thank you alot

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/30/daniel-hannan-when-exactly-did-we-become-less-fiscally-responsible-than-france/

Daniel Hannan’s speech was followed by this one from Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, who also treats Gordon Brown with the contempt he deserves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDwQEEAZhWM&feature=channel_page

But there will be no improvement in the direction of British politics. How can there be, when the Conservative Party is just as useless as the Labour Party.

Quote from Tom H: “But there will be no improvement in the direction of British politics. How can there be, when the Conservative Party is just as useless as the Labour Party.”

Substitute Republican for “Conservative” and Democratic for “Labour” and you would be talking about the US.

Prolly why the UK government is on the cutting edge of spying on and blocking the internet. And evidently money is starting to flee the country because I heard the other day that they’re starting to collect detailed information from everyone who leaves, no doubt as a precursor to building an aquatic Berlin Wall around their island.

thats total viewers, not just british viewers. i doubt that even half of the million views are by brits =\

I’ve been following Hannan for about a year – he’s a man after my own heart. His political compass is definitely classical liberalism/libertarian – to dub him the Ron Paul of the UK would not be an overstatement.

I think it’s unlikely he’d assume a position of political authority though.

His Youtube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/DanHannanMEP

On the European Union:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceejnrM858k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeMBNB0cII&feature=related

Brilliant line “you are the devalued prime minister of a devalued government!”

Mises finally posted it…

Daniel Hannan (UK) = Ron Paul (USA)

Hannan is expelled from European People Parties group in European Parliament which tells a lot (good of course).

Here is transcript of whole speech (my emphasizes):

Prime Minister, I see you’ve already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. You’ve spoken here about free trade, and amen to that. Who would have guessed, listening to you just now, that you were the author of the phrase British jobs for British workers and that you have subsidized, where you have not nationalized outright, swathes of our economy, including the car industry and many of the banks? Perhaps you would have more moral authority in this house if your actions matched your words? Perhaps you would have more legitimacy in the councils of the world if the United Kingdom were not going into this recession in the worst condition of any G20 country?

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around £20,000. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child. Now, once again today you try to spread the blame around; you spoke about an international recession, international crisis. Well, it is true that we are all sailing together into the squalls. But not every vessel in the convoy is in the same dilapidated condition. Other ships used the good years to caulk their hulls and clear their rigging; in other words to pay off debt. But you used the good years to raise borrowing yet further. As a consequence, under your captaincy, our hull is pressed deep into the water line under the accumulated weight of your debt. We are now running a deficit that touches 10% of GDP, an almost unbelievable figure. More than Pakistan, more than Hungary; countries where the IMF have already been called in. Now, its not that you are not apologizing; like everyone else I have long accepted that you are pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things. Its that you are carrying on, willfully worsening our situation, wantonly spending what little we have left. Last year – in the last twelve months a hundred thousand private sector jobs have been lost and yet you created thirty thousand public sector jobs.

Prime Minister, you cannot carry on for ever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. And when you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that were well-placed to weather the storm, I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line. You know, and we know, and you know that we know that its nonsense! Everyone knows that Britain is worse off than any other country as we go into these hard times. The IMF has said so; the European Commission has said so; the markets have said so which is why our currency has devalued by thirty percent. And soon the voters too will get their chance to say so. They can see what the markets have already seen: that you are the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government.

“Brilliant line “you are the devalued prime minister of a devalued government!”"

That line was originally used by a previous Labour leader, John Smith, when attacking the Tory government in 1992 after Britain fell out of the ERM and sterling was devalued. Hannan said on a tv interview that he deliberately used the line as a reminder.

I’ve also heard that at the time Smith was making his speech, the man sat next to or near to him was…Gordon Brown!

Quite the rousing speech. I wish to God we could field someone who could be so eloquent. All we have (that make the media focus anyway) are some mainstream Republicans that would fit in quite well as Democrats or Labor, in other words statists.

The handful of solid small ‘r’ Republicans with principle like Ron Paul, Jeff Flake, Jim DeMint are ignored both by their party and the media. They and others like them are good, smart people but none have the eloquence needed to put out our message of small government, fiscal responsibility, and less foreign entanglements.

God grant the Republic find someone like Mr Hannah who will speak for us before it’s too late. We dissatisfied Republicans, indies, Libertarians etc number in the tens of millions but our voices remain ignored. That has to change soon or it will be too late.

I was sitting in an Irish Pub here in America, speaking to a Brit bartender when he said to me, “The Constitution MUST change because the times have changed.” EU members, just remember this: the United States was once the EU. You are headed to one large nation-state with no real differences between you. The members of the EP, more beholden to “One Europe” and “One World” than to your own country, will do everything they can to seize control of every aspect of your collective lives. This is exactly what happened here in the US, after the passage of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. Here is my point, if Brittains want to see the future in the EU, look at the history of the Member States of America. The States have no independent currencies, no state soverignty, no discernable boundaries (except the pretty signs and rest-stops), and, finally, no power against the huge Leviathan marching in lock step to the beat of the UN toward uniformity. Secede, that is the only answer.