What we haven’t seen in Britian is a concomitant movement like America’s Tea Party to take back the country from the Marxists.
How about your Countryside Alliance? Is it still in existence? In your opinion, does it have the horsepower to step up and call out the socialists and smash them?
Furthermore, your writing has some snap, crackle and pop. Have you started a blog to inform your fellow Brits?
Blog? Moi?! Nah, there’s plenty of people better at that sort of thing than I am.
A lot of people think we’re cutting too hard and too fast, and they’re the ones mobilizing at the grass roots. Witness this weekend’s protests in London.
Being conservative in the UK does require a lot more patience, and pragmatism. The way it works here is that the lefties get in, fight their ideological wars, spend money they don’t have, near-bankrupt the nation, and then the conservatives have to be “the nasty party” for five years or more to get the finances back on track by which time the Left start arguing “you need us because all these guys are doing is trashing the services you rely on”.
This time round I hope we break that idiotic cycle.
The only reason to have a conservative TPM over here would be to assert the coalition government is not going fast enough and not cutting hard enough, but you do need to remember that this is not the USA and some of the biggest problems we have with public spending, cannot be dealt with in the same way.
The time to really kick off the conservative grass roots revolution will be in autumn 2012 when the cuts are beginning to take effect and we’re riding the euphoria of the Olympics.
The Countryside Alliance is still going, but that’s not where it’s at. You guys have the TEA Party, we have coffee mornings at the community center.
Plus, my MP lives three streets down from me, and if I could throw a baseball straight I could hit him on the head from my bedroom window. If I want to lobby a Tory government I just pester the guy when he’s walking the dog.