Oh, for a firebrand like Gideon!
by Janice Davis, TCW:
N an excellent broadcast for GB News on January 15, Neil Oliver reminded us to what extent we have been let down by all those individuals and institutions who purport to govern and defend our society. ‘Are there any leaders left,’ he asked, ‘worthy of the trust of decent people?’
Instead, we have been lied to and deceived and abused for years by those who should know better, and behave more professionally – and indeed ‘honourably’, as required by Erskine May, the bible of parliamentary procedure.
The same doesn’t seem to apply in the chamber of the Dutch parliament, as newly elected member Gideon van Meijeren, 33, made clear when he recently made his first official appearance there. It is well worth watching his performance, because it has rightly been hailed as a truly great moment when a bold young man speaks truth to power.
[…] In the UK, van Meijeren and his party would probably be written off as hate-filled extremists, given their position on the Covid pandemic measures, climate catastrophe and most of all on immigration. To some, his party’s philosophy appears uncompromisingly bigoted, illiberal and racist. To others, he represents the last audacious stand against the powerful forces determined to undermine our western culture, traditions, independence and sovereignty.
How desperately we need young political blood of this calibre and courage, to speak out and take on the totalitarian repression now engulfing our society, everywhere in the West. He is well named, and hopefully can live up to the heroic leadership of his Biblical namesake. According to the Book of Judges, Gideon led his troop of 300 ‘valiant’ Israelites against the idolatrous Midianite army, and despite a vast disadvantage in numbers, vanquished them and smashed their false idols.
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