The National Trust is Proof That Trump’s Anti-Woke Revolution Will Pass Us By
For the last four years (and earlier) many of us have been looking anxiously across the Atlantic at the rapid spread of radical progressive ideologies within US elites, wondering how long it would take for the worst excesses of wokery to be washed up over here. Black Lives Matter riots and outbursts of US trans mania were quickly followed by statues in England being pulled down or vandalised, NHS staff urged to refer to ‘chest feeding’ rather than ‘breast feeding’ and top private school headteachers falling lemming-like over each other to announce their commitment to ‘decolonising‘ their curriculum. The UK’s only consolation was that we seemed to be spared some of its most extreme manifestations. We have not yet had, as far as I know, spoilt brats at top UK universities screaming hysterically at tutors over Halloween costumes deemed to be triggering, as at Yale, or schools holding regular ‘Days of Absence’ on which white students are asked not to attend in order to give more space to POC (People of Colour).
For years therefore those concerned about these matters – including most Daily Sceptic readers, I assume – felt that we were regrettably moving in the same direction as our American cousins, just a bit more slowly. Over the last week all this has suddenly changed. We are still moving forward in the same direction, and even faster now under a radical progressive Labour Government, while the USA has done an about turn, Trump having thrown DEI, gender ideology and Net Zero 2050 into the dustbin of history, and begun marching backwards to where more happily all of us once used to be.
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Thank you, Dr Tate. Seems Naive Neophytes Rule, Not Okay.
Meanwhile at Calke Abbey, is there still the underground passage reputedly constructed so that Sir Vauncey could transit from house to walled garden, without making eye contact with the servants?
And is there still the stag’s head mounted on the wall of the future Sir Vancey’s adolescent bedroom, with the plaque underneath saying, “Stag shot in the Park by Me.” And all the stuffed birds and other diverse taxidermy too?
Or any of the other debris and paraphernalia from a Victorian direct line of heredity that extinguished itself over a century by stopping making babies? Takes all sorts to make an aristocratic world in one century and un-make it in the next. Inheritance Tax played its massive part too.
Worst excesses of The National MisTrust to be resisted with all vigour and guile.
I don’t remember the specific things you mention in Calke Abbey but it certainly was full of weird stuff when we visited, and looked exactly like it might have been left when it was vacated by the last tenants.
Remembered vividly. Takes a Vauncey to remember a Sir Vauncey…
“Muslim hikers….(on the)…. circular walk”
On a site built by Christians.
The National Distrust promoting Jihad and the elimination of our culture.
‘After a hard day of raping white girls, Ahmed and Muhammad went for a joyful walk on the recently Muslimified Lindisfarne Abbey and Chapel…home of the Lindisfarne gospels, one of the great works of the middle ages, created by Muslims of course during the 7th century in Lindisfarne…’
What a joke this country is fast becoming.
If you tried saying that on X you would have your account suspended with little to no chance of it ever being reinstated. Yet Musk’s X is supposed to be the home of “Free Speech”
You are thinking of Twitter? I see all sorts of comments on X and right across the board.
Your experience is vastly different to mine, then, because all I seem to do is read posts and content shared by people slagging off Muslims and migrants. Some from people with well-established accounts and massive followings. As far as my experience goes Twitter now is like day and night compared to what it was pre-Musk. Nobody’s getting banned for saying anything, even crackpots slagging off Musk and calling for his arrest. He just reposts their comments and laughs at them. As he is also very outspoken in his stance at being anti-immigration he’s hardly likely to go round banning other’s for saying exactly what he’s advocating. He instead gives these posters more exposure by resharing and commenting on their posts. So I’m a bit perplexed by your post.
You need to go onto his Twitter page and see all the anti-immigration stuff, both from himself and others, that he’s reposting. So for him to ban people who are saying the exact same thing makes no sense whatsoever. He’s a free speech absolutist;,
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1883410118861295916
The Good thing about Trump being president again is that his influence could and really should spread to the UK where actually REFORM now lead in some polls, and to the disturbingly progressive EU where the AfD in Germany, Wilders in Holland and other right of centre parties are beginning to attract large numbers of voters desperate to regain some sense of National Identity and freedom from Woke Tyranny
We’re NT members, partly because we enjoy visiting old places like that and partly so I could vote in the elections, which I did, against all the woke resolutions and for the few overtly non-woke candidates I could find. Didn’t seem to do any good.
English Heritage are a bit less woke.
Best of all IMO is Historic Houses membership – they don’t own anything, instead it’s just an arrangement with all the private owners where you get access to any of the places on the list for your annual subscription. The private owners are a lot less woke and more interested in giving people what they want and in preserving. They have a lot of properties on the list, just fewer spectacular flagship ones in comparison to the NT.
I think for various reasons people in the USA are overall more naturally conservative than we are.
Vaguely related this is an interesting comment from someone in the Balkans: What’s your favorite Executive Order so far?, by Steve Sailer – The Unz Review
More Christian, more about individual responsibility, and therefore individual freedom. Socialism is the product of atheism.
Possibly, though I’m not a believer and definitely not a socialist. I also think it’s a younger nation where the culture of individual freedom and responsibility has been more recently established and has endured, as it was born in order to allow exactly that.
