The idea that the NT is "woke" is actually the most absurd aspect of this.
The same NT which preserves respectfully the feudal and ancestral piles of the privileged classes...
I’m still confused why The Torygraph wants to kill the NT so desperately, what has the NT ever done besides a few internal squabbles that happen anywhere and everywhere. Is this personal? Did NT piss off someone’s wife, like wtf is up with all these articles?
You only need to read their candidates profiles to know who you’d be letting in. Year after year I msg all my contacts who’re members to warn them to vote with the NT not ‘Deform Trust’.
It’s news like this that does the power of good sometimes - when Farage and Hatie Kopkins were dissing the RNLI, I immediately knew that the right thing to do was to become a monthly supporter. When the right sort of people are being annoyed and crying, take action. Hello National Trust membership.
For the last few years a right wing group called Restore Trust has put their own candidates up at the AGM, so please watch out for voting papers to vote for NT candidates.
Excellent! You won't regret it. Superb houses and gardens, and free parking in so many wild spaces! Just some of the little extras you get for peeing off the Torygraph 😅
And marvellous scones. Hopefully they do an ‘ultra woke’ one as opposed to the regular ‘woke’ level scone. 🤣 There’s quite a few sites in our neck of the woods up here. Might encourage us to actually get out of the house sometimes.
My final share, Migrant Offshore Aid Station - MOAS. I support them every month as well. Because it’s the right thing to do. For years I have been sick and tired of seeing the bodies of people being washed up on beaches. https://www.moas.eu/10th-anniversary/
Sometimes wonder what the likes of Rees-Mogg was taught at Eton. Or do his teachers hold their head in their hands & sob hysterically at the nonsense he spouts?
I’ve never worked out what they are trying to say. Do they want to pretend it never happened, or do they want us to be proud it did happen? It feels like they are claiming the former, while whispering the latter.
Speaking of those losers, they seem to be suspiciously quiet at the moment. Maybe their paymasters are getting fed up with their lack of effectiveness?
Don’t you think your view of history is a bit lop-sided ?. I mean people had good times too, and much of what they built was an improvement on what went before… in fact, thank heavens for Europe which first ended slavery that had pervaded the world for centuries ! Love monuments to that
Historic Houses is a non-profit association of heritage attractions that are still in family or other private ownership. It doesn't/can't impose 'wokeness', 'anti-wokeness' or anything else on its member properties. It would be nice to see HH correct the record.
Thanks Stephen. You are right, and that is exactly what the article says.
“Ben Cowell, director general of Historic Houses, said: “We don’t own any of these properties so we’ve got absolutely no remit to instruct owners on what to do, and nor do we want to.”
“The whole point is that these places are independent. They are their own masters and can be run in whichever way they want and they can display things how they wish.”
I am quoted at the end of the article as saying what an amazing job the National Trust does.
Thank you, Ben. Sad to see Historic Houses members being co-opted into a political argument that surely doesn't help them. I shall continue to enjoy NT and HH properties without considering them "competition" for one another!
Reminds me of the US where you can get married in the Plantation Houses whilst stook atop the mass graves of all the murdered slaves. Like getting married at Auschwitz.
Oh yeah there's entire Fb groups and people getting married at these places. One guy in the comments was like; "yeah like half my of family were worked to death here." And nobody wanted to acknowledge it. Have a Google of 'plantation house weddings.' Deeply weird how it is normalised in that society
Would you prefer uncomfortable truths or comforting lies. The latter isn't for those that are intelligent or have elf awareness, or empathy for that matter.
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The same NT which preserves respectfully the feudal and ancestral piles of the privileged classes...
They want chocolate box history, a comfort zone where 'we' are the goodies, and everyone else is the baddies, and it's all over in time for tea.
Who’s stumping up the cash for this rubbish year on year?
(NT ca 5m members so at 10k per year…)
“Ben Cowell, director general of Historic Houses, said: “We don’t own any of these properties so we’ve got absolutely no remit to instruct owners on what to do, and nor do we want to.”
I am quoted at the end of the article as saying what an amazing job the National Trust does.
The headline may slightly mislead!
Its hidden behind a paywall so people will assume its places for racists