"You have run out of our money!" Daniel Hannan takes on PM Gordon Brown

[hillertexas]

Fabulous and worth your 3 minutes

Daniel Hannan, MEP for South East England, gives a speech during Gordon Brown´s visit to the European Parliament on 24th March, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs

FYI: Daniel was on FOX just now (Neil Cavuto) and said that if he had a vote, he would have voted for......................






wait for it....










yup...RON PAUL!

[Dripping Rain]

i heard about this clip on Freedom Watch today. thanks for posting it

edit: excellent speech by a ballsy english man

Edit: WOW he has a Ron Paul video favorited on his EU political youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/DanHannanMEP

[He Who Pawns]

They just had him on Faux with Cavuto. The man is an instant rock star. Possibly the next PM? Let's hope so.

[ravedown]

Hannan just endorsed Paul on Cavuto's show- are you kidding me? this guy rules

[sluggo]

Hannan just endorsed Paul on Cavuto's show- are you kidding me? this guy rules

youtube, please.

[Dripping Rain]

Hannan just endorsed Paul on Cavuto's show- are you kidding me? this guy rules

what what what???
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot
im really starting to like this englishman. its good to know that the Paul fever has hit the EU

[Epic]

Daniel Hannan, MEP for South East England, gives a speech during Gordon Brown´s visit to the European Parliament on 24th March, 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs

Apparently he went on Cavuto today and said he was for Ron Paul.

[damon04]

I was so happy to catch that whole thing!! It was a GREAT interview and the youtube video they talk about is GREAT too!!

CHEERS!!!!!! Make that video and the Cavuto interview viral!! He makes so much sense and then endorses Ron Paul!!!!!

[JoshLowry]

Wow!

[Epic]

I think Glenn Beck said that he would have him on his show today?

[Michael Ingram]

Links, links, links, please! :eek:

[purplechoe]

Daniel Hannan, MEP for South East England, gives a speech during Gordon Brown´s visit to the European Parliament on 24th March, 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs

Apparently he went on Cavuto today and said he was for Ron Paul.

Is that the thing Eric (what's his last name?) was talking about at the end of Freedom Watch today? The thing he wanted to show the judge but they were out of time?

[Dripping Rain]

Is that the thing Eric (what's his last name?) was talking about at the end of Freedom Watch today? The thing he wanted to show the judge but they were out of time?

yes it is

[Dripping Rain]

youtube of the cavuo interview please

[StudentForPaul08]

youtube of the cavuo interview please

+1 :cool:

[powerofreason]

An advocate of freedom in the European Parliament, very cool. You'd think it'd just be full of your average big government globalists but apparently there's room for a free marketeer. That was an incredibly good speech. My favorite part was when they showed Gordon Brown, scum of earth, smiling nervously, embarrassed out of his mind as he was excoriated and the truth was told.

[Epic]

"What made Republicans electable is easily enough defined: it was their conversion to localism. In their seminal work The Right Nation, John Micklethwaite and Adrian Wooldridge chart the evolution of the Republican Party over the past half century from an elite, New England, preppy party that kept losing to an anti-government, Sun Belt, populist party that kept winning. Critical to this transformation was the Republicans' conversion to states' rights and the decentralisation of power.

Now, though, they are in danger of turning their backs on the formula that took them back to power. Once again, as in pre-Goldwater days, they are becoming the party of external protectionism and crony capitalism, of federal spending and of foreign adventurism. Think of the absurd attempt to make the question of same-sex marriage a federal rather than state issue. Think of the budget deficit. Think of the readiness to maintain a permanent garrison in Iraq. Think of the steel tariff.

Don't get me wrong: I'm a committed Republican and, if I had a vote in the US, I would cast it for GOP congressional candidates. But I don't think John McCain is the man to lead the party back to small-r republican virtue."

-Daniel Hannan, pre-US election

[Johnnybags]

for a free state.

[purplechoe]

just finished watching this, Mr. Hannan:

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/199004/applaud.gif

[BenIsForRon]

If Ron Paul had those speaking skills he would be president right now

[haaaylee]

omg i want a youtube of him on neil right now.

[He Who Pawns]

omg i want a youtube of him on neil right now.

qft.

[axiomata]

He's making the rounds. Was just on Beck.

[Epic]

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

[DFF]

Wow. That was one of the most amazing speeches during this crisis I've yet heard. Maybe the most amazing. Bravo, Daniel Hannan!

[nate895]

for a free state.

Sounds like a good idea.

We can start an "Import Daniel Hannan" movement, the first of its kind that I am aware of.

[AdamT]

That guy is absolutely stunning. He put Brown in his place in front of that entire cabinet! And they cheered! Amazing amazing!

