Brits Think Churchill Didn’t Exist

Posted by GregB on February 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment 

Are people in Britain losing a grip on fact and fiction? Nearly one in four believe Winston Churchill and Florence Nightingale are myths and more than half thinking Sherlock Holmes actually existed.

We spoke to a group of teenager at a school in the heart of England. Terry Ainscoe said when informed of the results of this survey, ” I cannot believe that people think Churchill didn’t exist surely they have seen the Churchill Insurance adverts on the television.”

When our reporter asked if Terry new when the Battle of Hastings occurred he quite rightly informed us it was in the year 1066. He unfortunately also added that everyone knows it was 1066 because of the song on Hastings Insurance advertisements on the television.

Perhaps the national curriculum should purely be based on Insurance Companies advertisements and maybe then we could get some of the youth of the day to pass a history exam.

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