ALL BY OURSELVES : THE UK GOVERNMENT has confirmed today it is not seeking to involve British school leavers in the European Erasmus exchange programme after the end of the Brexit transition period.
The move, described as “so far sighted it’s gone around the world and is looking into its own backside” by supporters has been taken over concerns about ideological impurity seeping into British thought from across the Channel.
The primary worry appears to be the fact that numerous European universities seek to teach university students that WW2 ended three quarters of a century ago, and having learned the horrible lessons of that terrible conflict, Europe now seeks to work together to avoid a repetition of past horror.
“That’s not Brexit,” a 10 Downing Street source told LCD Views, “we stand alone against Europe once again! The war isn’t over, it was just resting.”
The sensible decision will build on the history curriculum taught in state schools which is focused entirely on WW2 from an increasingly distilled English perspective, with the occasional break to learn about WW1.
“It’s not much point obsessing over the conflict for twelve years in school, to keep the Blitz spirit alive, and have the patriotic British young ready to live through it all over again, if you then go and ship them off to Europe. Worse still, they may even pick up some ghastly inferior European tongue.”
Of course travel to university to study will still be available for very wealthy British children, but most will have been to Eton and by then “the damage is already done.”