Pro-cuts activists to rally against debt
Discussion
So anyone from PH planning to attend the demo below?
"Hundreds of pro-cuts activists are expected to descend on Westminster on Saturday to "rally against debt", in the first sign of a radical Tea Party-style mass movement to challenge the anti-cuts lobby.
The protest will be attended by an alliance of rightwing and libertarian activists including members of the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA), the anti-Europe UK Independence party and the Freedom Association, a libertarian pressure group set up by Norris McWhirter, better known for co-founding the Guinness Book of Records.
More than 1,000 people have indicated online that they plan to attend and many said they believed the government was not cutting public spending deeply enough. The Conservative MPs Priti Patel and Bill Cash and the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, are due to make speeches, and Toby Young, the broadcaster and free school pioneer, said he would attend.
The action comes amid a growing interest among rightwing groups in learning from the US Tea Party movement, which has mobilised hundreds of thousands of activists to march against Barack Obama's policies. Electoral Commission records show that in March Ukip activists registered the name Tea Party as a political party. It is not yet active but they said they could field candidates in general elections, byelection or local elections."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/13/pro...
"Hundreds of pro-cuts activists are expected to descend on Westminster on Saturday to "rally against debt", in the first sign of a radical Tea Party-style mass movement to challenge the anti-cuts lobby.
The protest will be attended by an alliance of rightwing and libertarian activists including members of the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA), the anti-Europe UK Independence party and the Freedom Association, a libertarian pressure group set up by Norris McWhirter, better known for co-founding the Guinness Book of Records.
More than 1,000 people have indicated online that they plan to attend and many said they believed the government was not cutting public spending deeply enough. The Conservative MPs Priti Patel and Bill Cash and the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, are due to make speeches, and Toby Young, the broadcaster and free school pioneer, said he would attend.
The action comes amid a growing interest among rightwing groups in learning from the US Tea Party movement, which has mobilised hundreds of thousands of activists to march against Barack Obama's policies. Electoral Commission records show that in March Ukip activists registered the name Tea Party as a political party. It is not yet active but they said they could field candidates in general elections, byelection or local elections."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/13/pro...
Fittster said:
So anyone from PH planning to attend the demo below?
"Hundreds of pro-cuts activists are expected to descend on Westminster on Saturday to "rally against debt", in the first sign of a radical Tea Party-style mass movement to challenge the anti-cuts lobby.
The protest will be attended by an alliance of rightwing and libertarian activists including members of the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA), the anti-Europe UK Independence party and the Freedom Association, a libertarian pressure group set up by Norris McWhirter, better known for co-founding the Guinness Book of Records.
More than 1,000 people have indicated online that they plan to attend and many said they believed the government was not cutting public spending deeply enough. The Conservative MPs Priti Patel and Bill Cash and the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, are due to make speeches, and Toby Young, the broadcaster and free school pioneer, said he would attend.
The action comes amid a growing interest among rightwing groups in learning from the US Tea Party movement, which has mobilised hundreds of thousands of activists to march against Barack Obama's policies. Electoral Commission records show that in March Ukip activists registered the name Tea Party as a political party. It is not yet active but they said they could field candidates in general elections, byelection or local elections."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/13/pro...
Have they considered hard working families?"Hundreds of pro-cuts activists are expected to descend on Westminster on Saturday to "rally against debt", in the first sign of a radical Tea Party-style mass movement to challenge the anti-cuts lobby.
The protest will be attended by an alliance of rightwing and libertarian activists including members of the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA), the anti-Europe UK Independence party and the Freedom Association, a libertarian pressure group set up by Norris McWhirter, better known for co-founding the Guinness Book of Records.
More than 1,000 people have indicated online that they plan to attend and many said they believed the government was not cutting public spending deeply enough. The Conservative MPs Priti Patel and Bill Cash and the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, are due to make speeches, and Toby Young, the broadcaster and free school pioneer, said he would attend.
The action comes amid a growing interest among rightwing groups in learning from the US Tea Party movement, which has mobilised hundreds of thousands of activists to march against Barack Obama's policies. Electoral Commission records show that in March Ukip activists registered the name Tea Party as a political party. It is not yet active but they said they could field candidates in general elections, byelection or local elections."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/13/pro...
EDLT said:
I thought the US Tea Party movement was just a bunch of spackers wanting to see Obama's birth certificate with some occasional moaning about death panels.
How unlike the left to avoid the thrust of the argument and go straight for the ad hominems. 
And you're off-message. I believe that "wingnuts" is the acceptable derogatory term, "spackers" is distincly un-PC.
Fittster said:
Puggit said:
Saw this quote on another forum:
I wouldn't attend, because I don't buy the idea that vocal minorities should set policies when we have already expressed our views in elections.
So all decisions taken by the government are correct for the majority of the population?I wouldn't attend, because I don't buy the idea that vocal minorities should set policies when we have already expressed our views in elections.
Willie Dee said:
EDLT said:
I thought the US Tea Party movement was just a bunch of spackers wanting to see Obama's birth certificate with some occasional moaning about death panels.
They are, its backfired immensely on the Republicans.I don't follow US politics because apparently I'm a raging lefty
Good to see.
Better still if they manage somehow to educate the masses on how this country came to be in such an appalling position. There are even posts on here from people who don't get it, in spite of numerous threads with many posts explaining what went on under Bliar and Clown.
Then again the deluded left must remain deluded or there'd be nothing left.
Better still if they manage somehow to educate the masses on how this country came to be in such an appalling position. There are even posts on here from people who don't get it, in spite of numerous threads with many posts explaining what went on under Bliar and Clown.
Then again the deluded left must remain deluded or there'd be nothing left.
Thanks for pointing this out - I may well go, sounds a great idea.
Although I do hope that this doesn't get taken over by nutters like the Tea Party movement did. We're pretty fortunate in that unlike America we don't realy HAVE right wing nutters (gold standard-ists, creationists, birthers etc) like they do in America but still pays to be cautious.
Although I do hope that this doesn't get taken over by nutters like the Tea Party movement did. We're pretty fortunate in that unlike America we don't realy HAVE right wing nutters (gold standard-ists, creationists, birthers etc) like they do in America but still pays to be cautious.
EDLT said:
I thought the US Tea Party movement was just a bunch of spackers wanting to see Obama's birth certificate with some occasional moaning about death panels.
Why do you "think" that. Have you been told to think that or has some form of brainwashing caused you to form that 'opinion'? If you actually found out what they were all about, you would hopefully eventually see that you were being the left's useful idiot spouting the usual soundbites without actually knowing what you were talking about.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff