Labour Minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter has said that visions of Britain based on warm ale, pubs and black labradors are a “far-Right” fantasy that “never really existed”. The Mail has the story.
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, who was appointed nature minister in July, told a fringe meeting at the party’s conference that she fears the far-Right will launch a battle at the next election using this supposed fantasy.
She said she is kept “awake at night” thinking about how the far-Right will weaponise the countryside at the next election.
Riddell-Carpenter told party members: “This is one of the things I do stay awake at night about, and think about, and fear.
“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.
“And there’ll be the far-Right deciding and determining what that looks like.
“It’ll be a vision, a nostalgic vision of Britain, that never really existed.
“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.”
The Suffolk Coastal MP added that Labour would fight for a “progressive vision for the countryside” as it attempts to take on the far-Right.
Despite Riddell-Carpenter’s claim that the Labrador and warm ale vision of Britain has never existed, official figures suggest otherwise. …
Kevin Hollinrake, who represents the picturesque rural seat of Thirsk and Malton in North Yorkshire, told the Daily Mail: “Labour think the countryside, the pub, the dog and the people who love them are far-Right.
Tory chairman Kevin Hollinrake demanded an apology, saying the Conservatives would “always stand up for rural Britain”.
“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.
“Conservatives will always stand up for rural Britain, for the pub, the farm, the countryside, and most importantly, the people who keep them going.
“Andy Burnham should make his minister apologise to every one of them.”
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Smudger
15 days ago
Hollingrake is a loyal sodger of the fake Tory Party. At the end of the day he has, and, will continue to, march to the tune of the Whip. And that obeyance to the Party whip has delivered 14 years of Tory treachery.
Another thick as mince progressive MP , indoctrinated into unquestioning hatred of her own country. The constant pejorative use of terms such as far right, fascist and racist makes them meaningless.
pjar
16 days ago
Poor old thing… she looks like the love child of Adrian Chiles and James O’Brien.
Hester
16 days ago
No doubt this minister for Nature, would prefer there to be no Farmers, except those who farm Lentils, no sheep, but lots of solar panel farms, and wind turbines. The terrible country side inhabitants to be evicted and their homes given to Migoes by Rayner, thus ensuring a Rape in every postcode and a filth ridden Country side like every Labour held Council. Birmingham as a prime example.
Who the hell votes for such a person who clearly does not understand the area she represents, and who despises its inhabitants. I can only think there must be a large percentage of the high caste community and the second caste tier those who could work but who choose to live a parasitic life off the rest of us.
Her constituents must have a death wish. Looking at the area she represents, I can’t understand why they would vote for her. Mind you, there seem to be a lot of local councils run by the Greens and the Lib Dems, despite the area being clearly in favour of leaving the EU in 2016, so none of it makes a lot of sense.
Lockdown Sceptic
16 days ago
Let’s hope Labour continue to attack Britain most popular dog breeds. Today the Black Labrador, tomorrow the Border Collie From Huffington PostBlow For Andy Burnham As Reform Regains Opinion Poll Lead Over LabourCould the prime minister’s honeymoon period already be over?
I must say when they talk like this I do feel a particular animus against these labour people.
Some of my best friends are border collies or labradors.
mrbu
16 days ago
Socialists cannot resist the temptation to expunge those parts of history and cultural heritage that don’t fit their philosophy. Not just dismissing them as “no longer relevant”, but claiming that they never existed in the first place. It’s downright sinister. (And, interestingly, the word “sinister” is derived from the Latin word for “left”. Now isn’t that a coincidence!)
Jack, I’ve come to believe that politicians are just a bunch of failed actors. When they go to “work” they believe that they are playing a part in great big game/play. To her, all she is doing is reading the script.
She’ll get home, pull on her wellies and go for a walk across the fields with her dog & hubby for a bite down the local boozer.
And think nothing of it…cos it’s only a job.
She won’t get elected next time round, so she’ll just bugger off and do something else. Makes no difference to her.
It is perverse to go against one’s religious, political, philosophical and moral beliefs, but wouldn’t I love to see her being kept “awake at night” thinking about her friend, who was dragged by her burqa to the “rural community’s” sharia council.
In 1982, there was only one in the UK (Leyton) and there are now between 30 and 80 (impossible to tell as there are so many “unofficial” councils (please note, councils not courts, which of course they are).
psychedelia smith
16 days ago
She looks like her head’s been boiled in an ancient tribal ceremony.
Tyrbiter
16 days ago
Perhaps Guy Gibson’s black Labrador could rise from the dead and bite her on the Arris.
