UK Official Wants to Rewrite British History

[Siedler]

Parts of British history need to be rewritten to emphasise the roles played by other races and religions like Muslims, a prominent race relations campaigner has said.

Trevor Philips, the chairman of the new Commission for Equalities and Human Rights, said the history of Britain did not properly reflect the contribution of other cultures.

Rewriting the country’s history would demonstrate to Britons in the 21st century how other groups apart from Anglo Saxons shaped the nation.

He told a fringe meeting at the Labour conference: "We may need to revisit our national story – we want to rewrite that story to tell the whole story."'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/25/nhistory125.xml

Oh dear...

[RebLem]

It would be a good idea to point out that Queen Victoria was the biggest drug dealer in the history of the world and that the world has still not recovered from the deleterious effects of the British campaign to get everybody in China to be an opium addict.

It might be a good idea, also, to look at the monarchy and realize that Prince Charles the Tampon, Princess "Mad Dog" Anne, and Prince Phillip, who, in a just world, would probably be selling ties and cufflinks at Harrod's, are not the best representatives royalty have had.  That would be, in the 20th century, Lord Mountbatten.  In a meritocratic royal establishment, he would have been King.

[Mark]

It would be a good idea to point out that Queen Victoria was the biggest drug dealer in the history of the world and that the world has still not recovered from the deleterious effects of the British campaign to get everybody in China to be an opium addict.

It might be a good idea, also, to look at the monarchy and realize that Prince Charles the Tampon, Princess "Mad Dog" Anne, and Prince Phillip, who, in a just world, would probably be selling ties and cufflinks at Harrod's, are not the best representatives royalty have had.  That would be, in the 20th century, Lord Mountbatten.  In a meritocratic royal establishment, he would have been King.

Easy to judge history from the point of view of the standards and values we hold today, isn't it?

Parts of British history need to be rewritten to emphasise the roles played by other races and religions like Muslims, a prominent race relations campaigner has said.

Trevor Philips, who hasn't been on TV lately and who was advised he badly needed some fresh PR, said the history of Britain did not properly reflect the contribution of other cultures.

Rewriting the country’s history would demonstrate to Britons in the 21st century how other groups apart from Anglo Saxons shaped the nation.

He told a fringe meeting at the Labour conference: "We may need to revisit our national story – we want to rewrite that story to tell the whole story."'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/25/nhistory125.xml

Oh dear...

[david johnson]

why don't they just put footnotes in?  no reason to redo everything & waste all those good words they've already written. 

dj

[Hector]

It would be a good idea to point out that Queen Victoria was the biggest drug dealer in the history of the world and that the world has still not recovered from the deleterious effects of the British campaign to get everybody in China to be an opium addict.

It might be a good idea, also, to look at the monarchy and realize that Prince Charles the Tampon, Princess "Mad Dog" Anne, and Prince Phillip, who, in a just world, would probably be selling ties and cufflinks at Harrod's, are not the best representatives royalty have had.  That would be, in the 20th century, Lord Mountbatten.  In a meritocratic royal establishment, he would have been King.

Mountbatten! You jest, surely?

Mountbatten was partly responsible for the millions of deaths that occurred because of partition during the establishment of India as a free state.

He was no democrat.

Worse, he ensured that Princess Elizabeth fell for Phillip, another Battenberg.

Hence, the bunch of dysfunctionals that make up the British Royal Family, today.

Mind you, they do provide us with many hours of harmless amusement as long as one forgets that Charles may one day be King!