I think this thread is in danger of being closed down if Gormless Gove gets to hear about it. The Government’s ludicrous Education Secretary has written in the Daily Mail that left-wing academics are denigrating the patriotism, courage and honour of the British during the “just war” of 1914-1918 and perpetuating the myth of an army of lions led by a general staff of donkeys via the sitcom Blackadder.
In his subsequent move, expected next week, he will prove that Dad’s Army is a Troskyist attack on the Home Front during WW2 and ‘Allo, ‘Allo not only derides the French Resistance but also undermines the heroism of British agent parachuted into the Continent to aid opposition by posing as policemen.
As far as the sitcoms polled here are concerned Birds of a Feather is clearly a Maoist-inspired attack on the British prison system and Benidorm is an Anarchist plot to smear the legacy of the great Spanish leader, Franco.
In his review of the teaching of history in our schools Gove will ensure that all of these sitcoms will be rewritten so as not to pollute the minds of our young people. This is a most serious issue and not to be trivialized in petty polls.
