Laurence Fox takes up the culture war codgels

Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, 27 September 2020 09:04.

The former actor and “cancelled” Question Time pundit Laurence Fox has jumped into the political deep end with a new political party, probably to be called Reclaim, which will oppose the drive from the “modern” left (aka, Labour Party activists, BLM, antifa, and anti-white race activists everywhere) to pulverise the native British people.

He has raised £1 million of funding in few weeks, which is a fantasy sum for the nationalist micro-parties.

Laurence Fox is launching a new political party to fight the culture wars named Reclaim, and he has already raised more than £1million.

The actor, 42, has received substantial sums from former Tory donors and hopes to stand dozens of candidates across the UK.

The Lewis star says he wants to provide a movement for people who are ‘tired of being told that we represent the very thing we have, in history, stood together against’

Among his aims are reforming the BBC and celebrating Britain’s contribution to the world.

Well, Boris Johnson’s government is already attacking the problem of neo-Marxist culture war through the media. The BBC has a new Director General in the shape of Tim Davie, who made a cracking speech just a few days ago, putting the corporation’s plain, unabashed political activists on notice (they have doubled down). Charles Moore has been offered the role of Chairman of the BBC’s board of governors. Further, the former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has been offered the chairmanship of Offcom, which is the broadcasting regulator. Both Moore and Dacre are as right-wing as the Establishment gets.

Add to this Dominic Cummings’ continuing attack on “mandarin culture” in the civil service and it becomes clear that a push-back from Downing Street is in full swing. We nationalists should take note and not respond with too much cynicism. The ground on which we fight is becoming more polarised.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:09 | #

Hitting out at Fox’s mission statement on Twitter, Ms Ali wrote: “Someone gave him a million pounds for this.”

Responding, Fox said: “£5,000,000, actually.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/27/laurence-foxs-says-new-culture-wars-party-has-received-5-million/

Posted by Guessedworker on Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:52 | #

Tim Stanley sums up the Tory onslaught in the culture war:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/28/tories-fighting-back-culture-war/

As for Dacre, he doesn’t want to destroy the BBC: hardly any conservatives do. He wants to rescue it from itself. The same goes for Lord Moore, former editor of this paper, currently being discussed as chairman of the BBC. ...

Hold on: there’s more! Oliver Dowden, the culture secretary, has told museums and galleries they could jeopardise their funding if they take down “controversial” statues and artefacts. The National Trust is under fire from MPs for closures and posturing. And the Government has dropped plans for gender self-identification.

What’s going on? Some of it is long-term planning: Boris and Cummings understand that you can’t change Britain unless you do what the Left did and march through the institutions. Some of it is down to good ministers, like Liz Truss, the women and equalities minister. It takes courage to say no to the trans lobby, though she’s cooked up a humane compromise by keeping the requirement for a medical diagnosis before changing identity at the same time as making the process cheaper and simpler. ...

Smart conservatives also know that you can’t simply cede culture to the Left, as if it operates in a strange universe of its own - and nor do you have to. I’m amazed it’s taken the Tories ten years to notice, but when you’re in power and you control the purse strings, you do have a say in what happens.

Sadly there are still plenty of elite Tories who tolerate the woke stuff because they like it, and they privately ridicule their own voters as reactionaries. Nothing could be farther from the truth. On the culture front, most people vote Tory not out of expectation of what they might do – national anthems in cinemas etc – but in hope of what they won’t do, that the liberal-Left lunacy might be put on hold for five more years. Centre-right voters mostly want a quiet life.

Which is why I suspect Laurence Fox’s new political party, announced at the weekend, is a hiding to nothing. The name, Reclaim, reminds me of a bailiffs; the goal, of pushing back on wokery and celebrating Britain, is both incredibly ambitious and too narrow. The Tories could render Reclaim irrelevant simply by holding the line on the culture war.

Posted by mancinblack on Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:56 | #

14% BAME in 2011.

From Davie’s speech…

Our ambition is to create an organisation which reflects more accurately the society we serve. That’s 50% women and 50% men, at least 20% Black, Asian and minority ethnic….

Cats & bags or parapraxis ?

Posted by mancinblack on Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:04 | #

Teachers Shouldn’t be Agents of Political Change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvVU_v2s0AE

Posted by mancinblack on Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:43 | #

As an experienced black educator…..

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/i-didn-t-become-a-teacher-to-ban-independent-thought-anti-racist-education-should-not-be-up-for-debate/ar-BB19BHrn?ocid=msedgdhp