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EU brainwashing kids at taxpayer expense

Wednesday, 18th January 2012

Paul Nuttall MEP, the UKIP Deputy leader and Education spokesman has denounced the way in which the EU is pushing taxpayer-funded propaganda into British schools.

He has demanded that Michael Gove and the Department for Education Families and Schools suspend the activities of the European Publications Office until a full investigation is carried out into their activities in the UK.

"It seems on the face of it that the European Commission is deliberately acting against the provisions of the Education Act," said Mr Nuttall.

"The act clearly forbids partisan political influence in schools. Yet the Commission state quite clearly that the purpose of their schools program is to convince young people that the EU is a good thing."

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"There is hardly a more contentious issue in British politics today than the relationship between the UK and the EU, and here they are using our money to propagandise our children. It is outrageous and must stop", he said.

EU school programs in the UK include lesson plans delivered free of charge to hard-pressed teachers. There is also the infamous 'Spring Day in Europe' project which has been running since 2008 and includes the following in its aims:

Debates and pedagogical games should focus on the history, the current developments of the EU, its policies and its future such as:
- European integration, citizenship, previous achievements and the concrete benefits brought to citizens in their daily lives by the Union

The sums involved are not small, with the estimated maximum value of the contract is €500,000 per year, which will be €2.500,000 over five years.

"Millions of pounds of taxpayers money has been spent on the overall scheme, and millions more will be spent to influence vulnerable young minds, said Nuttall.

"It must stop. It is an exercise in cynical brainwashing of children."

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