Posted on 01/04/2014 3:10:48 PM PST by RoosterRedux
The often stale British political system is being rocked by its very own Tea Party.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP), formed in 1993 opposing Britain’s entry into the European Union, failed to make an electoral dent for a long time. However UKIP has built up steam in recent years and is spearheading a seismic shift in the British political spectrum.
In this year’s local elections – the British version of midterms -- UKIP took a stunning 23 percent of the vote, up from the 3.1 percent they won in the 2010 national election. Their leader, Nigel Farage, is buoyed by their recent success.
“We want to take back our country, we want to take back our government, and we want to take back our birthright,” Farage told FoxNews.com in forthright language rarely seen in British politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The UKIP may well be the wave of the future for England—In truth they are the New Tories—just as the American Tea Party is the true Republicans.
“...sans Hawaii, San Francisco and Manhatten.”
And Seattle.
BTTT
Sounds promising. I hope they succeed.
He’s pretty good!
Dear God, that's clever.
Yeah, check out more of his rants from the EU parliament on Youtube. The guy is FEARLESS.
Bump!
“The sense of frustration the Tea Party feels about the remoteness about the bureaucratic class of the Washington beltway is similar to our frustration with being dealt with by Brussels.” - Nigel Farage, UK Independence Party
Despite its recent progress, UKIP will not become a realistic option for a governing party as long as it remains such a one-man show. Britons have traditionally been wary of political movements centred on a single leader, however impressive: and the more charismatic that leader, the more sceptical we tend to be. Only when UKIP builds a second rank of leadership which has politicians of substance in their own right, credible as future ministers, will it break through an electoral threshold. Unfortunately, UKIP spokesmen other than Farage have hitherto tended to be risibly weak.
Maybe he’ll be the British UKIP’s version of Ted Cruz! (or Mike Lee and Rand Paul, others)
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