bizpacreview.com
by Michael Dorstewitz
January 6, 2014

The tea party-inspired renaissance of conservatism isn’t confined to America’s borders. It’s spread to the United Kingdom, where it appears to be flourishing.

Britain’s own version of the tea party — the UK Independence Party, known as the UKIP — actually got its start in 1993, long before America’s tea party. It was formed on a single-issue platform — to oppose the UK’s entry into the European Union, according to Fox News.

The Independence Party lost that battle. Britain is still a member of the EU, and nothing much had been heard from UKIP since then — until recently.

The Independence Party only took 3.1 percent of the vote in the 2010 national election, but it snatched 23 percent in the 2013 local elections — what we call the midterms in the United States. National party leader and European Parliament Member Nigel Farage is understandably ecstatic.

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