Daniel Hannan MEP on the EU

Daniel Hannan speaks so much sense, why can't he be the Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister?

Daniel Hannan's speech in the Spectator Brexit debate

Listen to Daniel Hannan's speech in Spectator Brexit debate by The Spectator #np on #SoundCloud
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Daniel Hannan, the best Prime Minister this country never had... Yet?

Ici Londres: "The renegotiation farce" by Dan Hannan

Dan Hannan pointing out the ridiculousness of David Cameron's EU renegotiations.

Left-wing anti-Semitism is anything but a new phenomenon per Daniel Hannan on Telegraph Blogs

'Left-wing anti-Semitism is anything but a new phenomenon

"How, as a socialist, can you not be an anti-Semite?" Adolf Hitler asked his party members in 1920. No one thought it an odd question. Anti-Semitism was at that time widely understood to be part of the broader revolutionary movement against markets, property and capital.

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... Karl Marx himself,... The grandson of two rabbis, he disliked all religions, but reserved a vehemence for Judaism that we never find in his writings on Christianity – about which he could be rather sentimental, though he deplored its corruption by the "Jewish spirit". In 1844, the odious cadger wrote: The essence of Judaism and the root of the Jewish soul is expediency and self-interest; the God of Israel is Mammon, who expresses himself in the lust for money. Judaism is the embodiment of anti-social attitudes.'

More here http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100281615/left-wing-anti-semitism-is-anything-but-a-new-phenomenon/ and all over the left of British politics including the BBC. 

The left have long allied themselves with anyone who might help destroy capitalism and in doing so have chosen Islamism, with its inherent anti Semitism, over the Judeo Christian. Thus much of the British left have accepted anti Semitic slurs, often by saying they mean anti Zionist, but I and others are not fooled.

Daniel Hannan makes sense as usual...

Daniel Hannan in fine form.

Hatred is terribly important to a certain kind of Leftie – Telegraph Blogs

Daniel Hannan is right on the money...

'Look at how many people happily declare 'hates Tories', 'hates capitalism' and the like. Sure, you can find one or two 'hates socialism', but it's much, much rarer. '

Read it all here http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100229359/now-right-wingers-are-supposed-to-hate-the-entire-planet/

You thought the whole 'EUSSR' thing was over the top? Have a look at this poster – Telegraph Blogs

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100185609/you-thought-the-whole-eussr-thing-was-over-the-top-have-a-look-at-this-poster/
I've blogged about the way that communism's crimes against humanity are ignored or excused by much of the media and establishment. This is just another example.

Wednesday evening catch-up

Too many open Firefox tabs and nowhere near enough time to do these pieces justice.

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The connection? The man smiling in the top photo brutally killed all of the people in the bottom photo. They are the Fogel family and he is Hakin Awad who smiled throughout much of his murder trial.


2) The BBC report the simply staggering news that:

'There is evidence linking the Haqqani militant network to Pakistan's government, the US ambassador to Pakistan has said in a radio interview.'

Staggering, simply staggering; I am so shocked.


3) Daniek Hannan in The Telegraph has a history and economics lesson for the left. Unfortunately they won't listen. Do read the whole of Daniel Hannan's article, it doesn't really precis well.


4) the BBC report the words of Trade Union leader Len McCluskey:

'The head of Britain's biggest union has urged a campaign of strikes and civil disobedience to fight government cuts.

Speaking on the eve of the TUC congress, Unite leader Len McCluskey said no form of protest should be ruled out including "direct action".

He urged a "campaign of resistance so that the government will take stock and perhaps take a step back" from their "attack" on workers' jobs and pensions.

"I don't think we can rule anything out," he told the Andrew Marr Show.'

Strange how the left think they can ignore the result of elections and just try and get their own way.


5) Error Theory are still worrying whether the 'Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 really can be seen as a giant mihrab: the Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built.' It's an interesting question and one that I have blogged about before.

Daniel Hannan has a Bob Dylan related question

'Why is it that, if you can sing, strum a guitar and play a harmonica all at the same time, you are regarded as a genius; whereas if you go that extra mile and strap a pair of cymbals to your knees…?'

From today's Telegraph

The EU is not a Common Market

Daniel Hannan makes a short but accurate point.

'What is most striking about the past two years is the sheer scale. Some nine hundred billion pounds, a sum unprecedented in British history, was allocated to the bank bailouts and stimulus programmes. Suppose that, instead, the country had been given an 18 month holiday from all taxation. No income tax, no VAT, no corporation tax, no stamp duty, no council tax, no NI contributions, no inheritance tax, no CGT. Just think of the stimulus effect that would have had.'

