It is interesting how the Left do not demonstrate in support of the brave people of Iran.
Nor did they demonstrate for the Yazidis when they were being killed, raped and tortured etc., etc., by Isis a few years back. They did not demonstrate for the brave people of Syria during the Assad regime.
They did not demonstrate when Russia invaded Ukraine. It is a constant pattern of behaviour.
How is it explained? Of course the answer is obvious and I don’t need to spell it out!
I am no expert, but I believe it is because Islam and Marxism are near identical religions; both demand absolute obedience to a central governing body, with no dissent allowed, with harsh punishments meted out to those that attempt it. Individual freedom is banned and everybody must follow the rules as laid down by the leaders, and any published material that is likely to question the orthodoxy is banned. Just compare Iran to any of the Soviet Bloc countries for instance; I cannot see a difference.
Makes no sense to me. You'd think the most conservative of all religions would be rejected even more than they reject Christian religions. I can only assume it's the autocratic or authoritarian nature of Islam.
I’m guessing the Jewish MP in the district was not intending to talk about Israel or the Jewish faith. And that visiting the school is part of his position. It seems that the teachers should not have the ability to determine who can walk into the school. In the US we have a principal in every school, and a Superintendent in charge of every district. Since this is an MP, a government official, he probably would have done better to walk into the front door and greet the secretary in the front office, and not request permission from anyone. Unbelievable. I am sorry about the antisemitism that allows teachers to express it so boldly.
He was invited to speak about his journey to becoming an MP. To inspire and encourage the children to be ambitious. His personal views are irrelevant. It's the children who have lost out at the hand of authoritarian ideologues.
For decades now the teaching profession has been lefty.
As Lenin said - give me the child and I'll give you the man.
A short illustrative story -
25 years ago I had a schoolteacher partner. The only socialising we did together was with other schoolteachers. At a social dinner one evening there was discussion on the recently announced 2000 London bankers receiving their £1million annual bonus.
Shock horror! Should be outlawed! Confiscate it!
I respectfully pointed out that this was earned income taxed at 40%. Also those bankers would spend the money and pay VAT at 20%. So the bonuses were already being taxed at 60% - and that tax was what paid teachers salaries, nurses pay etc.
This went down like a lead balloon. Being a natural sh-t stirrer I doubled down, claiming we needed MORE million £ bonuses not less.
I was immediately sent to Coventry and we were not invited to any more teacher social dinners.
Unsurprisingly she and I were not an item much longer.
Perhaps that was something to do with the fact that I am a right winger, former coal miner( went dahn 't pit wi mi Dad) now professionally qualified mining engineer. Thankyou National COAL Board for fantastic academic and practical training.
I think you are brilliant. And yes, it is all down to education - especially evident in our front bench. (Lenin coined the saying from Aristotle and some Jesuit guy).
I am a teacher and have taught for 25 years in the UK. We are not all like that … I have met 2 others in 25 years who are conservative in political views … I have now moved further right.
They screamed in the staffroom for lockdowns that shut schools and then moaned about the effect on students.
They moaned about Brexit and fascist conservative governments that barely tried to control immigration.
They have no idea about the reality of Socialism and Communism in the former Soviet Bloc countries.
I cannot teach anything and give two sides to a subject. Be that climate change, Brexit, migration or the A level subject of regeneration policies. Every subject area has one viewpoint that is acceptable …
I had a comment of “oh god … you voted for Brexit!” when I dared to suggest there were two opinions on the issue. I was then never spoken to again by the Head of History 😂Bothered? Not much 😂
My Politics and Sociology subsidiary courses at Sheffield University for my Geography BA in 1986 were so left wing that we now have this in all schools … state and independent.
Education is now not impartial.
There will need to be a long hard fight to move towards tolerance in our school systems.
My granddaughter in September started a primary teaching role after graduating from University.
Before going, and fortunately, her mother and father like me are on the right, I said to her be mindful of what may happen when you start work, and you could well be pressurised to follow a certain doctrine.
After a few months into the job, she told be there is a concerted effort to get her to fall in line with the left wing doctrine.
