Its all down in black and white

Is there no end to the cack-handed attempts at social engineering by the PC busybodies of the meddling classes? The NCB, that's the National Children's Bureau not the National Coal Board for older readers, who soak up £12 million of our cash each year, has now set itself up as the thought police for toddlers.

Their propaganda department has produced a 366-page guide for anyone running pre-school playgroups and the like called Young Children and Racial Justice which aims to identify racisim in toddlers. Things to look out for, apparently, are such heinous crimes as pulling a face when offered foreign food. Once latent or even overt racist tendencies are identified zey vill be stamped out!!!! Sorry I got a bit carried away there. Must be the weather.

Nurseries are then encouraged to grass up, sorry, report as many incidents as possible to the local council. Why and for what is not quite clear unless SWAT indoctrination teams have been set up without anyone noticing.

Mind you if we chuck in sex education, advice on contraception, abortion and same sex marriage, give 'em all 12 GCSEs and four mixed A* A levels, you could complete the entire Government education programme by the age of five.

The kids could then be packed off to university to complete their world class education allowing schools to be converted to prisons and eco-towns.

While we are on about toddlers and racism I took my twins to the US where they celebrated their second birthday in St Louis zoo. One Sunday lunchtime in the deep, deep South we found a pleasant looking restaurant on a country road in Mississippi and went in to find we were the only white faces in a very crowded establishment.

There was silence and scowls as we walked in followed by smiles and hellos when it was realised we were English. My children were fascinated by a huge moose head on the wall and an equally large black man who was telling them about racoons, bears, snakes and all manner of critters in the forest.

As we were leaving at the end of an excellent meal people were saying goodbye and my children turned and said very loudly "goodbye moose" and then to their new found friend "goodbye black man." Everyone laughed. My boys just said it as they saw it.

The NCB would probably have still had them in racial awareness classes.