Auschwitz trips are gimmicks, you idiots
Dear Jim Murphy,
How dare you make such disgusting remarks about David Cameron and the Conservatives. It is you who should be apologising for what you have said, not David Cameron.
Let me start by clearing up a few points which you have ‘accidentally’ missed. Firstly, David Cameron did not say that trips to Auschwitz were a gimmick – he questioned them on the grounds that Labour are making schools pay £100 towards each pupil that goes, rather than paying for the trip in full. The fact that the government deliberately tried to hide the small print is what makes it a gimmick, not the nature of the visit. Your deceitful spin is outrageous and you should be ashamed. For you to say that his remarks are ”sick and an insult to the memory of those who have suffered and to the experience of the survivors who still live with this today” is shocking and shows how completely ignorant you are.
But even though Cameron doesn’t think the trips are a gimmick, I certainly do. Why should the Government start paying for trips to Auschwitz? And while we are on the subject, what right did the Government have to introduce a ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’ at a cost of £500,000 a year? Why don’t we have a day to mark the 2,000,000 that Pol Pot killed in Cambodia, or the slaughter of 1,500,000 Armenians at the hands of Turkey in WWI, or how about commemorating Stalin wiping out around twenty million people through a forced famine in the 1930s, or Japan killing millions of civilians in WWII, or China killing tens of millions over several decades in the second half of the 20th Century in both China and Tibet? Well? Can you explain this? Holocaust Memorial Day and sending children to Auschwitz are both gimmicks and the Government has no right to elevate certain atrocities above others and tell me which historical events I should mark and which I should not. Let schools educate children, not idiotic politicians and bureaucrats.
Get your facts straight before you start accusing others of being sick and insulting - you and Ed Balls are the only guilty parties here.
Yours angrily,
A.Tory
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Aren’t you saying that using Government money to pay for said trips is a gimmick, not (as your title declares) that the trips themselves are gimmicks? The Gov’t may not have the right to decide which atrocities to ‘elevate’, but it’s a little rich to declare that someone else’s trip is per se, leaving aside its funding, a ‘gimmick’.
The Government is pandering to one particular group of the population, yet again. How many times do I see the Government changing the rules or making allowances for one group, be it religious or otherwise?
I think that the whole notion of the Government declaring what school trips children should go on is a gimmick and designed to pander to the wishes of one group of people, whereas they should be staying completely clear of education and should never dictate what historical events are more important than others.