The truth is, the nation simply can’t trust the National Trust, says Emma Webb

The truth is, the nation simply can’t trust the National Trust, says Emma Webb
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[@janetpigram3615]

Think I'll give up supporting the national trust

[@pincermovement72]

I did when they started getting political 10 years ago .

[@arthurmackrell8154]

I did when they forced their Volunteers to wear rainbow badges or not work for them.

[@colinstewart1432]

Good for you.

[@janepearson5802]

These countries can have the artifacts back when they take their migrants back .

[@Mike-tb5gj]

If only........

[@chazsach6594]

I'll second that.

[@Mike-tb5gj]

@James Evans ??

[@dread4836]

nice one

[@billytollerton4220]

Well said.

[@janeneal674]

Isn’t it supposed to be the NATIONAL trust - not international?!

[@luisbustamante9869]

Britain cannot live in isolation. We have waken up from the Brexit dream to find out that it was its role in the international community that made Britain great.

[@jamiemcnally4851]

National distrust

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

National bust.

[@kittyroo9294]

This madness has to stop, every European country has contested objects, but you will never see the French giving back the Mona Lisa. They have got more sense.

[@hetrodoxly1203]

Or Venus de Milo - Aphrodite, The Winged Victory of Samothrace, these weren't bought or given, the Greeks fought the French with over 200 dying trying to stop the French taking them.

[@backintimealwyn5736]

the mona lisa belongs to france, it was painted in france when da Vinci was a political refugee here, he offered it to François 1er. italy has no claim on it, . Macron gave back many african artefacts the last 10 years. He launched the trend.

[@backintimealwyn5736]

@@hetrodoxly1203 we'll give them back , when you give greece back to us. It ours. as your sister, mine.

[@phillipstroll7385]

It is ridiculous. Cucumbers originated in Africa. Should the rest of the world no longer be able to eat a cucumber? These people are mentally ill and hell bent on destroying all of human society

[@me38443]

I have not trusted the National Trust for years having had bad experiences with them on legal matters.

[@Coneman3]

Doesn’t surprise me. Asked to scatter ashes at one of their properties and they want a £75 donation 🤬

[@Maugirl2]

The silly thing is, if this stuff had been left in situ, much of it wouldn’t even exist today at all.

[@banginghats2]

Yes, weren't the Turkish (Ottoman) rulers using the the Parthenon statues and marbles as target practice with their guns? Lord Elgin asked the sultan if he could take them away for safekeeping and the sultan agreed.

[@luisbustamante9869]

Trust me. Some other colonial scavenger would have taken it up.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

@@luisbustamante9869 Why should anyone trust you? Moreover, what did Elgin do wrong? How is his rescuing of fifth century B.C. Greek sculptures which were in imminent danger of destruction 'scavenging?'

[@dotdashdotdash]

J(ust look at what ISIS did to Sumerian and Babylonian artefacts in Iraq. They blew them up)

[@luisbustamante9869]

@@dotdashdotdash And look at what the American-British coalition did to the whole country. They fu***d it up. Partners.

[@user-bc7nx3mm8z]

We live in an age where our youth are taught to be ashamed of our history and ancestors...this 'wokism' has taken hold in all aspects of modern culture and spells the end of 'historically taught history' preserved in museums...this is just the tip of the iceberg 😩

[@alexedwards6509]

People need to start calling woke for what it is. Cultural Marxism. Critical theory. Use any means to under-mine a society by constant criticism. A career criminal dies in the USA and suddenly UK is racist

[@soothsayer1964]

The teachers of that nonsense need silencing.

[@luisbustamante9869]

"Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave." Wokism is an invention of the ruling oligarchs to start culture wars among the people. Their media, especially channels like this one, plant negative story after story to make people fell bad about themselves and destroy their self esteem.

[@mythtree6348]

better that they are taught a bit of humility than that they get the hell bashed out of them later tho. you can kind of see why we have to tone it down now. We earned our supremacy and then we lost it..

[@PamelaD963]

Just wait till the books go and all that’s left is the internet . Fahrenheit 451

[@jamesmc1272]

Very Good piece, These people have been taught to hate England in schools and universities.

[@luisbustamante9869]

That's actually not true. Teacher training and rules prevent this. Either you are trying to mislead us or you have been gaslighted by the MSM. Channels like this one are in the business of making people hate themselves and their country.

[@simonstones1918]

But everyone comes here….for the freebies!

[@littleladyd1009]

Those museum curators should be arrested & held accountable for theft!!!

[@kevinparker461]

Or, go missing never to be found again!.

