WHAT delicious timing!

Today is St George’s Day. The day on which, according to a poll, eight out of ten Englishmen and women feel intensely proud of their country.

So much so that Scot Gordon Brown last night ordered the English flag must fly above No 10.

National flags will also fly for Wales’s St David’s Day and for Scotland’s St Andrew.

This is all about “Britishness”. But it turns out to be a grotesque con on the British people.

This is also the day we learn that England, Scotland and Wales are to come under direct rule from Europe.

The EU has been split into “transnational regions” which will eventually take orders from Brussels, not from their elected parliaments.

Much of Scotland and the North-East merges with Scandinavia; Wales and the West join Portugal and Spain. Parts of the South link to Northern France.

Ministers insist this is an admin exercise of no great consequence.

Rubbish. This is the latest step in the accelerating collapse of British sovereignty — and the unstoppable growth of unaccountable EU power.

Now you know why Brown broke his 2005 election pledge to hold a referendum.

Excerpt from www.thesun.co.uk