British Right Warns against Left-Looking “Conservatives”
The British Right had to abandon the mainstream Tory or Conservative party when it started looking indistinguishable from all the other liberal parties on the Left and their store front allies posing as centrists.
Leader Nigel Farage actually had to form the UK Independence Party back in 1993 to offer the only cogent opposition to Britain’s almost unchallenged entry into the big government and socialistic European Union, headquartered in faraway Brussels, Europe’s Washington, DC.
The European Union threatened to marginalize the national identities of individual countries, including all versions of history and tradition that didn’t fit the one-state concept of fiscal blending. In the recent FoxNews report “Britain’s version of Tea Party rocks political system across the pond“ Adam Shaw points out that “In this year’s local elections – the British version of midterms — UKIP took a stunning 23 percent of the vote, up from the 3.1 percent they won in the 2010 national election.”
Shaw argues that “the party has been revitalized, capitalizing on dissatisfaction with the Conservative Party’s shift to the center under current Prime Minister David Cameron.”
Cameron, of course, would be labeled a RINO in America today–that is, not at all conservative despite his party’s label: “Cameron has radically overhauled the ‘Tories,’ embracing nationalized health care, fighting for gay marriage, and changing the party logo from the flame of liberty to an environmentally conscious tree. This, UKIP argues, makes them indistinguishable from the left-wing Labour Party and Liberal Democrats.”
Farage and his party are on the move in Britain, not by being content to become a marginalized opposition within the Conservative Party, but by forging a new party. While Democrats in America moved unabashedly to the Left under Obama, purging real conservatives, Tea Party Republicans have struggled to get their voices fairly heard in the liberal American media news and entertainment nexus.
Does anybody believe that the GOP can really get beyond its Cameron-like standard bearers like McCain and Romney?
