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

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• Jho@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The way these people complain about the ““woke agenda”” reminds me of antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews secretly being in control at every level of society. The banks are woke, the government is woke, industry is woke, charities are woke, NGOs are woke, the church is woke, etc etc.

    It’s absolute dogshit.

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    • cman6@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • scratchee@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I heard that woke figures in key positions meet at their secret woke clubhouse where they discuss their woke evil plans on controlling the world and making everyone woke.

      Honestly I want to start the secret society of woke, not because I expect it to get a single influential member, but because just existing will make every right wing nutter blame every single thing on the secret woke society 😄

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    vice signalling

    Not seen this before. Nice neologism!

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  • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m lefty as fuck but I don’t think it’s appropriate to use the guardian to describe a “right wing takeover”. Guardian can be as biased as the daily mail on most days

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    • Jho@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is it inappropriate? I’ve been clear with what source I’m pulling from, so if the Guardian is biased then people can take these quotes I’ve provided with that knowledge in mind.

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    • eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So you will contort your ideas to be neutral even if truth is biased?

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    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What would your preferred terminology be?

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    • anothermember@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This isn’t a Guardian article, unless I’m missing something?

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• perviouslyiner@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Participation in the organisation’s AGM hit record levels this year” - Nice! I saw on Mastodon some discussion about how it was actually important this year.

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  • Syldon@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think we have been in the NT for about 12 years. I have voted twice. That was for the last two years.

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