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A new teaching pack on the EU has been introduced for use in Key Stage 3 and 4 “citizenship” classes that claims to offer a balanced view of the organisation and its role. Officials responsible for the pack say “The resources have been designed to offer a balanced introduction to the European Union and the European Parliament, to encourage students to take part in discussion and to form their own view on the subjects covered in the resources,”

The taxpayer-funded materials – available to schools in bulk and at no cost from the European Parliament’s UK office – hail the effectiveness of EU legislation on everything from smoking and workers’ rights to genetically modified organisms and food labelling

But many think this is nothing more than brainwashing propaganda akin to that used by the Soviet Union

The UK Independence Party, which blew the whistle on the pack, also attacked the way the Eurosceptic character featured in the pupil worksheets – “Portsmouth plumber Charlie Bolton” – is an ageing, white man who contrasts with other young, smiling, fresh-faced people. Below a chart showing how the various institutions of the EU, such as the European Parliament and European Commission, interact, Charlie Bolton says: “Europe – it’s just faceless bureaucrats – none of them elected.
“And they impose their laws on us from Brussels whenever they fancy. All that red tape to make our lives harder.”
It then guides pupils to reject the notion that the EU is anti-democratic by reminding them of the elected European Parliament.
“Do you agree with Charlie? What does the flow chart tell you about how laws are made?” it asks.
The teacher is also instructed to show pupils how to counter his argument and to lead the pupils to conclude that he is wrong and that the EU is democratic.

The lesson plan reads: “Discuss Charlie Bolton’s attitude to EU legislation. If Charlie knew that the Members of the European Parliament are elected and that the Council of Ministers represents our governments, do the students think that he would change his mind?”

Yorkshire’s UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom hit out last night at the pack, branding it “bias and propaganda, masquerading as neutral fact”.

Tory MP Philip Davies, spokesman for the Better Off Out campaign, added: “The EU gets more like the Soviet Union every day when it resorts to brainwashing children. “All it does is confirm my worst fears.”

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There are many who belive that only way out of the mess Tony Blair has made of the British Constitution is the creation of a separate English parliament, give more power to the Scottish Parliament and to the Welsh Assembly which would then become the Welsh parliament, and then to create a smaller federal style government at Westminster. There are problems created by the size of England in comparison to both Scotland and Wales but it cannot be beyond the realms of possibility to organise the central government in a fair a equitably way to meet these problems.

The alternatives to an English Parliament are not really acceptable, the Labour government and its group would like to develop English regions these would become mini regional parliaments but require the break up of England as a political entirety whilst enhancing the stature of Scotland and Wales. And would not in any way address the calls for Scottish independence.

The Conservatives would like to address the English Question and the West Lothian Question by creating a separate parliament for England at Westminster with English MPs only deciding on English matters EVonEM, this would be very difficult to achieve because of the difficulty in deciding which legislation applied solely to England there are also several other problems associated with EVonEM.

The reason for this post is to introduce the difference between those who belive we should have an English parliament and the BNP who belive we should have English Scots and Welsh Parliaments but only indigenous Scots, English and Welsh will have the right to vote in their respective parliaments. In other words the BNP are climbing on the bandwagon of English Nationalism and trying to create something ugly and totally unacceptable. This post from

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the organiser of a news aggregator and blog ring for English nationalist bloggers Witanagemot Club . Put the case and explains the dangers.

The BNP and an English Parliament