British Public Found to Be Favourable to Guido Fawkes and His Mission
YouGov has conducted the most crucial polling so far this year on November 5th into public attitudes towards heroic Catholic-rights activist Guido Fawkes. Four in ten have a favourable opinion of Fawkes, against a measly third who see him unfavourably…
Interestingly Reform voters are most favourable towards Fawkes at 55% to 22%. Tory voters are neck and neck at 41%-41%. Badenoch should take note…
71% of Brits say they are confident they know what he stood for – that is, religious liberty against a protestant tyranny that denied human, civil and political rights to Catholics. All of this means substantial progress on attitudes towards Fawkes since immediately after his martyrdom in 1606, in the wake of which Guy became a pejorative term for a wrong-un thanks to government propaganda…
Among a wave of public sympathy for Guido the usual slanderous media coverage portraying him as a religious terrorist and deplorable has died down. Hacks now ask – should we bother remembering Fawkes at all? To which can only be said: Remember, remember the Fifth of November – it is 419 years since Guido last attempted to overturn a corrupt, liberty-taking political class…
