Britain is becoming a disgracefully ignorant nation. The flouting of its national history will soon come back to bite it—that’s a law of history!

Earlier this year, a survey found that one in three primary school pupils thought Sir Winston Churchill was the first man to walk on the moon rather than the British leader who defeated the Nazis.

As sad as that is, there is a reason for such ignorance. Britain’s education system no longer values history. According to the Daily Mail, only 30 percent of students take history for their General Certificate of Secondary Education (emphasis mine):

The findings come after an education shake-up recommended that schools could stop teaching children about the Romans, Vikings, Victorians or the Second World War.Under the controversial blueprint commissioned by Schools Secretary Ed Balls, pupils could instead learn how to use social networking sites such as Twitter.

Forget history, it is more important to Twitter! What a disgrace.

But the total disregard for British history is carried to the highest level. Britain—from top to bottom—no longer values its history. Last Wednesday, it was revealed that Britain’s leaders disdain the nation’s history too. A Labor minister was forced to apologize after someone noticed that Margaret Thatcher had been omitted from a government-produced leaflet chronicling the milestones of female politicians. The document, created by Labor’s Harriet Harman, was specifically designed for educating students in the school system.

By contrast, the document names Labor peer Baroness Shreela Flather … along with the former mayor of Slough, Lydia Simmons, and the first female prime minister of Sri Lanka.Britain’s first black woman MP Diane Abbott also makes an appearance as well as Baroness Amos, the first black woman leader of the House of Lords. Both are Labor contemporaries of Miss Harman.

The document managed to highlight the achievements of Amos and Flather twice. It also made sure to not to forget the first Muslim woman in the House of Lords, the first black mayor of a city, and the first black attorney general—but Mrs. Thatcher, who is she?

How condemning, and sadly ironic. Lady Thatcher was one British politician of modern times who actually studied and valued history for its valuable lessons. She applied those lessons too.

Baroness Thatcher was the British prime minister who resided over the nation during the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. She spoke out strongly about both, warning that Britain would eventually become subservient to a European union of nations dominated by Germany. Time has proven her correct.

She was also the driving force behind Britain retaking the Falkland Islands from Argentina at a time when British military planners and weak-willed politicians said that it was impossible. Had Britain not defended its subjects in the Falklands, the loss of Gibraltar would have probably soon followed—along with virtually all remaining traces of its once global empire.

British politicians would do well to spend less time focusing on the race, religion and sex of its historical figures, and more on upon what they accomplished and contributed to society.

“Today we hear many academic voices telling people that learning history is of little or no value. This is an extremely dangerous trend that may be too entrenched to correct,” writes Gerald Flurry. “This educational plague is rampant among the American and British peoples. And it seems that very few of our leaders understand what a colossal disaster it is!”

To see what history and prophecy reveal is in store for Britain, read The Former Prophets—God’s Royal Family by Gerald Flurry. Pay particular attention to Chapter 1: “A Law Of History.” You may also be interested in “The Inspiring History Britain Should Never Forget.”