
Nigel Farage has exchanged blows with a ‘Marxist’ teachers’ leader whose trade union vowed to mobilise members to prevent him becoming Prime Minister – and dubbed him a ‘Toytown Trump’.
Delegates at the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU), which starts on Monday, will debate a motion calling for the trade union movement to ‘throw its full weight behind stopping a Reform UK government’.
The motion also calls for teachers to ‘collate and disseminate anti-racist teaching materials’ and to ‘encourage school and community-based anti-deportation campaigns’.
Separate debates will call for an ‘end to the proscription of Palestine Action’ and to support teachers who want to visit migrant camps in northern France.
On Saturday, Mr Farage vowed to sweep away ‘politicised classrooms’ if he became Prime Minister and took aim at Daniel Kebede, the union’s hard-Left general secretary, saying: ‘The NEU should focus on the day job of teaching instead of trying to indoctrinate children. Daniel Kebede is an open Marxist and shouldn’t be anywhere near our education system.
‘Change is coming for the NEU – a Reform government will introduce a patriotic curriculum, no longer will teaching unions be able to politicise the classroom and talk down our country.’
But Mr Kebede hit back, saying: ‘Nigel Farage will be a disaster for Britain. We have a multi-millionaire dressed in tweed masquerading as a man of the people.
‘The reality is he would cut our schools to the bone along with the NHS and other public services. This Toytown Trump is not fit for No 10.’
Members of the NEU are presently voting on whether to go on strike over issues including compensation, workload, and school funding.
Mr Farage, who holds a nine-point lead in the most recent opinion poll, has vowed to tackle ‘institutional Left-wing bias’ among the ‘Blob’ of the Civil Service, local authorities and schools if he forms the next government.
Reform officials have received increasing reports of Left-wing teachers characterising Reform supporters as ‘fascists’ in classrooms across the country.
Last year, it demanded an investigation after teachers at a group of leading state schools made ‘inappropriate and slanderous’ comparisons between the party and the Nazis.
Richard Tice, Reform’s deputy leader, complained after discovering that staff at the Orion group, which runs eight academy schools in south London, used a picture of him in teaching materials to illustrate ‘extremism’ – defined as activities which ‘reject British values’.
The materials also placed Reform to the right of Ukip and next to the BNP and the Nazis at the ‘fascism’ end of an illustration on the Left-wing/Right-wing political spectrum of beliefs.
The secondary school lessons were for students in Year 10.
Last week, it was revealed that council workers in Leeds were offered counselling in a ‘safe space’ to deal with the stress of a visit by the Reform UK leader.
John Ebo, the council’s head of human resources, said: ‘No doubt you will have picked up in the news that Nigel Farage and Reform are holding an event/rally.
‘I am mindful such events impact on colleagues, and would ask that we enable safe space conversations for colleagues, such as the Wellbeing network chats.’
The email was forwarded to the council’s Race Equality Staff Network, with an extra warning: ‘Be vigilant if you are in the city centre that day.’ Mr Farage called them ‘pathetic, weak people who don’t understand democracy’.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski will address the NEU conference on Monday afternoon.
The real issue is that Marxists have gained control of schools and universities. When we see this response, we see that we’ve reached a turning point. This is what is currently destroying the West and has been for a very long time.
Teachers are not producing educated young people – they are just brainwashing woke wastrels.
We need the freedom of discussion, or our youngsters will cease to have any new visions to create with others. If you cannot debate opinions freely, then we will have no ideas at all and no useful understanding as to how the future is going to pan out.
Our children are not taught compassion and equality, and this is why there is so much criminality on our UK streets, because they are being taught the customs of other third-world countries, and they are being taught to discriminate.
If you think that Nigel Farage is going to represent the working class, then think again, and if you believe that this man is going to prevent crime on our streets, then you must be taking some good hallucinogenic drugs.
You’re probably thinking, ‘Who am I going to vote for?’ It certainly won’t be Reform, Labour or the Conservatives. So, what am I left with? Not much, they’re all as bad as one another. They tell you what you want to hear because they know we’re gullible, and then do the exact opposite when they get into power!
The government has never been for the people, and it never will be. It’s a business where they can sell weapons to both sides of a war, and for them, it’s about profiteering. Also, evading taxes is a business as well. It’s blood money earned from the pain of others.