I see nothing on the BBC about this, as with the left in this nation they are probably doing their best to ignore it. Today is our tax day, the day our federal income taxes are due(and state in Kansas). Today is also the advent of the tax TEA party, an acronym for taxed enough already. This is supposedly a grassroots movement in the spirit of the Boston tea party, during which patriots dressed in Native American garb dumped British tea into Boston harbor in a pre- revolutionary protest against your parliament and its taxes.
The left is doing its level best to either ignore these tea parties, or label the organizers and participants as far right nuts. In the case of the tea party organized in our community for tonight, the organizers are a young farm couple(not Mrs KF and I , we are middle aged). By their own admission they didn't care at all about politics until 6 months ago. My feeling is this is not a radical movement at all, nor is it confined to the far right. Millions of us are scared to death over the huge national debt and huge and growing deficits. We all remember that both the Democrats and Republicans for years have decried both growing deficits and the debt, now suddenly according to those in power, we should just not worry about it anymore.
I have no idea how many people are going to attend these functions going on all over the nation through this evening. This may be the beginning of a whole new awakening in our democracy, or simply a blip on the radar screen of history. Time will tell.