Speak for England, Amelia

The Home Office Prevent programme is a strategy designed to stop individuals from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism, focussing on early intervention and tackling ideological causes. During the present century virtually all terrorist incidents in Britain have been inspired by Islamic jihadism. But instead of concentrating on the threat from this source, Prevent has instead focussed principally on the almost non-existent danger from what is termed ‘right-wing extremism’.

As part of the Prevent strategy Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council have sponsored an interactive game called Pathways aimed at secondary school pupils. Players identify as either a white teenage boy or girl called Charlie who are helped to avoid being reported for ‘extreme right-wing ideology’. They risk extremism referrals if they decide to contact groups that encourage ‘harmful ideological messages’ or are against the ‘erosion of British values’.

In short, Pathways is a pernicious device to indoctrinate white school children against any display of patriotism and to create a guilt complex around their own race, people and nation. Fortunately, this Marxist inspired propaganda initiative has severely backfired. One of the characters Charlie encounters is a ‘goth girl’ called Amelia who, from a woke perspective, holds some seriously unreconstructed political views. Many Youtube videos have adopted Amelia as a mascot and sympathetically spread her patriotic right-wing views whilst simultaneously ridiculing and spoofing the Pathways agenda. Naturally the Guardian disapproves of this trend decrying that those encouraging the Amelia character ‘created to deter young people from extremism’, has instead ‘been subverted to disseminate far right messaging’.

It is to be hoped that Amelia becomes a permanent political symbol behind which the majority opposed to woke brainwashing can unite in deriding and undermining this subversive and insidious agenda that is targeting white school children.