Polish road directions in English countryside - A sign of things to come?

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2007

LONDON (AFP) — A British local authority has erected road signs in Polish to cater for growing numbers of immigrants from the central European country, but critics have branded the initiative "bonkers."

A recent spate of incidents involving puzzled Polish motorists led to council bosses erecting the signs on the Cheshire-Shropshire border, western England, the Daily Express reported Thursday.

The decision led to an outcry from anti-politically correct campaigners who questioned the financial implications of erecting the bright yellow signs.

"It's absolutely bonkers but what worries me is that once one council starts, others follow," Conservative party lawmmaker Philip Davis told the newspaper.

Council chiefs defended the action, claiming that police...