Observations

"We'll take away your lorry drivers' cheese & ham sandwiches, but your kids can come over for some 'lessons'"

At a time when the EU institutions and many EU countries are trying to make things as petty and difficult as possible for Brexit Britain, it seems that they are nevertheless happy to engage very positively with the youth and the teachers of the UK.

A coordinated communications campaign will be run by the EU Parliament – one of the most extreme of all EU institutions – from its very attractive offices in London’s leafy Smith Square, just a few hundred yards from ‘the Mother of all Parliaments’. On offer will be a range of initiatives and support material, as well as the possibility of travel to Strasbourg or Brussels to ”learn about European integration”.

Shouldn’t our young people do exchanges like this?

The Brexit Facts4EU.Org team are all firm believers that “travel broadens the mind”. Unfortunately the problem here is two-fold.

Firstly, what you see on the various EU youth websites – and that of the ‘European Parliament Liaison Office in the United Kingdom’ – might look fairly innocuous. In years gone by we were able to publish what the EU really meant to achieve, because they made it very plain. These days, however, the EU are careful not to publish anything too incriminating online. This does NOT mean that the indoctrination agenda has diminished. Far from it.

The second problem is our children receiving a balanced education, where they can weigh up different opinions. The UK’s teachers and university lecturers voted overwhelmingly for Remain.

We rather think that the majority of them will be more than happy for children and young adults in their care to receive a full-on blast of the supposed benefits of “European integration”. Indeed they would probably favour what we consider to be a dystopian world.

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How long before our reasonable and alternative opinions are barred from the EU?

Another way of describing European integration is “the subsuming of individual nationalities with rich cultures into one amorphous grey mass, governed from the capital of a dysfunctional country, and administered by an unelected technocracy.” This is certainly one of our descriptions. We would be happy to deliver a lecture like this, but we doubt that those who run the EU’s propaganda programmes would be very interested.

Incidentally, we would also be capable of delivering a perfectly balanced lecture, or a balanced set of school materials, illuminating all sides of the debate dispassionately and with official facts. If we were teachers we would do exactly that.

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