March 26th, 2009

Rushies, Co-Conspirators : “Hannan is Our Leader”

Rushies UKRush Limbaugh says, “Hear, hear. Hear, hear. Republicans in Washington could take a lesson from the bravery of this man.”

Guido spoke to Dan earlier today, he seemed bemused at the colossal impact of his speech. Guido tried to explain to him he was about to go inter-continental. “I have to deal with a lot of constituent’s letters today”, “Dan, Drudge has just front paged you”, “Yes, it is strange, I have said the same thing before.”

Cometh the hour, cometh the man – we are all ditto-heads now; Rushies and the Co-Conspirators.   British politicians are mesmerised by Obama, without noticing that two months into his presidency Obama’s ratings are lower than Dubya’s were at the same time.  Dan, we know you won’t back down, stick to your guns…

Fox : Danny Tells Cavuto - “I Wanted Ron Paul, But I Backed Obama”

UPDATE : Hannan’s reply to Gordon Brown is already at 1/3rd of million views on YouTube and on course to be the most viewed political speech in the fastest time in internet history. It is the speech that many Republicans wish  they had someone to deliver to Obama.


287 Comments

  1. 1
    Loafing in the BA lounge, T5 says:

    Wonder how Dave is going to deal with this…

    Have also spent time surfing the comment pages – public widely mocking the MSM for ignoring Hannan’s speech, especially the punters on Nick Robinson’s page.

    • 63
      Man in the Street says:

      It is amazing that so much coverage is given to just one politician speaking his mind. What a shit state of affairs this shit hole of a country is in.

      Has the world gone mad? Just shows how out of touch the MSM, government and parliament in general is.

      If Call me Dave had any backbone this would never have had so much ‘airtime’. What a useless twat he is. He’s got that weird speech / lips thing going on that Mr Something of the Night has. Watching boy george at PMQs this week was depressing in the extreme. Someone appearing more disinterested in the proceedings would be hard to find.

      Are all Toffs just fucking weird or is it just politicians in general.

      They are not worthy to even wash my feet.

      Useless Hoons.

      • 154
        Old Tory says:

        It is very easy to make a sharp witted speech as a critic…!! And all of this with the benefit of hindsight. Where were all the sharp Tory dudes all the time Brown was getting us into this mess? Where are the great speeches of THE LAST fucking 12 years HIGHLIGHTING the road we were going down??? Sorry a lot of people are not excited by this Tory bunch. The Labour Party are losing…the Tories are not winning.

        And another thing who are these euro MPs getting off blasting our PM . Thatcher would have shot the little shit out of the water.

      • 169
        Frank says:

        Just goes to show how out of touch the general public are.

      • 218
        Lord Reith says:

        Toady’s McNaughtie was doing a piece about kids doing a project about ‘Reporting’ see….

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/news_day_2009/default.stm

        One worries about the next generation when he finished the piece by saying that they would be under the tutelage of BBC Editorship and would learn attributes such FAIRNESS, INTEGRITY and UNAMBIGUITY!

        WTF!!

        Pardon me whilst I SPIN in my grave!

      • 257
        iain,ni says:

        Yes, someone tell Osborne that he looks like a scruffy git. Sit up, look interested and straighten your tie, boy.

    • 65
      Anonymous says:

      521,123 views early today!

      • 235
        Pete Fowler says:

        A cheap speech, given by a cheapskate who has exactly that tone of voice that represents the heart of those who have actually failed us – the get-rich-quick barrow boys from Eton and Harrow who jumped into reckless trading.

        I find is astonishing that I can look at this week’s Time magazine and read what to me is so obvious – Reaganomics has been found out, thirty years of plunder and economic vandalism – and yet see nothing of that truth in UK mainstream papers. What’s over is neo-con liberalism….it’s proved a complete sham. Deregulation to the point of daftness – started here by Thatcher and pursued with equal zeal by New Labour – has brought the whole building crashing down. And here it’s really painful because we’d assumed that finance was our future – to the extent that we didn’t need to actually make anything, produce goods. It is this that has marked us out as particularly vulnerable.

