Where Does Our Vernon Get The 'Truth' ? - Rated 
Like many of his others, this book is highly provocative, and in his work Coleman makes several errors. Firstly his book does away with such unworthy things as chapters, titles, subheadings and suchlike in favour of numbered statements. This renders the book easy and quick to read at the cost of greater detail and better analysis. One of Vernon's points is a lengthy discussion about topics that are of great import: identity cards and the rise of CCTV (point 123). These are of interest and, if Coleman had bothered with any detail, could have been expanded into what would be an entire chapter in a more conventional piece of literature.
Some of Vernon's numbered declarations are tangential, such as his list of ten great English movie stars. Other proclamations are short paragraphs that are simply superfluous, such as his comments on Sven Goran Erikkson (point 17). There are also a number that comprise only one sentence, including a short quote about the fight for freedom (point 70), and another which insists that England has been conquered (point 106). This gives the book a lack of depth and indicates that Coleman's book is a more of a populist leaflet rather than an academic study. Be warned: without the extraneous, Coleman's bitty 200 page book would be a mere pamphlet.
Like such pamphlets of years gone by, Coleman's work lacks credited sources, bar a document he found in the Public Records Office that had been published because of the thirty year rule. This contains information pertaining to 1971 and clearly does not impart all that Coleman provides in `England, Our England'. Lacking a list of credible foundations, such as a bibliography, the book can be debunked as a collection of lies. Without a good basis, how can well tell if Vernon is telling us the truth about the number of fridges the EU discards per annum (point 90)? Vernon's tract could be uninformed hogwash, calculated propaganda or the unvarnished truth, but we may never know for certain.
These problems are not peculiar to this one book by Vernon Coleman. It can be seen from reading, `Living in a Fascist Country,' that he makes mistakes of this sort all the time. In `...Fascist Country,' he asserts that he is something of an anarchist (yeah, an anarchist who supports capitalism and the police) and that his contentious books are difficult to obtain from public libraries. His ineptitude goes someway to explain why many of his works are openly available to me in libraries here in Essex.
That said, Coleman's `England, Our England,' has certainly scattered seeds of doubt in my mind regarding the EU. It has been said that this thin book has been read by approximately 2 million residents of the UK, and if they have had their faith in the EU shaken as I have, then this is something of a success. Even more positively, Coleman has written over 90 books in his occupation of self-employed writer, so he is clearly a man who is more motivated than most. Just remember that his books are not definitive documents.
God help us - Rated 
This book tells it like it is,I have long suspected that one of the greatest nations on earth ie England is being strangled from the nhs to schools to our historical heritage,we are being told by this government that it is no longer correct to be proud of our history,we are all being primed for our entry into Europe and the euro,it might be too late!Read this and weep,weep for all of those that lost their lives in two world wars ,and for what?Herman Goering was the first person to mention "European economic community"seems like we never won the wars after all.
Born again Englishman - Rated
An easy book to read, with numerouse short comments on how the EU is slowly eroding the identity of England. How our political leaders are selling us out for a place at the EU money trough. If only half of what is written was true then it paints a scary picture for the future of English nationality. It is a good first book to buy on this subject and will have you shouting at friends that they are English not British. I read it in days leant it out and doubt I will see it again as it has passed through several hands.
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