It’s as good an indicator as you’ll find of this government’s asinine attitude to rural Britain that you’re reading a piece in which a Spectator writer semi-seriously considers the far-right credentials of various dog breeds. How right-wing is your dog? in itself sounds like one of Alan Partridge’s increasingly desperate pitches for a new TV show.
Pity the poor black Lab, for it’s these harmless thickos of the dog world that have aroused Labour’s ire. You’ll no doubt be aware that earlier this week, Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nature, told a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference that the far-right at the next election would weaponise a nostalgic vision of Britain ‘that we don’t want to have [and] never really existed’.
