article_snippet.sent: Sixteen and seventeen year olds should not be allowed to vote in a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union because Sixteen and seventeen year olds have been brainwashed with pro-EU colouring-in books, Ukip has said.
article_snippet.sent: Party said schoolchildren were being exposed to ‘propaganda’ from Brussels in a bid to ‘catch schoolchildren young’.
article_snippet.sent: Ukip campaign chief Patrick O'Flynn accused Brussels of feeding 'propaganda' to young people who could not be trusted to vote in a referendum .
article_snippet.sent: The amount of money that the EU is putting into this propaganda and throughout the entire education system is enormous.
article_snippet.sent: Overall the EU the EU has an advertising budget that is larger than Coca-Cola.
article_snippet.sent: It's certainly designed to catch people young and feed people propaganda and a very partial view which you know just speaks up to the EU being an unalloyed good thing that we couldn't possibly do without.
article_snippet.sent: We’ve had many reports from We members of schoolchildren of secondary school age being exposed to overwhelmingly pro-EU views when the matter of the EU is discussed and not really having the Eurosceptic case put.
article_snippet.sent: Ukip deputy chairman Suzanne Evans said the amount of money that the EU the EU is 'putting into this propaganda and throughout the entire education system is enormous' Mr O’Flynn said the EU was ‘strongly against’ lowering the voting age as under-18s are ‘too young/ to vote.
article_snippet.sent: Let's be frank about it, opinion research shows that 16 and 17-year-olds are much more likely to be in support of Britain's membership of the European Union than is the population in general,’ Ukip deputy chairman Suzanne Evans said.
article_snippet.sent: Because in the case of 16 and 17-year-olds they are far more likely to have been exposed recently to very strident pro-EU views and not to have heard the Eurosceptic case at all.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ukip said schoolchildren brainwashed with pro-EU colouring-in books .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Party said teens exposed to EU 'propaganda'  in a bid to 'catch them young'
  