Britain's Tea Party

In: The political quarterly, Band 83, Heft 1, S. 1-3

Abstract

The politics of radical euroscepticism is similar to that of the Tea Party. There is the same extremism and unwillingness to compromise, the same incoherent and unquenchable rage, aimed at distant and unaccountable elites. The target of the Tea Party is the federal government in Washington. For the eurosceptics it is directed against a much weaker entity, the fragmented institutions of the European Union. The same violence of language and denigration is now applied in Britain to anyone even mildly supportive of the European Union, which is regularly depicted as a totalitarian monster crushing the free peoples of Europe. Adapted from the source document.