Posted on 05/25/2009 6:29:29 PM PDT by JSDude1
This has never happened before: I had nearly completed a piece for Pajamas Media and then realized it was totally out of date within forty-eight hours.
I had been trying to posit that British society is not conducive to the tea party movement that has been sweeping America. First, this is a small nation without recent experience of throwing off a colonial power. Some would argue that the brave defeat of Hitler by the British nation led by Winston Churchill was the ultimate spurning of a conqueror; the American tea party campaign is a peacetime social movement and obviously harks back to the overthrow of the colonial mother country.
Until yesterday my analysis of why there are no anti-big-government tea party brigades pitching their tents across the British Isles emanated from my conclusion that football and cricket results are of much more importance to its citizens
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I'd like to ask a question to the British Patrons/Freeiends here? What are the Chance of this..since I know that the Tories are implicated as well (though not as bad as Labour). Will the fringe small-gov parties pick up votes as a result..?
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Is that you, Jean (Garofalo)??
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