Posted on 10/05/2010 6:09:07 PM PDT by JSDude1
Daniel Hannan Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist, and has been Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999. He speaks French and Spanish and loves Europe, but believes that the EU is making its constituent nations poorer, less democratic and less free. He is the winner of the Bastiat Award for online journalism. The Tea Party is more dangerous than the BNP, says Labour MP
By Daniel Hannan Politics Last updated: September 29th, 2010
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Lower taxes? I don't think so. Watch this clip. John Cruddas, the conscience of Old Labour, comes across as a decent enough sort until right at the end, when he says something utterly extraordinary: “What worries me more [than the BNP] is the English Defence League because they are tied into key elements of what could be a prospective Tea Party”. What? What?
Mr Cruddas may have expressed himself poorly but, if we take him literally, he is saying that the Tea Party is worse than the BNP.
Where to start? The BNP is statist, authoritarian and racist. It might just as well be called far Left as far Right, favouring as it does higher taxes, workers’ co-operatives, protectionism and the nationalisation of industry (see here).
The Tea Party stands for the opposite of all those things.
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GO DANIEL-You ought to organise one, oh and include the Ukip as well.-From an American..
The BNP sounds like a National Soialist Party to me.
Yep.
John Cruddas is more dangerous than Gerhard Schroeder, Jacques Chirac, and Massimo D’Alema combined.
High treason against your own country for petro-KGB riches.
High level multi-decade petro-political slush funding.
High level Fabian Marxist.
That is the Cruddas as I know him.
He doesn’t drink the Kool-Aid, he mixes the punch.
Yep. That’s why I warn about getting too excited about “right wing” parties in europe. It seldom means the same thing it does here.
Labour Party and most of their MPs are puppets for the Saudis and their invasion.
but their media calls us “far right” and they get the idea we’re like the BNP. That explains a lot I think.
All due respect to Her majesty and Her majesty’s government. Just having a bit of fun with Cousin Simpleton...
BNP is closer to the inter-war Popular Front in France.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_%28France%29
That is, they are far far Left as defined by European Continental and British political terms as generally accepted.
Bunch of drunk apes without a hope or prayer they will live as well as their parents’ generation. Will get ugly as the UK goes through the 2nd and 3rd and 4th rounds of austerity measures in the coming 5 years.
After watching the Conservative Party’s annual conference live on telegraph.co.uk today, I’d say there isn’t a hope or prayer the Con-Clegg coalition is going to survive the first bloody street riots.
The Tories were stupid to go into a coalition at all. THEY will now end up being blamed for the Great Fall thats about to happen.
Maybe after the tories/conservatives fall, then UKip will get some traction as it is a geninue conservative/libertarian pp.
Maybe, if it gets the right leaders
Hannan could easily win a Senatorial seat or a Governorship here in the USA.
He doesn’t even need to be a US citizen - after all, it worked for Obama!
In America, "royalty" and "authoritarianism" always have something to do with the Democrat party.
Still, there's a traditional nationalism that Europeans have regarding quite small chunks of territory, and whoever gets a trip on it can have quite a political ride.
European nationalism may or may not have anything to do with royalty, authoritarianism or any other "ism".
They are. Nevertheless, since they're not going anywhere; there's thankfully little cause to worry about them.
> Tea Party is worse than the BNP.
BNP? Bank Nationale de Paris?
Very, very interesting. I did not know that such an award existed. Thank for posting. Interesting/educational thread. Thanks to all posters.
That this perfectly true statement is "controversial" says it all about Europe today.
From the viewpoint of European socialism, this is quite true. Fascism would preserve all the statist mechanisms that the EU has set up. For an EU bureaucrat, a movement dedicated to liberty would be far more radical and dangerous.
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