If you are a parent who has just innocently sent your young children off to school in an EU member state this new autumn term, then what will they come back from class having learned? How to read, write and add up, hopefully. But also, perhaps, they will return home bearing the awesome knowledge that the European Union had generously saved them and their entire families from inevitable death in yet another of the continent’s periodic pan-continental conflicts of all-out racial genocide. And also, how to colour in all the EU member states’ flags properly without ever accidentally going outside the lines, of course.
Amongst all its innumerable other fingers in political pies, the EU today has its own special sub-department aimed at teachers and schools, pumping out learning material designed to educate children about how utterly essential the Common Agricultural Policy, the Schengen Agreement and the Lisbon Treaty are for their future economic prosperity and social wellbeing, and how they’d all be lying dead in a neo-Nazi mass war-grave without them.
According to the relevant section of the website of the Publications Office of the EU, “The EU supports its Member States in their efforts to provide high-quality and widely accessible education and training” by “facilitating exchanges of information and experience”. To this end, it has now beneficently spent EU taxpayers’ money producing a wide variety of “publications and educational games” with fascinating-sounding titles like Europe Organising Together!, EU & Me and The EU Council Explained, which are “intended to support young people and teachers in learning about the EU, its values and its policies, and about the functioning of the EU institutions, their responsibilities and their work”.
Anarchy in the Yooki
Its latest range, aimed at primary schools, is a series of colourful illustrated texts featuring a poorly-drawn cartoon firefly called Yooki. Besides appearing in some new flag-based colouring activity books released in time for the new 2024-25 academic year, the friendly light-emitting insect chiefly stars within a mercifully short illustrated 2023 storybook, Yooki and the Union of the Forest, and an associated Learn With Yooki Activity Book, in which a war between different species of forest animals over jam and other such scarce natural resources is only narrowly averted thanks to the intervention of a giant enchanted glowing lantern – one that is shaped miraculously like one of the main EU Parliament buildings, and within which all the animals conveniently learn to talk to one another, compromise and make eternal peace in the rough manner of Jean Monnet.
This is all meant to stand in for how the EU supposedly saved Europe after World War II, with kids subsequently exhorted to engage in a series of bizarre and beyond-parody workbook exercises illustrating the need for Schengen-style freedom of movement for earthworms and a Common Agricultural Policy laboriously hammered out between woodpeckers and salamanders.
Written in prose so leaden not even an alchemist could save it, the whole Yooki series is a pathetically transparent attempt to brainwash children with a brand-new Left-wing political origin-myth for the continent to replace all those ‘outmoded’ old classical and Christian ones we’re all supposed to hate and forget about now, and a prime example of how the EU continually wastes its budget on complete, self-congratulatory drivel. Admittedly, they are at least free for all professional infant indoctrinators to download or order a physical copy of without any charge – but only at the point of ordering; in reality anyone who signs up for one will have already paid for it unknowingly via their previously stolen tax-money.
The parent Forest book opens with some preparatory small-print aimed at teachers, advising them that it is aimed at the seven to nine age-group, and is “designed to explain to children… what the European Union is and how it came about” as well as “the key reason why the European Union was founded: to keep peace between its Member States”. Absolutely fascinatingly for the average seven year-old, “in addition, it explains the role of the European Council and the Council of the European Union as the house of the Member States”. Perhaps it also explains the difference between the Judean People’s Front and the People’s Front of Judea while it’s at it?
Magic Lantern Show
As the story begins, Yooki’s sensitive antennae are throbbing painfully at the sound of a loud argument playing out across his enchanted Euro-forest. Lilou, “leader of the earthworms”, is distressed her habitat has just been caused to collapse after being invaded and annexed like the Sudetenland by the mighty Führer of the salamanders, Frida. “Go away, this is my land!” screams the unacceptably nationalist-minded Lilou, but Frida is largely unapologetic: all her race’s vital stores of jam have gone missing, it being well-known that amphibians of the order Caudata exist largely upon fruit-based spreads. Soon, other rival species are getting involved in the nascent conflict and, before you know it, Wood War III breaks out – not over Poland this time, but over jam. Ironically, peace could just not be preserved.