I’m sure that our black Labrador Gibson could be persuaded to do so, if we gave him enough treats.
DaveNI
16 days ago
“Labour would fight for a “progressive vision for the countryside”” Which is, of course, prime agricultural land covered in hail-damaged solar panels and windmills that only deliver power a fraction of the year. But that’s only our countryside. The Congolese progressive countryside they’re fighting for is one with its ecology ruined by cobalt and copper mining. The Chinese progressive countryside they’re fighting for is one rendered uninhabitable from the pollution caused by lithium mining and extraction. Such vision!
Monro
16 days ago
I checked the voting record of Newfoundlands and Labradors:
‘…on 23 May, the Conservatives were revealed to have won Newfoundland and Labrador by 12 votes following a judicial recount. Preliminary results had seen the party lose the seat to the Liberals by the same margin.’
That sounds dead centre to me. My own black labrador was an independent…
transmissionofflame
16 days ago
Maybe she wishes it never existed and wishes it still doesn’t exist. The Left hate the countryside, they hate rural people and they hate pubs, because they are hard to control, hard to regulate, stubborn, somewhat shambolic and chaotic. The countryside nudges people toward making their own decisions rather than having other people decide things for them. Tradition is more evident in rural areas, and the Left hate tradition. The Left hate family businesses because there are too many of them which makes controlling business harder than dealing with a few big firms.
As always Labour try to make a case with an outdated metaphor rather than a logical, relevant argument..
DiscoveredJoys
16 days ago
Whereas at the back of every Labour politician’s mind is the sound of a colliery brass band, marching behind a workers’ banner, with their clogs striking sparks from the cobble stones. Is that ‘far left’ too?
Gary Cooper
16 days ago
Decent beer served at room temperature, the friendly pub and a black lab are actual memories! Anyone who processes otherwise is living in la-la land.
Ah, the old ‘vote for the local candidate as a proxy for voting for the leader’ issue, we want Starmer -oops, we’ve ended up with this idiot woman.
NeilParkin
16 days ago
Im trying to conceptualise how one might go about ‘weaponising the countryside, but I am at a loss. Perhaps what should keep this lady awake is her tendency to talk utter bollocks.
I guess there is no possibility that she might be pandering to a certain sector of our ‘community’ that don’t like dogs and don’t drink alcohol .. just asking 🤔
Bill Bailey
16 days ago
She’s obviously never seen the episode of Dad’s Army where the Americans visit an English pub and spit their goddam warm beer out. She was no doubt too busy with her private education and earning her MA in Islamic history to be too concerned at what the plebs do. What she brings to the table as Minister for Nature is beyond me, she would be better off in the Home Office with the other Islamists rather that trying to undermine our way of life.
I thought you were being rather harsh, so Googled her. She is privately educated with a MA in Islamic History! Sometimes real life is more ridiculous than fiction.
The Suffolk Coastal MP added that Labour would fight for a “progressive vision for the countryside” as it attempts to take on the far-Right.
It’s always interesting to hear from the anglophobes, the anti-whitists, and the haters who repudiate our country. Because we all know that in the mouths of the madleft, “far-right” is code for “fascist” or “Nazi” – meaning that British people who love our country are, according to the “progressive” madleft, evil heretics.
David
16 days ago
With her double-barreled surname isn’t she trying to rise above her station in the party of the working-class?
She was née Riddell now married to a Matthew Riddell-Carpenter, who works in London social housing. I suppose they thought by hyphenating their surnames it might be more egalitarian. Their grandchildren’s offspring won’t thank them for their multiple hyphenated surname…..but we hopefully will have had a common sense reset by then.
Those pubs I mentioned had landlords and staff trotting up and down the cellar steps for each round of beers. One of them eventually installed beer engines to take the strain off their knees.
Prawn in their Game
16 days ago
Keep it coming. Every hateful vengeance will be repaid in kind. My will and my ability is greater than yours.
And fellow DS Claphamanian comment mentions ww1, god bless their dear souls, they have disgraced you, for that I’m eternally sorry
mrbu
16 days ago
If her job is to make the case for nature, she can start by opposing the inexorable march of solar panels and wind turbines across our landscape, destroying natural habitats and birds as they go. For centuries, our farmers have been the guarantors of our food supply and guardians of our native flora and fauna, but her government wants to drive them out of existence.
Perhaps her grasp on reality is a fantasy that never really existed?
Claphamanian
16 days ago
Bless. The lady isn’t worried about climate change, the energy crisis, the debt crisis, the Russians. Perhaps the black labradors are a closet substitute for the black houseboy of Empire?
