I have said many many times about how New Labour hate our nation, its history, its ideals, all its symbols and have gone out of their way to remove this at every opportunity.
Now after ten years we have the proof of what the socialists have created here in the UK, so read about their new "Cool Britannia" and their hatred of all things British.
A fifth of British teenagers believe Sir Winston Churchill was a fictional character, while many think Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur and Eleanor Rigby were real, a survey shows.
This fits in with New Labour's world view, promote fluff subjects like "media studies" and "citizenship classes" whilst forgetting all that nasty history stuff that promotes an idea of self independence and self worth.
After all according to their view people can not live without the uber-state, can not live without being told what to do, think and say.
Despite his celebrated military reputation, 47 per cent of respondents dismissed the 12th-century crusading English king Richard the Lionheart as fictional.
Next time the teachers go on strike for more pay, ask them why they have failed to educate the young in their charge on our history!
More than a quarter (27 per cent) thought Florence Nightingale, the pioneering nurse who coaxed injured soldiers back to health in the Crimean War, was a mythical figure.
And in our tv obcessed society when there is no counter balance to tv programs is it any wonder that people think that fictional characters are real:
King Arthur is the mythical figure most commonly mistaken for fact - almost two thirds of teens (65 per cent) believe that he existed and led a round table of knights at Camelot.
Sherlock Holmes, the detective, was so convincingly brought to life in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels, their film versions and television series, that 58 per cent of respondents believe that the sleuth really lived at 221B Baker Street.
Fifty-one per cent of respondents believed that Robin Hood lived in Sherwood Forest, robbing the rich to give to the poor, while 47 per cent believed Eleanor Rigby was a real person rather than a creation of The Beatles.
**And we as a nation used to laugh at the US education system years ago for not teaching Americans about basic facts about the world outside the US, I fear that as a nation we are not in a position to laugh at anyone anymore.
Tags: new labour, education, Cool Britannia
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And Ed Ballsup wants compulsory cooking classes in schools. I do hate leftards.
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This fits in with New Labour's world view, promote fluff subjects like "media studies" and "citizenship classes" whilst forgetting all that nasty history stuff that promotes an idea of self independence and self worth.
One wonders whether part of the social problems we are facing now are due to the emotional damage caused by the interference in the education system by this current government.
It's saddening that so many young peoples start in life is blighted by not having a sense of indentity, belief or perspective of history to help them deal with that life throws at them.
Dear Mr Lone Voice;
If kids in the schools of today are taught that;
"The British Empire was an unfortunate period in our Nations history".
Or; "Winston Churchill was a deluded warmonger".
Or; "Richard the Lionheart was a religious racist".
Is it any wonder that our future generations can,t differ from fact - fantasy - or delusion?.
It's the very same affliction that effects the political imbiciles that claim to lead us today.
A Marxist Utopia is just an illusion to entice the Liberally stupid, into continuing with a backward and failed ideology.
Can somebody please pass this information on to gormless Gordon and his politically correct buffoons in Islington!!.
A sad state of affairs indeed Fido. And you can't only blame the teachers and leftie governments, people themselves have to bear some responsibility for their ignorance.
If you look at folks back in the decades they knew so much more than we do, yet we have things like the internet to help us learn. The easier it is to learn, the less of it we actually do.
One has to ask what ever happened to the 3 R's?
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