Last week the Daily Express ran a story with this headline: EU’s plan to liquify corpses and pour them down the drain.

OMG! They plan to do what???

The next day a letter duly appeared in the Express expressing horror:

I felt sick to my stomach when reading the article “EU’s plan to liquefy corpses and pour them down the drain” (July 8).

If this abhorrent act is to become law under EU ruling I hope David Cameron will be strong enough to say this would never be allowed in our country.

You know where this is going already don’t you?

In fact it was a plan by the… *drumroll* Flemish Association of Undertakers, in Belgium.

The Daily Express journalist presumably couldn’t contain their excitement at such a brilliant story to bother check facts.

[hat-tip Tabloid Watch]

The Daily Express have since taken the story off their website, without posting any explanation. Another Euromyth “liquidated”.

Reader comments

1. Liberal Conspiracy

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2. Christopher Wilson

   you couldn't make it up….RT @libcon: Oh no, the EU is now after our dead! http://bit.ly/9O7uzF

3. Gary Hills

   RT @libcon: Oh no, the EU is now after our dead! http://bit.ly/9O7uzF

4. sunny hundal

   Oh no, the EU is now after our dead! Or… is it? http://bit.ly/9O7uzF

5. Martin Warne

   RT @sunny_hundal: Oh no, the EU is now after our dead! Or… is it? http://bit.ly/9O7uzF < you couldn't make it up! No, wait a moment …

6. jonygee33

   LOL
   http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/07/19/oh-no-the-eu-is-now-after-our-dead/

7. Eurocentric

   The #EU planning to liquify our dead? Smells like a #Euromyth http://bit.ly/9aFB1V #dailyexpress #badjournalism

8. Louis Lepioufle

   RT @EuropeanCitizen: The #EU planning to liquify our dead? Smells like a #Euromyth http://bit.ly/9aFB1V #dailyexpress #badjournalism

9. Kevin McNamara

   what's this? the #dailyfail is fabricating eu-scareongering? AGAIN? http://bit.ly/bHKf3r

10. Lucyyy

    RT @libcon Oh no, the EU is now after our dead! http://bit.ly/bHKf3r Looks like the Express has been watching The Matrix too much

11. John Band

    Insane Europhobic myths' Tom Lehrer moment: http://bit.ly/a34ju1 @nosemonkey @jonworth

12. blogs of the world

    If this abhorrent act is to become law under EU ruling I hope David Cameron will be strong… http://reduce.li/1bpcrj #our

13. Ralf Grahn

    RT @johnb78: Insane Europhobic myths' Tom Lehrer moment: http://bit.ly/a34ju1 @nosemonkey @jonworth