        I hold absolutely no brief for Brown. He’s jumped into the mire of Thatcherism with the zest of the convert. At the same time, he’s an old fashioned old Labour fix-it man, convinced that he can manoeuvre his way back into power at the next election – the speech here referring to Brown as Brezhnev is simply following the wonderful Private Eye series in which our Esteemed Leader issues his Soviet Directives of the day.

        But because Brown is a spent force – and utterly so, he has no credibility at all – does not mean that we revert to the Old Etonians who make silly speeches in Strasbourg.

        Because their kind have been right there in the middle of the money-grabbing bastards who should have been put down by a proper Labour Government over ten years ago. But Labour decided not to fight them – but to join them.

        A stinking Tory plot.

        Pete Fowler. p.fowler@ntlworld.com

    • 78
      Dick the Prick says:

      Is the British Constitution a magnet?

      I’ve been thinking about gun crime in Mexico which I guess is Afghanistan made at aged mandate.

    • 81
      Dick the Prick says:

      We really are at a war on drugs.

    • 100
      Scallywag says:

      Check this out too…

      Enjoy!

    • 205
      Off Topic says:

      Am I the only one suffering from missing text on the left hand side of this blog. It’s really pissing me off that I can’t see what I’m typing!

    • 264
      Peter says:

      How quaint.

      All I did was ask where this political story was that everyone was talking about (bar the political editor) and I get an email saying my moderator-approved post on Nic R’s page had now been removed for being ‘off topic’.

      So… if it’s not there it doesn’t exist and you can’t ask about it?

      How very Catch 22!

  2. 2

    And every time the world sees Dan’s reply to Gordon, they’ll see the glimpses of Gordon grinning and gurning like a simpleton, as if he could not grasp the big, difficult words that Dan was using.

    • 13
      Emeral Baddy says:

      Such fame just for telling the truth as it is. I thought the Simon Lebon, or something like that, you know the UKIP, one was just as good if not better

    • 19

      The PM was laughing at how one man can be so misguided. The Tories would do nothing to help the people of Britain – except the 3% wealthiest whom their Millionaires’ Manifesto will benefit!

      • 38
        H says:

        Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah (Yadda Yadda Yadda Yadda Yadda)

        Sorry for being so infantile in my response – but you gotta go like for like!

      • 49
        D says:

        Labour are a more equal opportunity lot by contrast.

        They want to fuck 100% of us over, hell it’s probably 115% or so if you include the poor kids who aren’t born yet that’ll be paying the bill for our 2 years of recession.

      • 52
        The big D says:

        Harman Pride is deluded in thinking a manifesto is biblical in its pronunciations. The Labour version has already been judged in court to be a work of fiction. Deciding an opposition document is factual while knowing your own is entered for the Booker prize is truly strange. It may be that the conservatives by just stopping Brown’s CTD spending will help all the people of Britain, including the 3% you are so concerned about. Are you one of them?

      • 53
        The big D says:

        CTD – Circling the Drain.

      • 57
        The big D says:

        Just checked the U Tube count: 417,032. Comment that caused a smile :

        poida78 (1 day ago) Show Hide +8

        2:36: Brown writing shopping list
        - bread
        - milk
        - Polonium-210

      • 86
        Lola says:

        Harman’ Pride: the Tariq Aziz of New Labour

      • 91

        Labour’s only intention is to trough as much as humanly possible from the public purse, sod the consequences.

        Now fuck off you thick bastard.

      • 121
        FireForce says:

        At least the conservatives are starting tax cuts, unlike the left scum who steal eveyones money to give to the feckless, and the sticky fingered mp’s.
        3% yes but a start, instead of 100% rise. FACT= every time labour come to power to the time they leave power TAXES go UP.
        The torys however taxes go DOWN.

      • 175
        no longer anonymous says:

        Harman you lovely old bag, how are the crabs?

  3. 3
    Rebecca says:

    I wonder if mr Hannan has any skeletons in the cupboard he’d rather not anyone know about?

