British Tea Party

[The Idler]

Daniel Hannan is proposing a British Tea Party (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100025633/time-for-a-british-tea-party/). I can imagine Daily Mail, Daily Express, UKIP and anti-Cameron Tories getting involved in this but then the BNP would try and get involved too. Having said that, I just don't think those groups like co-operating anyway and I can't see it happening.

[ComradeMan]

What is this obsession with tea all of a sudden? Teabagging and tea parties etc... can someone explain?
:D

[Dimentio]

What is this obsession with tea all of a sudden? Teabagging and tea parties etc... can someone explain?
:D

Has to do with the American Revolution. In Britain, such a term would be completely meaningless anyway, as in any other European nation.

[scarletghoul]

ComradeMan, in the US a "tea party" movement has arisen since the election of Obama. Its a right-wing thing for conservative americans who want to resist obama and his nazicommunist reforms. Many of them feel let down by the republican party, for not taking a stronger stance against obamunism. Its all got fascistic and racist undertones (occasionally you see a confused black person there, but its overwhelmingly white) and yeah in short its just an exta-rightwing force for dumb conservative amerikans, with emphasis on traditional Amerikan values (it started as a series of tea parties, in tribute to the Boston Tea Party see).

A UK version would be pretty interesting, but yeah I cant see it having a huge amount of success

[GPDP]

A British Tea Party? I'm not so sure, living in Texas and all, but don't y'all have one like, every day at noon?

[Che a chara]

i'll have a cup with jacob's cream crackers with cheese and tomato please.

lovely jubbly.

[Jazzratt]

A British Tea Party? I'm not so sure, living in Texas and all, but don't y'all have one like, every day at noon?

That is absolutely the case my dear fellow. It's thanks to our noontime tea merriments that all our dentists have been replaced with tea shops.

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On a serious notegiven the history of the term I find the whole thing hilariously ironic. The irony of the TROO BRIT PATRREEAT crowd joining a movement based on the rejection of British rule by a bunch of those "uppity yanks" has enough hilarious irony to keep me giggling for weeks.

[ls]

Ha, did I or did I not say that the Tea Party is more in the line with groups like UKIP and the Tories? They are not "like the BNP" as all the clueless "anti-fascist" idiots keep saying on here, the Tea Party-ers in the USA are just as right-wing conservative as the right-wing of the conservative party and indeed, the majority of UKIP.

What's funny though is like JR pointed out, the irony in the name. I really hope they try this and that it fails spectacularly, that would be hilarious, it could even sidetrack the whole EDL/WDL/SDL movement too.

What's quite typical is them attempting to hijack the left movement against tax, saying that this would be in line with peasants' revolts an the anti-poll tax movement of the 80s, which is hilarious as he'd have been first to be given a seeing to by the crowd.

[The Idler]

That is absolutely the case my dear fellow. It's thanks to our noontime tea merriments that all our dentists have been replaced with tea shops.

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On a serious notegiven the history of the term I find the whole thing hilariously ironic. The irony of the TROO BRIT PATRREEAT crowd joining a movement based on the rejection of British rule by a bunch of those "uppity yanks" has enough hilarious irony to keep me giggling for weeks.
Yeah, wouldn't the modern British government label the Boston Tea Party a terrorist action against one of its colonies? It would demonstrate real political ignorance to use the term "Tea Party" in Britain.

[Kayser_Soso]

The irony is that the Boston Tea Party had nothing to do with anger at "high taxes", as the screaming morons seem to think. In fact it ironically has a lot more to do with the kind of policies the GOP enacts on a regular basis. Namely, the East India Tea Company lobbied parliament for the right to dump their excess tea in the colonies tax free. Previously, Americans had to pay higher prices for English tea and as a result the smuggled Dutch tea was cheaper. With the import taxes removed, East India tea became cheaper than the Dutch tea, and seeing as how some of the American patriots of the era had ties to Dutch tea smuggling, they weren't too happy about that. They felt it was unfair that the East India company was allowed to have a say on tax policy in the parliament while the colonies did not, hence "No Taxation without Representation."

[Lord Testicles]

Daniel Hannan is a fucking blubbering idiot, if anyone listens to him I will buy a hat and eat it.

[Jazzratt]

Daniel Hannan is a fucking blubbering idiot, if anyone listens to him I will buy a hat and eat it.