[StudentForPaul08]

C4L should put his video up on their site. >_>

[Mordan]

If Ron Paul had those speaking skills he would be president right now

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.

[powerofreason]

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

The evolution of Beck is happening baby I predicted this shit! ;)

[Join The Paul Side]

I was so happy to catch that whole thing!! It was a GREAT interview and the youtube video they talk about is GREAT too!!

CHEERS!!!!!! Make that video and the Cavuto interview viral!! He makes so much sense and then endorses Ron Paul!!!!!

Yeah he said on Cavuto that if he could have voted in the U.S. he would have voted for Ron Paul for President. :)

[tremendoustie]

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.

[torchbearer]

when I first saw this video around lunch today, it had 80,000 views... now its at 260,000

[AdamT]

Where are the YTs of Hannan on Cavuto and Beck? Chubbs?

[Zera]

Wasn't Beck praising Palin today?

[Dripping Rain]

Bump for youtube. The beggars on this forum will revolt if we get no youtube

[UK4Paul]

Unfortunately, I don't think MEP's have that much power - the European Parliament is just to make the EU look like a democracy, while the Council make all the essential decisions.

That said, this guy rocks!

[vacmil]

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

[vacmil]

Hannan on Glenn Beck Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50NnyP1hLM

[Carole]

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... :D

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.

[homah]

Wow, this sent tingles down my spine.

[MRoCkEd]

This guy is great!

[StudentForPaul08]

wow....speechless. I want to see more of this guy.

[ClayTrainor]

That was amazing...

Anyone have the clip of him on Beck?

[Rangeley]

That was amazing...

Anyone have the clip of him on Beck?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50NnyP1hLM

[ClayTrainor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50NnyP1hLM

Thanks man!

[purplechoe]

Thanks for the tubes guys! This man is amazing! Looks like Europe has found its "Ron Paul". :)

[roho76]

Wasn't there an RP Meetup in Europe? I wonder if they have looked into this guy. Would be a good one to rally around.

[tremendoustie]

This guy is flipping amazing. He's really articulate too ...

[AdamT]

LOL, on Brown following the same policies as Obama "magic amulet that wards off any criticism". This guy rules!

[Zolah]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/03/25/my_speech_to_gordon_brown_goes_viral

Hey, Europe's not useless yet guys ;)

[purplechoe]

Wow, this thing is at 576,000 views. You should also check out his channel, his other stuff is pretty good too. I especially like the fact that he presses the issue of the European constitution be put to a vote by the people, not politicians and you know that it would fail miserably. :)

[qh4dotcom]

Oops...Hannan supported Obama and won't disown him - yet

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/03/22/i_wont_disown_obama__yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eqJ8k5cjP8

He's still amazing though

[Knightskye]

I was about to make a thread about the speech.

How cool is this guy?

[BenIsForRon]

Beck is such an ass, would it be too much to ask for him to act like an adult while he has a classy guy like Hannan on.

[purplechoe]

Daniel Hannan appears on Channel 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1bT0RftMM8

[MikeStanart]

Daniel Hannan appears on Channel 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1bT0RftMM8

Wow, I just watched that.

Channel 4 wreaks of bias just like Fox.

The only reason they invited him was to ridicule him.

[Deborah K]

I can't get enough of this speech. British accents are soooo sexy. haha!

[eduardo89]

If you like Hannan watch some youtube videos of another British MEP, Nigel Farage, one of the few real crusaders of liberty in the EU.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlVFKBwbuU&feature=PlayList&p=1A403E800FAAF837&index=9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMZbs6zu5PU&feature=PlayList&p=1A403E800FAAF837&index=8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjVH3JcTVRw&feature=PlayList&p=1A403E800FAAF837&index=6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXmidPjQaE8&feature=PlayList&p=1A403E800FAAF837&index=4

[purplechoe]

here's an interesting comment on the Brown video:

"never thought i would ever agree with a tory....but mr hannan speaks basic common sense. gordon-aint-got-a-clue brown needs to go asap. can hannan run for leader of the tory party/prime minister? he would get my vote and i'm a life-long socialist...yep things really are that bad...we are in serious economic doo doo...maybe we need a revolution, oh wait, i forgot; we live in a 'democracy' so we should be grateful for the mess we are in."

[Deborah K]

Daniel Hannan appears on Channel 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1bT0RftMM8

Here is my response on that Channel 4 Utube:

If it was a "demented speech from a demented party" then why are you so threatened by it? hmm???
Brown got a well deserved "unfettered tongue lashing".
Now go and lick your wounds, British liberals.

[georgiaboy]

"wooden and perfunctory"

exquisite.