"You have run out of our money!" Daniel Hannan takes on PM Gordon Brown
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qft.
saw him on Beck - he was god.
Favorite part: Beck was spewing his conservative populist brouhaha and then Hannan was like oh gosh I love this - they'd never allow this on BBC...
Also beforehand Beck had put up a anarchy vs. totalitarian spectrum up and told people that was the real spectrum, not any fake left vs. right bullshit
Favorite part: Beck was spewing his conservative populist brouhaha and then Hannan was like oh gosh I love this - they'd never allow this on BBC...
Also beforehand Beck had put up a anarchy vs. totalitarian spectrum up and told people that was the real spectrum, not any fake left vs. right bullshit
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Sounds like a good idea.
We can start an "Import Daniel Hannan" movement, the first of its kind that I am aware of.
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C4L should put his video up on their site. >_>
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well he would have done better indeed. Schiff has speaking skills but Hannan is quite impressive and his accent is a pleasure to listen to.
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Yeah he said on Cavuto that if he could have voted in the U.S. he would have voted for Ron Paul for President.
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The evolution of Beck is happening baby I predicted this shit!
Gotta give it to you, you're right on the money so far.
The realization that that spectrum is the real one, and not the L vs R BS, is a very important one.
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when I first saw this video around lunch today, it had 80,000 views... now its at 260,000
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Bump for youtube. The beggars on this forum will revolt if we get no youtube
Go to this link for the Cavuto video:
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html
Type in "Hannan" in the "search videos" bar, and the video should be there.
Youtube
Pt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMQmqT4PiG0
Pt2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eqJ8k5cjP8
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html
Type in "Hannan" in the "search videos" bar, and the video should be there.
Youtube
Pt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMQmqT4PiG0
Pt2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eqJ8k5cjP8
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So inspirational. I wonder if he is the real deal. A man even Dr. Paul could respect and admire.
IF only he were an American. sigh...
I found the text of Daniel Hannan's comments here:
h ttp://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2009/03/dan_hannan_mep.html
Prime Minister, I see you’ve already mastered the essential craft of this Parliament – that being 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 subsidised - where you have not nationalised 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 tried to spread the blame around, you spoke about an international recession; an international crisis. Well, it is true that we are all sailing together into the squall – 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 up 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 almost 10% of GDP – an unbelievable figure. More than Pakistan, more than Hungary – countries where the IMF has already been called in.
Now, it’s not that you’re not apologising - like everyone else, I’ve long accepted that you’re pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things these things - it’s that you’re carrying on, wilfully worsening the situation, wantonly spending what little we have left. Last year, in the last twelve months, 125,000 private sector jobs have been lost – and yet you’ve created 30,000 public sector jobs. Prime Minister you cannot go on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorging 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 we’re well place to weather the storm, I have to tell you, you sound like a Brezhnev-era Apparatchik giving the party line. You know, and we know, and you know that we know that it’s nonsense. Everyone knows that Britain is the worst placed to 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 30% – and soon the voters, too, will get their chance to say so.
They can see what the markets have already seen: that you are a devalued Prime Minister, of a devalued Government.
IF only he were an American. sigh...
I found the text of Daniel Hannan's comments here:
h ttp://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2009/03/dan_hannan_mep.html
Prime Minister, I see you’ve already mastered the essential craft of this Parliament – that being 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 subsidised - where you have not nationalised 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 tried to spread the blame around, you spoke about an international recession; an international crisis. Well, it is true that we are all sailing together into the squall – 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 up 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 almost 10% of GDP – an unbelievable figure. More than Pakistan, more than Hungary – countries where the IMF has already been called in.
Now, it’s not that you’re not apologising - like everyone else, I’ve long accepted that you’re pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things these things - it’s that you’re carrying on, wilfully worsening the situation, wantonly spending what little we have left. Last year, in the last twelve months, 125,000 private sector jobs have been lost – and yet you’ve created 30,000 public sector jobs. Prime Minister you cannot go on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorging 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 we’re well place to weather the storm, I have to tell you, you sound like a Brezhnev-era Apparatchik giving the party line. You know, and we know, and you know that we know that it’s nonsense. Everyone knows that Britain is the worst placed to 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 30% – and soon the voters, too, will get their chance to say so.
They can see what the markets have already seen: that you are a devalued Prime Minister, of a devalued Government.
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