‘To be fair – margarine was a French invention… although they probably don’t know that…’
The National Trust regularly finds itself in the right-wing firing line, as anti-woke insurgents attempt to present it as some kind of dangerously radical cake-and-countryside organisation.
This week, the cakes that Europe’s largest conservation charity serves in its hundreds of tearooms across the country, have literally been under attack.
The rant was initiated by the Daily Mail, which ran an ‘exclusive’ on the National Trust’s use of vegetable-based spread instead of butter in its scones. Customers are, according to the newspaper, complaining that the new scones taste like ‘dry biscuits.’
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the assault on the Trust’s scones attracted ridicule, with a ‘wokesconegate’ hashtag trending.
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Celia Richardson, the charity’s director of communications, joined the mockery, writing on X:
“GB News claims the National Trust ‘holds our heritage in contempt,’ over #wokesconegate. But margarine (which we’ve used in scones for decades) has been part of UK heritage since at least WW2. And am I alone in remembering Bruce Forsyth’s Stork SB challenge? Classic heritage TV!”
The fact that margarine was a creation of the French and not the British was also pointed out.
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