This latest effort to ‘make Britain great again’ is simply a lazy attempt to distract us from the chaos, writes Giles Sheldrick.
Lisa Nandy has announced the new project (Image: Getty)
There hasn’t been much to smile, let alone laugh about, during the 19 months of punishment inflicted on Britain by this deficient government.
Yet we can always rely on the army of civil service pen pushers slavishly pumping out propaganda to brighten our days during this darkest of chapters for Britain.
As Labour pushes the country towards the precipice GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES BUMPER £1.5 BILLION PACKAGE TO RESTORE NATIONAL PRIDE screamed a press release churned out by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
The timing could not have been better, or worse, depending on your perspective.
As Labour tears itself – and the country – apart through a web of lies, betrayal, scandal and civil war, those who pretend all is fine and dandy carry on regardless in an effort to distract from the dog’s breakfast of this inadequate administration.
And they really are having a laugh at our expense.
Labour’s idea of tackling the destructive and deepening cost of living crisis is not to scrap its unpopular and virtue-signalling net zero programme, or to help struggling businesses on deserted high streets strangled by successive rate rises, but to invest £1.5 billion in “treasured cultural venues” which will “restore pride and national renewal”.
Yes, seriously.
According to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, throwing more money at museums will, er, make Britain great again.
What a load of piffle. What next? Appoint Peter Mandelson as Minister for Morality?
Keir Starmer wants to champion old relics in a bid to restore national pride (Image: Getty)
But there’s more. In an attempted piece of brainwashing Ms Nandy said: “At a time when forces seek to divide us, arts, culture and heritage are what bind us together.”
And this from a government whose ineptitude has done much to diverge the country.
No one would seriously suggest Britain’s rich and varied culture, including museums, do not play an important role. Of course they do.
But this shameless piece of spin takes the biscuit.
Ms Nandy has a brass neck.
Only a couple of months ago she was found to have breached the governance code on public appointments after picking David Kogan as chairman of the Independent Football Regulator.
Conveniently she failed to declare he had previously donated to her Labour leadership campaign in her failed bid to replace Jeremy Corbyn in 2020.
And the Department for Culture, Media and Sport forgot to mention Kogan’s links to the Labour Party.
Labour is now so detached from reality that it thinks changing light bulbs and giving museums a lick of paint is enough to distract from the chaos, mess, confusion and muddle of a government that is causing more harm with each passing day.
National pride? From a government that is responsible for welfare spending increasing to £389.4 billion by 2029/30.
Ask most people struggling amid the chaos how to restore national pride and they would probably suggest putting Keir Starmer in a museum and calling a general election.
