Thread: Exciting News!!!

It was so exciting to hear Daniel Hannan on the Neil Cavuto Show say that England was going to have its first Tea Party! He was even quoting his favorite President Ronald Reagan! Article follows::P :P :P :P

'Brighton Tea Party': Tea Party Movement Spreads To Britain

There's a 'tea party' in Britain this Saturday. The Sarah Palin kind.

British Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan is looking to bring the anti-tax, anti-big government fervor embodied by the American Tea Party movement across the Atlantic by hosting the inaugural "British Tea Party" event in, of all places, his home in Brighton. And, yes, Hannan promises he will be actually serving "you know, tea."

Hannan explained his motivation on his blog at the Telegraph:

Labour has raised more than a trillion pounds in additional taxation since 1997. Yet, unbelievably, Gordon Brown has still managed to run up a deficit of 12.6 per cent of GDP (Greece's is 12.7 per cent). A far lower level of taxation brought Americans out in spontaneous protest last year.

The "Brighton Tea Party," as the event is known, is backed by the Freedom Association, a libertarian group that counts Hannan as a member. The American Tea Party movement has sent out an email promoting the British Tea Party. The email reveals they are also helping to organize the event.

In addition to being anti-tax and a vocal Eurospectic, Hannan is also well known for his outspoken criticism of publicly funded health care. Last summer he appeared on Fox News to bash proposals to fix the US health care system as well as rail against Britain's health services.

In an interview with EUObserver about the event, Hannan said he believes the Tea Party movement could have "enormous resonance across the EU."

"The paradox is that the US Tea Party movement is inspired by the slogan 'No taxation without representation' and they do actually elect their representatives. In the EU, there genuinely is taxation without representation," he told the EUObserver.
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Huffpost Social News

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/2 ... 78684.html

Neil Cavuto just had a interview with him at about 4:50 this afternoon.
Related from the telegraph.uk site: http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-189503.html