Written by Frederica
Several decades before Anthony Lynton Blair’s meddlesome intrusion into ‘Educashun, Educashun, Educashun’ the ‘progressive reformers’ began to undermine the foundations of that most noble of institutions. I am going to attempt to compare and contrast the education that I received from the State and that received by my own children.
I attended a CofE primary school. Between the 5 – 7 year, I must have learned to read and write sufficiently well so that when I crossed the road and became a Junior at 7, I was able to write a short essay and illustrate the subject matter in my school exercise book (still in my possession).
I have two items of needlework I made at that age. A gingham apron and a pencil case made by using a piece of open weave fabric decorated as a sampler with lines of embroidery stitches. It was lined with linen, folded and stitched at the sides to form the case.
By the age of 9/10 I had been taught the parts of speech and could dissect a sentence into its component parts. Spelling lists were issued and learned week on week and tested at length on the Headmaster’s weekly visits to the classroom. Chalk pieces were flung at those who failed by the third attempt to enunciate the spelling successfully!
Fast forward at this point by thirty years and witness my ‘toe to toe’ dispute with my son’s English teacher who had told the class that “spelling and grammar do not matter. It is how you express yourself that counts”!
At 9 years I joined the Junior Library, whence I was taken each fortnight to choose three books. Along with perennial favourites such as Worzel Gummidge and Sam Pig, I also devoured The Scarlet Pimpernel and Junior versions of the biographies of Louis Pasteur; Marie Curie; Gladys Aylward; Joan of Arc and Thomas Becket.
Lest you think me a saintly swot – I should point out that it was quite usual for me to be attending more to the game of travelling chess that was often set up on the bench between myself and the boy next to me, than to the subject of the lesson! Perhaps that inattention is why I failed the 11+.
At 13 I did pass the exam and passed on to ‘higher education’. The headmistress was a noted martinet (I believe that she cultivated that belief deliberately). For the first term we were obliged to wear name tags around our necks so that the teachers could learn our identities. We were made to write in italics and were not allowed to use ink until we had mastered the art of using chiselled point pencils.
There was an emphasis on community and organisation. A School Council convened once a month after school on Friday afternoon. Each form elected a member who carried the views and suggestions up to Council and returned with decisions and news. A system of committees existed and every pupil belonged to a Committee that had input into the daily running of the school system. Once a week Committees met and information was disseminated back to forms during ‘registration’ periods.
The teachers were totally dedicated to the task of training our unwilling teenage minds to learn what was on the syllabus, but above all to open up to the concept that education did not begin and end with schooling. We were encouraged to open our minds to all knowledge. We were not force-fed dogma or propaganda.
What a contrast to today’s system, taken over by Government, currently in the hands of a fireplace salesman who has found himself totally unable to deal with the rapacious NEU that has brought our children’s education to an abrupt halt!
‘Educate to capacity’ was the mantra then. It should be the mantra now but politicians do not care about children. They do not care about the damage that their policies do to young minds. Standards are set in order to suit the lowest achiever level (under the ‘all must have prizes’ principle). Less able pupils may now receive higher grades than perhaps they might have done under the old system, because the standard is lower and the pass rate reduced (despite frequent protestations to the contrary). A couple of years ago I found, in a newspaper, a re-print of a 1960’s arithmetic exam paper. The comment was, that many who now tried to complete it today had failed! It took me a while to get my brain back in gear!!
Most children have many more material things today than we could possibly have imagined half a century ago. But they are poorer because they are being denied the unbiased education that should be theirs by right. Students now rely on iPads and the Internet. Books, as such, seem to be avoided.
A teacher recently told me that 16 year olds are now likely to ask Google or Siri if it is cold enough to need to wear a sweater! They cannot tell the time by a traditional clock! She is still teaching phonics to 7 year olds and a pupil argued robustly with her that there are only six months in the year! She also commented that “these days we do not educate children, we train them to pass exams”! Incidentally, she hates giving zoom classes because it detracts from the teaching ‘message’.
My choler rises when I hear that young children are being exposed to ‘gender issues’ and the too early inclusion of sexual matters that surely should be at parents discretion. It all has an unpleasant whiff of ‘child abuse’ about it. This has been driven by government policy. I accept that child abuse is not unheard of in the home and perhaps teachers should be able to assess and alert the authorities to same.
