Peak woke has been reached

I am calling it - the top of the market on woke. 

I know this is a big shout at a time when you can barely move for hitting a virtue signaling institution or person but the signs are there if you look closely. I am not saying that it will stop suddenly or that you won't still get more of the same vacuous crap but I am saying we have reached the moment where the majority are firmly pushing back and the law of diminishing returns is kicking in on the agenda. 

The UK I think is much further along this process than many other countries. I would think this is partly driven by the upset of Brexit. It has taken existing trends and accelerated them. A political realignment which might have taken 10 to15 years has been pushed through in 5. A raging torrent of change which would have happened anyway but Brexit acted like TNT on the dam holding it back. 

You can see the panic in the eyes of the woke liberals. The simple truth is that they make up a small and declining portion of the population. They know that they are an endangered species which at best is going to be culled back to irrelevancy or at worst wiped out like the Dodo. Can they bring themselves to adapt and share power or is that too much for a class of people who have had it all their way for two generations - time will tell. 

The collapse has been sudden but is now written widely across the media if you look closely. Their cherished views and instruments of control are simply not being tolerated anymore. A few years ago they would have passed down their dogma from on high and the population would have been forced to accept it. These days not so much - people are fighting back and the liberal elite are starting to look a bit green from the stress. 

There is change in the air like a warm early spring morning. From brave Keira Bell winning in the High court against the Tavistock clinic through to Stonewalls sudden collapse from equality champion to weird anti Gay trans bully - the tide is turning. The England football teams groveling in support of Black Lives Matter might be widely supported by the media luvvie class but it has not gone down well with the fans who have kept booing whatever they are called. Middle England not to be outdone has claimed the scalp of Tim Parker over the National Trusts efforts to wokefy our history. Apparently people who just like old houses and gardens don't want a lecture from twenty something idiots with useless degrees. 

The launch of GB News against a backdrop of near hysteria has injected further energy into this push back. Ironically they were already going to run a "Wokewatch" segment but virtue signaling corporations provided a case in point and perfect foil for the first weeks programming. A host of companies loudly declared their high corporate standards and hence would not support hate. The response was both fast and brutal with various corporate scandals surfacing and being plastered across social media for the world to see. High corporate standards - only when it doesn't impact their bottom line. 

GB News shortly after directly claimed another scalp when it ran with the story of the Royal Academy of Arts removing an artists work from sale for allegedly transphobic comments. They were no such thing and the Academy was soon forced into an apology as their sheer hypocrisy was exposed to the public as people pointed out they had no issues with displaying the work of Eric Gill who sexually abused his own children and Picasso who was known to be more than a little misogynistic. 

The internal contradictions of the woke agenda and its hierarchy of grievance is bleeding into the political system on a near daily basis now. Labour finds itself in a complete meltdown in the Batley and Spen by-election where its historical use of identity politics is coming back to bite. Muslims campaigners are attacking the Labour candidate for support over gay rights and throwing in some nice anti-Semitism to mix it up further. The videos coming out are both personally disturbing and politically satisfying. 

Labour's response has been to dump what little principles they had in the nearest skip and to put out a leaflet attacking the Tories for being too close to India. This has further confused Paul Mason, Owen Jones and the rest of the clowns who are busy calling out racism against anyone and everyone except Labour. I'll be honest and say the look of absolute shock on their faces at the forces being unleashed as Labour implodes is quite hilarious. 

Still the Tories are struggling to construct a coherent position. They clearly see that the woke agenda is floundering and that Labour is potentially fatally holed below the waterline. They have many good ministers who are willing to speak up on the issue like Liz Truss, Kemi Badenoch and Priti Patel but they are forced to tread a fine line because woke liberals still make up a sizable chunk of the parliamentary Conservative party. 

It also doesn't help that the Carrie Johnsons clique are clearly woke liberals - they almost give you sympathy for Dominic Cummings. Johnson himself appears to vacillate under this pressure though clearly looks uncomfortable talking it. I am not sure who was more embarrassed - him or the rest of the country when he blathered on about building back in a more gender neutral feminine way at the G7 in Cornwall. 

The most fantastic part is the suddenness of the change. Plenty of us had been railing against the woke agenda for years but the wheels appear to have just suddenly started coming off. It has been delightful watching people realise that they were not alone in finding the ideology utterly stupid. Like the emperors new clothes it just took someone to laugh and then everyone did - the spell has been broken. 

I am fascinated to see how fast it will turn. Will it be a slow methodical one based upon popular pressure or could it be more dramatic. I am actually betting on fast one as the woke agenda has long since overshot any rational position and flown into crazy town. The institutional capture that has powered their takeover may prove to be short lived as people vote with their feet. You are already seeing this with the media where people have just stopped buying. I suspect the same will be seen in the uni's soon as well. 

But whatever happens it is nice to know you are not alone and that there is a fight back underway. It is good to see that we don't have to stand for this nonsense and are quite capable of pushing back. It may take a few years or many but one way or other we will win because we are the many and they are the few - oh and we aren't crazy.