Let me say right away that I have met Steve Baker, and like him as a person.
He is a good Christian and I believe tries to act in a moral fashion. However, his recent bizarre tweet is as clear an example of any of how woke, and how lost, the Conservative Party really is.
— Rt Hon Steve Baker MP FRSA
As part of my #NewYearResolutions, I pledge to be an ally to the LGBT+ community.
We must continue to support the LGBT+ community and continue to work to ensure that our society is one where LGBT+ people can live their lives free from hate.@LGBTCons
(@SteveBakerFRSA) January 11, 2023
As a general rule, you know you are in trouble when Tom Harwood is agreeing with you.
As many have observed, we voters are now faced with a choice between various Left-wing parties, with minor differences about how to manage the country.
The Tories are Lefties who occasionally say something like “The woke Civil Service has gone too far”, or “Perhaps we should stop some of these boats, eh?”. Labour are Lefties who, since Starmer realised he actually wanted to get elected, will throw in something like “People were right to want to Take Back Control”, or “Maybe we should train some British nurses lol”.
Even the Reform Party is running with policies that could be straight out of a 90s Lib Dem manifesto. “Raise the threshold of income tax” is their big idea. And it’s a good one, but it does not address any of the moral or social Leftism that is destroying the country.
As Steven Edginton pointed out, in Reform UK’s 2023 plan, “Immigration was featured on the third slide and was the 16th bullet point.”
The battle for the next election, it seems, is being fought almost solely over competence.
We became used to the idea of the end of ideology in the Blair/Cameron years. We were presented with managerial politicians who claimed to be sensible Centrists.
In reality, the Blair years were incredibly radical when it came to social issues, such as the deliberate breaking down of the traditional marriage, or the imposition of mass immigration upon the country.
Cameron, having failed in his younger years to get anywhere with actual Conservative positions, continued this legacy with his disproportionate obsession with issues like same-sex marriage, and making the Conservative Party more diverse. In fact, we have his diversity-focused “A-List” to thank for Liz Truss.
What has been sold to us as the end of ideology is actually the complete triumph of Left-wing ideology, to the point that it even employs the word ‘ideology’ to quash any dissent.
Notice that when Liz Truss tried to nudge our economy ever-so-slightly Rightwards, she was immediately attacked as a rabid ideologue. I suppose that’ll teach her for being ungrateful to the Left-wing ‘equality of outcome’ thinking that got her into her position in the first place.
The political tensions not acknowledged by our political parties ended up violently entering via the back door in the form of Brexit.
That is because our political differences are real and cannot ever be truly suppressed. Much like the war on masculinity, the testosterone will find its way out somewhere. If it is not allowed in the mainstream, it will find other channels. In this way you might say Brexit is the Andrew Tate of political phenomena.
Once they removed Truss, we returned to the war over competence. In other words, who can best manage this failing country, while avoiding real change.
This was confirmed once again just a few days ago by Claire Perry O’Neill, a cabinet minister under Theresa May who now claims the Tories are “beholden by ideology and self-obsession”, while praising Labour’s “sober, fact-driven, competent political leadership”.
Golly.
Of course, I agree with the suspicion of ideology in one sense. The origins of conservatism as we know it go back to Edmund Burke and the idea of inductive reasoning. Conservatism proceeds from empirical truth to draw conclusions about the general, i.e., “These things seem to work and we like them.” While the Left imposes top-down policies that work in theory, but not in fact.
So what we need is in fact a lack of utopian ideology, but clearly this is not what our political and media establishment mean when they talk about ideology. They mean that whichever party they happen to belong to will manage our decline into a dysfunctional Socialist dystopia slightly better than the other lot.
Our failed political parties will not stop illegal immigration, strikes, the breakdown of marriage, the destruction of education or the desecration of Britain’s history and heritage. None of these can be solved by Left-wing thinking, because they are caused by such thinking (or lack of it).
What we will continue to get is big state economics along with ultra-Leftie social and moral causes.
All one can do is vote against the Tories and deliver the archetypal ‘bloody nose’. Temporarily satisfying, perhaps, but ultimately achieving very little. And probably followed immediately by a cringe joke from a newly-elected Keir Starmer about ‘sticking plaster politics‘.
Lord, spare us.
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Keep teaching, anonymous. The “education system” is not for you.
Have you read “Deschooling Society”, by Ivan Illich?
What does school really teach children?