'What is most striking about the past two years is the sheer scale. Some nine hundred billion pounds, a sum unprecedented in British history, was allocated to the bank bailouts and stimulus programmes. Suppose that, instead, the country had been given an 18 month holiday from all taxation. No income tax, no VAT, no corporation tax, no stamp duty, no council tax, no NI contributions, no inheritance tax, no CGT. Just think of the stimulus effect that would have had.'

Daniel Hannan  in The Telegraph wonders if there might have been a better way...

What would happen if the UK had an In/Out referendum?

Daniel Hannan in The Telegraph asks the question and comes to this conclusion:

'The House of Commons is there to represent and defend the interests of the people. Parliamentary sovereignty is an expression of popular sovereignty. Our MPs are the beneficiaries and exemplars of a centuries-long struggle to vest supreme authority in the hands of elected representatives. If they wish to surrender a measure of that authority, they ought at least to ask our permission.

If the referendum goes in favour of continued membership, I promise to accept the result with as much good grace as I can muster. The issue will be settled, the long defeat complete. But let’s at least put the question.'

It is odd how most of those who would vote 'Out' in any referendum would accept whatever the result was and how so few of those who would vote 'In' would do so. Is this anything to do with the likely result or the respective side's views on respecting democracy?

The Europhile answer to everything - "In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration."

Daniel Hannan in The Telegraph reports the words of the French Prime Minister François Fillon as he supposedly tries to find a solution to the Euro disaster:
"In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration. We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone. Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain"

I can do no better than repeat Dan Hannan's conclusion:

'This is, of course, the reflex response of the Euro-elites to any difficulty. Whatever the problem, the solution is always More Europe. Sadly, the fact that they have abandoned logic and reason doesn’t mean that the Eurocrats won’t push ahead. On the contrary, they have already started.'

With LibDems at the heart of government and an ever weaker William Hague seemingly disinterested in the problem of the EU, I have very little faith in David Cameron keeping the EU from getting even more involved in the UK's affairs.

'The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government'

Daniel Hannan MEP's speech to the EU Parliament, just as a reminder of what a real Cosnervative politician sounds like. If you want your skin to crawl then pause the video at 2:54 to see one of Gordon Brown's trademark sly smirks.

It's odd, I hated Gordon Brown so much and now that he is no longer Prime Minister it isn't satisfying enough. I want Gordon Brown's role in the near destruction of the UK economy exposed, I want him held to account, I want him humiliated and his reputation destroyed; is that unfair of me?

It's 4 o'clock and time for tea

"Gordon Brown has doubled the national debt. Every second, it rises by another 5,000 pounds. Our deficit is 12.6 per cent of GDP compared to Greece’s 12.7. All this despite the additional trillion pounds taken in taxation since 1997."

Those were some of the words used yesterday by Daniel Hannan at the first UK tea party. You can read more about the UK tea party at Daniel Hannan's blog here and here.

Daniel Hannan showing he's not anti-European just anti-EU

Better French than Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Baroness Ashton, not to mention me.


Thanks to Raedwald for the spot.

"Racist", Global Warming "denier" etc.

The screams of the left in the face of criticism are so often the same: You are a "racist" for opposing Barack Obama, you are a "denier" for daring to question the fact of Man Made Climate Change.

Whilst I have experienced just a mild outbreak of this name calling, being called a denier for my postings on the false reporting and poor statistics that are used to justify the faith of the religion of global warming, others have fared far worse. Daniel Hannan "proved" himself evil by not paying homage to the NHS so it seems that the New Statesman's James Macintyre thought it entirely reasonable to call Dan Hannan a racist for his comments about Barack Obama. Of course James Macintyre had to go a step further and state that

"I believe the Conservative Party is institutionally racist. I always have done."

The New Statesman have dropped the article but you can read it here along with his readers' comments.

Calling someone a "racist" is seen as an easy way of ending debate, no comeback is normally allowed. Calling someone a climate change "denier" is fast becoming the same discussion stopper; it must not be allowed to be.