    • 87
      Lola says:

      You can bet that New Labour diry tricks department have put every resource they’ve got on searching for soemthing, anything with which they can discredit him.

      I reckon Hannan should think carefully on the fate of David Kelly.

      • 165
        Frank says:

        I wouldn’t be suprised if Tory central office wasn’t trawling through their info either. Can’t have anyone eclipsing our Dave.

    • 103
      Richard Abbot says:

      My thoughts exactly! He might be right, but the Tories had better hope he is squweaky clean. Bet you £50 he isn’t.

      • 106
        sukyspook says:

        ….and I hope he’s not planning a mountain hike or walk in the woods anytime soon…

      • 274
        unablogger says:

        Can’t be any worse than Bliar’s ‘whiter than white’ government. It would be quite an event if he wasn’t on the take or as we now call it ‘Doing a McNulty’.

  4. 4
    Hannan 4 PM! says:

    Expect furious Hannan briefing in the next couple of days coming from the Cameroons.

  5. 5
    The Grim Reaper says:

    The speech he gave was absolutely devastating. By all rights, this should be the one that finishes Gordon Brown off. It was depressing, though rather predictable, to see the snot gobbling PM gurning like a chimp throughout it. How on earth did such a mentalist become the head of this nation?

    By the way Guido, good luck today when you’re facing Dolly Draper on the Daily Politics.

    • 41
      H says:

      I’m gonna miss that unfortunately as I will be either in the airport departure lounge or over the Irish sea, but hope the beeb don’t stitch you up. Give him hell Guido!!

  6. 6
    BBC is biased says:

    Guido make sure you try to mention this Hannan stuff and the Beeb today. They cannot be allowed to ignore it.

    • 18

      I hope the BBC cut you off if you try, the British people have more important things to worry about than the deranged rantings of a Kilroy wannabe.

      • 21
        Dan da man says:

        Same old lefties wanting to control and manage everything and keep things from the people. Just shows how low down Brown and Labour are when censorship is all they have left. So so funny and tragic really!

      • 27
        Gladstone Screwer says:

        No they don’t. He stated exactly how those more important things came to be. Your mentalist PM was the CEO of this fucking mess, so of course they have a right to hear the man express his views. I thought ‘Liberal Socialsts’ were all for free speech, but not anymore it seems. It appears you lot are shitting yourselves over any kind of negative feedback regards your fuckwitted leaders policies, whatever they may be. Tell you what mate, I don’t recognise this bell end as my premier, I don’t recognise your stinking corrupt cabal of a government as having any kind of authority whatsoever, I don’t hold you or your poxy ideals in anything that could be recognised as esteem. Christ on a bike, how many more months, even weeks do we have to put up with his stupid platitudes, your non entity ministers coming out with the most banal statements of alleged policy, and those fucking never ending adverts on radio and TV about direct.gov save the fucking planet act FAST on strokes, policing pledge BULLSHIT…WHICH WE ARE PAYING FOR OUT OF OUR FUCKING TAXES.

      • 42
        H says:

        So basically HP you think the British people should only hear your side of any argument?! Next thing YOU will be calling anyone who disagrees with you a Fascist!!!! This is what all failures (and idiots) do to detract from themselves – a complete Last Resort!!

      • 46
        Anonymous says:

        Indeed they do Hagbag–NuLabour scum like you.

      • 59
        The BBC are vermin says:

        The air of desperation from socialist filth

      • 77

        You sad tosser. Typical “Socialist”, can’t hack the debate so doesn’t want to allow those who can see more than one point of view to discuss things. Fuck off back to your student union office and tidy the paperclips.

      • 114
        Woman on a Raft says:

        Yer frit

      • 156
        Anonymous says:

        Yes, thats your instinctive reaction isn’t it? “Hope the BBC cut you off.” You apparatchiks really love free speech don’t you?

      • 167
        Max says:

        You’re talking like a National Socialist again, HP

      • 178
        no longer anonymous says:

        Calm down folks, HP is a spoof!

