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A survey says that schoolchildren believe Tony Blair is doing a bad job as Prime Minister and was wrong to take Britain to war in Iraq. According to a poll released for weekly children's newspaper First News, 80% of children think Britain should not have gone to war with Iraq. I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact these kids are idealistic and brainwashed by the media. After all, if they could think for themselves and really knew enough about politics, shouldn't they be allowed to vote? After all, it looks like they've been allowed to design the new Tory logo (actually, it was London designers Perfect Day, for 40 grand!).

Over half the children questioned said they had no idea what the Royal Family do. Perhaps because there's very little talk about them nowadays, and perhaps because they don't really do anything. Historically, the monarchy ran the country, but not anymore. Now they just have a title, lots of land, and a fair bit of money. History lessons would have taught the kids that, if they were getting a decent education. The same survey said that more than nine out of 10 eight-to-14-year-olds said they thought they were getting a good education. Smart people are the ones that realise they don't know something, dumb people are the ones that don't realise there's a gap in their knowledge.