ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
ToryDiary: Is Boris too much of a maverick? ToryDiary: What would you like to ask Eric Pickles? Leave us your questions Daniel Hannan in Local Government: Councillors should be given more power from the centre Susie Squire on Platform: The...
TalkCarswell.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Daniel Hannan's excellent post on ConservativeHome deserves looking at . Dan examines the idea he and I mooted in our book, The Plan ; abolish VAT and replace it with a local sales tax - set and collected locally. Under the hated council tax-system, town halls are under the thumb of unaccountable officials in Whitehall . Council tax goes up and up and up - and those you elect have remarkably little...
Vox Popoli (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Daniel Hannan points out the obvious : We tried to warn you. We said that the bail-out would fail. We pointed out that nationalisation never worked. We predicted that the seizure of the banks would be accompanied by heavy-handed state intervention in their procedures. Sure enough, stock exchanges have continued to plummet, several banks (notably, as Ambrose reports, in Ireland) are looking for additional...
First Drafts (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
In our latest lead review, Daily Mail political columnist Peter Oborne takes a second look at Dylan Jones’s much-maligned book of interviews with the Tory leader, Cameron on Cameron, and at Douglas Carswell & Daniel Hannan’s manifesto for Cameron’s Tories, The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain. The Cameron that emerges from Oborne’s reading is [...]
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
Daniel Hannan, commenting on Strictly Come Dancing, says that the saddest song ever written is a pasa doble called Suspiros de España . While we're on the dance floor, I really must recommend the saddest story of the Mexican dance-halls, the corrido , Rosita Alvirez . It has everything: love, death, family strife, and rhythm.
Adam Smith Institute Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
A few weeks ago I attended the launch of The Plan: twelve months to RENEW BRITAIN , the new book by Douglas Carswell and Daniel Hannan. I've had the chance to read it now, and I can confirm that it's excellent stuff. Hannan and Carswell (an MEP and an MP respectively) are the driving force behind Direct Democracy , a group set up in the aftermath of the Conservatives' 2005 general election defeat...
Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
Douglas Carswell MP and Daniel Hannan MEP are comrades-in-arms. I had the pleasure of sitting with both in the heady days of the now defunct National Association of Conservative Graduates. Those seeking to discover the existence of a vast right-wing conspiracy ought to turn their attention to the NACG - no wonder CCO merged the Gradudates together with the YCs and Conservative Students..! Carswell...
The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
What the fuck is going on with the Icelandic banking thingummy? Having only gotten my "facts" from the three-monkeys BBC until now, I was utterly horrified to read this piece by Daniel Hannan: Gordon Brown claims that the expropriation was necessary because Iceland planned to default on British Icesave accounts. How he got this impression is a mystery. Iceland's finance minister made clear in meetings...
Obnoxio The Clown (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
What the fuck is going on with the Icelandic banking thingummy? Having only gotten my "facts" from the three-monkeys BBC until now, I was utterly horrified to read this piece by Daniel Hannan: Gordon Brown claims that the expropriation was necessary because Iceland planned to default on British Icesave accounts. How he got this impression is a mystery. Iceland's finance minister made clear in meetings...
John Redwood's Diary (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
Douglas Craswell MP and Daniel Hannan MEP have produced an interesting book enttitled “The Plan. Twelve months to renew Britain” I recommend it to anyone who wants to see democracy restored and people empowered in these islands. The Plan includes a proposal for a big repeal Bill, to get governemnt off our backs in [...]
Looking for a voice (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
Those of us who really care about the brazen use of the Anti Terror Laws against Icelandic Banks, have had something eating away at us for a logical explanation. MP's have certainly been asking questions , getting no serious answers however. Daniel Hannan is also provoking observations at Browns panic , As the dust settles the same names are starting to be thrown up .
somethingfishy (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
a comment by 'runar' on Daniel Hannan's Telegraph blog It is worth reading, it needs a very wide readership. "Hi. I am an Icelander and currently I am studying in Denmark. I could never in my wildest nightmares imagine this situation, which is upon us. It is amazing how things can alter within few weeks. As I left Iceland one year ago everything was fine, I had been working as a fisherman for many...
Boris Johnson MP (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The Plan has been written by two young politicians who have discovered first hand how inert is the machinery of the British state, and how intense is the consequent anger on the doorstep. They offer... [Visit boris-johnson.com for the full post and more information about Boris!]
Andrew Allison (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
I'm not feeling very well today, so I won't be posting anymore tonight. What I will be doing though is trying to read more of The Plan: Twelve months to renew Britain* by Daniel Hannan , MEP and Douglas Carswell , MP. Douglas spoke to us about the book at the Young Britons' Foundation Workshop I attended in Birmingham just before the conference started. As I only seem to manage to read a few pages...
Desicritics (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Two young Conservative politicians in the UK, Douglas Carswell and Daniel Hannan have come up with a plan (the “Plan”) for what they call – “renewing Britain”. Daniel Douglas Carswell has been the Conservative MP for Harwich and Clacton since 2005. Hannan, a writer and journalist, is the Conservative Minister for European Parliament (MEP) for South East England since 1999. The plan put forth by Carswell...