The NHS - "the envy of the world"

It is a truism, much loved by the Labour party and the BBC, that the NHS is "the envy of the world" and so anyone that is less than passionate about the NHS must have their credibility destroyed. So it is with much glee that the BBC report the attacks on Daniel Hannan for speaking out in America. The BBC and the Labour party, and there is a definite alliance between the two on this matter as with many others, have been itching to "get back" Daniel Hannan ever since he made that speech and elicited such a revealing response from Gordon Brown. This is their first opportunity and they have taken it with both hands. Andy Burnham has accused Dan Hannan of being almost "unpatriotic" and tried to raise fears about the NHS in Tory hands with this

"What has happened within the last 48 hours is what Cameron has feared most because it lays bare the Tories' deep ambivalence towards the NHS."

The Labour party love to call Conservatives unpatriotic when they disagree with Labour policy, remember the similar Labour slurs when George Osborne said that Labour Government policies could trigger a run on the pound?

The "envy of the world" is of course nothing of the sort. If it was then other countries would have copied the NHS, but which have?

If you have had the misfortune to spend any time in a NHS hospital then you would know all about the dirt, the uncaring nurses and the overwhelming sense that the hospital would run so much better if it wasn't for the pesky patients. The "deep clean" was Labour spin. A October 2007 EU wide survey ranked Britain 17th out of 29 countries for patient satisfaction.

As I wrote in 2007: A second Lancet article, which looked at 2.7 million patients diagnosed between 1995 and 1999, found that countries which spent the most on health per capita a year had better survival rates. Britain was the exception. Despite spending up to £1,500 on health per person per year, it recorded similar survival rates for Hodgkin's disease and lung cancer as Poland, which spends a third of that amount." This Government has wasted more money than you would believe, one day it will be totted up and the public will not believe it possible.

Patients who have major operations on the National Health Service are four times more likely to die than Americans undergoing such surgery, according to a new study. The difference in mortality rates was blamed on long NHS waiting lists, a shortage of specialists and competition for intensive care beds. The joint study, carried out by University College London and a team from Columbia University in New York, found that patients in Britain who were most at risk of complications after major surgery were not being seen by specialists and were not reaching intensive care units in time to save them. The study followed 1,100 patients at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth and compared them with 1,000 patients who had undergone similar major surgery at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. The results showed that just under 10 per cent of the British patients died in hospital after major surgery, compared with 2.5 per cent of the American patients. Each year, more than three million operations are carried out on the NHS and about 350,000 of these are emergencies which carry a higher risk of complications. Professor Monty Mythen, head of anaesthesia at UCL who led the British side of the research, said: "The main difference seems to be in the quality of post-operative care and who cares."" Read the rest of the article and plan to be in the US if you want to survive treatment.


But what about the cost of US treatment, at least the NHS is free? True it is free (mostly) at the point of use - if you ignore taxation, but you can't so - a 2005 estimate put the British workforce at 30m people and an unemployment rate of 4.7%. That means that just over 28.5 million people legally work in this country and pay tax. The “free” NHS was costing each worker £2,105 per year or £40 per week on average. How much would a decent private medical plan cost? Less than £175 a month I would have thought and I don't believe anyone has died from MRSA or Clostridium difficile in a BUPA or PPP or WPA hospital.


If the NHS was indeed "the envy of the world" then not only would much of the rest of the world have copied it but there would be little demand for expensive private medical insurance. That few (if any countries) have copied it and that there is great demand for private medical insurance speaks volumes.

Daniel Hannan calls for Gordon Brown to go

Daniel Hannan with a speech asking Gordon Brown to .. "just go". Dan Han is getting a deserved reputation as a rather good speech maker, deservedly so.

Is it true that voters are deserting the big political parties equally

The BBC keep pushing the idea that voters are deserting Labour and Conservative parties and lending their votes to the smaller parties - Greens & UKIP being the two usually mentioned.

Daniel Hannan reports the situation in his EU constituency is somewhat at variance to this:

"what my focus group is telling me is very different from what Westminster pundits are telling each other. You might think - I certainly thought when I started - that all the main parties would be suffering equally from the revelations in this newspaper's "Expenses Files". But they're not. Yes, some people will cast protest votes (overwhelmingly, in my patch, for UKIP or the Greens). A few say they won't vote at all - which, of course, is the most common response to Euro-elections, even in normal times. But huge numbers are switching directly from Labour to the Conservatives.

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What do I conclude from all this? I'm sticking to my prediction, first made a week ago: the Conservatives will win big, Labour may well be pushed into fourth place - or even, in my patch, fifth place."

Interesting... I wonder why the BBC are pushing the idea that Tories and Labour will suffer equally?