Comment on Attempted right-wing takeover of National Trust backed by Nigel Farage fails!

Jho@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The linked article doesn’t go into detail about why there was an attempted right-wing takeover so here’s a TL;DR from this Guardian article:

Restore Trust opposes what it describes as a “woke” agenda – including National Trust displays about slavery and historical figures – and has said it wants to steer the charity “back to its core purpose of looking after our heritage and countryside”.

In a post on Facebook where he invited councillors to join, [Andrew] Kennedy[, a former Conservative campaigner for Truss, Johnson and others], said he was working with Restore Trust, which he said was led by a group of longstanding National Trust members “who are concerned that the NT has abandoned its original remit and is now, like much of the charitable and third sector, pursuing a politically motivated ‘revisionist’ agenda”.

How dare the National Trust, who owns more than 200 historic houses, want to teach people about history? /s

It’s just blatant vice signalling. So, yeah, glad to see this attempted takeover failed.

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