EU Regional Logos

Logos are powerful tools, upon which tens of thousands are spent. What is noticable about the various EU sponsored "regional" agencies in England is that all the logos have one important thing missing from them - namely, ANY indication that they are English.

Let's start off the the portal site for all the regional agencies , which is over here. It's logo is this



England, with a history going back thousands of years, reduced to an indistinct blue/grey blob. How quaint.

Now lets go through each of the regions. Heres the East of England Regional Development Agency logo, which is a green/white Stalinist imprint that conveys nothing of the East of Englands maritime history.




Associated with EEDA is the East of England Observatory who's logo is the following:



The circle doodle in that logo reminds me of the logo of Common Purpose


The South West RDA has this logo:


The rich, ancient history of the Devon and Cornwall reduced to a pixellated mess.

The North West RDA is even worse, with the whole region behind reduced to a strange 5 pixel corner icon thing.



The West Midlands RDA, now rebranded as Advantage West Midlands has a big stylised A in its logo. As to any indication that it's based in England, well, no. There isn't any.



The North East RDA has a similar meme, after being rebranded as One North East. "One" is a collective term ("acting as one") , so it's safe to assume that this lot are probably infested with Common Purpose.


One North East has a curious Christmas e-card which , despite the references to castles, and Roman ruins, gives no indication of it being from England. It's interesting to note that in the e-card, one of the castles is flying a white flag instead of the flag of St George.

The Yorkshire Forward RDA has this curious swastika like logo




Viking re-enactment, with a shield adorned with a white Nordic swastika that is curiously close to the Yorkshire Forward logo


Both the East Midlands and South East manage to infuse at least a small dose of Britishness in their logos with incorporation of the red , white and blue colours.





But the London RDA go and spoil it all with their totally anonymous, bland logo


Now, you might say that this is a trivial post, but you have to bear in mind that logos don't come out of thin air. They are tendered for, designed, cost thousands, if not tens of thousands, and have to be approved and signed off. And these are the logos these RDAs are using in their dealings with the European Union. For if an RDA like the South West one for example, can completely ignore Cornish culture (for example), what does that tell you abou the people running that RDA. People who have never been elected, and yet have embassies in Brussels and liase with the EU and channel hundreds of millions of taxpayers money. And all completely unaccountable to the electorate.