[@1669Python]

This QUANGO needs massive reform.

[@SB-dg8hq]

There was a time when I was considering joining the National Trust, however seeing how they have behaved over the last ten years, no way!

[@lawrenceholden5716]

Cancelled my long standing membership for same reason.

[@tenniskinsella7768]

Sb I was a member of the national Trust when it normal but for some reason thry coulnt get the subscription out of my direct debit lapsed I didn't renew because how woke they have become

[@SB-dg8hq]

@@tenniskinsella7768 it's a shame really, the National Trust was a National treasure but because of the personal ideology of the management team its something to avoid.

[@rtk3543]

I gave up my woke National Trust membership a couple of years ago for this very reason. Its a shame as the do great work looking after historic properties, they have become too politicised and cannot be trusted with our heritage.

[@virginiatushman3240]

Follow the money. Check the offshore bank accounts of those in charge. Power corrupts people.

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

All roads lead to China in my view.

[@russellpickering1990]

Let's return everything back that isn't from the British Isles Could that be applied to people?

[@rafezetter8003]

Tricky - where exactly do you draw the line? everything post 1945 - post 1700, Post 1066? Everything post 55 BC (roman invasion)....... United Kingdom is a nation made up of other nations, the Scots and Welsh too - the welsh langauge may have survived in a lesser form but the PEOPLE, thier DNA will show Vikings, saxons, roman and on and on.

[@ThisIsWhyWeFight]

@@rafezetter8003 non Europeans have no right to be here, nor did they help build our countries. Just today another ‘asylum seeker’ went on a knife rampage. They hate us and it’s time we accepted they want us dead. Repatriate them all and protect our own.

[@BlueSteel331]

If ancient artefacts had not been kept safe in British museums they would not now exist today and been long since destroyed = this negates the demand they be returned to their country of origin.

[@timwingham8952]

Well said.

[@Mike-tb5gj]

They would end up being sold and re-sold. The historical value would not be considered by many other nations......this is another thing that makes us a little more advanced....

[@robertjones3613]

@@Mike-tb5gj The artefacts will end up in the houses of the despots who demand such artefacts be returned.

[@Mike-tb5gj]

@@robertjones3613 I agree. The example of the Benin bronzes was mentioned....give back, on the guarantee they would be put on display, then ended up in the King's palace!!

[@jasonallen9144]

The Germans British and French between them rediscovered ancient Egypt. Without them there wouldn’t be an Egyptology . We wouldn’t know about them at all. The Egyptians never showed any interest in their past.

[@Han_Shot_1st]

"Naive guilt ridden curators", not naive. Malicious. Naively implies a lack of awareness and an innocence as to their actions.. there are neither. They know exactly what they're doing.

[@lewislee9201]

You're right. They hate their own country. As such they are unfit to be left in charge of its treasures.

[@jemmajames6719]

The National Trust is supposed to be just that, how sad our country is becoming and they are too dim to realise.

[@lawrenceholden5716]

Yes, trusted custodians of the country's heritage, not woke interferers with history.

[@banginghats2]

I'm finding it hard to actually think of a British institution that hasn't been captured by Marxists/leftists.

[@scotmacc]

Close the National Trust.

[@jemmajames6719]

@@Cantbearsed447 Then your not from the UK, it is our heritage, our culture we should be proud and demand it’s protected warts and all.

[@mikeagate]

Any curator working in a 'national funded' museum should be charged with THEFT if he/she gives away any of the overseas artefacts! They are salaried employees not owners!

[@lordveteran9126]

We are being emptied out.... we have been sold out...

[@luisbustamante9869]

It's the oligarchs' MSM and channels like this that are in the business of destroying British people's self esteem and turn them into right wing zombies.

[@loolfactorie]

Interesting. It's incredibly interesting how all these things seem to happen well outside the judgement and hands of the general populace and all seems to be heading in one direction.

[@macmachine]

Visited Brodick Castle on Arran this week. Every beautiful item was described as being the results of colonial invasion. Destroyed the enjoyment. We just left.

[@markshrimpton3138]

Every castle in the British Isles stands as a monument to someone’s oppression of others. Perhaps we should just raze them all to the ground. I know Brodick Castle well, my wife being born there and my late father-in-law starting his working life as a boy gardener. I never for one moment saw him as a colonist.

[@macmachine]

@@markshrimpton3138 Well, give it a visit and read the subs on the items.

[@markshrimpton3138]

@@macmachine I’ve been to Brodick Castle many times. My wife was born on Arran, her father and grandfather worked on the estate.

