Targeting the National Trust is a bad political move for any Tory leader 🔵 Many Conservatives who don’t agree with Liz Truss are conservationists ✍️ Simon_Kelner for ipaperviews
While much of the population is worrying about paying household bills, and national politics appears to be in perpetual crisis, it is not easy to focus public attention on the threat to the common vole. Which is why we should be grateful to Ms McGrady for turning a spotlight on the deeply important matter of conservation.
Ms McGrady is not given to hyperbole. The culture wars have come right to her doorstep, but the director-general of the National Trust has been conspicuous in her even-handed and proportionate reactions. After being vilified for commissioning a report to investigate which of the Trust’s properties had historic links with slavery, she generously responded that her discomfort “comes with the territory” and that the author of the report “had a much harder time” than she had.
She was a target for the most virulent anti-woke sentiment, but her answer was to engage her adversaries in constructive debate, and what could have been a crisis for the Trust was averted. So, we should take notice of her immoderate language now. As far as we know, Ms McGrady is not a politically-inspired rabble-rouser, but even she issued a thinly-veiled threat to mobilise the organisation’s 5.
Other mild-mannered, nature-minded charities such as the RSPB and the Woodland Trust have also expressed their grave concern about the government’s intentions, while former PM William Hague wrote an op-ed last week in which he reminded the Truss administration that Conservatism “at its best should be based on stewardship, thought for the long term, encouraging the care that comes with ownership and providing a strong inheritance for future generations.
Hague is right, but his considered words are in contrast to the language of division, which is once again employed to identify a nuanced discussion of policy. There is no such thing as an “anti-growth coalition”, whose seditious intent is marshalled by the BBC, as was suggested by a Conservative peer at the weekend. There are just people who don’t agree with what Liz Truss and her government are doing.
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