Looking at this coming election, I've been curious why Canada hasn't had to deal with a Tea Party or UKIP-style threat to the Conservatives from the right. I know that the Conservative Party is itself a combination of the moderate Progressive Conservatives and the more right-wing Canadian Alliance, and I find it curious that there hasn't been as much infighting within the Conservative Party as there have been among the American and British right. Am I just missing things from living south of the border, and things are much less rosy than they seem, or are Canadian conservatives just better at appearing to be a united front?
Because the "Tea Party"/"UKIP" already won. Yes, the Conservative Party is officially a merger of the Canadian Alliance and the PCs, but the Federal PCs were barely relevant, except that they split the right-wing vote. For all practical purposes, it was less a merger and more just one party tapping out.
