[mrjonathanr]

Just spoken to the NT. Voting is closed now. I suggested they send out email reminders in future.

[fatneck]

I got a pack through the post?

Voted for the guy who had founded the first LGBTQ+ boxing club...

[mrjonathanr]

I probably did too, sometimes things find their way into the recycling without getting noticed as they should.

[slab_happy]

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.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/annual-general-meeting

If I'm reading this correctly, advance online voting is closed, but you can still attend the AGM virtually and vote on the day.

ETA: whoops, I was reading incorrectly, because registration to attend (even virtually) is closed.

[Danny]

When and where will the results be posted? Following with some interest, as someone who cancelled membership a couple of years ago.

[teestub]

When and where will the results be posted? Following with some interest, as someone who cancelled membership a couple of years ago.

Makes it sound like you cancelled your membership because the Trust was becoming too woke for you 😄

I don’t think I got an AGM pack this year, but there is a chance like MrJR that it was processed quickly!

[Danny]

Haha! A fair read. I actually cancelled over lockdown. At the time I was living in a van, and a ranger kicked me off a totally empty parkup where I'd been living for a week or so (with no other hassle free options in the vicinity). They did it without warning by moving boulders into the layby when I went to get gas.   

[andy popp]

None of the Restore Trust people succeeded in getting elected, thank god.

[Wellsy]

Good news for once!

[andy popp]

Good news for once!

True! However, it's not like they completely bombed - many of the RT candidates got around 40,000 votes to the c. 70,000 of candidates who won election, a comfortable margin but one dependent on a very small proportion of the Trust's millions of members. I've no doubt RT and whoever funds them will try again.

[teestub]

Good news, but as you say their vite share increased over the previous year. I see they've taken a age out of the Republican play book and are blaming the voting process https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/06/right-leaning-group-fails-to-wrest-control-of-national-trust-from-political-takeover

[slab_happy]

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.

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/tufton-street-dark-money

OH HELL YEAH -- Good Law Project seem to be trying to do a deep dive into Tufton Street and all the dodgy shit emanating from there.

[mrjonathanr]

Well now, this post won't seem at all pretentious but hey....

I was watching a bit of YT and I couldn't help thinking how astute Foucault was in his view of institutions, and just how 'modern' that seemed in the context of BLM and bodies like NT reassessing their history. Now I suspect the National Trust and Michel Foucault aren't often linked in people's minds, but it was an honest thought, so here.. (1.35-12.31)
https://youtu.be/xpVQ3l5P0A4?t=94

[slab_happy]

On the subject of that bunch of dark money wankers in 55 Tufton Street -- turns out the LGB Alliance are also based there, and were concealing that fact:

https://twitter.com/WeeMelter/status/1604087507829882883

For anyone not familiar with them, they're an aggressively anti-trans-rights group.

When challenged over what they actually do for lesbian, gay and bisexual people (since you're not supposed have charitable status if you're solely a political campaigning group), they explained that they were going to "get around to it":

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/mermaids-appeals-charity-commission-lgb-alliance-status/

(Deeply disappointed that I seem to be the only person making "astro-TERF" jokes: come on people the joke is right there.)

[Offwidth]

Keep up the good work

[slab_happy]

Looks like the Restore Trust are currently getting a good kicking from the Good Law Project:

https://goodlawproject.org/update/success-restore-trust-caves-in-to-legal-challenge/

[slab_happy]

Restore are trying yet another takeover, GB News are getting in on the act, and Stewart Lee's got opinions:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/01/save-the-national-trust-gb-news-restore-trust-vote-agm

[mrjonathanr]

Log in here
https://secure.cesvotes.com/V3-2-0/nt23/en/login?bbp=54540&x=-1

Easy to vote for the Trust’s preferred candidates, or read through the statements and select your own.

[teestub]

Log in here
https://secure.cesvotes.com/V3-2-0/nt23/en/login?bbp=54540&x=-1

Easy to vote for the Trust’s preferred candidates, or read through the statements and select your own.

Just a bump for this, just done it and it took 30 seconds

[mrjonathanr]

Another bump and a bit of Stewart Lee on Restore Trust not being very.. trustworthy.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/01/save-the-national-trust-gb-news-restore-trust-vote-agm

Vote here:
https://secure.cesvotes.com/V3-2-0/nt23/en/login?bbp=54540&x=-1

[andy popp]

"Restore Trust" trounced in annual elections, again failing to win a single position.

[teestub]

Love to see it!

[Falling Down]

Yeah. Great news. Thanks Andy.

[Offwidth]

Latest Stewart Lee reminder on the Tufton Street funded scum in Restore Trust.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/28/national-trust-captured-by-well-funded-fake-grassroots-group-restore-trust

[Aussiegav]

Is it worth splitting this into a designated Restore Trust thread? P