This is endemic is many schools, and it needs to be rooted out.
What form can this fight take? Ideology is so firmly embedded in their makeup that it's become an intellectual prop. You can't sack them, and what's much worse, where can you find neutral teachers nowadays?
This is appalling. If my children were still at school I would do my very best to send them to private schools where I would hope that they would be taught to think critically and not be indoctrinated with leftist anti-white and anti-Semitic ideology. Isn’t that one of the reasons the first Labour budget tried to undermine and hopefully close these schools? It certainly didn’t raise revenue to increase teachers in the state sector, who would mostly have the same fixation.
My grandson was at Tonbridge and I was appalled when he announced they were learning "black history". He is now at uni (UCL, leftie) studying anthropology (all lies) and I can see I have a lot of work cut out for me.
I am sure many will dispute the NEU claim (which you seem toi sympathise with, Matt) that teachers are over worked and under paid. As to "struggling with declining wellbeing" the whole country is suffering from that, except new immigrants on benefits.
It ought to be forebidden in teachers' contracts and enforced at schools that balanced non-partisan teaching was the absolute standard to be followed. Any teacher seeking or receiving propaganda from their union or any other source should be on notice that they must take special care in school and any proselytizing will be autoimatic grounds for immediate suspension and likely dismissal.
Opiniuonated teaching is not new. It has been going on for many years, certainly back to the Blair years. No government or education authority seems to have taken any trouble to counter this. One assumes they were OK with it (Tories - were you OK with it?).
You're right, it isn't new. One of the history teachers in my state comprehensive back in the late 70s was the local Labour Party candidate. He used to sit in the history lessons working on his campaign programme while we had to sit there copying pictures out of a cartoon history textbook. We learned no history from him. He also used to push the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in his classes. He was in the wrong job. I don't know what became of him.
The Tories sat back and let it all happen. I am staggered by how ineffective they were. A recommendation sent out here, guidance there, a polite request elsewhere, but never followed through, no one held to account, no law changes and no consequences.
So much for free speech then. Those kids are completely lost; they'll never develop their own minds, they'll never develop critical thinking skills, they'll just be a 'blob' waiting to be spoon-fed their thoughts.
Another step on along the road to cultural and civil collapse. The link between left leaning ideology and Islamism is antisemitism/ authoritarianism.
Many EU countries pushed back against the 'pro gaza' marches by banning them. In the UK it is anti 'pro gaza, free plastercine' who are hauled off by the police for potentially causing a disturbance of the police. Everything is backwards.
A new hope? Things are changing...Reform UK, Restore....Tommy Robinson , Ben Habib. Tousi etc all with large followings.
So much gone wrong, so much to do.....the next election may well be the last chance to change direction...an existential crisis. Guess most on this sub stack realise this.
This has to be yet another low point in this country. I can't believe it. More than condemnation is required. Both sides of any argument should always be presented objectively so that people can make up their own minds - this develops critical thinking - something sadly lacking in the teaching profession today.
I wish schools would get back to transmitting information, skills and literature and teaching kids how to use the English language accurately. In my view there's not much point trying to be a critical thinker until you have background knowledge and the ability to express yourself clearly.
Superb post. Indoctrination 101 is going on in our education system and in our era of ‘no debate’ some of our educators have become leftist activists and agitators. And I thought the aim of education was to give our young people the tools to help them think for themselves!
When I read 'The local Palestine Solidarity Campaign celebrated the cancellation as a “victory” and declared that politicians who support Israel are “not welcome in our schools”' I was a bit surprised as the school in question, Bristol Brunel Academy, is a state secondary. As state schools are owned by local authorities or charities and funded through the UK tax system it is a tax-payers' school, not one belonging to PSC. As a tax-payer I request that all staff at the school who were involved with this absurd decision be disciplined, at the very least.
Another excellent article, thank you Matt. We are in so much trouble. it seems all our institutions have been captured and need a reset, but ideological capture of young minds will have vicious hard to repair consequences.
Matt you need to be in charge of creating Reform's policies.
