IT IS good news that the Conservative leadership in Parliament is now backing Jennifer Melle, the black Christian nurse suspended for misgendering a convicted paedophile who racially abused her. But orthodox Christians should be under no illusions that the Conservative Party can be relied on to tackle the neo-Marxist ideology that has captured the UK’s institutions.
Shadow Equalities Minister Claire Coutinho, Conservative MP for East Surrey, has pledged to write to the NHS Trust responsible for suspending Melle and to put pressure on Labour Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, over the scandal.
Having met Melle in Parliament in September ahead of the employment tribunal hearing she faces next year, Coutinho said: ‘The treatment she has suffered because of radical trans ideology beggars belief. Common sense must prevail, and this dedicated nurse must be allowed to return to work as soon as possible.’
But how determined is the Conservative Party to tackle the neo-Marxist ideology that has taken over the civil service, the NHS, the police, the legal and education systems and even big business? It is important to remember that the Melle scandal blew up in May 2024 when the Conservatives were still in power.
They were in power for 14 years. On their watch, Melle’s NHS employers refused to back her after she was racially abused by the transgender paedophile brought from a men’s prison for treatment on a male ward. Instead, the Trust investigated her for failing to respect his gender identity and later referred her to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). That is the culture that was allowed to fester under the Conservatives.
Transgenderism is certainly at the extreme end of neo-Marxist ideology. But it is entirely consistent with the left’s overall hostility towards the traditional Christian worldview which, until a socialist government ushered in the permissive society in the 1960s, underpinned Britain’s laws, customs and morals.
When Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron embraced same-sex marriage and got it through Parliament in 2013, that represented his party’s capitulation to neo-Marxist ideology. Since then, Christians have lost their jobs and been arrested for expressing the traditional Christian teaching that Almighty God created marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution.
The current Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, supports same-sex marriage. When she was Minister for Women and Equalities in 2023, she told Parliament: ‘We are proud to have passed the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.’
It must not be forgotten that the abortion buffer zones in which various Christians have been arrested for praying or displaying peaceable messages were imposed by Parliament under the Conservatives in 2023. How can they be described as a pro-family party?
Is Reform UK any better? That unfortunately cannot be said with certainty. The move to legalise assisted suicide in the current Parliament is another aspect of the hyper-individualism on the loose in Britain since the 1960s. Though Reform leader Nigel Farage has voted against the legislation, his deputy leader, Richard Tice MP, is in favour.
‘Live and let live’ as a political approach is not robust enough to tackle nation-destroying neo-Marxism. It will not be defeated by whooping libertarians inclined to attend rock concerts. But it could to some extent be pushed back by a reforming pro-family government. A highly competent government could make headway if it was determined enough to master the legislative details necessary to take powers away from the left-wing establishment in charge of the civil service, the police, the judiciary and the schools and universities.
Even then, however, the neo-Marxist mind virus would not be defeated, for legislation has its limitations. Laws cannot change hearts and minds. Only the saving gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ proclaimed and lived out in the power of the Holy Spirit can do that.
How proactive would a Reform government be in supporting the re-Christianisation of the nation? No government should try to impose Christianity, for that would be alien to its very essence. Authentic New Testament Christianity spreads by persuasion, not by coercion. But there are levers that pro-Christian governments can pull, particularly in bolstering the teaching about Christianity in schools and ensuring that children have some understanding of the transcendent worldview that has been so vital in shaping their country’s history.
Is a pro-family, pro-Christian party electable? Probably not. So, the nation’s salvation lies not in a political programme but in what made it the United Kingdom in the first place – biblical Christianity.
