The relentless campaign to erase Britain’s proud history continues apace. Portraits of national heroes including Admiral Lord Nelson, Sir Francis Drake and Elizabeth I have been taken down in the Palace of Westminster in favour of modern icons such as… Pixie Balls-Cooper.
Labour’s Home Secretary replaces Good Queen Bess on the walls of Parliament as part of a diversity drive to represent more women, ethnic minorities and disabled people.
Quite how dumping Elizabeth I helps celebrate diversity isn’t explained. It was only a couple of weeks ago that the MGBGT+ brigade were claiming that Good Queen Bess was actually a man.
If they’re right, that would make her not our first female monarch, as she is often wrongly described, but certainly our first trans monarch, and definitely someone to be celebrated.
Still, Elizabeth was hideously white and probably far-Right by today’s standards. She’d certainly have been a Brexiteer. So into the dustbin of history she goes, along with both William Pitts (Younger and Elder) and other dead white males like William Wilberforce.
Hang on a minute. What have they got against Wilberforce? He led the campaign to abolish slavery. Mind you, that inconvenient truth – and the fact that the Royal Navy ended the Atlantic slave trade – doesn’t fit the Left’s narrative that racist, colonialist Britain was the worst slaver nation on earth, ever. So Wilberforce has to be airbrushed out of the story, too.
They’ve also removed a painting of Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert, which probably won’t go down well with members of the piercing community.
All these embarrassing relics of the past are being replaced by the role models of our age such as Pixie.
Labour’s Home Secretary replaces Good Queen Bess on the walls of Parliament as part of a diversity drive to include more women, ethnic minorities and disabled people
She may not be disabled or from an ethnic minority, but she is widely admired as a dedicated humanitarian who opened both her taxpayer-subsidised homes to take in a flood of Syrian refugees fleeing war and oppression. Or not, as the case may be.
Still, we must all check our privilege these days. Trashing the past is all the rage.
How long before the equestrian statue of Richard The Lionheart outside the Palace of Westminster is replaced by a bronze monument to that great warrior Keir Starmer in full battledress?
Perhaps when Starmer met Donald Trump in Washington he presented the President with a bust of Pixie Balls-Cooper to replace the one of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office.
The first thing Surkeir did when he moved into Downing Street was to get rid of the portrait of Margaret Thatcher in his study.
Revisionism ramped up after the deranged Black Lives Matter demonstrations during the 2020 Summer of Stupidity.
Statues of suspected colonialists were torn down. Streets, buildings and universities were renamed. Even those historical figures with the most tenuous links to the slave trade were discredited and declared to be non-persons.
The Left have tried to pretend that the past didn’t exist. And even if it did, it was irredeemably racist and evil.
Perhaps when Starmer met Donald Trump in Washington he presented the President with a bust of Pixie Balls-Cooper to replace the one of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office
That pernicious message has permeated the schools curriculum, which explains why a generation of young people now say they are ashamed to be British. Almost half of Gen Z would not take up arms to defend their country.
Museums qualify exhibits with trigger warnings, explaining that Britain’s wealth was built on the back of exploitation and slavery.
In recent years they have appeared to have a particular aversion to our military history.
This week we learned that the philanthropist Lord Ashcroft’s collection of 230 VCs at the Imperial War Museum was being mothballed. The museum said it wanted to integrate the medals into ‘wider historical narratives… within many of our visitors’ living memory’.
Whether they go as far as the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, which ‘reinterpreted’ their Nelson exhibit in the wake of the BLM madness by placing his bust alongside that of a ‘trans goddess’, remains to be seen.
Let’s hope not. But revisionism is a worrying trend everywhere. It’s absurd to always look at our history in a modern context. The past was indeed a foreign country.
Prominent historians Tom Holland and Simon Sebag Montefiore complained recently that the obsession with the slave trade in particular has gone way too far.
Sir Francis Drake and Nelson are routinely condemned unfairly as slave traders, with their role in keeping Britain free from tyranny and occupation relegated.
The campaign against Nelson has been waged for years, long before his portrait was unceremoniously removed from Westminster. There have even been calls to remove Nelson’s statue from the top of his column in Trafalgar Square.
Happily, some people are determined to preserve our history and honour our heroes.
I’ve told you this story before, but it’s worth repeating. The loony Left London Borough of Haringey, where the council has been busily renaming streets with ‘racist’ connections, such as Black Boy Lane, cheerfully passed a planning application for a new boozer in Wood Green to be called The Nelson.
Naturally, they assumed this was in honour of Nelson Mandela. When the pub opened they were horrified to see a sign featuring Admiral Horatio over the front door, red, white and blue bunting everywhere and graphic scenes from the Battle of Trafalgar on the walls of the bar.
Trebles all round!
Somehow, I can’t imagine anyone ever naming a boozer after Pixie Balls-Cooper.
