Narendra Modi has been re-elected as Indian PM this week although with a reduced majority. His BJP party can be characterised as far right to fascist, although India itself is not a fascist State. It is in fact one of the world’s biggest and fastest growing economies, albeit a country with huge disparities of wealth.
In a global market economy trade with India is not just unavoidable but important. However that is different to the welcome that both the Tories and Labour gave to Modi’s re-election.
Its a reminder that when it comes to the West and perhaps in particular the UK and US it is not the unpleasantness of the politician that dictates sentiment but whether they represent something that is found to be useful.
A reminder too of the line from the Clash’s White Man in Hammersmith Palais:
If Adolf Hitler flew in tonight they send the limousine anyway
Modi is not Hitler btw, the line remains a to the point comment on who the West does business with if it fits.
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