Just like the Anglo-Saxons disastrously paying off the Viking marauders with Danegeld, so the National Trust has attempted to do the same with its desperate virtue-signalling. For the last decade, the Trust has fallen on its knees in deference to every fashionable cause. But, again like the Anglo-Saxons with the Vikings, they can never do enough to appease the insatiable demands of the zealots.
The latest eco-craze is for climate activists to hold protests at over 40 National Trust sites this week to stop the charity banking with Barclays because of its links to the fossil fuel industry. The usual suspects – from Extinction Rebellion, Fossil Free London and Christian Climate Action – will once again spoil people’s hard-earned summer holidays across the coming days with ‘creative’ acts of protest, ranging from picnics to parades and musical performances.
In its lily-livered way, the Trust refused to stand up to these latest climate protesters
Sir Simon Jenkins, the former chairman of the Trust – and one of the last senior figures there who really knew about old buildings – said:
These things are so ridiculous and they’re all about posturing and virtue signalling … The National Trust is deeply involved in all forms of conservation and it’s been leading the way in trying to protect the landscape.
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