[@TheNightBadger]

'Colonialism' has become a buzzword. Just like 'far-right'. People use them rather than think, and the words remove any need for nuance, which is necessary to contextualise and understand all history - good and bad.

[@markshrimpton3138]

@@TheNightBadger agree with you entirely.

[@daniel-thompson210]

Emma, voice of reason in a chaotic world

[@sbor2020]

The Voice of Disney and the Voice of the oil-funded libertarian lobby group - the Institute of Economic Affairs? What does the IEA want to from the N.T.? Maybe it could be the removal of environmental protections on its 250,000 hectares (620,000 acres) of property might deliver the Policy Exchange’s ExxonMobil backers a planet-choking, Rosebank-sized oilfield, still hidden underneath the Kinwarton Dovecote?

[@hectorshouse7348]

There’s no way around it…the enemy is within, and they’re everywhere you look, and they’re in key positions! You’re being attacked on all fronts, treat everything they do with with deep suspicion

[@andrewturner8491]

British history needs to be taught much better in our schools

[@stevew1669]

Emma, this is brilliant. Thank you so much for drawing this to our attention.

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

If these artefacts are being returned like this, I hope the recipients are paying a suitable amount for the care, restoration and storage of these items. Had they not been in the museums, would they actually still exist?

[@maryskelcher8979]

Many objects were gifted to the National Trust for the public to see. They are not theirs to just 'give away"

[@matthewjames1114]

A lot of these items will probably just disappear now due to the corruption in poor countries.

[@michaelwalker1145]

They were on the market before they hit the runway of the country claiming them.

[@wanhunglowmedicalcondition1038]

They want their artifacts back but not their criminals back.

[@mariakovacs9867]

That's right! You cannot trust the National Trust. So, how to fix this?

[@johnrawlins6147]

Stop all overseas aid , and stop museums from being a law unto themselves

[@anchorface9671]

Can we repatriate their people too?

[@pduffy421]

If only! And we're owed hundreds of billions in compensation for all the benefits and crimes they've caused.

[@somethinglikeanonymous1773]

@@pduffy421 who? Indians? I thought you lot like Indians.

[@gary8306]

@@somethinglikeanonymous1773 nah, all of them.

[@gary8306]

Are citizens considered as artifacts, cause we have a few million they can have back with great pleasure. Thankyou. Well said young lady.

[@luigibaily5863]

Thank goodness for your stand.I know we are all going to Hell in a Ferrari but I didn’t think we would be overtaken by the National Trust. Our apathy is greasing the slope to cultural oblivion.

[@mataform]

I joined Restore and the national trust so I could vote the buggers out. It cost me £70 for the year just so I could try and vote the good people in and get our heritage protected. We need more folk to join then vote them off the board.

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

That sounds fair…..return everything……and everyone to their homeland.

[@markshrimpton3138]

I especially like and agree with the last part of your suggestion.

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

Aye there's a logic there, repatriate the lot.

[@gailcrowe727]

This is disgraceful, my husband’s uncle spent 4 years in a Japanese camp and his health never recovered from it for the rest of his life, eventually he died as a result of this. The National Trust are a disgrace and should be done away with.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

I haven't been to a museum in decades and none of my children have ever been to a museum. They can have their artifacts back after they accept all their former residents.

[@peterbarkworth951]

Let's give the National Trust away too and save some money.

[@Aethelred]

We're at the back end of our empire, sad as it is. Our wonderful country is dying.

[@soothsayer1964]

Brought down from within. Generation Z will be despised for all eternity.

[@ThisIsWhyWeFight]

No, it’s being murdered. Look into who is behind open borders, social depravity and economic woes. You’ll find a common problem.

[@billuk1413]

Can we have back our railways, law, civic buildings and sanitation systems we left in those countries.

[@garypautard1069]

Well said Emma.

[@jasonuren3479]

Let's completely obliterate every event in history shall we? Would that keep these types happy? Because i don't think even that would be enough. Edit: They'll be openly advocating for year zero next.

[@williamanderson8932]

Beautiful Emma ❤.❤.❤.

[@stermindelves4251]

Ahh The National Trust. Where the little people pay to help a rich person live somewhere they can no longer afford.

[@ObiePaddles]

Brilliant episode. The Japanese Flag story is ridiculous. Returning a flag then to aggressors that started a war, killed 30 million plus, treated captives like $hit and made prostitutes of captured women? Then the allies helped rebuild the country (and Germany too). We should be getting the apology.

[@philhawley1219]

I recently applied for a job with the National Trust. A letter came to me with the NT logo defaced with a queer rainbow design and the writer of this letter concluded with preferred pronouns under the signature. Needless to say it immediately ended up in the fireplace.

