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A group of 22 Tory bigwigs are making a noise about ‘liberals rewriting our history in their image’ and blaming ‘cultural Marxism.’ BEN COWLES takes a look
Sir John Hayes (left) and 22 other Tory MPs and lords wrote a letter in The Telegraph last week spreading the ‘cultural Marxism’ conspiracy theory, which echoes many of the same ideas as Joseph Goebbels (right, centre) and the Nazi's Cultural Bolshevism conspiracy theory
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A GROUP of 22 Tory MPs and lords, describing themselves as the Common Sense Group, took to the letters pages of The Telegraph last week to rail against “powerful, privileged liberals rewriting our history in their image.”
How dare the snowflakes at the National Trust “implicitly tarnish one of Britain’s greatest sons,” Winston “gas-the-natives” Churchill, “by linking his family home with slavery and colonialism,” the 22 wrote in the billionaire Barclay brothers’ newspaper.
How could the social justice warriors at the National Maritime Museum cave into the PC brigade by promising to provide “multiple perspectives on history,” the letter cries, before going on to praise the “chairman [sic] of the Charity Commission, Baroness Stowell,” for reminding charities to stay out of politics.
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