Labour Axe the Word ‘Us’ for Being Too “Exclusionary” in Devolved Wales
Labour bosses in Wales have scrapped the word ‘us’ from their culture policy after complaints it was too “exclusionary”. The Mail has the story.
Welsh Labour has put together a set of principles to guide future culture sector policy – one being the idea that “culture brings us together”.
However, one of the many groups who attended the consultation for the plans told the Government they should “consider how the use of the word ‘us’ in this statement could seem exclusionary”.
The group told them the should use the word “everyone” instead.
It’s unclear which group had a problem with the phrasing but their influence saw ministers replace the word ‘us’ with ‘people’ in the final published policy strategy.
The final version of the policy was published this week and outlines how the culture sector in Wales will be managed from now until 2030.
Its first priority, under the revised heading “culture brings people together”, states the sector must “promote a modern and diverse Wales, reflecting the variety of people and cultures who call Wales their home”. …
Some of the new principles lay out what the Welsh Labour Government has dictated to be a suitable approach to national history.
It previously set out its expectations for cultural institutions to promote the “right historic narrative” in an anti-racist action plan.
The plan said: “Culture should take an inclusive, thoughtful and balanced approach to interpreting, commemorating and presenting our past, to how we consider and respond to contemporary issues, and to how we look to the future.” …
Another priority was making the cultural sector more environmentally friendly, with the document warning heritage assets are at risk due to hotter summers, rising sea levels and an increasing number of pests. …
It comes after taxpayers were left reeling this week when the Welsh Labour Government spent £250,000 on a project to count moths – while it continues to cut public services.
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“and an increasing number of pests.”
A ‘pest’ is a living being in the wrong or inconvenient place. Especially, in this case, those in the Welsh Parliament?
I was about to say the same but being well edjucatered would have written, ‘Senedd’.
“Everyone” also sounds exclusionary also. It could be a reference or code word for rational and sane.
This reminds me of the boy who went to his local library. When asked why he wanted a book called “Advice for Young Mothers”, he replied: “Because I am interested in moths.”
How ‘thick’ do ministers have to be to hold that post?
Nah, they are just evil. Any excuse to be able to tell other people what to do.
Don’t forget, for them, English is a foreign language.
I doubt that more than a couple of dozen actually siarad Cymraeg.
Although it’s unrealistic for a country to stay homogenous, and there will be some mixing and mingling of cultures due to travel being so much more convenient and affordable nowadays, plus people move abroad for work etc, there is a tipping point and too much diversity undeniably becomes a negative thing overall, impacting the natives of their ancestral homeland most because they inevitably have their own culture diluted, their cultural identity eroded over time. Once society takes on the resultant changes, its people being forced to adapt, it becomes unrecognizable and you can never change back; ”A fundamental problem in the West is accelerated deculturation. It is as if we have lost touch with our own history and given up our very identity. Afraid of our own shadow, we insist on being open-minded and gullible. At least for the sake of appearances, the constant focus of modern-age leaders. However, we become all the more vulnerable to hostile claims about our sinfulness as Westerners and alleged debt to the rest of the world. For years, the same progressives, who accuse the West of sins such as “racism, colonialism, and slavery”, have been praising “diversity” and “multiculturalism”. In Western Europe, it was… Read more »
Olé! Oh, and lest we forget,
progressive = Marxist.
Cannot fault that.
A very good summary.
The Uk is failing more rapidly then thought possible.
Balderdash, bunkum and b******s!
Their main aim in life always seemed to be excluding the English!