UKIP (UK's tea party) sets out election strategy with plans to cut taxes, gov't spending, foreign

[pampango]

aid and abolish the Climate Change Act.

MEP Tim Aker, head of the party's policy unit, told current affairs magazine Prospect the plans were part of a "blue-collar platform".

Meanwhile, Mr Aker also told Prospect magazine that UKIP's election manifesto would include plans to cut government spending, saying foreign aid was "an obvious target".

The party would also block new migrants from claiming benefits until they had paid tax and national insurance for five years.

A pledge to abolish the Climate Change Act was also in place, Mr Aker said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28876122

Yeah, that sounds like a real 'blue collar platform'. Of course, UKIP wants the UK out of the EU just like our tea partyers want the US out of the UN.

[flamingdem]

1. Unfortunately Ukip will use the Isis threat to gain support

for their far right agenda. Yeech. Saw lots of Ukip signs all over England on a visit.

[BaggersRDumb]

2. So this deep sickness of hate and intolerance and ignorance, aka Teaparty, is growing?

[pampango]

3. Right wing populist parties did very well in the EU parliament elections in May.

Why U.S. White Supremacists Are Ecstatic Over European Election Results

Burghart pointed to several emergent themes including: "1) nationalist, anti-globalist arguments in the age of austerity and financial turmoil, 2) anti-immigrant politics as a winning message, and 3) the necessity of a white electoral strategy here at home."

According to Burghart, "For years, far right activists in the United States, particularly those interested in mainstreaming their particular brand of bigotry in the political arena, have looked to Europe as a source of hope and inspiration. They have also developed long-standing multilateral relationships with their European counterparts."

The "European right-wing comes of age," declared the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC), one of the largest white nationalist groups in the United States. "Folks, I'm here to tell you that this week's election results in Europe have given me a lot of hope," proclaimed Tennessee white nationalist talk show host, James Edwards. The Virginia white nationalist think-tank, American Renaissance, called the elections "a promising shift to the Right" and hoped that "we are perhaps seeing the first rays of a new dawn after a long night."

David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and former Republican Louisiana State Representative, went straight to the anti-Semitic card. Duke wrote that, "the results of European Parliament elections held last week have at last shown that in many parts of Europe, resistance to the ideologies enforced by Jewish Supremacists — mass immigration and globalization — are being decisively rejected."

http://www.alternet.org/world/us-white-supremacists-are-ecstatic-over-european-election-results-empowered-far-right