of fancy or else they actually do have hold of the coat-tails of something being slipped into place.

At this point I don't really know.