Hello Fruitjacket,
In response to your message, my personal opinion is that there is a great divergence between the US and Europe's politics rather than a US-UK paradigm [with the divergence factors in a Yankee bias]. The whole structure of our society in the UK is ironically indifferent to central/western Europe's yet the transatlantic relationship is more embedded with the States.
Issues such as fiscal [consolidation] policy, gun control [gun adversity], the [national] health care system, free trade, G/S regulations, welfare [Universal credit] and taxation structures [progressive] are very inline with Europe. Ironically, the policies stated/listed above are very conservative positions compared to the pro-cyclical budget deficit loving, adverse to gun restrictive policies, private insurance driven health care, protectionism dressed up as [un]fair trade, Dodd-Franks repealing, welfare cutting and regressive [with respect to taxation policies] Republican party.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reply.
[P.S. I've worked for our equivalent to the states IRS (HMRC) and I'm an employee for our equivalent department for Social security [DWP] hence my opinion is much more credible than most TSR members.]
Kind regards,
The Asian Tory