His poor antennae still pulsing, Yooki seeks advice from the wisest old tree in the forest, Arber, who tells him of how, not so very long ago, the grandparents of all the Euro-animals had fought amongst one another in precisely the same fashion, leading to the continent’s near-destruction. The only way they had been able to avert Animal Armageddon was to agree to meet up within a magical shining building hidden away somewhere deep within the trees, called ‘The Lantern’, whose amazing, quasi-religious qualities somehow allowed all those who entered it as sworn enemies to walk out paw-in-paw as perpetual pacifist friends, the German wolf and the French lamb lying down together as one. Yooki had always thought tales of the Lantern were mere utopian myths, but no. The Lantern is real, and it looks like this:
By pure coincidence, meanwhile, one of the main Brussels assembly buildings of the EU, The Europa Building, just happens to look like this when drawn on the European Council’s current official logo:
Pick up your pencils and spot the difference, kids!
At this point, Yooki successfully gathers up all the warring animals, herds them inside the Lantern and, under the influence of its enchanting bureaucratic spell, they each learn how to negotiate and make peace. How so? Well, in true Schengen fashion, their sagacious leaders agree unquestioningly to instantly abolish all unnecessary trade-impeding internal borders by virtue of allowing the earthworm-race to “dig tunnels under the entire forest” like a benevolent vermiform Hamas, and for all species to share their excess annual jam-harvests with one another forever in a rough analogue of the Common Agricultural Policy, The End.
Except… not quite The End, because the EU process is perforce one of ever-greater enlargement, with an outside centipede, perhaps of Turkish, Albanian or Ukrainian origin, observing how successful the organisation is and immediately applying for provisional full membership status. “Together, we shine!” concludes Yooki, a possible oblique reference to the current obvious success of EU green energy security policy. His own personal on-board abdominal light-source is, of course, 100% naturally renewable.
Exercises in Futility
The storybook’s associated activity workbook, designed to relentlessly ram home the exceedingly unsubtle message that, without the EU, every last member of the class reading it would starve in a fascist bomb-crater and die, is even worse. It honestly features “fun” – the actual word its rather optimistic authors use – exercises such as the below pair of comically soporific horrors, which are quite beyond all adequate verbal description:
Would you be happy with your child being force-fed worthless cartoon agitprop like this to read by their teachers? Perhaps not, but how likely is it that such a thing will ever really actually occur? Oddly enough, on its site, the Publications Office of the EU provides no specific figures proudly boasting about how many copies of Yooki’s incredible adventures have thus far been printed, distributed to schools or downloaded by teachers across the continent in any one of the EU’s many official languages. I suspect this may be because said sum total hovers around embarrassingly somewhere very close to zéro, nichts, nul, cero, or at least I sincerely hope this may be so.
Most likely, any halfway sensible teachers across Europe will take one look at these dismal sub-literary products and decide to read genuine small kids’ classics like The Very Hungry Caterpillar with their young charges instead, possibly whilst opportunistically recasting the story as a potential metaphor for unsustainable EU budget demands and welfare spending while they’re at it, with Mario Draghi as the greedy fat grub in question, just to spite the books’ hubristic producers.
Educationalists should not be too hasty in their dismissal of these propaganda texts’ potential pedagogical utility, however. After all, by boring them substantially along the path into an early grave, they will doubtless teach fledgling readers a highly useful lesson in life: that the European Union has a very cavalier attitude indeed towards the spending of their parents’ hard-earned tax-money on complete and total nonsense which serves no good or useful purpose to its actual citizens whatsoever.
Being a freeborn Englishman myself, I give nightly praise to the Almighty Lantern that, thanks to the true magic of Brexit, the real Yooki within which I live, work and pay my taxes is no longer a part of the whole failing Union of the Forest at all any more. And that, dear children, is this story’s real Happy Ending.
Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets (Pen & Sword/Frontline), which is out now.
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Does look like the “vaccine” mandates in the US are starting to backfire badly on the Democrat coronapanickers:
“A judge tonight issued a restraining order against Frat Order of Police Pres John Catanzara to prohibit him from posting on social media or making any statements telling officers to refuse to get the vaccine. Chicago also filed a lawsuit against him for endangering public safety.“
“ENTIRE MAINE COUNTIES WILL BE WITHOUT PARAMEDICS“
Democrat coronaplotters.