Primarily, schools are places of learning. ‘Learning’ for its own sake is no longer ‘politically desirable’. Education is now a means by which the government of the day can obtain mastery over the minds of children and bask in the self-congratulatory glow at the ‘ever-improving’ exam results tables that appear to justify their actions! I believe that schools are becoming places of indoctrination to make pupils into future servants of the State!
Diverse courses in non-academic subjects abound today. In itself this is not a bad thing so long as they are provided at what used to be polytechnic establishments and give good training for future work prospects at B-Tech level. However, since these polytechnics are now integrated into the university degree system, it has (in my personal opinion) distorted and degraded the significance of obtaining a degree (the legacy of Mr Blair!). Not to mention that students are being charged ‘top dollar’ for often substandard degrees that will leave them starting their working lives with huge debts hanging round their necks.
The rise and rise of PPE degree courses is merely feeding the already over-populated ranks of political ‘wannabes’. We have so many of these lacklustre graduates filling the HoC. Where is the experience and wider knowledge that would qualify them to manage the great roles of State to the betterment of society?
Universities are failing to provide us with the large numbers of doctors, engineers and other practical scientists that in the past have made Britain Great. They are needed now more than ever to rebuild Britain again from the ‘slough of despond’ into which she has fallen in recent times.
Children must be given the broad education they need to make their way in the world. To prepare them to accept their responsibilities as well as to demand their rights. I believe that our children are being cheated by the State that is using ‘education’ as a political tool. Our children are the losers!
When one considers that it is far easier to control ill-educated “woke” people by an evil government all becomes clear. That control has been planned for many years. I still wonder if people such as Orwell and Huxley were writing of an already planned future for us or if they simply planted some ideas.
A good article about a sad subject. The latin meaning of education is to bring up, or to bring forth, not to indoctrinate. What do our schools and universities do now? We know the answer. This battle is lost, I am afraid. I am still mulling over how to improve things, but when people are brought up in what is a brainwashing system, how will they even know that they have been homogenised? Smart people lucky enough to have been expensively educated can control the masses, see the abuse of the recent US election by silicon valley billionaires, and they want to keep it that way. Unless we get greater accountability, we will founder.
Frederica – I couldn’t agree more, I’ve seen this first hand and it’s frightening.
Some years ago when I had a spell working in academia, I decided to do a teacher training course at the top ranked university in the country where I was then living, it was unbelievable, complete Marxist indoctrination by Liberal / Lefty nutjob academics. Academics that had no clue about how the world really works and they were paranoid and in our heads at every opportunity, they wanted to weed out anyone that they couldn’t indoctrinate with their vile agenda.
One day we were asked to sit what they called a computerised English test but it was much more than that, it was a test of reasoning and critical thinking. The pass mark for this test was 500, given that I was sitting in a room full of PhDs, it wasn’t surprising that some scored double this, perhaps a 1000, well I scored 3800, I pushed the machine to its limits and it scared these looney academics witless, they do not like critical thinkers, people that can think for themselves, we’re a threat to them.
I’m not being egotistical, I’m just telling it like it is and I’ve never told anyone before. It was all downhill from there when these lunatics realised that I wasn’t going to accept their indoctrination, things got very nasty and I left before I wrung someone’s neck.
I don’t think that many people, despite having an inkling that their is something wrong with education worldwide, realise just how bad things are, schools these days teach pupils what to think rather than how to think, critical thinking is forbidden, it is shutdown.
Education has become evil brainwashing by the Marxist, Leftist agenda, I’m very glad that I will never again have to have anything to do with education again, the teacher training colleges of the world need to be taken down as a matter of priority, they are evil.
Wow. Thank you both, flyer and Frederica.
It’s really good, flyer, to hear from someone who understands about ‘reasoning and critical thinking’.
I once sat a Mensa test – a real one, not the adverts they used to put out. I didn’t quite make the grade in fact but looking back, so far as I can remember not all of that actually tested my reasoning and critical thinking.
After graduating, I considered doing a teachers training course. Fortunately I did not. I reckon now, after reading what you have said, it might have driven me to suicide.
Back in my childhood. I remember once saying to my father ‘Why – – – – -? To which he replied, Why do you think it is so. He listened to my answer and nodded, or otherwise accepted my explanation.
That has stuck in my mind as a good example of how education should be done.
