It is important that Christians should be able to stand up for the Gospel and resist any attempt by the police to trample our civil rights
Last year, the National Trust committed the terrible crime of publishing a report on the links between some of its properties, slavery and colonialism, because, you know, those links exist and are part of the historical context.
Cheers for the nudge. Had seen the issue but I’ll make sure to vote.I particularly liked his justification for harassing the Cardiff Mardi Gras attendeesQuote It is important that Christians should be able to stand up for the Gospel and resist any attempt by the police to trample our civil rightsVictimhood just looks so much better when you’re the actual aggressor, wouldn’t you agree?
It's like the anti-vaxxers sticking yellow stars on themselves.
I seek election to end … its promotion of fashionable ‘woke’ causes. Even as I was filling in the Council election forms, the Trust asked not just my sex but my ‘gender identity’ and my sexual orientation!….The 2017 Felbrigg Hall affair, in which the Trust claimed the donor, the late Robert Ketton-Cremer, was homosexual, on no evidence, shows where this madness leads. I shall ensure that future donors feel safe from the Trust poring over their past and inventing salacious details of an imagined private life.
Quote from: slab_happy on October 16, 2021, 03:50:21 pmIt's like the anti-vaxxers sticking yellow stars on themselves.Does that actually happen??
Thanks for the heads-up, I'm only a member for the parking in the Lakes
Yeah, I think there are loads of people who have membership for practical reasons but normally have minimal interest in the internal goings-on of the Trust; apparently only 0.5% percentage of members vote at the AGM.
Unrelated to this but my parents have just cancelled their NT memberships after their cycling group were recently told all of the non-members (which was over half of them) would have to pay full entry fee just to use the cafe at a place they’ve been stopping at mid ride for years.
Unfortunately it would appear the online voting has already closed this year. Unsurprising to see that Restore Trust is linked to a certain Tufton Street address, along with most of the other shit things happening in our country.
When and where will the results be posted? Following with some interest, as someone who cancelled membership a couple of years ago.
Good news for once!
Log in herehttps://secure.cesvotes.com/V3-2-0/nt23/en/login?bbp=54540&x=-1Easy to vote for the Trust’s preferred candidates, or read through the statements and select your own.
But why does Restore Trust want control of the National Trust so badly? Is it about the properties? The land? Or can it really be that Legatum’s Dubai-based backers just really love scones made with butter? I think we should be told.
Thanks for the reply. We fit the profile and want to enjoy the heritage of landscape and estates the Trust conserves. I think- without solid evidence, of course- that a lot of ‘people like us’ are actually very comfortable with a more honest and nuanced appraisal of the legacy of the past and how it was all built.The Tufton Street agenda appears the very cliche of culture war nostalgia and I can see the power of capturing an organisation as large and respected as NT. I can’t help but wonder if that’s the limit of their objectives. The Trust holds a huge amount of property. I wonder what they would like to do with it, given an opportunity. There’s a lot of money there.
This:Quote from: Stewart Lee in the GuardianBut why does Restore Trust want control of the National Trust so badly? Is it about the properties? The land? Or can it really be that Legatum’s Dubai-based backers just really love scones made with butter? I think we should be told.is an excellent question. Why the NT, exactly?
Quote from: mrjonathanr on April 08, 2024, 07:31:31 amThanks for the reply. We fit the profile and want to enjoy the heritage of landscape and estates the Trust conserves. I think- without solid evidence, of course- that a lot of ‘people like us’ are actually very comfortable with a more honest and nuanced appraisal of the legacy of the past and how it was all built.The Tufton Street agenda appears the very cliche of culture war nostalgia and I can see the power of capturing an organisation as large and respected as NT. I can’t help but wonder if that’s the limit of their objectives. The Trust holds a huge amount of property. I wonder what they would like to do with it, given an opportunity. There’s a lot of money there.What do you think they would like to do with it?