Say good-bye to Wales

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Wales sinks into Irish Sea on EU map. afp/eu britain wales offbeat 041005171153  Skitt (in Hayward, California)www.geocities.com/opus731/

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[nq:1]Wales sinks into Irish Sea on EU map. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041005/od afp/eu britain wales offbeat 041005171153[/nq]
Wishful thinking, I call that.

Mark Barratt

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[nq:2]Wales sinks into Irish Sea on EU map. afp/eu britain wales offbeat 041005171153[/nq]
[nq:1]Wishful thinking, I call that.[/nq]
I thought the post was referring to this weekend's World Cup qualifier.

Mike M

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[nq:2]Wales sinks into Irish Sea on EU map. afp/eu britain wales offbeat 041005171153[/nq]
[nq:1]Wishful thinking, I call that.[/nq]
I wonder if the sea has reached Matti's garden yet.

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Robin Bignall
Hertfordshire
England

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[nq:2]Wishful thinking, I call that.[/nq]
[nq:1]I wonder if the sea has reached Matti's garden yet.[/nq]
I checked up on the likelihood of that just this morning, in fact, using the new "flood map" at:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/
I'm separated from the sea by only four miles of coastal marshland, but apparently I'm less than 0.1% likely to suffer from flooding in any year.
Matti

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[nq:2]Wishful thinking, I call that.[/nq]
[nq:1]I thought the post was referring to this weekend's World Cup qualifier.[/nq]
I thought it was about the ultimate success of Greenpeace.
dg (domain=ccwebster)

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[nq:1]I checked up on the likelihood of that just this morning, in fact, using the new "flood map" at: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/[/nq]
I couldn't get that to work in either Opera 6 or Internet Explorer 5. Not for Shropshire, anyway. 'Internal Java Errors' or something. (The Countryside Agency's right-to-roam mapping page for Shropshire doesn't work either, although the one for Kent works perfectly. Not that I'm paranoid or anything.)
[nq:1]I'm separated from the sea by only four miles of coastal marshland, but apparently I'm less than 0.1% likely to suffer from flooding in any year.[/nq]
Da cael ynys mewn mor mawr, as the poet said less nicely precisely.

http://www.cec.org.uk/wales/enlarge.htm
(Actually, she probably meant to say 'Da cael mor mewn ynys mawr'. She was bang on about everything else - the inescapable stitch-up motif, for example - so why not about that?)
That is the official website of 'the official voice of the European Commission in Wales'. I went there hoping to find a larger jpeg of the front cover of the Eurostat Yearbook 2004, because for a while there it looked like I too might have been drowned by those dastardly Euro-ignoramuses (I'm OK, thanks: the new cliffs follow the Welsh border), but even the newsroom of the official voice of the EC in Wales makes no mention of Wales having subsided into the sea. There are jpegs of barely pubescent Czech schoolgirls waving beer-mats in celebration of Enlargement and of Romano Prodi clapping himself in the Mumbles and even of the office's security guard (Cheryl Prosser) looking fierce, but not a single word about The Cover That Welched The Welsh, let alone a jpeg.

To be fair, Eurostat's online pressroom doesn't mention it either.

And to be fair to Eurostat, it has far more important things to worry about. It is likely to be disbanded which is to say, renamed, retasked and reconstituted* because of large-scale fraud and persistent collusion in the institutionalised corruption for which the government of the EU has become famous.
*Probably with a grinningly shifty Neil Kinnock, fresh from his near-decade-long failure as head of the EC's fraud-busters, at its head.

Mickwick

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[nq:1]Da cael ynys mewn mor mawr, as the poet said less nicely precisely. http://www.cec.org.uk/wales/enlarge.htm (Actually, she probably meant to say 'Da cael mor mewn ynys mawr'.[/nq]
You mean like "Straw drowns clutching men"?
Mike.

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[nq:2]Da cael ynys mewn mor mawr, as the poet said ... probably meant to say 'Da cael mor mewn ynys mawr'.[/nq]
[nq:1]You mean like "Straw drowns clutching men"?[/nq]
Come on! Did you read it? Wales is going to lose a lot of money because of Enlargement and all the EC's office in Wales can offer is a poem about how the world is a big handkerchief and if we do enough needlework we can all sail to the moon (or something).

Mickwick

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[nq:2]I checked up on the likelihood of that just this morning, in fact, using the new "flood map" at: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/[/nq]
[nq:1]I couldn't get that to work in either Opera 6 or Internet Explorer 5. Not for Shropshire, anyway. 'Internal Java ... mapping page for Shropshire doesn't work either, although the one for Kent works perfectly. Not that I'm paranoid or anything.)[/nq]
It worked for me with Opera 7.54, for post code SY5-something, which, according to whatever search engine I used, is in Shropshire. Maybe a browser update is in order, if you're in a flood-prone area.

Ray Heindl
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[nq:2]You mean like "Straw drowns clutching men"?[/nq]
[nq:1]Come on! Did you read it?[/nq]
Of course I didn't read it! But, having now done so, I still think my instincts were sound when I coined the above new proverbial saying for the benefit of English-only readers*. Somebody has to pay for all those nice new low-wage oops, sorry! flexible work-force economies out east to jump on the gravy train: if it's core Labour territory, so much the better as far as the Blair-Rothermere-Murdoch Axis is concerned. Thought we'd reached a point of agreement there.

*The original goes, essentially, "It's good to find an island in a big sea"; MW proposed "It's good to find a sea in a big island" as it were, "Any storm in a port". I pushed it a bit further. The British Foreign Secretary's surname is Straw.
Mike.

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