[@MacKenziePoet]

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Emma Webb brings it home each and every time.

[@andrewthomas405]

The national trust is MEARLY a manager for the BRITISH NATION not the owners…… Managers can be sacked

[@johngraves2755]

Where's Neil? it's a history lesson.......

[@jasonuren3479]

Not for much longer if the people behind it get their way

[@kafkastrial8650]

I Would Call this asset stripping !

[@maisie2802]

Thankyou. An important topic to discuss.

[@steveharmon6440]

The inmates are running the asylum. We are living in a clown world.

[@philipwilkes2780]

Extremely well said!

[@billysanderson4020]

I wonder if the curators have any understanding of history. It would be grotesque to return Benin bronzes as they were taken from slave traders who murdered thousands as human sacrifices.

[@banginghats2]

They seem to hate our history and want to use it as a weapon against us.

[@larrybuchannan186]

you guys sold 3 million africans into slavery and you murdered plenty of people in india, ireland, kenya, south africa, jamaica, etc britain was a massive warcrmnl

[@alanhill4334]

The National Trust should have their charter (or whatever it is ) removed.

[@stephenrichards5386]

Time to defund the national trust

[@timwright5466]

The national trust cannot be defunded as its a charity and has no government funding .but people could simply not pay their membership I guess if they so choose

[@altvamp]

Can you trust anything that starts with National?

[@sharonreichter2537]

Thank you Emma. I studied the Benin Bronzes and you are quite right. There is so much that gets left out when trying to justify the return of them.

[@andrewcox2810]

National Not Trust.

[@colinlawless5654]

Trust also has foreign influence. We must stop this and wake up.

[@arthurmackrell8154]

People have given so much to the NT over the years, no-one has expected them to give stuff away behind their backs. We gave up our NT Membership when the NT TOLD all their Volunteers to wear Rainbow Badges. If they didn't they were not allowed to meet with the public again. That was disgusting treatment of Volunteers, so we resigned, no more money from us.

[@garypowell1540]

My advice is to immediately stop giving to ALL established charities most especially any that advertise in the press, or on either TV or radio, or are promoted by the BBC. Save the cash and give it to either an individual or a local charity of which you know much, preferably towards a project which is involved in the purchase of a particular object or piece of equipment so that you can physically see what the money has been spent on. This is precisely what we do in Freemasonry or try very hard to do anyway. We know only too well the pitfalls of giving to charity as we have been at it for hundreds of years. If you fail to perform due diligence, then expect to be completely ripped off. Most charities are no more than self-perpetuating scams where only a tiny percentage of the money ever gets anywhere near where it is supposed to go, while most of what does causes more evil than any good, especially when it comes to the 3rd world. Misplaced charity can and often does create the worst possible outcomes. Charity may make the giver feel more self-righteous but these idiots rarely have to deal with the consequences of their stupidity, gullibility, or laziness. However, horrendously bad the results of mindlessly giving to established charities can be, only the devil himself could have imagined how bad being forced to give it to governments so often is. We are still paying for the last World War having only just finished paying for the previous one and are currently borrowing even more money to help continue a similar blood bath in Ukraine. Just to add personal insult to pure evil, being forced to pay for the BBC to convince us that this is any kind of a good idea. On the other hand, the cost of a top-level video conference with Putin is effectively ZERO.

[@TheGmeister812]

I ditched my membership years ago, I simply refused to help fund their wokery. I have also thought for many years if only there was a new fit for purpose charity that could somehow rescue these properties & artefacts

[@colinp2238]

We should start a movement to regain ALL the money given in foreign aid to countries. India obviously doesn't need it if only to fund its space programme. The provenance to the money goes as far back to the pay packets of the British tax payers.

[@mattworthington7669]

I'm happy with artifacts being returned, so long as people, all of them, are returned to. To their ancestral homes.

[@reginaldgraves1684]

Well said.

[@jimskirtt5717]

I hate the National Trust, but I do think everything should be given back if it was indeed stolen, but not if it was purchased. Equally though, I expect the whole of England to be given back to the English. I want a referendum on immigration.

[@MinskUK]

It seams to me that those in charge or our treasures are not fit for purpose. Why do they even work there?

[@BurtReynoldstash]

After the performance with Winston Churchill. That’s me done with the national trust

[@janecooke9151]

India, for a country that has a space program and keeps their own people in poverty, I want our financial help back!

