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Who’d've Thunk It? Brits Launch Their Own Tea Party

By: scipio62 (Diary)  |  February 26th, 2010 at 04:00 PM  | 

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Promoted from the diaries by Caleb. Very interesting.

The “Boston Tea Party” was one of the catalysts that led to America’s breakaway from Great Britain. How ironic is this: “British Tea Party Movement to launch on Saturday“. Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, who has frequently been on Fox News and talk radio, is encouraging people to go to Brighton for the event. He lays out the case:

Labour has raised more than a trillion pounds in additional taxation since 1997. Yet, unbelievably, Gordon Brown has still managed to run up a deficit of 12.6 per cent of GDP (Greece’s is 12.7 per cent). A far lower level of taxation brought Americans out in spontaneous protest last year.

He adds this:

Oh, and this being England, we’ll be serving actual, you know, tea.

In case you don’t remember or know who Hannan is, this video should serve as a tour de force for conservatives:

(Hat tip: Hot Air Headlines)

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  • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

    …then you’ll know something game-changing is afoot.

    (HT to nessa: Time for the Redstate Resolves?)

    I wonder if Melanie Phillips will show up in Brighton tomorow – haven’t seen her mention it yet in her blog.

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com Beaglescout

    The expenses scandal (a minor thing that Rangel would have covered up before lunch in the US congress) has been a firestorm in the UK. I’d love for the english people to rise up against the government that treats them like interlopers in their own country, while discriminating in favor of imported jihadist “refugees” who leech off the welfare system and refuse to work, except at crime.

    Maybe this is the beginning.

    • redneck_hippie
      • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com Beaglescout

        It makes every transaction along the path of distribution less profitable, and thereby strangles the free market. That’s why Pelosi wants it and we need to fight it like the plague.

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    I’d love it if the called it the Earl Grey Society. I’m sure they will have it worse than ours because the government has more police power in GB. It would be easier to intimidate them using nightsticks if they made Labour really get nervous.

  • earlgrey

    Nt

  • http://www.ArchitecturalShots.com mdyou

    …Rubio has the potential to be this powerful. Palin has it. Fred Thompson has it, but I don’t know what happened to that. We have the folks. Let’s GET THEM OUT THERE.

  • Raven

    I’ve been following him ever since that little speech and he hasn’t let up.

  • Doc Holliday

    instead of that squish Cameron.

  • saterp

    Too bad Mr. Hannan can’t run for our Presidency, he’s got cajones.

  • kcdude

    which came after his speech ripping Brown, he was still an Obama supporter. I just do not know about him.

    • Doc Holliday

      I have heard Hannan speak a lot, I have never heard him say he supported Obama. He probably doesn’t want to personally criticize a foreign ally’s leader, but since Brown is just like Obama, I doubt Hannan thinks much of The One.

      • scipio62

        …but was respectful in saying he didn’t want Obama to fail.

        It looks like even that respect is gone: per Allahpundit, Hannan is not at all happy about Obama not recognizing Britain’s sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.

        • kcdude

          I am really not trying to be argumentative but I recall that he supported Obama in the election. I remember this because I thought it was inconsistent to rip Brown the way he did and to support Obama. If you do a search with his name and the phrase “Why I’m for Barack Obama” you can read it for yourself. Maybe he has come to his senses – so to speak – but he struck me at the time of the ripping of Brown as an opportunist – not a true conservative.

          • earlgrey

            He did support Obama in the election. He thought Obama would be better for international relations. I am not sure that has turned out all that favorably for the Brits either.

          • Doc Holliday

            I did find an article where Hannan said he supported Obama over McCain. His argument was personal in that Hannan is anti-EU and McCain said he was pro EU. Being pro EU is being not just pro big government but pro Supranational big government. Since Hannan is a member of the Euro parliament, this is very personal to him. He is doing what we can’t get our own Repubs to do, he won election to a government he wants to weaken.

            So you were technically right he did support Obama over McCain in 2008. Here is Hannan’s latest mention of Obama, it is far from flattering. BTW, no way Hannan is not a true conservative, he would make many of our own Repubs blush. He is pro capitalism, anti-socialized medicine (in a nation that cherishes it) and he wants to restore individual rights to the once Great, Britain.

            http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100027538/barack-obama-refuses-to-take-sides-between-britain-and-the-anti-yanquistas/

          • rbdwiggins

            he supported Obama for President.

            That was before…

            He has since admitted that he suffers from a severe case of buyer’s remorse.

            Those aren’t his exact words, but that was the message he conveyed during an interview aired on Hannity.

            I remember the interview, but I don’t have a link.

  • http://erickbrockway.wordpress.com/ Erick Brockway

    it seems the room is empty?
    Hundreds of empty desks, those MPs run and hide when he comes around or what?

    • rbdwiggins

      And they aren’t “man enough” to face the truth.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    This guy Hannan should be prime minister. If there was ever a nation that needed a little bit of revolt from the common folk it is Great Britain.

  • animatorgirl

    I hope it catches on in Britain. What a pleasure it would be to see that strangest of species, the rare British conservative, out marching in the streets. To see such a thing in a socialist state would be a sign that all is not yet lost.

  • Castor

    Nuff?Said

  • http://www.conservative-compendium.com brian_garst

    Then consider that there’s also been tea party activity spotted in Russia

  • hickorystick
  • Tbone

    Until he admits he was an idiot, he has zero credibility

  • spepper

    better late than never– here’s hoping it’s not too late for our cousins across the pond–

    Luke: “Father, I’m not going to leave you here! I’ve got to save you!”

    Vader/Anakin once again: “You already have, my son– you already have”

    • earlgrey

      I wonder if the tea party in England will give the movement here some added credebility with the skeptical public.