September means a new school year, a busy time for pupils and teachers alike – and also for the teaching unions, especially the nation’s largest such body, the National Education Union (NEU). Accordingly, as teachers across the land make legitimate complaints about issues such as workload, pay, deteriorating student behaviour and the simple existence of Bridget Phillipson, the NEU’s current leader, Daniel Kebede, is rolling up his sleeves and preparing to go into battle on his members’ behalf in relation to the most important pedagogical issue of all: smashing fascism. Too late, Daniel, that already happened back in around 1945 or so, I believe. An ex-educator himself, evidently Kebede cannot have been a history teacher.
This weekend, Ernst Rohm’s reincarnation Tommy Robinson has planned a large march through London in order to oppose, among other things, mass immigration and the mass rape of British schoolchildren. As such, the British trade union movement, Kebede’s NEU included, decided to help organise an alleged ‘march against fascism’, which stood as being rather a non-sequitur, given that Tommy Robinson is not actually a fascist.
As a proud black ‘anti-racist’ Daniel Kebede disagrees, seeing dangerous political extremist street-thug rabble-rousers everywhere he looks (except in the mirror). Speaking to the Morning Star – because, like so many political moderates right now, Comrade Kebede is an openly self-proclaimed Marxist – the NEU head explained how Reform UK was a prototype new Nazi Party in waiting:
I think Nigel Farage is Tommy Robinson’s megaphone in
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Why the comparison of T Robinson with Ernst Röhm?
The NEU are the victims of entryism primarily because it’s members ,in the main ,are members by coercion and as such take no part in its activities. So much so that they don’t even vote to say the least contribute. It is understandable when the majority of itss membership are women whose lives are already overloaded.
One could say the membership is being used and are mere pawns whilst the leadership exploit the organisation for their own agenda
Disappointed, but far from surprised
I left my own union (Unite) because it started to endorse rhetoric like that spouted by Mr Kebede. Despite the fact that the union has effectively supported people like me in disputes with my employer and has won better pay deals, etc., I could not with good conscience go on funding an organisation which endorsed the same things as Mr Kebede.
If teachers are so poorly paid how can they afford to put their few mites into the ‘Political Fund’? Methinks, ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’.
The UK, “a brutally racist state”. He lives in a fantasy world.
Fascists? Who they? Mussolini simply exchanged the international version of Marxist-Leninism for a nationalist one.
Robinson ‘like a suffragette’? The paid members of the WSPU carrying out bombing and arson in a political cause. Which is terrorism. Now every journey on the Suffragette Line celebrates terrorism.
Ethiopia and Marxism go together. The same thing at the WHO. Russia was educating people there since the 50’s
Its very very disturbing that such a person who appears to be motivated by extreme political dogma is in charge of the union that is there to direct teachers behaviour. I am glad that my child is grown and no longer in the clutches of the Governments far left extremist indoctrination camps. It seems to me that schools now are centres for the brainwashing of children to turn them into entities of far left filled hatred and anger, filled with anxiety, with confusion as to their gender, they are places which force an ideology of victimhood, and hatred towards the country they were born into.
If Kebede was working for a malign foreign power seeking to undermine the country through its children, I would not be surprised.
“This weekend, Ernst Rohm’s reincarnation Tommy Robinson…”
Out of order Mr Tucker. Rohm was a fat homosexual which Tommy Robinson most definitely is not.
As much as I dislike the woman, saying, ‘and the simple existence of Bridget Phillipson’ intimating that perhaps she should not exist, is distasteful in the extreme. I will not be reading any further.
Understandable, Bev. But this is simply Mr Tucker’s writing style.
Like so much of this, it is always white man bad, right of centre bad. No one denies the evil of the national socialist regime in 1930/40s Germany but right wing it wasn’t. More people have died at the hands of communist and global majority war and oppression than from right wing white actions but we’re always the baddies
I wish he’d met Charlie Kirk
I suspect this work-shy Trot would have refused to meet Charlie Kirk.
Isn’t it strange how all the evils seen by the progressives are potential, virtual or otherwise unmeasurable? But the anti-fascist response is always dead real.
Nigel Farage’s open antagonism to Tommy Robinson is really a conspiracy to become fascist, necessitating mainly peaceful milkshakes and stones for the former, and solitary confinement for the latter.
Somebody’s speech advocating dialogue rather than violence is interpreted as hate, necessitating their being shot (presumably out of love).
Support for families is transphobia necessitating repeated complaints to the police, concern about illegal immigration is racism requiring violent masked counter-protests to de-radicalise the pink ladies, and the whole country being Far Right is sufficient reason for any punishment of anybody.
As one Marxist student said to me at medical school, dejectedly, “I’m the only socialist among 600 fascists.” The people has failed us – we must elect a new people.
“The true problem with today’s NEU is not that Daniel Kebede won its last leadership contest. It is that, under its current voting rules and regulations, nobody but Kebede (or his ideologically identical doppelgangers) could ever have won it; any non-Marxist candidate wouldn’t stand a chance.”
I don’t understand why this needs to be the case. I presume the rule is one adult member, one vote. If they don’t vote because they are not paying attention or are too lazy, more fool them.
I suspect the reason is that. like students unions in my youth, most teachers are more than fully occupied teaching, whilst the activists can’t be bothered with that bourgeois activity and have time to run the politics.
How much effort is required to vote? Not much if you ask me.
That same complacency across the entire electorate landed us with sir kneel and his political clown car.
Up to a point- but tens of millions voted Uniparty
Yes, but if thete was more intelligent engagement by the mass of the population then they would be forced to raise their game.
Mostly out of complacency, that’s what I mean.
Complacency and it seems to me that lots of people are happy to sacrifice freedom for the illusion of safety