Well there you are Pauline that was a mistake. I’ve never taken a Mensa test . Scares me rigid. Seriously why? I can’t spell, punctuate, and have a hard time with chimpansees, and I’m not very funny. What’s wrong with me ? you ask.Well I quite like funny people, those who can actually do things, and people who can explain things correctly.
What was the point of my comment ? you ask. I have no idea. But I trust that funny items, clever analysees, ingeneous strategies, obscure theories, and other luvly comments and articles will keep coming.
Have you noticed how the labour party instigates these “social experiments that are almost impossible to reverse?
Education reform is one, immigration is another.
Free handouts to the feckless and stupid.
Votes can be bought.
Some parts of Frederica’s post remind me of my childhood and education. Other parts seem quite different. Maybe it was because I was moved from CofE infants to Council junior school. Or perhaps it is because I am older, or because things varied from one County to another.
Whatever, I’m sure Frederica has correctly identified the huge lowering of standards and why it has happened.
I’m undecided whether the introduction of Comprehensive Schooling was harmful since apparently children were ‘streamed’ so they received education suited to their abilities just as in the previous ‘tripartite’ system.
But in fact there was nothing wrong with that tripartite system because, as she points out, there was the 13+ exam.
After that the system has gone from bad to worse in the way she describes.
‘We TRAIN them to pass exams’. That sounds very much like MY big grumble about so called ‘education’. ROTE LEARNING.
So many people seem to think that being able to remember a list of ‘facts’ is a sign of ‘learning’ or ‘intelligence’.
I’d say being able to analyse, to THINK ABOUT things, is what is important.
However you look at it it all goes back to Labour and a few Conservative ( Socialist creep ) laws. The only thing that survives is tax and the party system. Why do you think UKIP is dead? it’s a POLITICAL ( eg with labour or tory apologists in position to stop anything bad [TR, GB, RB] happening ) PARTY.
A PROTEST PARTY. Now that might work? Think . THINK. The left has captured physical protests .Nobody has even considered the other in case it might destabilise their precious position in dead ukips.
TG Spokes…….don’t forget dead committees as well, you should have got that one in, just for my benefit that is!!!! Anyway welcome back. I assume you were stuck in the time vortex yesterday. I know Biscotte will enjoy that one…..
I like the kid stoutly maintaing 6 months to the year. Definitely one to watch. It is strange how kids settle for what they think they want at different ages. And then become what I would class as working class. Steady, responsible, thoughtful, dependable, busy and happy in their own chosen path but able to get better . That was their education.
It seems to me that these people (we ) had decided they can rely on basics and education to that point, and that’s where they want to be thank you.
Our politicians and higher classes ( If that’s what you wanna call them ), seem to me to not value them.
When a factory full of these people goes bust or sent to somewhere else, this is a betrayal which a farmer or foreman would have to be forced into.
I remember the shock on being told that no one else in Britain could do our Steel castings. Their competitor had closed. For the sake of a few quid TAX on top of an already Gargantuan and immoral load.( We were forced to sell the business to Japan. and it now forms the base of an enormous Foreign company ) Political intransigence. Thems the Rulz. And that’s the power of our all conquering Civil Service Always ready with a little word change here , another move of a comma, weaselly advice, ” No you can’t do that th xxxxxx wouldn’t like that ”
Sacking the country’s backbone is criminal, very rarely progress
Unions Very rarely do their proper job. I will excuse them on the basis of rapacious opportunistic greed, and ignorance. Maybe they have no options I’m not their keeper or apologist
You cannot stop progress. This is not progress this is decay. and political crime.
Thisof course is what the Eu thinks it is doing. Keeping The farmers and workers with Prptectionism and sly concealed support. It can only last so long.
Sorry T. G. Spokes. Today I do not understand a word of what you mean to say.
Which is it whiskey, Dundee cake or time travel?
PPB – the first line is ok. The second superflous.
More up your alley Princess – have you noticed aran yarn in *red* is in short supply? A relative wants a Winter hat. woolwarehouse nil; gb-others nil.. Any suggestions? (180/190 metres / 100 gms).
Dunno what you’re on about either Biscotte.
Pauline…….haha, that made me chuckle. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks TGS is a whisky guzzling timelord who eats Dundee Cake morning noon and night, whilst having in depth conversations with Henry II in the 12th Century with a chap called Burnt Toast at his side……..Over to you Biscotte..