We had Mike Freer a sitting MP forced to resign through mob pressure for supporting his Jewish constituents.
Did you see the Telegraph article this morning? 76% reform, 79% Cons think citizenship is a privilege that can be revoked for bad behaviour or crimes? Thinking about your last article.
Did you see Connor T latest vid explaining how in schools children get referred to Prevent, he showed the video, for basically having questions about the merit of legal and illegal immigration. Worth a look Matt, more indoctrination or suppression of free speech/thoughts.
There was another poll showing how ethnicity mattered for Britishness among 70-80% Reform voters, can't remember where i saw it.
We really need children to be left alone in their early years, taught to debate when they are older and taught to respect free speech, or decent courtesy when opinions differ to be normalised again, not violent mob behaviour.
Unfortunately there are far too many woke wet wipes out there in most of our institutions. Naive, ignorant, gullible virtue signallers, especially Greens who haven’t got a clue about what is really happening and suck it all up from the guardian.
The NHS is probably an even bigger hotbed of these sick people.
It is interesting how the Left do not demonstrate in support of the brave people of Iran.
Nor did they demonstrate for the Yazidis when they were being killed, raped and tortured etc., etc., by Isis a few years back. They did not demonstrate for the brave people of Syria during the Assad regime.
They did not demonstrate when Russia invaded Ukraine. It is a constant pattern of behaviour.
How is it explained? Of course the answer is obvious and I don’t need to spell it out!
I will: the Left love Islam and refuse to criticize it, and conversely it hates Judaeism. End of story.
Why does Islam appeal to lefties? It seems to be a murderous ideology. When did it start to appeal to them...and why?
Hi Carolyn,
I am no expert, but I believe it is because Islam and Marxism are near identical religions; both demand absolute obedience to a central governing body, with no dissent allowed, with harsh punishments meted out to those that attempt it. Individual freedom is banned and everybody must follow the rules as laid down by the leaders, and any published material that is likely to question the orthodoxy is banned. Just compare Iran to any of the Soviet Bloc countries for instance; I cannot see a difference.
Makes no sense to me. You'd think the most conservative of all religions would be rejected even more than they reject Christian religions. I can only assume it's the autocratic or authoritarian nature of Islam.
Jews. They hate Jews. Calling it Judaism makes it justifiable.
I’m guessing the Jewish MP in the district was not intending to talk about Israel or the Jewish faith. And that visiting the school is part of his position. It seems that the teachers should not have the ability to determine who can walk into the school. In the US we have a principal in every school, and a Superintendent in charge of every district. Since this is an MP, a government official, he probably would have done better to walk into the front door and greet the secretary in the front office, and not request permission from anyone. Unbelievable. I am sorry about the antisemitism that allows teachers to express it so boldly.
He was invited to speak about his journey to becoming an MP. To inspire and encourage the children to be ambitious. His personal views are irrelevant. It's the children who have lost out at the hand of authoritarian ideologues.
So the teachers canceled the invitation when he arrived? Impolite antisemites. SMH
Spot on yet again Matt.
For decades now the teaching profession has been lefty.
As Lenin said - give me the child and I'll give you the man.
A short illustrative story -
25 years ago I had a schoolteacher partner. The only socialising we did together was with other schoolteachers. At a social dinner one evening there was discussion on the recently announced 2000 London bankers receiving their £1million annual bonus.
Shock horror! Should be outlawed! Confiscate it!
I respectfully pointed out that this was earned income taxed at 40%. Also those bankers would spend the money and pay VAT at 20%. So the bonuses were already being taxed at 60% - and that tax was what paid teachers salaries, nurses pay etc.
This went down like a lead balloon. Being a natural sh-t stirrer I doubled down, claiming we needed MORE million £ bonuses not less.
I was immediately sent to Coventry and we were not invited to any more teacher social dinners.
Unsurprisingly she and I were not an item much longer.
Perhaps that was something to do with the fact that I am a right winger, former coal miner( went dahn 't pit wi mi Dad) now professionally qualified mining engineer. Thankyou National COAL Board for fantastic academic and practical training.
