Most of you have by now seen the speech given by MEP Daniel Hannan in which he simply destroyed Gordon Brown and his Marxist Policies. I would like to ofer you a little more in the form of a follow up interview he did with Mr. Glen Beck of Fox News. For those of you who have not seen the original speech, it can be found here. Also I have added the text of that speech below;
Prime Minister, I see you’ve already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. You’ve spoken here about free trade, and amen to that. Who would have guessed, listening to you just now, that you were the author of the phrase ‘British jobs for British workers’ and that you have subsidised, where you have not nationalised outright, swathes of our economy, including the car industry and many of the banks? Perhaps you would have more moral authority in this house if your actions matched your words? Perhaps you would have more legitimacy in the councils of the world if the United Kingdom were not going into this recession in the worst condition of any G20 country?
The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around £20,000. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child. Now, once again today you try to spread the blame around; you spoke about an international recession, international crisis. Well, it is true that we are all sailing together into the squalls. But not every vessel in the convoy is in the same dilapidated condition. Other ships used the good years to caulk their hulls and clear their rigging; in other words – to pay off debt. But you used the good years to raise borrowing yet further. As a consequence, under your captaincy, our hull is pressed deep into the water line under the accumulated weight of your debt We are now running a deficit that touches 10% of GDP, an almost unbelievable figure. More than Pakistan, more than Hungary; countries where the IMF have already been called in. Now, it’s not that you’re not apologising; like everyone else I have long accepted that you’re pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things. It’s that you’re carrying on, wilfully worsening our situation, wantonly spending what little we have left. Last year - in the last twelve months – a hundred thousand private sector jobs have been lost and yet you created thirty thousand public sector jobs.
Prime Minister, you cannot carry on for ever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. And when you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we’re ‘well-placed to weather the storm’, I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line. You know, and we know, and you know that we know that it’s nonsense! Everyone knows that Britain is worse off than any other country as we go into these hard times. The IMF has said so; the European Commission has said so; the markets have said so – which is why our currency has devalued by thirty percent. And soon the voters too will get their chance to say so. They can see what the markets have already seen: that you are the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government.
I am very pleased that an MEP has finally taken such a direction with regards to the Marxist ideology that is brutalizing Europe though I am wondering what took so long. I hope that this trend picks up and begins to restore a little bit faith that we absolutely have not had in our leadership or the system.
Mainstream media ignored this slam of socialism, but Jay Leno slams Obama in this video with the c-word (communism):
http://tinyurl.com/c4vkpq
Posted by: Genelle | March 26, 2009 at 04:06 PM
Mr Hannan
Well done. At last someone who tells it as WE see it
Posted by: Tony May | March 27, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Mr Hannan is a relic of bygone days.
He believes that a politician's job is to represent the people NOT SERVE HIS OWN INTERESTS.
Posted by: David Dean | March 27, 2009 at 03:07 PM
This was so brilliant.
Posted by: Alysha | March 28, 2009 at 03:45 AM