HISTORY HAS BEEN ERASED AGAIN, AGAIN: The UK is so fragile, so lacking in confidence, that replacing a historical figure on a banknote is enough to bring down the nation.
“This is disgusting” thundered Miles Away, chief satirist at one of the UK’s leading propaganda papers. “Where will it all end? When did England stop celebrating national pride? When did we all forget our rich, rainbow-coloured, and unique heritage? When did the Loony Left decide that actual, real, genuine, history didn’t happen? Why do they have to be so divisive, and use the periodic change in design of ARE British banknotes to REMOVE an old white man and replace him with democratically chosen animals? Why, oh why, oh why do we have to put up with this woke rubbish AGAIN?”
That’s a lot of words to say ‘I don’t like change’.
If we must indulge in a little gratuitous political point scoring, then, in the name of balance, we must point out that the Righteous Right insists on throwing a collective wobbly over the smallest, most insignificant matters, while ignoring actual, real, genuine, current affairs.
Indeed, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse could literally ride into town, and the likes of Miles Away would be moaning because one of them is a woman.
Once again, Mr Away is as precisely wrong as it is possible to be. As with the Moral Panic About Toppling Are Statues (the last time that history was erased), all it has done is to draw attention to our history. Yeah, Churchill did a decent job in difficult times, but we have (mostly) moved on from a war that ended over 80 years ago. Why not celebrate our wildlife – and even Pingu?
Diversity and divisive are only similar in spelling. Their meanings are poles apart.
So to the South Pole, and the last word goes to Pingu: “Maak Maak!”