“There is still time to avert the impending disaster of a Reform UK government.” You might expect to find that line in a Hope Not Hate fundraising email. In fact, it appeared on a booking form for activist training sessions paid for by you and me, through a £15m “community cohesion” fund launched by Angela Rayner’s department. According to the Telegraph, the “Ella Baker School of Organising”, founded by leftwing Hope Not Hate activists, was handed public money via Labour-run councils to teach staff and activists how to steer “working class communities” away from Reform and the “Tory-Right”. So that’s where our taxes are going! To squash democracy! Great. Trainees role-played quelling discontent in “small seaside towns”. They were taught to argue that it is a “racist narrative” to claim migrants “put strain on underfunded services” and that worries about “bogus” asylum seekers must be undermined, with a nod to Antonio Gramsci, the Communist theorist. Above all, they were told: “How accurate these stories are is less important than the power of their narrative.” Let’s read that again: “How accurate these stories are is less important than the power of their narrative.” The mind boggles. Make no mistake. Labour is a danger to democracy. Because this was not just a one-off. Take a look at the last few years of a Labour government and you’ll find a clear pattern of contempt for the basic principles of democracy, from a group of people who are more than willing to overturn the foundations of an open society just to cling on to power. Voters tend to get used to this stuff, and fail to realise just how appalling it is. So here is a list of eight recent examples. In some ways, the most damning of the lot took place in Whitehall at the start of the year, when Labour looked at its polling and came up with a novel solution... New post. Link in first reply