All these villages died in the First World War. Of course none of these things that the lady lists are a far-Left caricature.
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Hollingrake is a loyal sodger of the fake Tory Party. At the end of the day he has, and, will continue to, march to the tune of the Whip. And that obeyance to the Party whip has delivered 14 years of Tory treachery.
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Well they’re certainly doing their level best to ensure that every pub in the countryside is closed down.
What a fine looking Labour specimen
Wait till she finds out what they used to call the Labradors.
Our black Labrador is called Gibson in homage.
🙂
I’d rather be far right than far wrong.
Another thick as mince progressive MP , indoctrinated into unquestioning hatred of her own country. The constant pejorative use of terms such as far right, fascist and racist makes them meaningless.
Poor old thing… she looks like the love child of Adrian Chiles and James O’Brien.
No doubt this minister for Nature, would prefer there to be no Farmers, except those who farm Lentils, no sheep, but lots of solar panel farms, and wind turbines. The terrible country side inhabitants to be evicted and their homes given to Migoes by Rayner, thus ensuring a Rape in every postcode and a filth ridden Country side like every Labour held Council. Birmingham as a prime example.
Who the hell votes for such a person who clearly does not understand the area she represents, and who despises its inhabitants. I can only think there must be a large percentage of the high caste community and the second caste tier those who could work but who choose to live a parasitic life off the rest of us.
Her constituents must have a death wish. Looking at the area she represents, I can’t understand why they would vote for her. Mind you, there seem to be a lot of local councils run by the Greens and the Lib Dems, despite the area being clearly in favour of leaving the EU in 2016, so none of it makes a lot of sense.
Let’s hope Labour continue to attack Britain most popular dog breeds. Today the Black Labrador, tomorrow the Border Collie
From Huffington PostBlow For Andy Burnham As Reform Regains Opinion Poll Lead Over LabourCould the prime minister’s honeymoon period already be over?
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Kate Nicholson
I must say when they talk like this I do feel a particular animus against these labour people.
Some of my best friends are border collies or labradors.
Socialists cannot resist the temptation to expunge those parts of history and cultural heritage that don’t fit their philosophy. Not just dismissing them as “no longer relevant”, but claiming that they never existed in the first place. It’s downright sinister. (And, interestingly, the word “sinister” is derived from the Latin word for “left”. Now isn’t that a coincidence!)
They are so full of hate against us, it’s almost incredible.
Jack, I’ve come to believe that politicians are just a bunch of failed actors. When they go to “work” they believe that they are playing a part in great big game/play. To her, all she is doing is reading the script.
She’ll get home, pull on her wellies and go for a walk across the fields with her dog & hubby for a bite down the local boozer.
And think nothing of it…cos it’s only a job.
She won’t get elected next time round, so she’ll just bugger off and do something else. Makes no difference to her.
I detest these people. They make me feel sick
Seconded.
It is perverse to go against one’s religious, political, philosophical and moral beliefs, but wouldn’t I love to see her being kept “awake at night” thinking about her friend, who was dragged by her burqa to the “rural community’s” sharia council.
In 1982, there was only one in the UK (Leyton) and there are now between 30 and 80 (impossible to tell as there are so many “unofficial” councils (please note, councils not courts, which of course they are).
She looks like her head’s been boiled in an ancient tribal ceremony.
Perhaps Guy Gibson’s black Labrador could rise from the dead and bite her on the Arris.
I’m sure that our black Labrador Gibson could be persuaded to do so, if we gave him enough treats.
“Labour would fight for a “progressive vision for the countryside””
Which is, of course, prime agricultural land covered in hail-damaged solar panels and windmills that only deliver power a fraction of the year.
But that’s only our countryside.
The Congolese progressive countryside they’re fighting for is one with its ecology ruined by cobalt and copper mining.
The Chinese progressive countryside they’re fighting for is one rendered uninhabitable from the pollution caused by lithium mining and extraction.
Such vision!
I checked the voting record of Newfoundlands and Labradors:
‘…on 23 May, the Conservatives were revealed to have won Newfoundland and Labrador by 12 votes following a judicial recount. Preliminary results had seen the party lose the seat to the Liberals by the same margin.’
That sounds dead centre to me. My own black labrador was an independent…
Maybe she wishes it never existed and wishes it still doesn’t exist. The Left hate the countryside, they hate rural people and they hate pubs, because they are hard to control, hard to regulate, stubborn, somewhat shambolic and chaotic. The countryside nudges people toward making their own decisions rather than having other people decide things for them. Tradition is more evident in rural areas, and the Left hate tradition. The Left hate family businesses because there are too many of them which makes controlling business harder than dealing with a few big firms.
