CARD-CARRYING fascists must be banned from the country’s classrooms, Scotland’s biggest teaching union declared on Saturday following a landmark vote.

Cheers rang out across Perth’s concert hall on Saturday as EIS delegates passed a new measure urging that members of fascist political parties be barred from the profession, with the motion scraping through with just six votes to spare.

Glasgow delegate Charlie McKinnon warned that the BNP and similar parties remained influential in many parts of Britain despite dismal performances in last month’s European elections.