Hysteria about the kulaks misses the point. Do you imagine that, say, David Lammy has ever heard of them? But wherever there is a right-wing Labour machine, then there is a very cosy relationship with property developers, while giant transnational agribusiness is right up this Government’s street both ideologically and venally.
Neither Kemi Badenoch nor Robert Jenrick makes much of a defender of the farmers, since both served in the Government of Liz Truss, who may be known mostly for a speech about pork markets and cheese, but who is a disciple of Professor Patrick Minford, and therefore wants Britain to have no agriculture, as would indeed be the “free” market in action, under which this country would import all of its food. Under a person of that mind, Badenoch was President of the Board of Trade.
Truss said that she would have endorsed Javier Milei as a candidate for Leader of the Conservative Party. His Argentina is the latest Promised Land of the British Right, which always needs a Fatherland somewhere away from the National Health Service. Milei has just dismissed his Foreign Minister, Diana Mondino, after Argentina did not join the United States and Israel as the only countries to vote at the United Nations against the lifting of the American blockade of Cuba. But only on Tuesday, Milei was pressing his claim to the Falkland Islands. Which side are you on, boys? Which side are you on?
Milei is going to be a huge headache for the boys who still worship Thatcher.
ReplyDeleteThe leadership of these things was always going to pass to Latin America about now. I had been hoping that it would be Argentina, for this reason. And here we are.
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