Buried away in the news last week there was a founding conference to set up some sort of UK equivalent to the Tea Party movement. Drawing on home grown right-wing organizations such as the sinister and contradictorily named Freedom Association and the Taxpayers' Alliance, a US think-tank called 'Freedom Works' is trying to export their brand of reactionary populism.
So far it looks like they have mainly manged to attract the young headbangers who are the un-reconstructed Thathcher-ite heirs to the Federation of Conservative Students' tradition of obnoxious posturing in '80s.
On the plus side, the very existence of these people gives the lie to Dave-bloody-good-bloke-Cam's 'we're all in it together' new version of Tory one-nation-ism. Best of all though - all is right with the world when the bright young things of your enemy look like this ...
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