Georgia Pearce
Guest Reporter
Nigel Farage has accused parts of the educational establishment of rejoicing in talking down Britain’s history.
The leader of Reform UK said he wanted people to be taught about the successes achieved by the UK.
Speaking on GB News, he said: “The British Social Attitudes Survey is in its 41st year. It asks a number of questions.
“One of the questions that it asks is, ‘are you proud or very proud of Britain's history?’
“It's really extraordinary - in 2013 the answer to that was 86 per cent said yes, they were proud, or very proud, of Britain's history.
“That figure has now collapsed down into the mid 60s. But most interestingly, amongst the 18 to 24-year-olds, that number is down below 40 per cent.
“Something very big has shifted. Now I would accept that there is a degree of generational change. Go back 10, 20 years, and people would say, ‘well, you know what? You know, my dad was in the war. My mum worked in a factory making Lancasters’. And maybe some of that link has gone and I think we have to accept that.
“However, I have been railing about this. We have got an educational establishment that goes right the way through primary school, secondary school, university, that seems to somehow rejoice in talking down Britain's past.
“You would have thought we were the only country in the history of mankind that had ever conducted slavery, far from being the one nation actually that ended it and lost a lot of money and a lot of lives driving it out.
“You would think the British Empire was the worst empire that had existed in the history of mankind. And yet it's the only empire ever created that now has a club of former members called the Commonwealth.
“And I think that is what is going on. [We have] a sort of a Marxist takeover of people who hate the country, who hate what it stands for, and they've done their job.
“The other thing that is going on is there’s a pretty big collapse in support and belief in our fundamental democratic system, our constitutional monarchy.
“I just feel that we ought to be teaching people that this little speck on the map actually achieved quite remarkable things.”
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The leader of Reform UK said he wanted people to be taught about the successes achieved by the UK.
Speaking on GB News, he said: “The British Social Attitudes Survey is in its 41st year. It asks a number of questions.
“One of the questions that it asks is, ‘are you proud or very proud of Britain's history?’
“It's really extraordinary - in 2013 the answer to that was 86 per cent said yes, they were proud, or very proud, of Britain's history.
“That figure has now collapsed down into the mid 60s. But most interestingly, amongst the 18 to 24-year-olds, that number is down below 40 per cent.
“Something very big has shifted. Now I would accept that there is a degree of generational change. Go back 10, 20 years, and people would say, ‘well, you know what? You know, my dad was in the war. My mum worked in a factory making Lancasters’. And maybe some of that link has gone and I think we have to accept that.
“However, I have been railing about this. We have got an educational establishment that goes right the way through primary school, secondary school, university, that seems to somehow rejoice in talking down Britain's past.
“You would have thought we were the only country in the history of mankind that had ever conducted slavery, far from being the one nation actually that ended it and lost a lot of money and a lot of lives driving it out.
“You would think the British Empire was the worst empire that had existed in the history of mankind. And yet it's the only empire ever created that now has a club of former members called the Commonwealth.
“And I think that is what is going on. [We have] a sort of a Marxist takeover of people who hate the country, who hate what it stands for, and they've done their job.
“The other thing that is going on is there’s a pretty big collapse in support and belief in our fundamental democratic system, our constitutional monarchy.
“I just feel that we ought to be teaching people that this little speck on the map actually achieved quite remarkable things.”
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