11-07-2015, 07:08 PM
(11-07-2015, 05:39 PM)ookpik Wrote: How about the US, especially the Tea Party types? One significant difference, however, is that British conservatives tend to be wealthy, educated, old boys while in the US they tend to be poor, uneducated, red necks.
I won't rise to the 'redneck' bait.
BuildingScout saying that the UK is rather unique with their cohort of conservatives opposed as a matter of course to all change is really correct. The Tea Party and other right-wingers in the states are not really analogous- they're not conservative so much as 'anti-government.' They don't necessarily oppose change. They could easily be swayed to support anything if it seems to be 'market-driven'(and oppose anything if not).