A certain section of of the people who live around me (and they're an easy section to spot, they have make your fists itchy and don't have a chin amongst them) are responsible for him being an MEP. He appeals to the kind of pointless tory gobshite who join the taxpayer's alliance and prattle endlessly about moving to the channel islands. That and he writes for the telegraph, a paper with a readership so credulous they'd probably lace their own coffee with strychinine if the paper told them it was good for them. (Incidentally if anyone who prints that paper is reading this and wants to do humanity a favour they should test that theory).

[gorillafuck]

Does this mean these people are going to try to secede from British rule?:p

[Lynx]

What is this obsession with tea all of a sudden? Teabagging and tea parties etc... can someone explain?
:D
TEA is sometimes an acronym for Taxed Enough Already!

[The Idler]

The British Tea Party is being launched (http://www.anonym.to/?http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100027366/british-tea-party-movement-to-launch-on-saturday/).

[Red Commissar]

Now the Brits can see what they've been missing out on :laugh:

[AerodynamicOwl]

A British Tea Party? I'm not so sure, living in Texas and all, but don't y'all have one like, every day at noon?


Texas Humor. Infrequent but well worth the wait.

Just kidding. i have nothing bad to say about to your being Texan.*






*-Most days

[Dimentio]

I guess they will serve as LARP's. The British aren't exactly so easily swayed to that sort of stuff as Americans are. Most British workers and underclass are left-wing or at least not tories.

[AerodynamicOwl]

I guess they will serve as LARP's. The British aren't exactly so easily swayed to that sort of stuff as Americans are. Most British workers and underclass are left-wing or at least not tories.

Yet you let the government take not your spirit, but the weapons you as Britons would use to complete (carry out) the revolution.

(sidenote after 4th edit) Weed makes smrt.

[Dimentio]

Hey, I'm not British ^^

[AerodynamicOwl]

Hey, I'm not British ^^

Well take a hop into some british shoes.

In my view, Britons are at least in the communist community, fairly educated.
they might not fall for that sort of "theres wmds in iraq" sort of thing. The government controls the Britons through physical means, no right to bear any useful arm, etc etc.

Americas founding principles however started as a radical christian group. obviously we as a country felt a need to be able to defend themselves from other people and most importantly the government. Its ingrained everywhere. Americans love guns. So the government lets us retain our guns, in exchange for brainwashing us to believe whatever fits the need.

[La Comédie Noire]

Hey, I'm not British ^^

I would have thought you were British too, what with your polite yet witty condescension.

[Dimentio]

I would have thought you were British too, what with your polite yet witty condescension.

I'm a britophile, that's why ^^

[AerodynamicOwl]

I'm a britophile, that's why ^^


Scared of Britons? ..May i ask you wtf?? ;)

Excuse mah misunderstanding of the quoted text

[Jia]

Scared of Britons? ..May i ask you wtf?? ;)

If he had Britphobia he would be scared.

[bailey_187]

Scared of Britons? ..May i ask you wtf?? ;)

No, he loves us, not hates us

[revolution inaction]

Yet you let the government take not your spirit, but the weapons you as Britons would use to complete (carry out) the revolution.

(sidenote after 4th edit) Weed makes smrt.

so the american people are allowed weapons that would be effective against the us military?

[The Idler]

Apart from the installation of David Cameron in 10 Downing Street, I can't imagine what the aims of Mr Hannan's neo-con 'tea party' are. Perhaps he does not think the original 'tea party' went far enough and he would like to see the United Kingdom's subjugation to US power proceed to its logical conclusion. In any case I think I'll sit this one out, thanks all the same Mr Hannan and Mrs Palin.

Posted by: 'R' | 02 March 2010 at 05:15 PM (http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2010/03/travelling.html?cid=6a00d8341c565553ef01310f538854 970c#comment-6a00d8341c565553ef01310f538854970c)
It would seem revlefters aren't the only ones to think a British Tea Party is a bit of an oxymoron.

[The Douche]

so the american people are allowed weapons that would be effective against the us military?

We can own semi-automatic rifles with large cpacity magazines (though not in every state). It is also legal to own fully automatic weapons, though there is an intense paper work and and vetting program for this, and the weapons must be made/imported prior to 1986 (I think thats the year) so they are quite expensive.

However, you guys can freely purchse a surpessor, but they are strictly regulated in the US.

I, for instance, own two semi auto AK 47s.

[Qwerty Dvorak]

The nutjob right in England are really crawling out of the woodwork lately. Nigel Farage of UKIP made a show of himself trolling the European Parliament a few days ago.

I think if the Tories get into power Dan Hannan will end up in UKIP. Once Cameron actually has to run the country he will be a lot less eager to abandon Europe than Hannan is.