UKIP is an actual party. Immigration is a central concept to UKIP. The UKIP is strongly nationalistic and contends that both legal and illegal immigration have changed British culture. The UKIP wants out of the EU. Smaller government is a secondary concern to UKIP.
The TEA party is a voting block, not a party. It is focused on a smaller government. Immigration is an issue in that illegal aliens are provided with unfunded benefits that cost the taxpayer more money. Nationalism is only an issue if it is in regards to smaller government and less taxes.
The two are not alike at all.
Many, especially those on the left and the liberal Media think that the Tea Party is a political party, which as you said is not. They don’t get that there is a big difference between an actual party like UKIP and a voting block or idea like the Tea Party.
Legal immigration costs the taxpayers far more money than illegal aliens. And legal immigrants vote two to one Democrat and favor Big Government to a far greater extent than the native born. The Tea Party should learn from UKIP on the issue of legal immigration that takes American jobs and depresses wages.
USA needs Powerful 3rd Party—Need Liberty Party to grow out of Tea Party-—No more 3rd party wasts votes talk—That Mantra doen’t reflect the new Obama America. People supported Nut case Ross Perot because of NAFTA and “read my Lips” Bush—We gots a whole lot more now! The RINO-Republicans caving into the Progressives and MSM. Who really runs the US? The New Your Times Newspaper? CBS NEWS? Saturday Night Live? Jon Stewart?
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