Posted on 04/19/2025 8:34:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The UK’s largest teaching union has called Reform UK “far-right and racist” and its leader has dismissed Nigel Farage as “a poundshop Donald Trump,” as the union pledged funds to oppose the party’s candidates in elections.
Delegates to the National Education Union’s annual conference backed a motion stating that “far-right and racist organisations, including Reform, seek to build on the despair, poverty and alienation in our society by scapegoating refugees, asylum seekers, Muslims, Jews and others who do not fit their beliefs”.
The motion also committed the NEU to use its political fund for campaigns against Reform election candidates and to support the union’s branches in local activity.
Speakers in favour of the motion argued that some Reform UK candidates and activists “have been former members of fascist organisations or espoused their views” as justification.
Kathryn Norouzi, an NEU delegate from Nottingham, said: “That’s why we must call this party out for what it is, a racist party, and we must campaign against them. [Their policies] are designed to incite fear and division.
“As a union we must have the courage and clarity to oppose them. And we must be willing to use our political fund, the very fund created specifically to persuade people not to vote for political parties and their candidates who promote racist, fascist or similar views, to do just that.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
When the world changes and goes insane, traditionalists get labeled racists and fascists for wanting to preserve their culture from immigrants and elitists. Unfortunately, restoring sanity likely requires breaking a few eggs. It won’t be pretty.
I always thought you needed 1500 hrs of documented flight time to be hired as a professional airline pilot.
I wouldn’t expect anything else from a Marxist teachers’ union and a Marxist rag.
By giving air to this without comment implies you agree with them?
teachers union aka workers party
As opposed to the far left teacher union?
If refugees have criminal organizations and you complain about the crime, in the UK that appears to be “scapegoating.”
I don't know that much about Reform UK, but I'd guess the "UK's largest teaching union" has it pretty much backwards.
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