That’s fine, they don’t want the plebs flying anyway. As long as private jet owners are unaffected then it’s nothing to worry about.
Here’s best wishes to anybody and everybody who stands up to this thuggish tyranny.
Thank you.
Joe Biden’s “mandate” isn’t mandatory. There’s no Executive Order or legislation to back up what he’s ordered. It’s unconstitutional, not legal, and probably unenforceable if enough people refuse to go along with it. I hope plenty of people refuse and make it unworkable.
I think at this point Biden knows he has become a despot and given the political environment in the US is literally risking his life in this autocratic gamble. It kind of reminds me of how Gadaffi has behaved before his fall.
Seems unlikely this is “Biden”. Presidencies are usually a team effort to varying extents, but in Biden’s case he’s actually senile, as well as corrupt and incompetent. This is definitely a despotism by a political clique, not by one man.
I was just going to say something similar. I genuinely think Biden does not know whether he is Biden or Brandon these days.
That makes it worse than Gadaffi, Sadam Hussein et al. We knew who they were and that they knew what they were doing.
Who is pulling Biden’s strings? It isn’t just one person and it isn’t the WH staff, they just help the strings to get pulled. Maybe the Manchurian Candidate wasn’t just a movie after all.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) promised to stand up to Biden’s vaccine mandate if it ends up actually existing.
DeSantis isn’t the only Governor who is threatening legal action against Biden.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt(R) said he is “ready to take Biden to court” over his vaccine mandate:
100percentfedup reported:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/governors-ready-sue-biden-vaccine-mandate-mandate-doesnt-yet-exist/
That’s why Biden isn’t publishing it, because the moment he signs it into law the lawsuits against him can start. He is hoping to achieve the effect of an executive order (looks like plenty of people have indeed fallen for the deception that there is an EO) without issuing one, thereby denying the possibility of any legal pushback for as long as possible.
Our government has been operating from the same playbook, threatening things just to frighten people into complying. For example, they have pointed out that closure of schools during lockdown was not based on any legal mandate. It was all voluntary compliance, apparently.
They pulled the same trick many times from the outset; working from home, wearing masks, social distancing, rule of 6 and now vaccination which is why, I believe, there is still yet to be a successful prosecution under so-called Coronovirus legislation.
Nothing is changing.
Same tactical deception used to stimulate compliance when it was announced the FDA approved the Pfizer “vaccine” that isn’t yet available.
I’ve just watched a 20 minute YouTube vid about the worldwide elimination of smallpox (achieved mid 1970’s).
Seems the UK did make smallpox vaccination mandatory, 1930s, but the US were in the same predicament as now.
Central Government wanted to mandate it nationally but had to defer to States Rights. Some Governors refused and even passed the decision to local Health Authorities (Counties?).
But that was before the likes of the Nuremberg code, Unesco & Human right legislation etc. Some argue they aren’t legally binding, but the intention was there.
Anyway I think the penalty for non-compliance of smallpox vaccines was a small fine, the US has mandated vaccines before, it’s all part of the liberal ideology, in any as we know these only have emergency use authorization supposedly because there are no alternative treatments.
In any case the legal situation is going to get interesting over the next year.
Frances Hoare that said that English common law gives us an inherent right to bodily autonomy.
I think human rights law in general is a career with a bright future …
Man made laws are a nice civilized concept, I don’t know much about Frances Hoare, but I always say nobody can give you rights, they can only take them away.
But all that means is that they can’t physically pin you down and force the stuff into you.
Yet as the recent ruling in NSW has shown, as regards any so-called rights (to work, to travel, to exercise, to have your hair cut, to spend money, to go to church, to meet with friends etc), the state can suspend all those because they are not infringing your bodily autonomy (only your personal autonomy).
After all, that’s what the state has done to us all in lockdown – suspend all our rights – and the courts have gone along with it.
The judge ruled that the state can’t take away your rights because of race, sex or political opinion, but they can take away just about everything for refusing the vaccine since objecting to vaccination is not a protected characteristic in Australia.
The judge ruled that it was the very purpose of the public health law to deprive people of their rights as deemed necessary by a minister of state, and it was not his business to question the decision and impementation of a minister of state, nor to have regard to the fairness of the measures. And to top it all he pointed out that Australia doesn’t have a bill of rights, so don’t expect any.
