10/09/2025
There’s a lot of sense in Greg’s words
Seeing one or two posts from educators saying that they chose to go to the recent Reform conference “because they might be the next government and we need to engage with what they’re proposing”….
Not going to try and police other people, but this gets a hard “No” from me. To my mind, every drop of energy needs to be going in to fighting fascism in the first place as well as educating parents on what Reform really stand for, so that Reform don’t even get to government.
Their deliberate breadcrumbing of extremism in the UK, wolfwhistled by the Tories as ever, and now becoming ever more visible and felt, is all part of the machinations of the Right. Who gives a sh*t what Reform’s educational policies might or might not be - we need to stand up to them in the first place by being far more politically visible ourselves.
Social media might be lovely for sharing ideas for tuff trays, photos of pretty displays and requests for planning for All About Me, but unless we also galvanise against the forces on the Right that are rising, all that is meaningless.
Yes, people are disenchanted, yes, politicians have failed the social contract and sacrificed it for the financial benefit of the 1%, and yes misinformation is being wilfully exploited to poke the bee’s nest, but the answers to the failures of capitalism do not lie in the Right Wing, no matter how much the wolf plays dress up in sheep’s clothing.
I know lots of you already engage, but whenever we can we must continue or begin to make a stand against fascism when we see it, even more so as we work with children who are going to be hearing some pretty extreme views in their communities along the way.
“Are you a communist?”
“No I am an anti-fascist”
“For a long time?”
“Since I have understood fascism.
- Ernest Hemingway
Stand firm, Play People ✊🏻
👧🏻👦🏾 not 🐺🐑
