Forgive a Saturday morning rant . I got in late from watching Nck Cave and the “i” of my keyboard is sticky and I have to spend most of today on a bus waving at people at the Lord Mayor’s show and my wife is away with her mother so I have to do my own breakfast.
But all the same, I consider my well-being my business and not the business of my employer or of society and certainly not the business of the DE & I brigade, who are increasingly getting me annoyed to a point where I say Trump and Farage have more than a point.
I will be 63 on Monday, I popped out of my Mummy’s tummy at 11.02 on 11.11.61. My father scolded my mother for breaking the two minute silence. In those days GP father’s could deliver their first born without having to sign a conflict of interest register.
I will spend Monday in the garden of England, where my friend Terry lives and where the heartland of Farage’s populism is. I will spend it with my wife, who unlike me, does not have middle class values but working class values which allow her to understand what Farage is about – much better than me. It allows her to understand Trump too.
Though we both espouse Christian faith, we are finding ourselves alienated from the well-being agenda that is being thrust upon us, for reasons that my mother and father understood as they brought me up and my wife’s mother and father did likewise. We both feel unsettled by the gospel according to St Woke.
And I know many of my friends feel this way. I know Al Rush does as do most of his clients in South Wales and in the North East. Indeed , you don’t have to travel very far from the law firms of Central London , till you get to a wall of apathy to wokery. Large parts of Britain could easily become charged with indignation that those on the other side of that wall are being labelled bigots for expressing a view outside of the received ideas of a liberal elite.
This is the message for Keir Starmer. Labour’s support is based on a sense of betrayal by the Conservative party not on an enthusiasm for the Labour party. Many who voted Labour at the recent election will be celebrating Trump’s victory and while most readers of this blog will be horrified that I am typing this, it is time that Labour started representing the view of the average British worker again.
The views of the average British worker are not forged by NextGen conferences on DE&I.
Well-being , modern ant-slavery, DE&I and all the other constructs of the liberal graduates who are forging the corporate and political agenda of Britain today, are simply not recognised by the average British worker who is not exercised by Britain’s historic imperialism (in fact we’re rather proud of it).
We do not have to have an anti-modern slavery badge to reject slavery, but to suppose that 18th and 19th Century is illegitimate because its prosperity was based on servitude is as crazy as to dismiss Rome or Athens as the foundation of Western Civilisation as their achievements were enhanced by slavery.
As I get emotive , I find my sentences getting longer- forgive me. Forgive me too for deserting my liberal Oxbridge-educated heritage of privilege and siding with Jack of Kent and Al Rush and my wife/partner. I am not working class but I understand that working class culture is different and that the aims of wokery are cultural imperialism- an attempt to educate the masses to an elite agenda.
This is being rejected in America and it will be rejected in Britain unless this Government learns the lessons that Biden and Harris refused to.
Health and well-being are not the most important things in life, the most important thing is “love” – we can love without our health and wellbeing but without love we have nothing.
bollocks
The values on which Britain should be built are based on love and not well-being. We must aspire for the common good and not just our own. America is a long way from understanding this, we are not. Britain can be great again when it turns back to what made it great in the first place, love of our country and for all the people in it.