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You forgot religion. I’ve been blathering on about that too.

Mmmm. By people claiming to be Christian but in reality have never demonstrated Christian values. Without going down the whole empire rabbit hole again there’s nothing Christian about an awful lot of the things we did to actually build this country. I was extremely religious as a child, took...

I think a lot of people just don’t think that the St George cross represents them. It’s a Christian flag for starters and the majority of the country isn’t Christian, almost 40% at the last census claimed to not be religious at all.

Don’t think you’ve got to vote BF to align yourself with the far right in Germany. You’re average Tory MP including cabinet members past and present do a good job of parroting a lot of what is said by the far right in Germany.

I never claimed that it wasn’t being taught just that the negatives weren’t being mandatorily taught. Slavery being the obvious example, taught about the abolition not the negative or long term effects. Just a pat on the back for finally doing the right thing. Again, we have a government who has...

Only 40% of children take up history as an option for GCSE’s don’t they? Don’t sound that popular to me. It’s certainly far from the mandatory teaching of the negatives of empire you’re trying to argue is mandatory with your links that say suggested not statutory at the top of every list. Which...

So you’re saying that it’s not mandatory to teach the majority of children in schools about the slave trade and the negative sides of colonisation and empire. Thank you for the clarification.

You clearly don’t want to answer that so I’ll answer it for you, 40% at primary level and 80% at secondary level. Follow up question that you probably also won’t want to answer. Are free schools and academy’s mandated to follow the curriculum you posted?

Quick question. What percentage of school children attend a free school or academy?

So again optional not mandatory

So you’re saying if you take history as an option in the final 2 years of your education there’s a chance that in 2015 you might learn something about the empire. Hardly compulsory learning is it and it doesn’t change the fact that schools minister Nick Gibb did say in 2021 that there would be...

The government rejected teaching about colonialism and the slave trade as recently as 2021 following a petition stemming from the BLM protests. The excuse was that it would lower standards. Make of that what you will. Corbyn was also roundly lambasted for suggesting that we teach it while...

Hadn’t they just come down from the championship that season too?

It was awful, about 9000 is my memory. First game I took my youngest too. She wasn’t impressed.

Yeah you’re right, I did. Apologies.

Do they say Putin has had to go to North Korea cap in hand for bullets?

It still bollocks then as Germany directly supplied 18 leopard tanks initially.

On the tank thing firstly the all leopards destroyed is just bollocks. Secondly to give some context Russia has lost over 2000 tanks in this conflict and are putting older and older tanks back into service as a consequence. Finally the Ukrainian soldiers were fast tracked through training so...

Again people adding their own context. Read my first post again. The only comparison I initially made was in education in Germany vs education in the UK. Admittedly is escalated from there but that was in response to some knee jerk reactions to my initial post which in actual fact you seem to be...

Here you go Schmee. The effects of Empire still being felt today and the sort of ignorance driven by poor education on empire still driving a false agenda. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-66470376