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57% of our Electricity comes from North Sea Gas.– “…or so I have been told”
Who told you, Michael? Who told you that this was “possibly it is a hatred of the British Identity”?
Quoting Michael: “To be honest, I am not exactly sure what woke is.”
Yet, in the very next sentence you state the you believe the Labour party, The Green party, the Liberal Democrat party and the SNP are steeped in wokeness. If you aren’t sure what “woke” is how can you make such a statement and not see the incongruity in that. Surely, rather than allowing yourself to be told by others what the term means and it’s origins you should find out for yourself by doing a little research. Don’t you think it’s incumbent upon you to find out the meaning of a term (which by your own admission you don’t understand) before you accuse people, organisations of being steeped in it?
I searched the term “woke as originally defined” and it took me 30 seconds to, at least, have a roadmap of it’s origins.“Woke is now defined in this dictionary as “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).”
“The phrase “woke” and to “stay woke” is not new — it began appearing in the 1940s and was first used by African Americans to “literally mean becoming woken up or sensitised to issues of justice”, says linguist and lexicographer Tony Thorne.”
1940s America, racial segregation etc etc. That was the context.
Do you think that UK parliaments enacting various child labour laws in the early 1800s to prevent child exploitation were being a bit too woke? Or was it measured social justice?
https://www.britannica.com/event/Factory-Act-United-Kingdom-1833
