During the Presidential election campaign of 2024, aides to Donald Trump ran into an unexpected problem. They wanted to tell voters about the maddest things that Kamala Harris, and her fellow Democrats, had said and done. Unfortunately, many of these things were so outlandishly absurd (for example, Harris’s view that the US taxpayer should fund “gender-affirming surgery” for illegal immigrants), many voters assumed that Trump’s team had made them up.
“When you outline the Democratic agenda,” sighed one Republican, “you have to water it down, because in both polling and focus groups, people just don’t believe it…”
I fear that we’re now facing a similar problem in Britain. After all, who on earth would believe that a Green Party councillor in East Sussex is getting her own grandchildren to give Valentine’s cards to the grown men housed in a local camp for asylum seekers?
It sounds far too ridiculous to be true. And yet here, in her own words, is Cllr Anne Cross, speaking at a recent council meeting. “My grandchildren and I painted some cards – Valentine’s cards – at the weekend, which we are going to be presenting to the men in the camp in Crowborough as a welcome…”
All I can say is, times have clearly changed. When I was a child, we were strictly instructed never to talk to strange men. We certainly weren’t encouraged to present them with home-made greetings cards covered in love hearts.
Still, perhaps my parents’ generation was wrong, and we should have been more inclusive of strange men. How cruel, hateful and prejudiced it was, to assume that they posed some kind of danger to children. Why, they only wanted to give us some sweeties. And to take us to see the puppies they said they kept in the back of their vans....<<<Read More>>>...
