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The Third Man

09-10-10 02:42 PM

Could the Tea Party protest movement be on its way to a fed-up Britain?

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Britain could import the ‘insurgency’ tactics of the ‘Tea Party’ movement where government attempts to impose higher taxes have led to mass protests and threatened to derail conventional politics.
The UK-based Taxpayers Alliance held talks with the FreedomWorks movement at a conference for right wing campaign groups in London.

A new wave of ‘Tea Party’ protests, named after the uprising against the British state’s imposition of tax on tea imports to America in 1773

Tribesman

09-10-10 02:58 PM

So it would be a conservative group together with a conservative group each filled with conservative politicians and conservative party members protesting against errrr.....the conservative government and conservative party they belong to.:doh:

STEED

09-10-10 03:48 PM

Hardly...Most people rather watch Eastenders. :nope:

Most of the population can not make the effort to see there Member of Parliament.

Oberon

09-10-10 04:17 PM

Naah, and if it does it's hardly going to be as vocal and thread derailing as the US version.

TarJak

09-10-10 04:27 PM

How soon people forget:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...rotests466.jpg

Oberon

09-10-10 04:47 PM

Yeah, but that was before mass mass-media and the death of the intelligence of the general public.
It would be good to have protests on that scale again (although I do pity the poor coppers stuck in the middle of it) but even then...would the government listen? Would it heck as like!
Nope, we're stuck with it unfortunately.

TarJak

09-10-10 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1490046)

Like any elected officials if enough protest is raised and they risk losing power then they listen.

Oberon

09-10-10 04:59 PM

I dunno Tarjak, I'd like to believe that's true...but things just aren't as united in the United Kingdom as they used to be. Maybe I'll be surprised, who knows, but even the Mayday parades are quiet affairs these days, probably because of the extremely heavy police presence.

TarJak

09-10-10 05:05 PM

I've never thought of the poms as a complacent bunch once thier ire gets raised. I live with one so I should know.http://www.millan.net/minimations/sm...odkavelarg.gif

Oberon

09-10-10 05:12 PM

Oh, when we get going there's not much to stop us....

It's just getting us going. I think a lot of people are angry...but not angry enough to risk being labeled a terrorist or put on a criminal records list.

TarJak

09-10-10 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1490065)

Aye maybe that is the difference between 2010 and 1990. In 1990 anarchy was still alive and well in the UK. In 2010 it gets picked up by MI6 and disappears or labelled terrorism.:damn:

gimpy117

09-10-10 05:38 PM

god i hope not.

Tribesman

09-10-10 05:42 PM

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How soon people forget:

But freedom works and the tax alliance are the very people who would be in favour of that poll tax the rest of the country went mad against

The Third Man

09-10-10 07:28 PM

So Brits are lazy, about themselves and their government.

Gerald

09-10-10 07:52 PM

Tea Party belongs to U.S

http://imgur.com/p80XJ.jpg

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