How perverse it would be, to have aped the US in all that’s bad over decades, to now turn our backs on the Donald’s righteous war against DEI, Net Zero etc and choose not to go down the same path. I vividly recall in the late 60s in the home of a long term school friend, watching a news report on tv reporting a race-riot mass shooting and expressing my relief that no such thing happened here in UK. My friend’s father said, “Just wait, and it’ll all happen here ten years down the line.” He was spot on. Then ten years became five, and true to form we continue to ape all that’s deplorable in US societal behaviour.
What a shame it’s not being rebuilt. I think my wife’s family must be cursed in some way; my brother in law was married in Clandon Hall shortly before it burned down and the venue for my wedding also burned down.
I used to be a member of the NT, but not anymore. I suppose I should re-join, and try to oust the morons running the place. But the thought of my money, supporting their madness, sickens me.
With great regret I cancelled my life membership, given to me years ago by my mother. Obviously the National Trust have had the benefit of the subscription for that time but I simply couldn’t bear to be associated with the claptrap they put out now. Some time ago I asked to be taken off their mailing list so I no longer received their patronising newsletter. I returned my membership card to ‘Heelis’ cut in small pieces. It made me feel better anyway. I followed Restore Trust’s recommendations when voting at the AGM but it didn’t seem to make the slightest difference to anything.
My local NT property cannot attract enough volunteers to keep it open as often as before which annoys the members.
In contrast the other historic property in private hands has plenty of volunteers and packing in the visitors.
The NT must be aware that Strict Muslims cannot visit NT or other historic homes and gardens since they are not allowed to look at pictures of people, animals, flowers, dancing etc.
I was also told by a school teacher that they were instructed never to look at a Muslim pupil full face & I do not know if this applies to adults as well.
Great article , closed minds seem to be everywhere atm , let’s hope Trump’s reforms stand the test of time & start to clear away Europes cancerous woke cultish behaviour !
under a radical progressive Labour Government
Can we stop this nonsense. Please. Our anti-white government is not “progressive”.
The National Trust is now just a vehicle for the deranged and deluded middle class agenda-pushing guiltfest.
It states it wants to “end unequal access to nature, beauty and history”.
Hmm…
I visit my local NT property regularly because I can walk there and meet friends.
To visit it today would cost a family of four (2 adults) £46.80.
A single adult visit costs £18.70 (both prices with Gift Aid).
Realistically with travel and refreshments included that’s towards a hundred quid for a typical family.
If you’re not interested in the modest but interesting property that’s a lot of money to walk around a park.
Unsurprisingly, you just about never see a working class person there, even of the “right” sort (i.e. non-white).
So much for ending “unequal access”.
They’d never admit it, but that’s really how they like it.
If anyone’s interested in saving it they should support Restore Trust.
Thanks. I was not aware of “Restore Trust”. As I posted above, I joined NT partly so I could vote, though I begin to wonder whether the NT can be saved.
What does “restore nature” actually mean? Rabbits build burrows, beavers dams, termites mounds, and lions eat gazelle – it’s what they can do with the limited intelligence nature has given them. Nature has also given people far greater intelligence, so we can build skyscrapers, airports and nuclear power stations. They are all as much a part of nature as a rabbit burrow. Do they mean to eliminate the supernatural, I.e. “Acts of God” as seen in my insurance documents? Good luck with that. Or what they really mean is they are too scared or lazy to accept progress so they’ve turned into Luddites?
I doubt they really know what it means either. Mankind have managed the countryside for thousands of years leading to a diverse array of habits.
Using the word “progressive” to describe these people is wrong. Surely “regressive” would be a better description.
It is up to us now to spread the word. Woke and Dei are over. When an 85 year old member of my bowls club uttered something about equity the other day, I simply said “Dei is over, drop it”. He seemed more than happy, almost relieved to do so.😂😂
Hmmm…
“Dr Nicholas Tate … was Chief Curriculum Adviser to both Conservative and Labour Secretaries of State for Education 1994-2000 and Director-General of the International School of Geneva 2003-11.”
Sounds like a pretty standard globalist, as you would expect from someone who was heavily involved in the National Trust. I’m surprised he didn’t mention the shocking decline of Waitrose, or the number of plebs on the ski slopes these days!
Politics today is not Left versus Right. Those labels are meaningless now, and the old parties that represented them are now pretty much identical. That’s why the same curriculum advisor could advise Conservative and Labour governments.
Today’s political divide is populists like Trump and Farage versus patricians like Biden and Starmer. Trump’s “anti-woke revolution”, aka populism, is extremely unlikely to pass us by.
I believe America is the Stalingrad in this war. I have some hope that the tide may have turned. Not just Trump, but RFK jr’s confirmation is crucial.
Restore Trust have been trying to inject fresh blood into the board but are defeated by the ‘Quick Vote’ swindle which hands the Chairman tens of thousands of votes. Unless more members wake up to this travesty the so-called progressives will continue to ignore the real reason for the Trust’s existence.
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The pessimism in this is utterly depressing. That simple leadership and wide and unfearful declaration of the truth is unachievable in the UK is utter defeatism. Sure, it cannot be done by executive order. But woke lunacy is far more embedded in the US. All we need is the right leadership, something we are only just waking up to needing – and it can be much easier to achieve than finding a British version of Trump.
If you have not watched it, watch Pres Mileis’ speech to the WEF last week. It is less than 30 minutes of pure inspiration of what is both possible and absolutely necessary if our civilsation is to survive.
I agree with your sentiment, though one cannot underestimate the pervasive power of the Equality Act 2010, which has been the basis for the UK’s undoing in recent years.