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Traditional British Nannies Get Counter-Terror Skills
Channel News Asia ^ | 10 May 2017

Posted on 05/12/2017 9:44:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Traditional British nannies get counter-terror skills

Britain's prestigious Norland College, which has trained the creme de la creme of the world's nannies for over a century, has added anti-terrorism training to its curriculum.

For 125 years, the college in Bath, southwest England has trained modern-day incarnations of Mary Poppins to care for the children of the global elite, including most recently Britain's Prince George.

It was the world's first college to offer childcare courses but students are now taking lessons on evasive driving and cyber security provided by former intelligence officers.

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1 posted on 05/12/2017 9:44:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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If Britain and other European countries had fought Islamic terrorism with a modicum of sense, this wouldn’t even be remotely necessary.


2 posted on 05/12/2017 9:50:51 PM PDT by Crucial
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[...] has trained modern-day incarnations of Mary Poppins to care for the children of the global elite [...] but students are now taking lessons on evasive driving and cyber security provided by former intelligence officers.

The global elite has little or nothing to fear from Islamic terrorism (unless they happened to accidentally get caught in the cross-fire). Rather, this obviously has to do only with the regular, home-grown, garden variety of kidnapping (hence: "evasive driving").

The cyber security training is quite probably merely instruction in how not to upload revealing or embarrassing photos of the boss's kids, or posting comments on Facebook like "Whoopee! The boss says that I should accompany the family to the Malabar Hotel in Monaco this weekend! It's a penthouse suite (#718)! Jeeves, the manservant, and James, the chauffeur, are coming too! ('Course that means that our mansion in Dorchester Rd. - at the turnoff about 2 km from the trunk road - will be completely deserted!)"

Regards,

3 posted on 05/12/2017 10:05:59 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: nickcarraway

I hear they will also get training in defense against fresh fruit.

And maybe even pointy sticks.


4 posted on 05/13/2017 3:32:27 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: nickcarraway

Good breeding ground for MI6, no?
Who would suspect a nanny to be eyes and ears!


5 posted on 05/13/2017 3:40:40 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: nickcarraway

Wouldn’t it be easier to kick all the muzzies out?


6 posted on 05/13/2017 6:40:33 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Freedom of speech: an illusion that Americans hold fast to, although it disappeared decades ago.)
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Here is Prince William and Duchess Kate's Norland nanny in her official uniform at the christening of their baby daughter Princess Charlotte, who is in the pram. (That's Prince George in the red pants.)


7 posted on 05/13/2017 2:20:43 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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