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Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Is it still committing heresy to link favourably to right wing Tory MEP Daniel Hannan ? Ah well, I was never going to be invited to the Cool Kids’ table anyway: The decision by Swiss voters to outlaw the construction of minarets strikes me as regrettable on three grounds. First, it is at odds with that other guiding Swiss principle, localism: issues of this kind ought surely to be settled town...
Tory Outcast (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
"Excellent Stuff"Roger Helmer MEPTory Outcast "will soon find he doesn't have a future""I think he has a very good future, now that he isn't doing as others tell him to do. More please""The now very expelled former chairman of York University Tories" was "well and truly done over by the Party"His blog "will no doubt make for interesting reading...
The Democratic Society blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today is a day to remember – I’m serious. Here’s Dan Hannan, MEP, on his blog this morning: Britain is no longer a sovereign nation. At midnight last night, we ceased to be an independent state, bound by international treaties to other independent states, and became instead a subordinate unit within a European state. Hannan’s article is [...]
Rob's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I mentioned to you the other day that I had debated the Lisbon Treaty at Harlow Council Watch last week . Well, as Dan Hannan MEP points out, the Lisbon Treaty came into force on midnight December 1 2010. Britain is no bound to the statutes of this Treaty, which are moire far reaching, than anything that has ever occurred before. We are now subjects of the EU, and answerable to the new EU President...
The Huntsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
Slow on the uptake? It has taken this Tory Eurosceptic two and a half years to cotton on to the impact of the Montevideo Convention 1933 on Britain's sovereignty. And the Tories say we should trust them on Europe! We should be grateful for the existence of Dan Hannan. If there were more Tory MPs & MEPs like him we might have a political party in power in 2010 that was actually serious about...
Father Ignatius Brown (Free subscription) | yesterday
Interesting blog from Dan Hannan on the Telegraph today. Bernard Connolly, in his book "The Rotten heart of Europe" predicted this in 1995 - as Anatole Kaletsky pointed out in The Times, February 11 1999. See: http://www.internetional.se/emucon.html for the full article - which makes clear the mendacity of the political classes even then. This paragraph in particular stands out: "The...
Judiciary Report (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... read item on today’s Telegraph website. What it also demonstrates – as my dear chum Dan Hannan so frequently and rightly argues – is the growing power of the Blogosphere and the decreasing relevance of the Mainstream Media (MSM). This is not altogether the MSM’s fault. Partly it is just the way of things that more and more readers prefer their news and opinion served...
And another thing... (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Prime Minister-in-waiting. “Ooh, isn’t this health and safety stuff annoying? You know, I had that Dan Hannan in the back of the cab last week – lovely bloke…” And now we have his own version of political “dividing lines”, this time on the subject of marriage . Now, don’t get me wrong: I’m a big fan of marriage – I’ve done it twice, after all. But I’m not going to tell anyone else that if...
Tory Outcast (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
I am about to head out for a Hagueathon (a highly irresponsible afternoon/ evening of alcoholism with the objectives of both honouring William Hague's 14 pint-a-night student boast and making Guardian readers tut) so only a half dozen this week: Dan Hannan on why Baroness Ashton's appointment is a bad thing and why women should be appointed on their merits (Guardian and Telegraph respectively)...
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... If ever there was an example of why direct democracy, favoured by the likes of Thatcherite MEP Dan Hannan, is a complete disaster and is in many ways contradictory to the principles of a liberal democracy, then this is it. Muslims only make up 7% of the Swiss population and there are only 4 minarets in the whole of Switzerland at present. Muslims were always going to find it difficult to...
Old Holborn (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Do you remember the furore over Dan Hannan saying that we needed a complete rethink on the NHS whilst in America, and telling the Americans not to emulate the NHS ? The situation is so bad at Basildon and Thurrock that a 'special measures; team has been flown in to sort out the high mortality rate, the blood spattered wards and the high cross infection rate. In a case of 'who is watching the...
Bloggers4UKIP (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Daniel Hannan MEP, the great scurge of the European Empire and the sole hope of eurosceptic Conservatives for a vaguely eurosceptic Tory voice in the European Conservatives and Reformists. I wanted to talk to Dan Hannan's office today about something other than UKIP but could only find an email address and two postal addresses and phone numbers in Belgium and France. So I phone Conservative...
Wrinkled Weasel's World (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... and why they exclusively recruit their staff from the media pages of The Guardian. Remember the Dan Hannan speech that went viral and the failure of two chief correspondents, Nick Robinson and Mark Mardell, to even give it a mention.? It didn't get a mention on the BBC until the BBC became the story for pointedly ignoring it. I post it again here to make the point that, if you only had the...
Denverstrope (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
As if any more evidence were needed of the seriousness of the ongoing power drain from Westminster to Brussels, we now hear that the latter has now brought forward legislation to regulate Britain's all-important financial sector, its main target being the City. Dan Hannan reveals all : When I warned against the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive five months ago, some of...
PJC Journal (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... and the like you would expect this, but let us look at someone you would not expect this from. Dan Hannan.Dan has promoted himself along with Douglas Carswell as Libertarians inside the Conservative Party. They put out a book, The Plan, They appear to be at loggerheads with the party leadership, a thorn in Cameron's side, but are they? Or are they working to the same plan as Cameron.In a...
