I’m running for Mayor of London to speak up for those who are silenced
As a small child I always thought that Britain was brilliant at everything. I sat in secondary school being told stories of great battles and inventors; brave kings and wars which lasted a hundred years.
Hurricanes and Spitfires dancing around the sky, vastly outnumbered, holding fast against the relentless juggernaut of fascism that had swept across Europe, ready to cross the channel to suffocate Britain in its deadly embrace. Both my grandfathers served in the war.
I am being deliberately flowery and rhetorical, but I feel it’s important to confess just how in love I am with these tiny island splotches we call home, and how immovable I am in that love.
The last time I felt this annoyed at the capriciousness of those who govern us was during the build-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Like now, dodgy dossiers were flung around with supercilious deceit. Unlike now, those dodgy dossiers were examined and interrogated. Do you remember when the BBC used to do its job? Me too.
We currently find ourselves in a similarly dire situation, albeit in a different manifestation.
Public debate has been strangled. Most crucially and pressingly in the absolute refusal to hold anything remotely resembling an open debate surrounding Covid policy and lockdowns. Leading experts in epidemiology and evidence-based medicine have been smeared and silenced by a Government hell bent on one ideology, at the expense of all other considerations – such as our children’s education, cancer diagnoses and other lives lost. Did the pandemic modellers understand we would have one of the worst death tolls despite having some of the most severe lockdown restrictions?
At what cost – in these lives and livelihoods – do lockdowns come: and why should it be heresy to question any aspect of this? Our children will pay for the damage done by this fear-led debate all their lives.
Whole areas of public discourse have become minefields, where a wrong step sees your career and livelihood ended overnight. This is just the latest sad manifestation of an ever-present danger: the slow demoralisation of the population, fuelled by the navel-gazing revisionism of our universities. There’s the presence of a deep and genuine hate of who we are and what we’ve done. Such guilty reflection has now reached crisis point. Even mild patriotism is branded as racism. Patriotism has nothing to do with skin colour. I am patriotic about the values Britain stands for – democracy, fairness and the rule of law – and I always will be.
We have progressed from resistance to female suffrage and the chemical castration of gay men in a darker and more fearful past. Freedom of speech and elections by secret ballot have delivered us some of the most liberal values on earth.
‘Deliberately, or by apathy, our sense of who we are, where we are and what we are is being undermined’
Why must we focus on Freedom of Speech? Because that is what ensures democracy and government that fully reflects the views of the people. An attack of on freedom of speech is an attack on democracy itself.
The capital city is the heart of the nation, the central celebration of a nation’s heritage. Statues stand to the great and the not so good to teach us about those who came before. They are examples but also warnings. They remind us of the fights and follies that have ultimately led to us becoming such a tolerant and diverse society.
Deliberately or by apathy, our sense of who we are, where we are and what we are is being undermined.
Boris Johnson says “there’s nothing wrong with being woke”. Keir Starmer takes the knee to a hard-Left organisation that seeks to undermine of all the things we hold dear – our families, our shared language and heritage. Sadiq Khan and his nationhating cronies have their jealous eyes on our statues and institutions.
Where does his desire to strip us of our history end? Surely Queen Victoria, the epitome of empire and white privilege, should be torn from her plinth in front of Buckingham Palace to be swiftly replaced with a monument to Greta Thunberg or Piers Morgan?
Why are none of our politicians standing to defend us?
I am livid at the disrespect being shown to the sacrifices made by previous generations to protect our values, tolerance and freedom.
This extreme political correctness must be resisted.
I am pleased to announce that I am a candidate to be the next Mayor of London. I look forward to speaking up for those who are being dominated into silence.