Patrick Christys: Kids in Britain are actively being taught to hate this country

Proposals have been put forward for every school to display a giant picture of the Queen, have a union jack flag flying high and for every child to learn and sing the national anthem.

I think this is a great thing. Anyone who says, well it’s just like China, isn’t it, is clearly an idiot, we're not being accused of having an ongoing genocide, the suppression of political freedom and, if a child doesn’t sing the national anthem in this country then their family probably won’t go missing.

I think we have a dangerous lack of patriotism in this country, especially amongst the young, epitomised by children at Pimlico Academy demanding that the national flag be removed. Their head teacher gave in, presumably because he’s about as weak as a cup of very milky tea. What next, pupils demanding that they never have to sit exams? Oh wait, teachers have already put that proposal forward for them.

Kids in Britain are actively being taught to hate this country. Whether it’s by pumping them full of critical race theory, teaching them that Winston Churchill, the man who defeated Hitler, might have in fact been a villain, changing the school’s name because its founder had a distant relative that was a slave trader, or making six year olds apologise for the empire, it’s become commonplace to talk this country down.

Patriotism has become a dirty word. Theresa May didn’t even want to fly the St George’s flag above Downing Street when England were in the semi-final of the World Cup for goodness sake.

When you go on holiday, the national flag of that country is everywhere isn’t it? Why not here? How have we ended up in a situation where if you have a flag pole in your front lawn people assume you’re probably a racist who spends their spare time cruising the Channel with a harpoon?

Children should be taught to love this country, not criticise it. Children should be taught that this proud nation has always punched well above its weight.

Whether it’s creating a catalogue of unrivalled geniuses like Alan Turing cracking the enigma code, Sir Isaac Newton off of gravity, creative juggernauts like William Shakespeare, Bobby flipping Moore who’s pretty much the only man to look Pele in the eye and say No! Not today! We’ve defined and then redefined music The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and to a much greater extent…Atomic Kitten.

We did once rule the waves, and we should teach children to be proud of that. If people don’t like this country, fine, I’ll drive you to the airport myself. It’s totally self-defeating to teach a generation of children that Britain is a deeply flawed nation with a criminal past and that if you like the Union Jack you’re probably a uncultured, simple little Englander with some fruity views about foreigners.

Who wins there? You create a generation of disillusioned youngsters who, frankly, would get a terrible shock if they emigrated anywhere else in the world and realise that the grass really was greener back at home.

On a slightly more serious note, I worry about how on earth we’re going to staff our military going forward unless we instill a bit of patriotism into kids. If we continue to have kids taught by over unionised sock and sandal wearing Guardian reading weaklings who probably would have been conscientious objectors during the war then how do we expect to churn out anyone willing to fight and die for queen and country? We’re at risk of our army being entirely staffed by lads from Carlisle, which in itself isn’t necessarily a bad thing because lads from Carlisle do tend to be absolutely massive.

But this is my point – I do think there should be a picture of the Queen in every school, I do think there should be a prominent union jack, I do think kids should learn the national anthem and I do think they should be taught to be proud of this wonderful, quirky, punchy, plucky, little nation that frankly, the rest of the world is lucky to have.