[@tenniskinsella7768]

Agree whybgive India money they have a space programme but can't help their own people. Skarmer is going to increase aid

[@ThisIsWhyWeFight]

@@tenniskinsella7768 why give them money when they’re all here…

[@parthmehndiratta4616]

If you check the history of the British Empire and the money they looted from India during the Colonial rule, it amounts to a massive "45 trillion dollars". If the UK were to return all the looted wealth from India it would take years to return it. Even after 200 years of colonial rule and just 76 years of independence, we have a bigger economy than yours and that says it all. Check the facts before you speak stupid

[@parthmehndiratta4616]

We don't need your financial help. All the so called ' aid'from ' from the UK is going towards investments which are in the economic interest of the UK. We are better off without your financial help

[@pgworldkitchen9148]

As a patriotic Indian, I 😂 at your lack of understanding of Modern India.

[@loopielou4426]

I wonder, if those items had remained in said countries if anyone would ever have seen them, or if they would have been preserved and protected. I doubt it very much.

[@AsphodeliaD]

On reflection I'm less ventilated by this than I thought I would be. Granted, the motivations of the NT and others in returning this stuff are grotesque (and very much a slap in the face to our culture). But we probably now have better things to get on with and make, and we can focus on our own culture with greater intensity. Will these nations be asking for the return of their assets of greatest singular value - that is the lost citizens of their own countries? If they are so enervated by the loss of a few trinkets and stoneware from the ancient past, they must surely be extravagant in their remonstrances for the loss of their own citizenry?

[@susandrydenhenderson6234]

This needs to be widely shared.

[@paulelberfeld8525]

Well said

[@pamelasergeant4311]

National Trust have gone WOKE

[@markshrimpton3138]

They went woke several years ago. In 2017 staff and volunteers at Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk were ordered to wear rainbow ‘pride’ badges. The Trust had decided, without a shred of evidence to support their assertion, that the property’s former owner, Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, who gifted the property to the Trust, was a homosexual. His bachelor status was all the ‘evidence’ these wokists required, to host an exhibition devoted to homosexuality.

[@ianarcher6040]

Well said Emma! Arch

[@raychambers3646]

Can we hand back all the doctors and engineers coming across the channel .

[@Cloudberry46]

Perhaps we could start by giving Britain back to the Britons.

[@markshrimpton3138]

Logically then, we should ‘return’ all Roman era items, including the remains of built structures, to Italy; Viking artefacts to Norway or Denmark; and Anglo-Saxon archeology such as the Sutton Hoo treasures, to their lands of heritage. That should be some job repatriating Hadrian’s Wall. And as soon as geologists can agree on whether or not the bluestones at Stonehenge came from Wales …….

[@Royboy50]

The British isles were once joined to Europe geographically,now then how’s that going to done, big job for some do-gooder

[@andrewthompson2380]

Agree

[@johnrun712]

Inclusivity seems to mean include deranged nonsense.

[@jamiemcnally4851]

National distrust

[@dominiclane8538]

These people in charge of these artifacts need sacking and they need sacking ASAP

[@rodjspowell4720]

Can we give away the politicians and curators of museums, national parks, National Trust, and all the charities, who are totally untrustworthy

[@Johnnybox81]

Wasnt it Shakespeare whom once said 'geteth woketh, goeth broketh'?

[@neilblackman8749]

We should keep all of them

[@andrewyorke3352]

I left the national trust because they went woke and cannot trust them

[@HenrysAdventures]

It will be worth having a look in the Powis Castle skip in the new few weeks!

[@Mike-tb5gj]

haha - Antiques Roadshow, here I come!!

[@VHogg5432]

They should have these properties and objects taken off them. They are no longer fit to control these artifacts.....

[@JonathanGrace-mb3ni]

Traitors.

[@johnrice4191]

Respect to your granddad ms Webb...

[@danw9464]

Struggled through that one...

[@manofkent4472]

the bronze came from Portugal as payment for slaves.

[@richardextall2002]

We are cancelling our membership of NT. We are done with it.

[@britainbetterthanyou]

PROUD OF EMPIRE. It's time we spoke up for it.

[@malcolmsumner887]

More madness. I gave up my membership of the National Trust after 20 years. Need to have a review of museums and National Trust. They cannot be trusted.

[@davidbentley1114]

Lundy. Trust's silence is deafening.

[@barbaradyson6951]

No Britain HAS BECOME A LAUGHING STOCK FOR BEING SO SOFT.

[@markmcgregor5569]

There are NO past Wrongs, that England has to appolegise for::

[@keithjenkins4752]

The Government is to blame. They should not let a curator think he/she owns any of the artefacts in care. Preposterous. They’re only employees. Not their property.