1. Truth comes from authority.
2. Intelligence is the ability to remember and repeat.
3. Accurate memory and repetition are rewarded.
4. Non-compliance is punished.
5. Conform – intellectually and socially.
Your story resonates with much of my own experience as a university lecturer. Of course, almost all of our teaching moved to zoom but I made a point of telling my students that in my view they weren’t receiving a fully developed education as a result. When we were permitted to return to in person teaching, I too wore an exemption lanyard and refused to enforce mask wearing in class. I too left our union, the UCU, for the same reasons you left yours – the perverse, ever escalating obstacles to us going back to in person teaching including the risible demand that we be issued with personal CO2 monitors, be given the right to cancel lectures at the moment they gave a reading over a certain level, to enforce the personal sanitisation of desks by students and the rest of the nonsense. All of this went beyond the legitimate purpose of a trade union and veered into an assault on our professional and ethical responsibilities to our students. I spoke up to colleagues in online forums but, with a couple of exceptions, like you was met by silence. It struck me that many of them were not simply happy to stay at home but that compliance was their creepy, overriding goal. What our political, public health and education classes did to the population is unforgivable but that so many were complicit in their own oppression is chilling.
Thank you for your post.
Best wishes.
Possibly the most chilling comment I heard from a colleague was during a zoom staff meeting in the early stages of the first mask mandate. This person proclaimed to us proudly in terms that made clear he was signalling perceived virtue, that he, a 30 something bloke built like a rugby forward, had ‘challenged’ (bullied) an elderly, maskless woman in his local supermarket. Again, only I spoke up, saying, quite mildly, ‘come on. Don’t be that guy. That’s not you’. Thing is, maybe I was wrong. It was likely him – lockdown brought out the inner fascist bully in far too many of us.
Dear Anonymous
You sound to me like an educator; someone who wants to develop and bring out the best possible results in your students. It is encouraging that the “teaching profession” still retains some people like you within its ranks.
However, you really do have no future in the State Indoctrination System and I believe you have made the right decision in leaving it.
I hope you find your rightful place as an educator in a facility that appreciates your abilities and values.
Good luck.
Seconded.
I wish I had a helpful response.
Hopefully things will improve for you.
All the best.
Whoever the lame arse doing the downticking is I believe you need some help because you are seriously not well. Have a go at me personally by all means but criticising all the other uptickers, which you are doing indirectly by downticking me and RTSC, and others, shows you lack intelligence as well as guts.
You are a coward and cowards do not belong on this site.
Furthermore, a teacher makes a post from the heart, somebody who is having their life destroyed by the madness enveloping us and you cannot lend at least the tiniest bit of support by way of a few kind words. You are as rotten and evil as our oppressors. What warped logic keeps you on this site?
A miserable example of humanity you must be.
Hear hear! It’s clearly someone with a warped mind and they are obviously in dire need of help.
Thank you Epi.
We need to fight this corrupt evil with every tool we have. Maks wearing is so inhuman and unnatural. That is why the globalist like it. You still see people wearing maske the their haunted faces.
They never seems ask themselves “how come all these people aren’t dropping dead when they are not wearing masks?” or “how come this flimsy mask protect me from the deadliest disease in history?”
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Best wishes
I work in a school and empathise I have been asked to stay silent by the head “rists slapped” as I said babies did not need assigning in a lesson! about my concerns over this gender ideology.
I am staying for now to try and push back but it is as you say tiring.
During the latest news that there is an increase in cases our Head, emailed revised guidelines saying people can wear masks again if they like. And then it has started again, the compliant walking around in front of students with masks.
Ubelievable and unforgivable .
Sorry to be a pernickety but isn’t ‘wrists’ spelled with a ‘w’? Would have thought being in education …..
Just saying
Yes sorry rushing
I popped an s in by accident 
Friendly banter
Glad you spelt persnickety and not me
You are a Person of Principle. Well done for your bravery in leaving.I hope you find another school to teach in that you like. Avoid FE as it is as bad, if not worse, than the state education system as the Unions are in charge and as such the situation in staff rooms can be toxic if you are not a disciple.
Best wishes and good luck for the future.
Thank you, Anonymous, for sharing this with us. How hideous it has all been for us all (those of us who have seen events for what they really are), but to be asked to delete emails about a child’s change of gender so that the parents wouldn’t see them is so appalling that I am dumbstruck! It is evil beyond measure. If only parents talked more to their children, took meals with them, stopped them having so much screen time, etc etc. Imagine not realising that your precious child is going through such a life-changing event without even realising – and the school to be aiding and abetting is beyond evil. You will be an enormous loss to that school (for those few students who you might have been able to help or encourage, eg the one who smiled at you – you probably were a great encouragement to her too), but I understand how you cannot agree to such betrayals of parents’ trust any more. I pray that you find a fulfilling job for the future.
I am so sorry for what you have experienced. For people who actually think the last two years have indeed been utterly exhausting. I wish you all the best for the future.