Now that at least a couple of entire cohorts of schoolchildren have been taught by New Labour to despise rather than respect history ….

… the war veteran’s charity, Erskine, as reported by The Telegraph, has found that children think:

• Auschwitz was a Second World War theme park;
• Holocaust was a celebration at the end of the war;
• SS stood for Enid Blyton's Secret Seven;
• the Blitz was a European clean-up operation following the Second World War; and
• Adolf Hitler was a German football coach.

Unless you are criminally and / or wilfully stupid, you will acknowledge that if one despises history, one is doomed to repeat it, and unsurprisingly that we are already deeply enmeshed in the 21st Century’s holocaust and genocide of its own untermensch – the not-yet born and those too old or sick to be considered anything other than an economic burden.

And the sad fact is that as we approach the ghastly inevitability of a British General Election and the attendant yah-boo-sucks and swingometery, the Conservative Party, who might topple New Labour, are no different, and the LibDems, who aren’t generally (thank God) even up to toppling a spinning plate, are even worse.

If I should at some point in the next life encounter Winston Churchill, who said: ‘Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time,’ I shall ask him if he is still quite sure about that.