Since the National Trust introduced the Quick Vote onto its AGM ballots, not a single vote has been cast for any non-woke candidates.
That’s partly because the Quick Vote system makes it easy to vote for the official choices – all it takes is a single click – but cumbersome to vote for one of the non-approved candidates.
But if you’re a member of the National Trust and you object to the obsessively woke direction it has taken in recent years, it’s important to vote for the candidates who share your concerns.
Campaign forum Restore Trust, which wants the National Trust to be driven not by modish, divisive ideologies but solely by its noble mandate, has put together a list of its recommended candidates. They are as follows:
- Philip Gibbs is a savvy financial analyst, so with him on the Council the Trust should avoid a repeat of the fiasco in 2023 when its investment portfolio lost millions. He is a vocal opponent of the undemocratic Quick Vote.
- Lawrence Goldman has had a long and distinguished career as an academic historian at Oxford, and can help iron out those labels which describe historical figures as slave-owning bigots.
- Tiffany Jenkins has made a careful study of the implications of ‘repatriating’ objects from museums and is well placed to advise the National Trust on the pitfalls of doing so.
- Colin Kerr has done a sterling job at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission getting more people to visit.
- Bijan Omrani has fought successfully to reopen his local National Trust property to the public after the open weekends were ended. He is another fine historian.
- Patrick Streeter has saved historic buildings from demolition as chairman of the Spitalfields Trust.
Members of the National Trust can vote here. But you will need to be quick, as voting ends at midnight tonight!
For more information about how to save the National Trust, see here.
