This was briefly touched on by UK Column on Monday I think. Not 100% sure as it was a particularly difficult-to-watch edition mainly because of David Scott’s rambling and insistence on reading out every single word of lengthy slides.
There’s a similar verbal diarrhoea exhibited in the complaint to BBC illustrated in this piece. Some good points but buried in amongst a torrent of rhetoric.
This is the exact strategy that the fact checkers are so practised in countering. Use twenty loose words in 1000 and they’ll rebut the whole lot based on those 20.
In this case however there was a reasonable outcome.
I expect next time the message won’t hit twitter it will just be slipped out into the splurge of propaganda in schools by the armed forces when they help “educate” our kids in their free visits:
I genuinely had no idea this was a thing. Building Character and Resilience…
Maybe they might consider setting up Veld Schools, so that kids become skilled at spotting Communists? (Promoted heavily in what was the Transvaal. Communists were recognisable by their hairstyles, logos of apples with a bite missing, fascination with marijuana, not joining in prayers…)
Both our sons spent years as Beavers, Cubs, Scouts but as the emphasis moved away from fun in the country to the deeper indoctrination and buggering about with flags they drifted away. By about 13 or so the pattern of grammar school kids dominating, particularly the sons and relatives of the “Leaders”, was too obvious to ignore.