oh, and ellie....

I suppose you would like to go back the the imperialistic "good old days" of the British Empire, where our economy thrived on the back of exploiting as much of the rest of the world we could get away with.

Stripping other countries of its wealth and resources, and exploiting their workers in the process.

oh, and Ellie as you are so interested in history, find out how many of the Indian army died in the 2nd world war defending the freedoms that you now enjoy and then tell me that you are not proud to have Indian people living here ... and Nepalese.

And while you at it. think about how we should be proud to live in a country where asylum seekers often give up everything in their own country, often including family members where they know they can be safe from persecution.

and when you start going on about how good living was 50 years ago, then as a history expert tell me how many working class people left school at 14 years old, tell me whether the infant mortality rate from childhood diseases has gone up or down.

Do you have your own colour tv, automatic washing machine, dare I say a car, a hifi, a computer? Has the standard of living really deteriorated that much over 50 years?

Your the historian... go on tell me.......

How many wars have there been between EU member states since the Treaty of Rome? Do you even know what the Treaty of Rome is?

Do you want to go back to the good old days when people with disabilities and learning disabilities and mental health problems were largely institutionalised?

We have a long way to go, a hell of a long way before we finally get to a fair, equitable, and socially just society, but step by step we are getting there, governments make wrong decisions on the way, and have different outlooks on the best way to get their (the traditional labour view of planned interventions against the traditional conservative view of laissez faire.

But... popularist finger wagging is no evidence of the BNPs ability or even willingness to act in the interest of ALL British people, irrespective of race and ethnic origin.

You refer to history, there is no evidence from the history of BNP and its spin-offs that it is not a neo-nazi collective of racist bigots, no matter how much you rant.

Anyway, I have a life to live, and I've wasted enough of my bank holiday weekend on you lot already.