during a focus group led by gop pollster frank luntz at the south carolina freedom summit the motherinlaw of citizens united president david bossie compared immigrants to rats and roaches to the delight of the audience bossie is the organizer of the summit one in a series of cattle calls for gop presidential hopefuls gop crowd applauds calling immigrants rats and roaches american observers of uk politics would do well to see the us parallels here the dilemma facing the uk labour party is basically the one faced by democratic presidential candidates as they seek victory in 2016 if either major uk political party fails to find its way the us stands poised to lose its most reliable european ally the uk election us lessons