TG Spokes……..everybody who goes out to work is working class. How may these days are sitting in large mansions on big estates with hereditary titles relying on stocks and shares etc to get by financially. Come on get with it, this is the 21st Century we are living in not the 1850’s!!
Unions have a role to play in industry by looking after work force pay and conditions, what drivel are you rambling on about here??
‘Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.’ (Proverbs 22:6). I, too, was required to write with unfashionable tools (a dip-and-scratch pen) and not allowed a fountain pen until I had achieved an acceptable standard of roundhand copperplate. I still prefer the dip-and-scratch pen. I, too, was taught to parse a sentence. I sometimes wear a t-shirt which informs the world of this, It is emblazoned on the chest with: ‘I am silently correcting your grammar’ but I suspect few who read it know the meaning of grammar.
Oh Great Frederica. Thank you.
You have resuscitated so many memories.
I was recounting to disbelief a little while ago, my reading of the lives of Pasteur and Curie. I was ten or eleven. Snap.
‘Standards set . .to lowest achiever’. Attending my children’s sports day no racing, no winning, no competition everyone got a prize. The parents race was a different thing!
You said it all ”to open our minds to all knowledge”. Yes, and to challenge things that didn’t make sense or aren’t right. Now transferred to and taken on board by my children.
‘Degraded the significance of obtaining a degree’. A third (33 pct) of my university first year intake were failed and out. Many re-enrolled at the poly down the road and got good jobs nonetheless. Around eight to ten percent of the remainders were failed having completed their final year. Nice.
Incidentally there were only about a dozen professeurs at Uni. One or so to each faculty. The law faculty only gave out one first class honours after seven years – one in seven years. (She was dull as ditchwater but could and did quote law chapter and verse verbatim).
Now professeur of lawn mowing, golfing, crochet, and similar.
One area you don’t mention is grammar schools. I got a scholarship to a fee paying school (thanks for the sacrifices M&D) that became a grammar school. That wonderful, wonderful education plus university, and tertiary education beyond, got me along to the point that when back in Germany I am Herr Doktor. Boasting but proud – both probably deadly sins, everything is these days!
Bottom line. Without shame, I was a little weepy when finished reading.
Looking at the quality of ‘graduates’ on my teams it is scary. After comic sans typefaces thrown back at them, correcting genitive apostrophes, plus ‘irregardless’ of their ‘misunderestimating’ of basic knowledge (at A level), some are ‘rejuiced’ to a regular command of the English language. (385)
Biscotte………Come on now, I cannot believe that you cried over a bit of burnt toast. Do you need a university degree to be a baker, surely an apprenticeship would have been more appropriate in the circumstances???
Thank you for your reply Biscotte. I am so glad I’m not alone in remembering the days when an education ‘did what it said on the tin’! I didn’t mention Grammar Schools by name but it was implied in “Higher Education”. I did not go on to university (I went to college instead – but that’s another story!!)
The best job I ever had, (for which I was not paid), was four years spent in a Montessori nursery school. I received the training and then worked unpaid. In return my daughter received her education free. When she went on to school I stayed on and completed my training. I loved every minute of it. Working with young children and seeing their awakening interest and progress was an absolute joy. The local schools commented that they always knew which children had come from that nursery school. You could not ask for a more satisfying accolade!
Your pride in being hailed as Herr Doctor is not (‘deadly sins’) pride but well earned satisfaction knowing that your good education has resulted in your being able to do important work benefitting mankind.
Education, and the love of learning is the greatest gift that one person can bestow upon another.
Thank you for your kind comments.
I know what you mean about little ones.
Returning home from parts unusual, I used to go off to the local Primary. The whole school would turn out (all 50 odd) and I would tell them about my travels to parts yonder with pictues. Queries of flags and suchlike resulted in local currency and stamps dished out all round. Stimulating conversation on both sides. Great.
And my other big infant contacts were being bilingual ‘Santa’. Laws and regs say you almost cannot touch the youngen – and the Mums saying let’s get a picture of little xxx cuddling Santa sitting on his knee. Some awestruck, others frightened, the adults – we loved it.
The days before indoctrination sadly missed.
They are taught Hairdressing, I was told.
Goes with lawn mowing and crochet.
I cannot for the life of me accept that exposing our young children to drag queens and teaching them about gay sex and trasgenderism is anything other than child abuse. Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson should be held pointedly to account for this. And dont get me started on Justin Welby who apprantly believs that its ok for boys in CofE schools to wear tiaras! We, the common sense, ordinary decent people need to take back control.
