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https://www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/views/the ... ari-writes

Ferrari gearing up for a move over to GB News?

The Nobel laureate songwriter is a master of interesting and magnetic opening lines. Ferrari isn’t. What a dismal hack.

While not pretending in any way to be a fully signed-up fan, that Bob Dylan song ‘The Times They Are A Changing’ came to mind the other day as I was singing in the shower.

While trying to sound reasonable, Simon Jenkins blames the National Trust for right-wing twats acting like twats.

The National Trust has needlessly provoked an ‘anti-woke’ campaign


https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ulture-war

And there was me thinking that racist cunts and history whitewashers were too snowflake to face the plain truth. Bloody National Trust fomenting culture wars.

Oddly enough, there was an interview on "PM" last night with Restore Trust:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0010gy7 - at 49:44 in.

Boiler wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 6:17 pm Oddly enough, there was an interview on "PM" last night with Restore Trust:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0010gy7 - at 49:44 in.

Yeah, heard it. What a dissembling cunt.

A record number of new members have joined the National Trust this summer despite claims by “anti-woke” critics that it is losing support....


...In an attempt to influence the National Trust’s leadership, Restore Trust, which says it represents more than 6,100 current and former members, has used funding from anonymous donors to campaign for six candidates that the group believes reflects its views, out of a total of 46 nominations for the governing council. Five of the six are understood to have dissociated themselves from Restore Trust’s backing, except Stephen Green, a prominent Christian fundamentalist...


...The National Trust said that typically just 1-2% of more than 5.5 million members vote in its AGMs. However, members have posted on Twitter to say they were moved to vote for the first time this year and ask others to consider doing so.

One member wrote: “Can I ask you to please vote in the upcoming AGM? I’m doing so for the first time in 40 years of membership because I want to support an inclusive and welcoming NT against reactionary attacks.”

A 2020 survey of National Trust members found that 76% thought the charity should do more to educate visitors on the legacy of colonialism and slavery.

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... ke-critics

(My bold)

I love it when the truth comes out and the culture warriors are left looking exactly what they are - a vociferous minority of cunts.

A similar thing happened in the Cricket.

A South African player didn't want to take the knee and was deselected for that game.

Cue a the usual herd posting their "I stand with XXXX" all over Twitter, Meta, Telegram and speaking there branes all over the sports radio.

South African player issues a Mea Culpa, realising "how important this is after speaking with my teammates, it isn't all about me".

Usual herd left high and dry.
But of course THEY KNOW it's a conspiracy and the jews/masons/democrats forced him into wokeness.

A fascinating guide to BBC wokeness in 1953 from a Tony Hancock biography. Among my favourites:

Suggestive references to Ladies' underwear, eg winter draws on.

I'm amazed that no-one really looked terribly hard at the Polari used in "Round The Horne" - never mind the Goons episode entitled "The Spy, or Who Is Pink Oboe?"

Looks like"Restore Trust" might have a bit of an uphill struggle to get their anti-Woke message across. First openness about the colonial past, and now this:

National Trust members have voted to ban trail hunting amid fears it is being used as a “smokescreen” for chasing and killing foxes....

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 2.html?amp

If National Trust members, still widely perceived as being middle class, middle England conservatives (both upper and lower case "c"),can keep surprising me like this, there may be some hope for this country yet.

The neo-Nazis' climate referendum might not go the way they'd like.

Boiler wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 7:13 pm I'm amazed that no-one really looked terribly hard at the Polari used in "Round The Horne" - never mind the Goons episode entitled "The Spy, or Who Is Pink Oboe?"

RtH was on Sunday lunchtime, it was over 10 years later but the oppressive censorship climate still pervaded. Along with widespread naivety. Julian and Sandy weren’t exactly subtle.

We knew, and we loved it!

Or at least, those of us that weren't emotionally constipated Tories did.

Youngian wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:59 pm

Boiler wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 7:13 pm I'm amazed that no-one really looked terribly hard at the Polari used in "Round The Horne" - never mind the Goons episode entitled "The Spy, or Who Is Pink Oboe?"

RtH was on Sunday lunchtime, it was over 10 years later but the oppressive censorship climate still pervaded. Along with widespread naivety. Julian and Sandy weren’t exactly subtle.

Seven Ages of Omi, anyone...?

https://archive.md/54aAS

The Torygraph is preparing for Winterval

Oblomov wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 10:41 am https://archive.md/54aAS

The Torygraph is preparing for Winterval

Commented on another thread that’s its reassuring how ludicrously shit the English have turned out to be at culture war to fill the Brexit vacuum. John Lewis, National Trust, RNLI, England football team and Doctor Who aren’t going to produce a Trumpian insurrection. The only thing Farage likes about this country is golf. And he waves the EU flag when we play the Yanks.

Oblomov wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 10:41 am https://archive.md/54aAS

The Torygraph is preparing for Winterval

Not having 'woke' in every paragraph is a sacking offence at the Torygraph.

Mary Seacole is portrayed in the latest Doctor Who so expect loads of moaning on that score from the usual lot.

“Where is Nightingale is it because she is white?”

There's no escaping it, it seems:

https://www.national-preservation.com/t ... st-2700103

The thread is kicked off by a Telegraph article at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/1 ... 0-project/

One poster submits:

Quote "Last year, emails revealed fears the train that carried Winston Churchill's coffin in 1965 could become the focus of 'protest activity' as a result of his links to 'colonialism and empire' " Unquote

Of course steams trains themselves are not racist, but according to Critical Race Theory, all white people are inherently rascist. Therefore the newly enlightened "woke" generation sees everything, including the invention and use of the steam engine, as facilitating this.

Couple of people I'd never heard of before, and wish I hadn't now. Still, here you go. It's spectacularly shit.

Hear fucking hear!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-59347577

Adults should stop mocking young people by calling them "woke" for standing up for things they believe in, says a leading head teacher.