Posted March 27, 200916 yr Daniel Hannan MEP: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government 94lW6Y4tBXs I am no fan of the Tory party, but this guy manages to make Broon grimace as a few truths are thrown in his face. He makes a better job of hitting Broon than Cameron does.
March 28, 200916 yr It’s just a shame his lot are just as inept as the current lot. :( I second the "Bravo sir".... If this guy were the leader of the Tories and all the other tories were like him, I might actually be tempted to vote for them.... :lol: He is, of course, 100% spot on.... This is the oratory equivalent of a smart bomb aimed directly between Broon's eyes.... And absolutely hitting the target..... I bet the c/unt sure wasn't expecting something like this...... :lol:
March 28, 200916 yr Bravo!! It’s just a shame his lot are just as inept as the current lot. :( And, unfortunately, had the Tories been in power over the last few years, I don't think we'd be in any better of a position. We'd just be seeing a similar clip with a Labour MP haranguing the current Tory leader.
March 28, 200916 yr That was one of the greatest speeches that i have ever seen :o, i hope others see it. 1.5 million views already :|
April 2, 200916 yr Kinda ironic the talk of BBC censorship on Fox News. t_Pa30Sp_sw We've had Socialism in this country for the past 10 years....? EH????? Hannan, you really are talking rubbish with that statement...... :lol: If we'd actually had Socialism these past 10 years, we'd've had far tighter controls on the banks and the city fat cats, wouldn't have followed American Neo-conservatism by the nose, wouldn't have allowed banks to offer stupid sub-prime mortgages at 100% or 125% (as NORTHERN FUKKIN' ROCK and others were doing... <_< ) and probably wouldn't actually BE in the mess we're in now..... :rolleyes: Gotta just love Fox News and their usual anti-French guff though dont you....? Er, tell me, guys, if France is SOOOOOOO bad, then tell me why it is that France dont seem to be having half the problems US and UK are having at the moment as far as their economy goes.... :rolleyes:
April 5, 200916 yr http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2008/s2534805.htm Daniel Hannan was also on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and this is part of his transcript of the interview with Leigh Sales: LEIGH SALES: Given, though, that governments always have an eye on the politics of these situations and they feel the need to be seen to do something, would any government in the world, no matter how conservative, be prepared to take a more passive approach and not be pumping money into the economy, as you put it? DANIEL HANNAN: Well that was exactly the problem. The was exactly the problem. In the current 24-hour media world, the way the electorates are, it is a very difficult thing for a politician to say, "I don't think that there's much that can be done about this," you know. I think the most pernicious phrase in politics is "doing nothing is not an option". It's almost never true, by the way. It's almost never true. But, it's sort of taken on a momentum of its own. And so, it happened in Britain, it happened in the US, it happened in Europe. In the immediate aftermath of these banking collapses, there was a rush towards frenzied activity. And voters initially warmed to it, for very understandable reasons. If you've got two people and one of them is saying, "I know! I've got the answer!," and other one's going, "Well, you know, I don't think there's very much we can do," your instinct, very naturally, is to give the first fellow his chance, you know, to see if he's right. The trouble is that when it turns out that he was wrong, it's too late to do anything about it because the additional spending and the additional intervention takes on a momentum of its own. And certainly that's what's happened in my country. There was a massive splurge of money - a really huge one. It didn't work. But by then, a political leader can't go back to his taxpayers and say, "Well, sorry, guys, you know, that didn't really work. I mean, I've blown your money away and it's been ..." He has to keep doubling, like a gambler in a casino. "Oh, it hasn't worked because we haven't done it enough yet. So let's spend more." And if that doesn't work, we'll borrow and spend what we're borrowing. That happened in the UK until we had emptied the Treasury and exhausted our credit and forced this extraordinary thing which was the Governor of the Bank of England, who's normally a very reclusive character, he very rarely gives interviews. He was actually dragged, blinking, like a kind of mole out of his hole, onto television to say publicly, "Look, we can't afford this anymore. You know, we cannot do another stimulus package; the coffers are completely empty." Now, that frenzied activity of the last six months is now going to be a debt that our children and grandchildren are paying off through higher taxes. You know, we have made permanent and deleterious changes to our capacity as a country to recover - all for the sake of showing that something could be done. Edited April 5, 200916 yr by Red Blooded Man
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