What will the left do now?

[Young Master Smeet]

This is a telling story:

https://theconversation.com/instead-of-condemning-kenyas-violent-elections-britain-pleads-to-be-remembered-86711

Quote:

In the penultimate week of October, I attended a reception for African ambassadors held in the palatial surroundings of Lancaster House. Kenya was not even mentioned in passing.

Instead, the UK’s Minister for Africa, Rory Stewart, spent his time smoothly explaining why one minister for Africa now reports to two ministries, the Department for International Development and the Foreign Office. What was clearly an economic measure was spun as a happy marriage in which aid and foreign policy could go hand in hand.

But Stewart himself admitted that aid would in future no longer demarcate the UK’s approach to Africa. In a candid but elegant statement, he said that the time would come when Africa would be richer, or at least more economically dynamic, than the UK – and implicitly pleaded with the ambassadors to make sure Africa remembers the UK when that day comes.

Not only does the UK not feel it has any capacity (or is it desire) to interfere in the instability in Kenya, but clearly feels itself waning to the point of pitifulness.

So, the left might soon have to stop putting 'Anti-Imperialism' at the forefront of its agenda (although many will probably turn pro-China).

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