Leader of UKIP (UK's tea party) vows to leave EU, cut taxes, slash foreign aid. Familiar ring to it.

[pampango]

Nigel Farage vows to pay for £12bn of tax cuts by leaving EU and slashing aid

Nigel Farage has set out plans to cut taxes by £12bn, claiming this could be paid for by leaving the European Union and slashing spending on foreign aid. ... he also conceded that millionaires would benefit from his proposal to cut the 45p tax rate, which Labour said revealed the true intentions of the party.

But the focus of the party’s attack will be a “full-frontal assault” on Labour in Ed Miliband’s backyard, with the claim the party has failed to represent the people for which it was founded. Jane Collins, a Yorkshire Ukip MEP, opened the Friday conference speeches by blaming Labour and “liberal leftie” social engineering for turning a blind eye to child abuse. She said local politicians were afraid to speak up about the abuse of white girls by Asian men in case it offended minority voters.

Labour is for the first time fighting back against Ukip’s challenge, painting Farage as “more Tory than the Tories” and a man leading the party of extreme tax cuts for millionaires and plans to make people pay to see their GP.

Some of the colourful fringe events available at the conference include meetings about “how to tear chunks out of Labour”, an address by two Christian B&B owners sued for banning a gay couple from staying overnight, and a session on the case for independence in South Yemen.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/26/nigel-farage-ukip-conference-tax-cuts

Our tea party folks would want to get out of the EU, if we were in it. Other than that, everything about UKIP seems eerily like our right wing folks here.

[dipsydoodle]

1. A full blown nutter best ignored.

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[pampango]

2. I agree though British voters haven't been doing that of late. Let's hope that changes

in the UK and in the US.

[intaglio]

3. Unfortunately a nutter with a considerable following

He and his crew of corporately funded Little Englanders need to be shut out of office by the electorate.

[T_i_B]

4. Unfortunately....

....with mainstream politicians failing to connect with people, that has left a gap which nationalist charlatans such as Alex Salmond and Nigel Farage are able to exploit.

Unlike Salmond's SNP however, UKIP is very much a UK equivalent of the tea party, and it is widely expected that they will have an MP very soon, after Douglas Carswell defected from them to the Tories, then resigned his seat to force a by-election in Clacton.

[T_i_B]

5. The name of the UKIP conference is wrong...

Rather then "UKIP Conference 2014 at Doncaster Racecourse" it should really be called "A Day at the Racists".