I think you are brilliant. And yes, it is all down to education - especially evident in our front bench. (Lenin coined the saying from Aristotle and some Jesuit guy).
👏
Those ‘teachers’ should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves
They won’t, and frankly whether they feel ashamed or not is immaterial: they must be sacked.
Sack them? You'll be lucky.
They should! But they are not.
I am a teacher and have taught for 25 years in the UK. We are not all like that … I have met 2 others in 25 years who are conservative in political views … I have now moved further right.
They screamed in the staffroom for lockdowns that shut schools and then moaned about the effect on students.
They moaned about Brexit and fascist conservative governments that barely tried to control immigration.
They have no idea about the reality of Socialism and Communism in the former Soviet Bloc countries.
I cannot teach anything and give two sides to a subject. Be that climate change, Brexit, migration or the A level subject of regeneration policies. Every subject area has one viewpoint that is acceptable …
I had a comment of “oh god … you voted for Brexit!” when I dared to suggest there were two opinions on the issue. I was then never spoken to again by the Head of History 😂Bothered? Not much 😂
My Politics and Sociology subsidiary courses at Sheffield University for my Geography BA in 1986 were so left wing that we now have this in all schools … state and independent.
Education is now not impartial.
There will need to be a long hard fight to move towards tolerance in our school systems.
My granddaughter in September started a primary teaching role after graduating from University.
Before going, and fortunately, her mother and father like me are on the right, I said to her be mindful of what may happen when you start work, and you could well be pressurised to follow a certain doctrine.
After a few months into the job, she told be there is a concerted effort to get her to fall in line with the left wing doctrine.
This is endemic is many schools, and it needs to be rooted out.
How?
Just fellow teachers trying to see where her loyalties lie. Clearly cajoling her to follow their ideology.
Frightening insight into our education system!
What form can this fight take? Ideology is so firmly embedded in their makeup that it's become an intellectual prop. You can't sack them, and what's much worse, where can you find neutral teachers nowadays?
There are some … but you cannot criticise the mainstream view. But, many who consider they are neutral are actually not when you listen to them.
Boat will not be rocked because of (howls from teachers incoming 😂) good salary, nice holidays and the pension.
This is appalling. If my children were still at school I would do my very best to send them to private schools where I would hope that they would be taught to think critically and not be indoctrinated with leftist anti-white and anti-Semitic ideology. Isn’t that one of the reasons the first Labour budget tried to undermine and hopefully close these schools? It certainly didn’t raise revenue to increase teachers in the state sector, who would mostly have the same fixation.
My grandson was at Tonbridge and I was appalled when he announced they were learning "black history". He is now at uni (UCL, leftie) studying anthropology (all lies) and I can see I have a lot of work cut out for me.
Bon courage!
Merci!
They are no better!
I am sure many will dispute the NEU claim (which you seem toi sympathise with, Matt) that teachers are over worked and under paid. As to "struggling with declining wellbeing" the whole country is suffering from that, except new immigrants on benefits.
It ought to be forebidden in teachers' contracts and enforced at schools that balanced non-partisan teaching was the absolute standard to be followed. Any teacher seeking or receiving propaganda from their union or any other source should be on notice that they must take special care in school and any proselytizing will be autoimatic grounds for immediate suspension and likely dismissal.
Opiniuonated teaching is not new. It has been going on for many years, certainly back to the Blair years. No government or education authority seems to have taken any trouble to counter this. One assumes they were OK with it (Tories - were you OK with it?).
Couldn't agree more. As you say, hopeful developments but so much to do.
You're right, it isn't new. One of the history teachers in my state comprehensive back in the late 70s was the local Labour Party candidate. He used to sit in the history lessons working on his campaign programme while we had to sit there copying pictures out of a cartoon history textbook. We learned no history from him. He also used to push the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in his classes. He was in the wrong job. I don't know what became of him.
The Tories sat back and let it all happen. I am staggered by how ineffective they were. A recommendation sent out here, guidance there, a polite request elsewhere, but never followed through, no one held to account, no law changes and no consequences.
