HISTORY these days isn’t patriotic enough, with Britain at the centre and all other nations in awe. I’m rewriting the story of our proud island, and improving it:
We won all the wars
Britain won loads of wars, so we’re entitled to add a few more. When my son gets an A+ for his essay about how the Paras defeated the Romans and the French at the Battle of Asterix, I’ll be proud as punch.
Slavery wasn’t all bad
Have you seen the price of a flight to the States? I expect a lot of Africans would have loved a free trip, particularly if you’ve never been on a boat before. Also I think British slave traders were probably just loveable entrepreneurs, like Del Boy.
Let’s have more ‘feel good’ history
It’s time to rid the history books of all that depressing, negative stuff like the Amritsar Massacre and replace it with positive British achievements we can all be proud of, like inventing the Dyson vacuum cleaner.
England has won every World Cup since 1966
As every England supporter knows, we only keep getting knocked out at the quarter-finals due to pure bad luck or cheating, so let’s award ourselves 55 years of World Cup trophies. I’m sure Baddiel could redo the song so it goes ‘Football’s never left’.
The EU collapsed in 2007
Once the Treaty of Lisbon was signed, the EU was doomed. It hasn’t actually happened yet, but it will now we’ve Brexited. There should be documentaries about how we had street parties. You could do it with actors and after 20 years your brain will think you were actually there.
Britain has colonised space
History isn’t about facts, so let’s pretend we’ve got an empire in space. I might pop over to see my hot new Saturnian girlfriend later in my car, the HMS Millennium Falcon.
