Australia’s treasurer Wayne Swan has lamented about the possibility of an ‘Australian Tea Party’ along the lines of the American Tea Party. It’s no surprise he doesn’t like that thought, a group that keeps an eye on politicians? That would be a disaster for the ALP.
And a recent News Limited article has suggested Australia has an American style Tea party. News Limited has decided that CANdo is Australia’s Tea Party and portrayed them as grumpy old white men more concerned with caning in schools and singing God Save the Queen.
So let’s look at how things really stand.
Australia already has a Tea Party and has had for some time now. The Australian Tea Party is based in Brisbane and several members of CANDo are actually part it.
The Australian Tea Party has large scale support Australia wide and stands for free markets, fiscal responsibility and constitutionally limited small governments. While caning is an issue that could be discussed the main aim at this time of the Tea Party is to deal with the main issues affecting Australia right now and play a role in the removal of the ALP government before they completely ruin Australia.
The Australian Tea Party has support from a diverse range of everyday Australians who are concerned about current issues. Tea takes actions such as counter protesting BDS protests and supporting specific political candidates who will work on behalf of their constituents, not just themselves.
Numerous articles detailing how things really are have appeared on the Tea Party website and affiliated pages. Tea is not a political party running for parliament so they are not tied to any financial backers. No obligation to such groups means Tea can publish the truth as it is, not how others want it to appear.
So why is News naming CANdo as a Tea Party? It was reported by another paper under News Limited in 2010 that Australia has a Tea Party so there’s no real reason for them to now say CANdo is the Tea Party.
It’s possible that political pressure was put on News to name CANdo as ‘the Tea Party’ and portray them as out of touch and lower Tea’s appeal to mainstream Australia and in the process lessen our impact in opposing the governments trashing of Australia.
But it’s of no real worry, do a search for the Australian Tea Party and it’s their pages that top the list, not the groups of so called ‘grumpy old white men’ and Tea’s support comes from all quarters from people who are sick and tired of the scam laden ideology that is ruining Australia.
Tea is here so bad luck to anyone else who wants to pretend otherwise. You can’t decide who will be Australia’s Tea party, they are already here and have our bad governments in their sights.
