Pressure group fails to get candidates elected to National Trust trustee body
Restore Trust put forward five people for election at the National Trust’s annual general meeting but none were successful
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Restore Trust put forward five people for election at the National Trust’s annual general meeting but none were successful
The anti-woke group, Restore Trust, had launched a renewed campaign to win seats on the Trust’s council this year after failing in their attempts last year, and this time they had the likes of Farage, along with the right-wing press backing them.
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage also has the Trust in his sights, backing an anti-woke splinter group of candidates, after the failed campaign of the Restore Trust (RT) to win in the council elections last year.
For the third consecutive year, a dark and sinister force is at play, abetted by a cynical right-wing press, attempting to present Europe’s biggest conservation charity as some kind of dangerously radical cake-and-countryside organisation.
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