Paul Nuttall

Paul Nuttall considers the origins of political correctness, what it seeks to achieve and what its consequences are in our society

LAST YEAR I attended a meeting with Liverpool council to discuss historical projects which would take place in its up and coming Capital of Culture year celebrations. I was invited because of my expertise on local history, as were the curator of the collections from the local museum and a representative of the local record office. To my horror, also in attendance was the council’s Racial Awareness Manager who seemed to eyeball me throughout the meeting to ensure that I was giving a ‘racially balanced’ account of this city’s history. I was so enraged by the presence of this politically correct non-jobber, whose wage is paid for by hard working taxpayers, that I did not stay long.

Around the same time I went for lunch in my university canteen to find that black pudding had suddenly become breakfast pudding and black coffee was renamed coffee without milk. I was furious and vowed to contest politically correct mumbo-jumbo whenever and wherever I encountered it in the future.

These distasteful experiences also encouraged me to contact the Campaign Against Political Correctness (CAPC) and before long they sent a representative to Merseyside to hold a joint meeting with UKIP South Sefton Branch. A number of members subsequently joined CAPC.

Spurred on by my distaste for political correctness, I began to think about where political correctness comes from and what it seeks to achieve. Here are my findings:

Unsurprisingly, political correctness is an invention of the Left. In 1923 a group of Marxist intellectuals came together at Frankfurt am Main University to form what became known as the ‘Frankfurt School.’ Realising that the Russian Revolution was not going to spread to the rest of Europe as they wished, this group of academics concluded that it was essential to change the way people thought and communicated before Marxism could flourish. To achieve this ambitious goal, they developed a theory called ‘Cultural Marxism.’

This theory demanded that Marxist sympathisers indoctrinated the public by infiltrating the ‘cultural institutions’ within a society, including the media and universities. However when Hitler came to power in 1933, this group of Marxist academics fled Germany and settled in the United States. It was on the other side of the Atlantic where they were able to put their theory into practice, but they had to wait till the 1960s.

In the 1960s a ‘cultural revolution’ took place, which gave the cultural Marxists the perfect vehicle to experiment with their theories. They clung to the coat-tails of the civil rights movement and cleverly stoked the anti-Vietnam war fire, even coining the famous phrase ‘Make love not war.’ As a result ‘Cultural Marxism’ became popular on student campuses in the United States in the late 1960s and it spread to Britain in the early 1970s.

The problem we have now is that the students of the late 1960s and 1970s are the world’s leaders of today and they remain wedded to their student ideals. 

What is consequence of the success of Cultural Marxism? Well, today we see it in the guise of political correctness. Indeed, there can be no doubt that political correctness is in the process of turning our society upside down by attempting to alter our beliefs, our values and curtail our freedom of speech. Indeed, one of the reasons I feel so strongly about political correctness because it is my subject, history, which seems to be most under attack.

For example, recent schoolbooks depict the Vikings as peaceful traders and Napoleon as a great domestic reformer. The EU has even tried to relegate the Second World War to a footnote of history. The rewriting of history is a blatant attempt to alter our beliefs and is the stuff of the Soviet Union, but is this so surprising when we think where political correctness originated? 

Political correctness is also trying to pervert our values, for it paints criminals as victims, routinely undermines the family by promoting promiscuity amongst our young and encouraging alternative lifestyles. It does this by changing language and advocating ‘rights.’ For example, in some prisons the prisoners are now referred to as ‘service users’ and fourteen-year old girls have the right to have abortions without the consent of her parents.

Unsurprisingly, religion is also a target for the politically correct Marxists. It may sound ridiculous that a local council bans Christmas lights in favour of ‘winterval lights’ so non-Christians are not offended, but this is another example of ‘Cultural Marxism’ at work.
Political Correctness also endeavours to stifle freedom of speech. For example, if you question immigration figures you are labelled a racist; question all women shortlists then you are sexist; question whether homosexuality should be promoted in our schools means you are a homophobe.

Moreover as we in UKIP know: If you champion British interest and culture then you are labelled a nationalist with all the connotations that goes with it. Freedom of speech is sacred. Indeed millions of Britons died to defend it in two world wars during the last century, so we must protect it against the Cultural Marxists at all costs.

Cultural Marxism is imposed on us through an increasing number of politically correct workers. We all may laugh at Traveller’s Rights Directors or Cultural Diversity Managers but their roles, whether they know it or not, are a cynical attempt to enforce Cultural Marxism. According to the Taxpayer’s Alliance there are an estimated 20,000 of these ‘non-jobs’ in the public sector. Employing these people costs a lot of money.

All these politically correct non-jobbers who infest town halls the length and breadth of Britain are paid for by our taxes. Indeed, the Taxpayers Alliance concluded in 2006 that these ‘non-jobs’ cost the taxpayer £800 million. In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the Thought Police enforced ‘Newspeak’ upon the citizens of Oceania. I ask, is this army of politically correct non-jobbers any different from Orwell’s Thought Police?

One thing I have noticed when on the campaign trail is that people are fed up of political correctness. But nobody seems to know why it is happening or where it comes from. I just tell people it is a dangerous and cynical attempt to change the way you and I think.

Digging further, it becomes clear that the origin of political correctness is Marxism, its motive is to ripen our society for outright repressive Socialism and its consequences we see all around us.

Dark forces are at work here and we in UKIP must stand up to them at all times.

Paul Nuttall founded the UKIP South Sefton Branch and is a researcher for the IND DEM Group in the European Parliament.

To find out more, visit The Campaign Against Political Correctness