But wasn't the Boston Tea Party actually a protest against a government bringing cheap stuff into the country, which would have caused problems for some local businessmen?

I mentioned the Chile truck-owners strike that was part of the build up to the 1973 Chile putsch here is a link to an article which puts this in context

Not that I see Tony Blair as any kind of an Allende figure. But I think we are being conned into not recognising that all this is being manipulated by the petrol companies as a way of upping their profits at the longterm expense of everyone else.