Tea Party Floating Over to the UK?

Apparently some early signs are starting to pop up. I truly hope you guys don't get your own Tea Party. Seriously, you do not want ANY of this shit we're dealing with over here.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2 ... pe=article

I really hope we don't get the UK version of the Tea Party. We already suffer from far-right parties let alone the Tea Party.

The Tea Party is annoying but small, like a fly. They are just well concentrated and can get everyone in the movement to show up.

Though they might be small and concentrated I still think they pose a threat, we tend to lean right. If you need proof just look at the BNP, we like our far-right.

They're loud, not strong. More bark then bite, etc. There is always a Tea-Party esque movement everywhere, and only in extreme situations do they have any effect.

We like our right wing over here, sadly. The Tea Party seems to shout the loudest and have less bite, though with this debt thing it seems they are getting more power and influence. I hope we don't get the Tea Party over here, we've got enough antics courtesy of David Cameron and friends.

The US is more right wing than an amputee albatross, so when you remember the Democrat Party is more right than our Conservatives I'm not overly worried about the Tea Party doing anything in the UK.

Looks like the tea is finally floating back over.

I don´t like the Tea Party either (because of it´s paleo-conservatism and it´s religious fundamentalism), but I don´t see them as far-right. Conservatism is not the far-right. They are not the brown shirts or the black shirts of Mussolini. I never heard them use physical violence.

I think you are exageratting a bit. The Tea Party was a reaction to Obama having been elected has president, but that doesn´t mean that they are all Republicans. i think people were not expecting the pro-socialist policies of Obama, that hurted many kinds of people, including people who are Independent from the two parties.

I also don´t like the term "teabagger". I try to respect my political adversaries (except if they use huge verbal attacks and promote hate and violence) at the maximum. They are my political adversaries, not my enemies.

:lol: That is just to fucking funny. Obama's policies have been as center right as you can get, nothing but fucking compromising in favor of the Republicans.

Obama is not supposed to babysit Congress, he's supposed to preside over the nation. His agenda, though certainly not complete, has actually been put into action. People fucking dog on him all the time because they expect him to have power over things he has no power over and to stand firm where he's not even supposed to be standing. Given his actual limits in the office Obama has been more than competent as a Democratic president, and insofar as the American political system is concerned (which is the only one that we should even be talking about when discussing the President) he's a leftist.

Don't get me wrong, I didn't really expect much from him from the start. Hell, hes actually done BETTER than I expected.
But even you have to agree that the idea of his policies being "pro-socialist" is just plain stupid.

It´s not stupid. If you compare the policies of Obama with the the various social democratic (social democracy is the moderate form of socialism, which repulses the anti-democratic soviet-style socialist regime , which is a more radical form of socialism) parties of Europe, they are extremely indenticall.

Obama is a socialist, but a moderate socialist, not an orthodox one.

Expandic public healthcare (something which I personally I´m not against, because I believe free healthcare is a human right), the rise of federal spending, the stimulus packages, the rising of the connection between certain trade unions and the state, etc.

If that is not a form of socialism, I dont know what is.

And we cant forget that the debt got higher in the USA (something that happened also in countries governed by social democratic parties, like Portugal, Spain and Greece, due to simillar policies.)

Italy is facing debt problems too, and guess who's been presiding over it. The right wing Berlusconi. It's unfair to blame the left for such issues when the right is perfectly capable of causing these as well. Bush was also a right wing president and US debt increased.

Sorry to tell you crocve, but social democrats stopped being socialists a long time ago. The only purpose they serve now days is to make capitalism more humane.

I can't believe that people are saying the Tea Party is "all bark and no bite," especially after what just happened with the debt ceiling crisis. THEY GOT ALMOST EVERYTHING THEY WANTED.

So a Republican majority in the House was a fluke? It had absolutely nothing to do with the Tea Party?

They consider themselves socialists.

Only in the time back of the 19th early 20th century.