The judge was looking for favour so that he can get a promotion, and has duly given the NSW government exactly what they wanted.
And thus Australians are now well on the way to totalitarianism.
ditto Italy and France.
Probably the mandates were entirely redundant. Smallpox captures the imagination in a way that covid never, ever will.
Nope. See comment above.
Smallpox disfigures, kills, and causes hideous suffering. Covid gives you a cough.
https://navigator.health.org.uk/theme/united-kingdom-vaccination-act-1853
It was made mandatory in 1853 but this was repealed around 1895 after a lot of pressure from people in general, as well as sections of the scientific and medical communities. There was a widely held belief that smallpox vaccination campaigns were followed by outbreaks of teburculosis; and also accompanied by “serum sickness”.
Smallpox vaccination was detested by many people and there is little doubt that it provoked serious disease and illness in some of those who were subjected to it.
There were many protests against the compulsion of smallpox vaccination. A major protest happened in the town (now a city) of Leicester in 1885 after which compulsory vaccination was effectively abandoned in the borough. Leicester had its own procedures for smallpox which centred around hospitalising the sick, while quarantining and supporting their family members, until they were shown to be clear. The policy was a success and Leicester was for the most part smallpox free thereafter.
In his later years, the great Alfred Russel Wallace campaigned tirelessly against compulsory vaccination.
An admirable man in every way.
I think Y.tube might be wrong, surprise surprise … well actually, nothing surprises me any more.
My understanding is that there was a 1853 UK mandate, requiring all children born to be jabbed, but the disease had a 70% fatality rate in children .. struth. The mandate was later abandoned.
I think since then the UK has been conspicuous in protecting our civil liberties fairly well. The USA has had some mandates of the type ‘no jab, no education for your children’.
If anyone knows better, do correct me. However, if we abandoned the last mandate in the 19th.C, that’s a fairly good precedent for not having another one … especially given the post-World War 2 human rights conventions and legislation. These were brought in specifically to stop the atrocities happening again.
YouTube are merely the host. This guy usually gets his facts right but it’s a subject worth investigating as seen in the comments above, including yours.
Sorry, I don’t know how to post links from Android
And this is the man in charge!
All due to Putin – as Tucker Carlson helpfully explains : Let’s Go, Brandon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX2FOHrreDU
https://nypost.com/2021/10/14/covid-regime-is-driving-americans-to-a-healthy-noncompliance/
This is ‘Irish democracy’.
Bring -more of- it on!
“Irish Democracy is when the populace simply doesn’t cooperate with the agenda.”
Not something that you get in Ireland, then.
The old, real Irish, suppressed by the English.
Not the EUropeanized wussies of today.
The ‘Native Americans’ of today have nothing in common with their heroic ancestors either.
“The ‘Native Americans’ of today have nothing in common with their heroic ancestors either.”
Nor in fact do the English of today have anything in common with their ancestors who brought modernity to the world and built a world empire from a tiny island.
Brilliant. All tyrants over reach. Lets hope that we’re nearing that point.
American Airlines and Amtrak join SouthWest Airlines in Freedom walkouts against mandatory vaccines …
Oops – it looks like Sleep Joe’s vaccine mandates are most unpopular – other than with GOP voters – with many essential government workers, ethnic minorities and the poor, most of whom normally vote Dem. Maybe they should change the phrase from ‘Let’s go, Branden’ (ahem) to ‘just GO, Joe’.
Don’t forget that anyone in the vicinity of the COP26 when Sleepy Joe is around – please remember to loudly chant ‘F Joe Biden’.
Rules for thee …
Inc Capitol Police, FBI, Congress, USPS …
Let us destroy society and create contingency plans to deal with the destruction we caused. -Joe Biden, 2021
Why is there a constant revolving door of failed politicians, economists and advisers. How can this miserable and dangerous cycle be broken? Until we get decent, intelligent and honourable men and women to stand for Parliament and employ decent expertise in field where expertise is needed, I think we should stand down all Governments and their advisers. We should close ALL international bodies like UN WHO etc and create small effective national Sheriffs who put their own country first and are willing to help others when needed.