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<\/p>\nA Labour minister has sparked fury after describing the idea of Britain based on pubs, warm ale and black labradors as a “far-right fantasy that never really existed”. <\/p>\n
Speaking at a fringe event at the Labour conference in Liverpool, Nature Minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter warned attendees that the so-called “far-right” will try to weaponise rural Britain at the next election. <\/p>\n
The MP for Suffolk Coastal admitted she lies “awake at night” at what “nostalgic vision” of the countryside will be used in the supposed battle. <\/p>\n
She said: “This is one of the things I do stay awake at night about, and think about, and fear.<\/p>\n
“One of them is that if we don’t make the case for nature, for rural communities, and what we believe rural communities look like, I do believe that the next election is going to be fought on a battle line of nature and rural affairs.<\/p>\n
“And there’ll be the far-right deciding and determining what that looks like.<\/p>\n
“It’ll be a vision, a nostalgic vision of Britain, that never really existed.<\/p>\n
“It’ll be that warm ale, a black Labrador by your feet in a pub that doesn’t exist, and with symbolism of fox hunting all around them, it’ll be a very far-right nostalgic vision of Britain that we don’t want to have, [and] never really existed.”<\/p>\n
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter warned attendees that the so-called ‘far-right’ will try to weaponise rural Britain at the next election<\/p>\n
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The Nature Minister said scenes like this constituted a ‘very far-right nostalgic vision of Britain that we don’t want to have’<\/p>\n
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The Nature Minister, acccording to the Mail, vowed to counter this idea of rural Britain by putting out Labour’s own “progressive vision for the countryside”. <\/p>\n
Her comments sparked fury from former No10 adviser James Price, who suggested her intervention shows how “the Labour Party really, really hates this country”. <\/p>\n
He wrote on social media: “Everything you care about is far-right or racist or never existed, apparently.<\/p>\n
“Never ever forget that they hate you and they hate this country.”<\/p>\n
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‘It’ll be a vision, a nostalgic vision of Britain, that never really existed,’ the Labour minister declared <\/p>\n
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The Labour minister’s remarks also drew criticism from Conservative Party chairman Kevin Hollinrake. <\/p>\n
He told the Mail: “Labour think the countryside, the pub, the dog and the people who love them are far-right.<\/p>\n
“Labour is taxing the pub out of existence, as part of a sustained attack on the countryside, with almost two closing every day. That is a far more pressing cause of insomnia.<\/p>\n
“Conservatives will always stand up for rural Britain, for the pub, the farm, the countryside, and most importantly, the people who keep them going.”<\/p>\n
Mr Hollinrake also called on the Prime Minister to make Ms Riddell-Carpenter issue an apology to those living in the British countryside. <\/p>\n
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PICTURED: Kevin Hollinrake with his ‘far-right and not really existent’ black labrador and pint of ale in a British pub<\/p>\n
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