https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
Doggerland has come back! England is now reconnected not only with northern France, but also with the low countries, northwestern Germany, and Denmark. How does this change things?
What will be done with the new land? What about claims placed on it by the countries across the now non-existent English Channel? How will this alter the UK’s geopolitical strategic aims? What about your holiday plans?
What are your personal feelings about this geologic turn of events? Let’s assume it just has magically reappeared one morning, and that there wasn’t some kind of tectonic catastrophe with tsunamis, city-leveling earthquakes, and life-as-we-know-it-threatening volcanism.
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britain france wars are back on the table again as we don’t have to deal with all that naval fuss
Dogging sites everywhere – little car parks will pop up near every wooded or heavily vegetated area and saucy middle aged perverts will creep their way throughout the region.
Time team comes back for another season
I’ll establish my own country
Anyone getting angry about small boats is about to have a heart attack…
The Dutch Economy collapses due to Rotterdam now being as useful as tits on a submarine
Great Cthulhu rises with it and we really don’t have anything else to worry about.
Someone goes dogging in dogger land but gets prosecuted for advertising for someone to suck on his big juicy quarter pounder because everything is metric in Europe. So he has to call it the royale with cheese instead.
Northwestern Europe has moved past the days where territorial disputes were settled at the point of the sword or barrel of a gun, or so we’d like to think. And so the UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands would first lay claim to the parts of Doggerland that lay within their former territorial waters. And then each border would expand outwards in equal measure until all of the "new" land is claimed.
The Channel Tunnel would now be a high speed train line across Doggerland into France. We see the sense in having more high speed rail, connecting London directly to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, and beyond. The big rivers in the north of England that are navigable for ferries and cargo ships are extended out to the new coastline, but they’re more difficult to transit through so new container ports (with rail links) are built at the new coastline. The altered coast reaches almost all the way to the Firth of Forth, so Edinburgh becomes the primary destination for Scandinavian ferries until new ports are built at the new mouths of the Tyne, Tees, and Humber. The Thames is no longer navigable up to Tilbury however, so that port and those further inland (such as the one right by the Dartford crossing) are no longer viable, and Felixstowe, Harwich, and Dover also lose their importance.
Genuinely thought I’d missed some major news reading this.
Preemptive nuclear strike on the Dutch
Isn’t Doggerland under the North Sea rather than the English Channel?
A wall?
Norfolk claims independence, uses a vast army of agricultural machinery to carry out a rapid land grab, and becomes a superpower. Nobody messes with them because they have mustard gas.
There’s going to be a lot of people with spelling difficulties expecting to see JCBs.
Dinghy sales in Calais collapse.
The quiet questionable peace that has stood for decades between Britain and France is torn apart as there is a rush for land.
Also the euro tunnel is pointless now.
Doggerland rises
UK = So we are enemies again?
France = Oui
Germany = ja
USA = Doggerland needs democracy
Considering how much land the Dutch have reclaimed you have to assume they were behind it. In one fell swoop they’ve taken over Northern European shipping, it’s only a matter of time until they invade the UK and vastly improve our train system.
Lots of swingers drive down thinking there’s a new theme park.
Local residents oppose extending the A180 and the building of new homes.
Uncle Albert is a bit miffed that he’s no longer needed to take Del to Amsterdam
The US will annex it
The British economy tanks as no one can find anywhere to park their boats.
The housing crisis continues despite now have 50% more land.
Some proposal is put forward to increase the Army. Nothing comes of it.
Some proposal is put forward to build an overland rail to Europe. Nothing comes of it and the French end up doing it.
I take leave off work and head down with a shovel. I’m gonna find me some mammoth bones.
bit late, but would definitely result in a much stricter border control, possibly even a wall or fence/something similar, given we left the EU. I’m guessing the claims will be similar to maritime borders, given the distance from each country. Might improve the UK’s agricultural land, although haven’t looked that much into Doggerland but presume it would be nitrate rich
East Anglia increases. There is no stopping it. Nothing can halt the marsh people. Criminals are sacrificed to appease the bog gods once more. All hail our new semi-aquatic overlords.
The shipping forecast changes forever. It wouldn’t be the same without "Dogger, Fisher, German Bight". We’d still have the Utsires, right?
We restore the fallen city of Gondolin. Or is it Leshp?
I’d be more concerned about sudden ice age.