Adrian I do so agree with you. I feel sick to my soul at the thought of what damage those young minds will sustain at the hands of those twisted perverts who have insidiously taken over our schools. It is as though the PIE has been given the keys to the schools to abuse our children at will. Parents to whom I have spoken do not like it either but feel powerless to do anything about it because the explanations are given so glibly by the ‘grooming gangs’ who have themselves been indoctrinated with this poison and made to think it is acceptable!
As you say the Welby terror is unspeakable. I have apologised to God for the fact that I can no longer feel affiliated to the established Church. My church is now where I find myself when I pray!
Good Grief, I didn’t realise Justin Welby was that bad.
He’s a globalist marxist with knobs on. and favours the great reset. I believe. . So is “Pope” Francis. It seems the whole clergy have become indoctrinated with marxist propaganda.
Will no one rid us of this meddlesome priest.
Abuse indeed Adrian. Sadly the abusers abound, maybe outnumber the rest of us or will do soon.
It fills me with horror and dread what the current children will grow up to be. . These children are obscenely abused by the authorities and all those who go along with it. Muzzled, locked up, indoctrinated, sexualised, deprived of fun and sweetness, or anything uplifting or inspiring.
I hope Hell is hot enough for the politicians and the rest who are inflicting this on them.
Thank you Frederica (and Mary) for a most interesting and humorous piece: “Sweet memories, of the way we were……….”
Apropos our MP’s and particularly Labour/Socialist/Marxist MP’s:
I recoil with horror when I see and hear the likes of the MP Dianne Abbott both being interviewed in the media and when speaking in the HofC…………..and recall with great regret the time when, although accumulating FOUR MILLION votes, not a single UKIP MP was elected………and there WERE very many excellent candidates.
In the case of Nigel Farage in particular, how much more vital, exciting and meaningful would even the ordinary business of The House be if he were given the opportunity to illustrate his deep love of our country and its people, and his simple common-sense contributions to the governance and freedoms of our great country ……instead of the incessant anti-Britishness expressed by the likes of Abbott and her ‘black sisters’ and their other ‘forever-angry’ compatriots…….who, instead of extolling the myriad achievements of our country and its people, prefer instead to drag us down with venomous rhetoric directed at our wonderful heroes of the past.
Was it perhaps their lack of education……or their inherent ignorance? Strange how many worthless louts will blindly ‘bend a knee’ to a worthless African American career criminal and drug dealer, yet openly and viciously demean the bravery and accomplishments of heroes of whom we shall never see the likes of again……..who laid down their lives with courage and fortitude so as to preserve the freedom of the bulbous Abbott and her motley, ungrateful crew.
Yes indeed MisterPaul5a. If only those 4 million votes had resolved themselves into seats in the HOC. I worked and prayed for UKIP to make that breakthrough. People were keen for us to succeed. The gerrymandered voting system of engineered boundary systems has made for the perpetuation of the LibLabCon for far too long. ‘They’ try to kid us that they will review the unequal boundaries to rebalance the system but as we all know…..turkeys don’t vote for Christmas!
‘Bending the knee’……Ah, now you bring me on to my next Grumpy Old Woman piece…of that more shortly!
Yes please Frederica. More Posts. I’m sure they will be good.
Frederica…….Fine! Grump away………!!
Agreed, but where UKIP ultimately failed, Reform UK will succeed. I am 100% sure of it. At the present time ignoring Brexit for a moment, there is political void that needs to be filled. The Conservatives under Johnson have moved politically to the liberal left and the traditional conservative voters of the past have been disenfranchised and no longer have a home, and whilst they might have secretly admired UKIP they would never have voted for it, but with the emergence of Reform UK (formerly The Brexit Party) has opened up new possibilities for those of the centre right. There is I feel a much broader range of support for Reform UK than the old UKIP, and they will succeed at the Conservative Party’s expense in future.
