The Government is preparing for a showdown with its European Union partners over the more than £14 million that Britain spends every year subsidising a network of elite schools for the children of EU bureaucrats.Sounds like the Soviet Union - the children of the apparatchiks go to special schools where they are indoctrinated in the dogmas of the Party:
Few taxpayers have even heard of the "European Schools", established 50 years ago to provide a free, highly academic education for the children of EU officials and accredited diplomats.
The European schools teach a special curriculum with a strong emphasis on foreign languages, as well as the culture and values of the EU, leading to a unique "European Baccalaureate" qualification.Then there's RAF 'not good enough' for SAS parachute training:
The schools' mission statement says pupils "shall become Europeans in spirit, while preserving their love and pride for their own countries, and shall be well prepared to complete and consolidate the work undertaken by their fathers, towards the creation of a united and prosperous Europe".
The Special Air Service is to move its parachute training to the United States because it believes that the Royal Air Force no longer has the skills to train its soldiers in Britain.And I like Police officers tell robbery victim to carry out the investigation herself:
Linda Currie, a 49-year-old shop assistant, said the two officers dispatched to her off- licence in Liverpool declined her offer of taking away security footage of the incident.Gosh, they did show up 25 minutes after she called the emergency number when the guy was pounding on the glass partition! No word on whether she has to try, convict, and carry out the sentence too.
Instead, they asked her to watch it herself and to call them if she saw "anything valuable" on the tape.
When she told them that she recognised one of the perpetrator's friends and knew that he could be found at an address 200 yards away, they suggested she call there herself. One policeman told her: "He would probably tell you more than he will tell us.''
And how about a little UN fun - Lack of gipsy sites 'breaches UN racial guidance':
A fresh row over gipsies' human rights loomed last night after claims that failure to provide accommodation sites could breach UN rules on racial discrimination.Hey, we have gypsies and travellers in the USA too! Who knew that it was the duty of us in the "settled community" to provide campgrounds for nomads?
The all-party Lords and Commons committee on human rights warned that lack of official traveller sites compared with "the accommodation for the settled community" could fall foul of the main UN treaty on racial and ethnic discrimination.
While you're there, don't miss the effort to get a pardon for Anne Boleyn and do check out the psychologists studying why men go to lapdancing clubs.
