The Queen has today said "I grew up in the 1930s with an unemployed father. He did not riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he went on looking until he found it.".

Speaking at Alton Towers The Queen’s comments come in a week that has seen thugs involved in defacing statues in Trafalgar Square on an ever more frequent basis.

The Queen’s comments are both brave and perceptive. In a country where children as young as five are regularly exposed to thugs it is about time that someone had the guts to stand up and tell the truth. Thugs and the liberal communist atheist society that spawns them must be eliminated.