The latest ridiculous story in the British press claims that the EU plans to break up Britain, with amongst other things Kent becoming part of France.

The story originates from a disgraceful press release put out by the Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, Eric Pickles, in which he says: “I fear Eurocrats could literally wipe Britain off the map”.

He claims that Britain is to be broken up into a series of transnational regions and will no longer exist. The Tories knew full well that the tabloids would lap this up, and as expected it made several papers.

However, if you actually look at the press release’s references it transpires that this so-called plot is nothing more than the old Interreg regions – which is merely co-operation between different regions who share similar problems, such as the Atlantic regions and was actually set up when the Conservatives were in government. Presumably if they saw a geological map of Europe, they would claim that Scotland was being merged with Austria because they both have granite.

Sadly, the Conservative Party, which is trying to portray itself as a serious party, has found itself aligned with UKIP, caught wilfully misleading the British public.

Click here to read the one-minute speech I made on the subject in Strasbourg.