So let me get this right:
* antisemitic
* support a pan-Arab state in the Levant but not a Jewish state.
Got it! Teachers are actually Nazis.
I hope the parents at the school raise a complaint.
Apparently some of the parents were joining in with the lynch mob.
So much for free speech then. Those kids are completely lost; they'll never develop their own minds, they'll never develop critical thinking skills, they'll just be a 'blob' waiting to be spoon-fed their thoughts.
Yes. They are being programmed. It bodes ill for the future.
... and become the left's ideal electorate.
Exactly. As planned.
It's Bristol.
It's full of the Far Left.
Yes! I have cousin there. A Far Left Educationalist and his wife who worked for the Labour Party and loved Tony Blair. Is all Bristol like this?
Not all, but much of it!
Pointless. All brainwashed permanently
It's emotional. Not intellectual. Early Christians went to the lions for the same reason.
How did it come to this?
Another step on along the road to cultural and civil collapse. The link between left leaning ideology and Islamism is antisemitism/ authoritarianism.
Many EU countries pushed back against the 'pro gaza' marches by banning them. In the UK it is anti 'pro gaza, free plastercine' who are hauled off by the police for potentially causing a disturbance of the police. Everything is backwards.
A new hope? Things are changing...Reform UK, Restore....Tommy Robinson , Ben Habib. Tousi etc all with large followings.
So much gone wrong, so much to do.....the next election may well be the last chance to change direction...an existential crisis. Guess most on this sub stack realise this.
Best wishes Matt, All
Keep pushing back.
This has to be yet another low point in this country. I can't believe it. More than condemnation is required. Both sides of any argument should always be presented objectively so that people can make up their own minds - this develops critical thinking - something sadly lacking in the teaching profession today.
I wish schools would get back to transmitting information, skills and literature and teaching kids how to use the English language accurately. In my view there's not much point trying to be a critical thinker until you have background knowledge and the ability to express yourself clearly.
Superb post. Indoctrination 101 is going on in our education system and in our era of ‘no debate’ some of our educators have become leftist activists and agitators. And I thought the aim of education was to give our young people the tools to help them think for themselves!
When I read 'The local Palestine Solidarity Campaign celebrated the cancellation as a “victory” and declared that politicians who support Israel are “not welcome in our schools”' I was a bit surprised as the school in question, Bristol Brunel Academy, is a state secondary. As state schools are owned by local authorities or charities and funded through the UK tax system it is a tax-payers' school, not one belonging to PSC. As a tax-payer I request that all staff at the school who were involved with this absurd decision be disciplined, at the very least.
Dream on.
Charge these teachers with misconduct in public office?
Another excellent article, thank you Matt. We are in so much trouble. it seems all our institutions have been captured and need a reset, but ideological capture of young minds will have vicious hard to repair consequences.
Matt you need to be in charge of creating Reform's policies.
We had Mike Freer a sitting MP forced to resign through mob pressure for supporting his Jewish constituents.
Did you see the Telegraph article this morning? 76% reform, 79% Cons think citizenship is a privilege that can be revoked for bad behaviour or crimes? Thinking about your last article.
Did you see Connor T latest vid explaining how in schools children get referred to Prevent, he showed the video, for basically having questions about the merit of legal and illegal immigration. Worth a look Matt, more indoctrination or suppression of free speech/thoughts.
There was another poll showing how ethnicity mattered for Britishness among 70-80% Reform voters, can't remember where i saw it.
We really need children to be left alone in their early years, taught to debate when they are older and taught to respect free speech, or decent courtesy when opinions differ to be normalised again, not violent mob behaviour.
The Marxist, communist dream,
Parental control taken away, brainwashing, propaganda and trans filth wherever possible.
Exactly what Labour wants.
Unfortunately there are far too many woke wet wipes out there in most of our institutions. Naive, ignorant, gullible virtue signallers, especially Greens who haven’t got a clue about what is really happening and suck it all up from the guardian.
The NHS is probably an even bigger hotbed of these sick people.
God help this country and our children.
Shocking