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T_i_B

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6. We seem to import a lot of crazy political rubbish from the US

Reply to CanonRay (Reply #1)

Mon May 21, 2012, 11:21 AM

May 2012

From quite mainstream policies to things like Birthers, Truthers, Teabaggers (see Nadine Dorries MP), climate change denial (nowadays a major plank of the UK Independence Party's platform), neoconservatism and so forth.

And as to council leaders, the man who ran Essex County Council during the whole time I lived down there was Lord Hanningfield, who was jailed last year for fiddling his House of Lords expenses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Hanningfield

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O wot joy, my County Council leader of the last 10 years is a Birther [View all] LeftishBrit May 2012 OP

There are birthers in England? CanonRay May 2012 #1

I didn't know either until today! LeftishBrit May 2012 #3

We seem to import a lot of crazy political rubbish from the US T_i_B May 2012 #6

Now, having Teabaggers in Great Britain is just plain wrong. CanonRay May 2012 #7

The Tea Party does have UK admirers T_i_B May 2012 #8

Not to mention Daniel Hannan... LeftishBrit May 2012 #9

Please keep him! Permanut May 2012 #2

Thank you very much for the kind offer, but no thanks! LeftishBrit May 2012 #4

Tell the gullible idiot (or, even better, his electors) it was an April Fool's joke from 2009 muriel_volestrangler May 2012 #5