Labour Minister Says Owning a Black Labrador Challenges Far-Right Countryside Myth
- Nature Minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter warned that a nostalgic image of rural Britain involving pubs, warm ale, and black Labradors could be shaped by the far right.
- Riddell-Carpenter said she feared the weaponisation of this image and urged Labour to define its own vision for nature and rural communities.
- Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson rejected the characterization and said she supports farmers, rural communities, pubs, and the countryside.
- The comments drew criticism from rural representatives and social media users, including Suffolk County Council leader Michael Hadwen; 2021 Census data showed that about 9.5 million people, or 17% of Britain’s population, lived in rural communities.
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A Far Right Vision?
The list of things that the world’s liberals denounce as “far right” continues to grow. In fact, at this point it includes pretty much everything that most people are in favor of. Here is a wonderful instance from England: Rural idyll of ‘warm ale and black labs’ is far-right fantasy, says minister. Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, the nature minister, said she was kept “awake at night” by fears that the next election
Labour’s Minister Who Called Idyllic Britain a ‘Far Right Fantasy’ Has a Weird Affinity for Islam.
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nature under British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, told a fringe meeting at the ruling Labour Party’s ongoing annual conference in Liverpool that a rural Britain of warm ale, pubs, and a dog at your feet is a terrifying and “very far-Right nostalgic vision” that “never really existed.”The […]
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