Friday, June 12, 2020

Why the Conservative Party adores Australia

Although its members occasionally launch into “Land of Hope and Glory”, the Conservative Party lacks an official anthem. “Australia”, a song by The Kinks released in 1969, would be a good pick. It satirises the aspirations of the “ten-pound poms” who took up the offer of cut-rate passage out of stuffy post-war Britain for a new life by the beach: “No class distinction, no drug addiction… No one hesitates at life or beats around the bush in Australia.”
https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/06/11/why-the-conservative-party-adores-australia


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