An Answer to a Poll

Yes, I am interested in history. I am very interested in history. History is my main serious interest and I give it a bit of thought whenever I have the time. I think that Boris Johnson and Tony Blair are absolutely and utterly right. History is a wonderful thing. History definitely matters and we should definitely pass it on. We can learn important lessons from history. If we had not learned from history we might have got into a mess in Afghanistan. Without history Britain would not have a heritage and that would be, like, not very British. Heritage and history is, like, what distinguishes Britishness from foreigners. I did history at school and heard about a lot of battles what we won, Francis Drake and Winston Churchill and the Falklands, like. I am in agreement with Gordon Brown that we should stop apologising for winning so much in the past and just get on with being proud of ourselves. If it were not for us the Australians would still be living like aborigines and the Kenyans would not have proper fridges. Also, the Americans would all be speaking Japanese thanks to our plucky little chindits in Singapore. Today is the ninetieth anniversary of the Somme, which was a battle what we won by being plucky and seeing the job through. The Somme was a battle what took place in World War One, which was started by the Germans and won by us. Then there was appeasement and then the Germans started another one, what we won too, then there was the World Cup and we beat them again in 1966 and got the trifecta huh huh huh. What? Benn, then, Tony Benn. Dead fucking right, anyway. Hello?