Spot on.
As always Labour try to make a case with an outdated metaphor rather than a logical, relevant argument..
Whereas at the back of every Labour politician’s mind is the sound of a colliery brass band, marching behind a workers’ banner, with their clogs striking sparks from the cobble stones. Is that ‘far left’ too?
Decent beer served at room temperature, the friendly pub and a black lab are actual memories! Anyone who processes otherwise is living in la-la land.
Straw man. Invent a “far right fantasy” so she can have a go at it.
Beer should be served at cellar temperature – cool – which is fairly constant year round.
Room temperature varies, not least whether the heating is on or the fire lit.
Many places don’t have cellars so have flash-coolers and beer is not dispensed warm.
I wonder if she knows what ale is?
Wonder if she knows what the countryside is
Looking at her constituency, she should do, which makes it even more incomprehensible that she should have been elected to represent it in Parliament.
Ah, the old ‘vote for the local candidate as a proxy for voting for the leader’ issue, we want Starmer -oops, we’ve ended up with this idiot woman.
Im trying to conceptualise how one might go about ‘weaponising the countryside, but I am at a loss. Perhaps what should keep this lady awake is her tendency to talk utter bollocks.
Pitchforks.
Yes please, they don’t like it up ’em.
I guess there is no possibility that she might be pandering to a certain sector of our ‘community’ that don’t like dogs and don’t drink alcohol .. just asking 🤔
She’s obviously never seen the episode of Dad’s Army where the Americans visit an English pub and spit their goddam warm beer out. She was no doubt too busy with her private education and earning her MA in Islamic history to be too concerned at what the plebs do. What she brings to the table as Minister for Nature is beyond me, she would be better off in the Home Office with the other Islamists rather that trying to undermine our way of life.
I thought you were being rather harsh, so Googled her. She is privately educated with a MA in Islamic History! Sometimes real life is more ridiculous than fiction.
It’s probably why she wants to rid the world of dogs and booze!
I’m surprised she didn’t don a burka to make her speech denigrating the rural folk of Britain.
That’s why she’s there
The Suffolk Coastal MP added that Labour would fight for a “progressive vision for the countryside” as it attempts to take on the far-Right.
It’s always interesting to hear from the anglophobes, the anti-whitists, and the haters who repudiate our country. Because we all know that in the mouths of the madleft, “far-right” is code for “fascist” or “Nazi” – meaning that British people who love our country are, according to the “progressive” madleft, evil heretics.
With her double-barreled surname isn’t she trying to rise above her station in the party of the working-class?
‘Was’ the party of the working class – a long time ago…
She was née Riddell now married to a Matthew Riddell-Carpenter, who works in London social housing. I suppose they thought by hyphenating their surnames it might be more egalitarian. Their grandchildren’s offspring won’t thank them for their multiple hyphenated surname…..but we hopefully will have had a common sense reset by then.
Double-barrelled names are frightfully non-U these days…
Apart from those acquired by children whose parents are not married, which seems to be the current route to it.
Possibly not. There seem to be a lot of freshly- hyphenated folk around. Still, she might be old enough not to fit into that category.
Fool. Warm ale? What a horrible idea. Cool ale but not cold beer. If you want Eurofizz then best served icy cold so you can’t taste it so much.
A couple of the (now sadly closed) pubs we used to visit out in rural Bucks served ale straight off the barrel. A warm welcome and cool ale.
For ‘warm’ read ‘room temperature’ – ie not chilled. The ONLY way to enjoy proper beer!
Not room temperature. Cellar cool.
Those pubs I mentioned had landlords and staff trotting up and down the cellar steps for each round of beers. One of them eventually installed beer engines to take the strain off their knees.
Keep it coming. Every hateful vengeance will be repaid in kind. My will and my ability is greater than yours.
And fellow DS Claphamanian comment mentions ww1, god bless their dear souls, they have disgraced you, for that I’m eternally sorry
If her job is to make the case for nature, she can start by opposing the inexorable march of solar panels and wind turbines across our landscape, destroying natural habitats and birds as they go. For centuries, our farmers have been the guarantors of our food supply and guardians of our native flora and fauna, but her government wants to drive them out of existence.
Perhaps her grasp on reality is a fantasy that never really existed?
Bless. The lady isn’t worried about climate change, the energy crisis, the debt crisis, the Russians. Perhaps the black labradors are a closet substitute for the black houseboy of Empire?
All these villages died in the First World War. Of course none of these things that the lady lists are a far-Left caricature.