Why the Conservative Party adores Australia
The explanation for rampant Ozophilia
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.”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The Tories’ promised land”
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