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Monday, 8 June 2009

Dan Hannan and The Speech for The Unelected.

Dan Hannan can explain things better than anyone Gordon.
He has even simplified it for you.

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Dan Hannan is Furious Now.

"Labour, at the end of its term, is descending into senility: what the poet calls "second childishness". It is returning to its oldest instincts: regulate everything, create more quangos, swell the state sector, prohibit private activity (in this case, MPs' outside interests). But when has this approach ever succeeded? Banks were largely self-regulated before New Labour passed the Financial Services Act, and I don't remember them getting into anything like the mess they have since. Haringey social services ticked boxes and followed procedures virtually to the letter, resulting in the horrible death of Baby Peter.

In any case, the House of Commons already has an external regulator. It's called the electorate, and the sooner it completes its audit in the form of a general election, the better."

Monday, 27 April 2009

Dan Hannan's Newest Video.

Hat tip to Douglas Carswell and Tory Bear

Monday, 6 April 2009

The NHS, Dan Hannan and the Shutup Gambit.

From Dan's Blog

Prescott is trying to fabricate a row out of my interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, in which I warned Americans against adopting a socialist healthcare system along British lines. You can watch the old bruiser here. (If you're an American who likes to imagine that the British are eloquent, please ignore that last hyperlink.)

I wonder whether anyone still falls for this sort of stuff. For a long time, Labour politicians had two slogans which they would trot out whenever healthcare came up: "Envy Of The World" and "Free At The Point Of Use". These phrases were not intended to be arguments. Rather, they were ways of playing your trump, of closing down the debate.

This is what Prezza is really saying:

http://www.pjtv.com/video/PJTV_Daily/Klavan_on_the_Culture%3A_Shut_Up/1612/

Are we going to do what the "Pie Eater "tells us to do? Perhaps we should say Go Forth and Multiply You Twats.

Thursday, 26 March 2009

Tom Harris, Dan Hannan and Vaclav Klaus.

Tom Harris (who?) thinks that Dan's speech on Brown was in someway unpatriotic.

Gordon Brown isn’t just Labour’s prime minister; he’s Britain’s prime minister, and for any UK politician to launch such a disgraceful, personal attack on his country’s leader — in a foreign country — is nothing short of disgraceful.

Well, I snitched this from Dan's latest post

Awareness of their unpopularity makes [them] frightened and tetchy which in turn makes them lash out at opponents. Last month, Klaus came to the European Parliament and made a moderately Euro-sceptic speech. The EU had been a great success, he said, but it was in danger of drifting away from its peoples. All polities worked better when there was an opposition, he added. We should all listen to dissenting voices. The response of MEPs? To shout abuse and then storm out. Deliciously, they staged their walk-out just as Mr Klaus reached his point about listening to different points of view, thereby neatly vindicating his critique.

What happened next vindicated him even more, for not one of the protesting MEPs was so much as ticked off. Last year, by contrast, when a group of MEPs had held up banners in the chamber with the word "referendum", the parliamentary authorities went ballistic: ushers were sent in to take away our placards, the party leaders made pompous speeches comparing us to the Nazis and 14 of us were later fined.

I guess Tom can count himself lucky not to be a Czech then, or to be seeking a referendum.