LiberalLibera fascism and the Na National Trust

WHAT is goinggo on at the National Trust? For the lastlas 122 years it has diligently protected thist country’s great historic landscapes and stately homes.

But recently,recent under the leadership of ohso right-on director general Dame Helen Ghosh – ah hugely over-promoted former civil servant with a ‘modernisation’ agenda – it has com completely lost its way.

Dame HelenHele has embraced every trendy cause goin going, dumbed down exhibits, praised win wind farms as ‘ rather beautiful’ and presidedpreside over an unedifying row about the trust’s ‘ ‘Cadbury Egg Hunt’ which all but airbrush airbrushed out any mention of Easter.

Now the trusttr has alienated volunteers at Felbrigg HallHa in Norfolk by insisting they wear gay prid pride badges as part of its ‘Prejudice and Pride’ s season to mark 50 years since homosexualityhomosexual was decriminalised.

During th the same campaign, it enraged relatives of the late former owner of the Hall, Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, by outing him a as gay.

Those volunteersvolu who refused to toe the line were banishedba to backroom tasks. As a result, doz dozens have withdrawn from their posts. SeveralSever have resigned.

To those volunteers, the trust’s new slogan, ‘For ever, for everyone’, must ring bitterly hollow.holl

Like a growinggro number of institutions, the trust is in the grip of a kind of fascist liberalism whichw seeks to crush anybody who oppo opposes its politically- correct nostrums. A As Dame Helen departs, the trust – for d decades a symbol of decency and, yes, t tolerance – has a chance to distance itse itself from this regrettable episode and rediscoverrediscov the values that make it, and this country country, great.