Thursday, 19 November 2009

Petitions!

The mild irritation caused by the British government and the European Empire calling the EU "Europe" finally reached tipping point the other day.

Europe Minister? No, EU Minister. European Commission? No, EU Commission. European Parliament? No, EU Parliament. European president? No, EU president.

The Europe Minister isn't responsible for British government policy for the whole of Europe, just for the EU. The European Parliament isn't a parliament for the whole of Europe, just the EU.

This irritating conflation of "Europe" and "EU" has prompted the first Bloggers4UKIP Number 10 petition: stop referring to the EU as "Europe".

Other petitions that may be of interest ...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nogunlaws/

Animal Magic said...

@Anon

Not sure about gun laws. What is UKIP policy on this? Libertarian or not?