Dear readers, as the TNC inbox is now getting more traffic, we hope to make reader letters a regular feature. Please send your letters (on any subject, and as rude as you like) to letters@thenewconservative.co.uk. Feel free to leave your name and address (although you can send them anonymously should you wish). Here are the best from the past few weeks:
Sir,
I enjoyed Jack Watson’s piece on the woke admonition of Mary Poppins, although I couldn’t help reflecting that if the best the left can do after 60 years is to question the inclusivity of the word ‘Hottentots’, then perhaps their heart isn’t really in the culture war any more.
The 1964 Disney classic centres on an upper-middle class, no doubt conservative-voting family, where the only nod to Diversity, Equity & Inclusivity is the regular insertion of blackface. The cast is shameless with regard to its white privilege, Admiral Boom would be unlikely to pass a health & safety inspection, and it appears that Mr Banks is at the very least guilty of manslaughter by the close of play.
If that isn’t enough to trigger the snowflakes, then Dick Van Dyke’s cold-blooded murder of the English language certainly ought to elicit the cockeyed cockney conclusion: ‘It’s a fair cop, guv’nor!’
David Michaels,
Surrey
Sir,
However shameless his courting of the Muslim vote, George Galloway’s firebrand style of politics coupled with his obvious contempt for the two main parties, can only be good for democracy in the long-term.
With ‘Gaza George’ in situ, the Tories and the Labour Party can no longer pretend not to recognise the dangers of mass, Muslim immigration and its concomitant vote-rigging and intimidation. Not only that, but once in power Keir Starmer may even have to do something about it – now that he’s no longer the beneficiary of such practices.
While I admire Galloway’s obvious gift for oratory and his ready wit, his willingness to sell the country down the river to gain power is extremely worrying. And yet, if he winds up forcing the major parties to recognise the danger he has unleashed, ought we not to feel some sense of gratitude towards him?
Peter Thornton,
Manchester
Sir,
Following the recent news that ‘hate preachers’ are to be refused entry to the UK (after decades of successive administrations rolling out the red carpet for them), is this a sign that the government is finally going to get to grips with Anjem Choudary and his ilk, or merely the economic realisation that while Britain remains woefully dependant on her enemies for trivia like food, energy and doctors, we are now at least self-sufficient in home-grown terrorism?
Mary Chadwick,
Stevenage
Sir,
I am confused. Twenty years ago, after opening the floodgates to ISIS’s finest, Tony Blair outlined a raft of anti-terror measures to deal with Islamic extremism: ‘Let no one be in any doubt, the rules of the game are changing’ he said.
David Cameron set out the government’s strategy to defeat the ‘poison’ of Islamist extremism, and in the aftermath of the Manchester bombing, Theresa May promised to ‘thwart such attacks in future, to take on and defeat the ideology that often fuels this violence’.
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman wrote unequivocally of Britain: ’The truth is that the Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites are in charge now’. Even the cowardly Rishi Sunak has admitted that British democracy is being targeted by Islamists (although naturally he threw in the mythical ‘far-right’ as well, just for balance).
So where on earth has Lee Anderson got the idea that ‘Islamists have got control of Sadiq Khan, and they’ve got control of London’? Perhaps Anderson should go along to one of the peaceful protests in the Capital, to see for himself. I attended a vibrant intifada last Saturday, and must say I thoroughly enjoyed the communal genocide and jihad (although I have to admit the gang-rape got a bit samey after the third hour).
Laura Dennett,
Cornwall
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