The irony is that the children of the typical New Labour voter seem to get the worst deal. Like turkeys voting for next Christmas already.

Nor should you, English. Whether your children continue to accept, or decide to reject your views when they are grown then that is up to them. I have two grown-up children who have rejected my, as I thought, liberal views. Turns out they wanted more authority. Surprise eh?

That might sound sad but I don’t feel that way. Not one bit. The best of luck to them is how I feel, poor unfortunates that they are.

But if my second wife and I have more, which is possible (no, no, really – I won’t need treatment on the NHS either), I too will keep them away from the state system because I don’ttrust that system to educate, rather than to homogenise and politicise. I never did. If my children are to be politicised and indoctrinated it might as well be with my politics and doctrines. They can always change their minds later.

Parents have resorted to the ludicrous measure of moving house to ensure attendance at a particular school for their children, or simply to avoid attendance at another, particularly bad school. Those who are affluent enough send their children to a private school do so, those that are not try to get the best state school they can and the rest have to tolerate the awful deficiencies of the local Comprehensive, through want of any other options. I believe that this last class of parents (excepting the parent(s) that are little more than children themselves and have never known anything other than State hand-outs) are rapidly approaching the point where they would rather withdraw their children from these ‘gulags’ and have them at home instead. The State Education System, in the form that we know it now, will collapse. Compulsory attendance at a school will be replaced with ‘community work’, ’skills centres’, ’sporting academies’ and other such nonsenses to try and put a fig-leaf over the last 50 years of madness.

I have withdrawn all my children from State Schools in the past and have been threatened with imprisonment and the kidnapping of my child by Social Services. They considered my insistence that they be taught that homosexuality and Islam is bad and heterosexuality and Christianity is good to be a form of ‘child abuse’. I thank God that I am not the sort to give in to these Nazi’s and that I had the wit and the wherewithal to oppose them, using their own, ridiculous laws against them.

I make absolutely no apologies for raising my children in my own image. That is the whole point of a father.