An interesting blog post from former John Locke Foundation Headliner Matthew Continetti of The Weekly Standard analyzes political events across the pond:

The two nations also face a similar problems. Immigration is a huge issue in both places. The major question facing the two governments is how to ward off a fiscal crisis and shrink a profligate state before it brings down the economy. No party on either side of the Atlantic really seems to have a clue how to do this. …

One difference is the Tea Party. A spontaneous populist upheaval every now and then is a uniquely American phenomenon. Does that make it likelier the United States will solve her crisis before the U.K.? Let’s hope so, even as we acknowledge that the history of American populism is in many ways a history of disappointment.