Number 42 – They perfected and spread the tedium of factory life

One thing I'm beginning to find tedious is pointing out how wrong Mr Grasse is, because yet again he is incorrect. The first factory as we know it today was in fact opened in Venice in 1104 it was the Venice Arsenal and it was erected to build ships (at it's peak it built one ship a day and employed over 15000 people). That being said I will agree that Britain did build lots of factories in the 1700's (as did America) but if it weren't for these factories and the wonderful people that worked in them we would not have the technology we have today, you wouldn't be able to read this blog for instance as the world wide web would not have been created because computers would still be the size of a small house (if indeed they would exist at all).

Number 41 – They invented child labour

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong! Child labour has been around as long as there have been children, to say that the British invented it is fabrication. Children worked mainly in farming throughout the world until factories started springing up in the UK and USA, these factories were hard and dangerous to work in, and, unfortunately children were used, but in Britain laws were passed that banned child labour in 1870, just imagine how terrible it must have been in the US, laws banning child labour were not introduced until 1938! That's 68 years after the UK.

Number 40 – They worshipped the Romans

To say we were a “savage people” before the Romans invaded us is, I'm afraid to say, incorrect. We set up economic and cultural links with Continental Europe and traded in tin with the Greeks, the Carthaginians, and the Pheonicians. Hardly savage then.
To say we worshipped them is also incorrect, we had little choice but to have them in our country, they were, as Mr Grasse points out “a more advanced civilization”, I think it's fair to say that we worshipped them as much as the Native Americans worshipped the American invaders who stole their land, murdered their people, and raped their women.