Yes, and all this is happening not under Tony Blair who probably did start the ball rolling downhill insofar as education is concerned, but under a Conservative administration. They have now been in power for ten years for ten years and have done sod all about it, like they’ve done sod all about anything else of importance in this country apart from Brexit which they dragged their heels over. To be honest this present conservative administration is just about the pits it really is, and I am one who voted for these utter time wasters, but only to get Brexit over the line which would not have been an option for the other two waste of a vote parties. When is Boris going to get a grip over left wing indoctrination in our schools and left wing wokery in its own government departments. We need change and we need it quickly, but the Conservative Party does not have the will, motivation or leadership to get us out of this mess, and it will be left to some other party to do what is necessary and that party is Reform UK which I am sure will be governing party of this country before very long. The Conservatives have had their day, they’ve had a good innings over the years, but they are now finished. Hopefully……
Ah Colin I voted for the blond fat one too! Much to my shame, I did it to keep Corby out or the prevent another useless coalition. Conservative? My eye! The biggest bunch of Marxists I could ever have imagined. Not a patriotic brain cell amongst any of them! Boris the ‘barsteward’ would never make a leader if he lived to be 200! How to dislodge him without letting the Hancock-half-hour or Gove terror in on the ‘Buggins turn’ principle is something I cannot answer. Fixed term Parliaments has been just another step on the road to absolute dictatorship as far as I can see!
Yes the Conservatives in their present incarnation are finished but…..if there was a GE tomorrow what would the choice be? With our gerrymandered voting system (especially if they decided to use the ‘Dominion’ counters) there would be cases of South Thanet everywhere!!! Even a strong new party would struggle to gain traction at this time I think! I want change too but from whence it is to come I do not know!
Agree with you there too Frederica.
Frederica…….you have raised a subject close to my heart…….. Political compromise and cooperation in order to establish a feasible political opposition to the ‘established Parties’.
Probably the most crucial need of our times….and in particular OUR country at this time in our history.
Will we learn
Yes,,there WERE many brave men and women who gave a very considerable amount of time (and as a consequence, money) in trying to bring about much needed changes to our stagnant political system………but the sheep? Give ME strength!
The simple answer is this. The ‘right’ MUST get their act together and QUICKLY.
If we miss this opportunity now?……..there will NEVER be a better time, whilst the two main Parties are in disarray and the credibility of the entire House of Commons is in question.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men”…………………….we could well ride on this tide…..and escape from the shallows and make our mark.
I think its too late now to look to a political party for salvation. The ONLY way we could have tried to fight back is mass civil disobedience. But it’s vital that the critical mass of people do it, not just a few brave souls who end up as sacrificial lambs like that amazing hairdresser lady in Yorkshire who refuses to close. You refuse the muzzle, you get a fine, you refuse to pay it and be prepared to face jail. You have to be prepared in fact to lose everything in the end. But people wont do it while they have anything to lose, and dependents.
Agreed Colin.
Pauline….yesterday you were saying ‘vote David Kurten’. I like David Kurten, but some of the policies that his party has will lose them potential votes. I have been flip flopping a bit over the past year, but Reform UK is the only way (and it rhymes) and is the biggest and most vociferous of all the new parties, and more importantly Nigel Farage is the leader, and he more than any politician I can think of including those in government at the moment, is the main man and is spot on with everything he says. Absolutely no doubt about it whatsoever…….
“spot on with everything he says”. Correct me if I’m wrong but does he not support the compulsory vaccine? Even though it is unnecessary and regularly producing some horrendous side effects?
David Kurten favours proportional representation. I have told him, that would not be good nationally because it leads to coalitions, where no one gets what they were voted in for.
However, I have also told him I support him 100% to take control of London.
Reform U.K. – I find their website remarkably lacking in info. But, Nigel gets himself heard and what he says, I usually agree with.
Since it is local elections coming up next, the main point is give the Tories a kick up the backside, so wait and see what is on offer.
Agree 100% Mary. I wonder if that is what Rowling had in mind when she created the ‘Dementors’ who are now sucking the soul out of this country and its children!
This you tube is very good generally but in particular blames on our bad education system, the fact that the vast majority of the population have uncritically accepted all the covid insanity and green insanity.
PS James Delingpole is absolutely brilliant here. I highlight in particular that he says: This tyranny is as bad as WW2 fight against the Nazis, it’s worse even; if people don’t push back against this tyranny NOW. it’s the end of Western civilisation. Those who dont resist are collaborators . That Farage has been absolutely useless throughout all this and should shut up and retire !
Couldn’t agree more.
And re Farage, he sounds to me more and more like a Tory mouthpiece (hm) ; are they writing his script for him. Very dangerous because he is still trusted by many. As with the people
PPS (continued) ; As with the people who wouldn’t previously tolerate a word said against against BoJo , they will only learn the hard way.