      • 268
        Greychatter says:

        Dan Hannan’s speech on BBC radio 4 just before 6 o’ clock, Brilliant. Made my day driving home from work.
        Is Our Beeb (not Labours’) coming out of the Labour closet at last.?

      • 276
        unablogger says:

        At first they ignore you then they start name calling, you know when you get under their skin when the abuse starts. It may be a long road to the election but boy it will be worth the wait when the front bench of NuLabour get wiped off the political map.

  7. 7
    Gazza! says:

    Rush Limbaugh says
    “Here’s a story I have here from one of the European papers. What’s happening is that they’re having flyovers, spy planes. It is the UK Daily Mail: “‘Council Uses Spy Plane with Thermal Imaging Camera to Snoop on Homes Wasting Energy.’ — In Great Britain, snooping on the public has reached new heights with local authorities putting spy planes in the air to snoop on homeowners who are wasting too much energy. Thermal imaging cameras are being used to create colour-coded maps which will enable council officers to identify offenders and pay them a visit to educate them about the harm to the environment and measures they can take,” to reduce their usage”

    Adolf Brown must be having the Spy Plane with Thermal Imaging Camera to Snoop on Homes so he can create millions of the promise Insulating jobs he said he was going to create a few months back…….fucking one eyed Scottish idiot, what training is need for rolling insulation in the roof space and drilling a few holes in the outer walls of cavitys.

    Also i was wondering why so many indoor cannabis drug busts were happing around my area….must remember to switch the light off.

    • 64
      Notts Al says:

      BBC Ceeefax is reporting that powers confered under RIPA, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, have been used 10,000 times in the past 5 years by councils in England and Wales. Of course RIPA was enabled to fight terrorism, but has been used by officials to spy on littering and suspected dog fouling.

      These incidents could be the dirty bombs which are causing increased anxiety at the Home Office this week.

      Meanwhile Fred Goodwin’s property is vandalised. (No surprise at all to find that the perpetrator of the crime is really a victim in NULabourland). Has all the hallmarks of a Gov’t propoganda stunt. Look at the media circus around it.

      Northen Ireland kicking off again? Riots across Europe. On the World stage, N Korea and Iran are firing rockets. We have not felt so unsafe for a generation.

      This and more on the eve of the G20 where serious action is widely anticpated and advertised.

      The atmosphere was never so ripe for the implementation of Martial Law, Gordon’s only hope of extending his term and delaying his exit. I predict it before the end of April.

      • 66
        Anonymous says:

        Civil Contingencies Act is where he’s headed after the G20 riots. But Her Maj stepped in ysterday so he may get a phone call when he steps off the global warming place after his Rio runaround.

      • 67
        Anonymous says:

        sorry “warming plane”

    • 90
      The Two Minute-Hate says:

      repulsive how you all suck up to and fawn over the Limbaugh creep

      DO YOU BRITS WANT or NEED HIS SEAL OF APPROVAL????

      Euchk!. Disgusting. Like watching worms try to have sex with a slug.

      • 132
        Doing the Gay Gordon says:

        Dont know of the guy.

        But while the UK media is having a Hannan Black Out, the snowball must continue to roll – and everyone is welcome.

      • 233

        Watching worms try to have sex with a slug
        would be funny, not disgusting.

        Or is that just me? : )

    • 133
      Elby The Beserk says:

      Some poor bloke in Yorkshire had his front door taken out for the filth to find he had a wood-burning stove. Not a weed farm.

    • 136

      Nothing Gordon enjoys more than a well filled cavity.

    • 171
      Anonymous says:

      When the Government announced their initiative to provide a 50% grant towards loft and cavity wall insulation, we were approached within days by insulation firms to take advantage of this. Our property was surveyed and documents were duly signed. What has happened? Nothing – except we were approached again several months later with more promises. To date nothing has actually happened.

      Like many Government initiatives, this is all empty rhetoric. Do not expect any action on this, other than more snooping by Council officials.

  8. 8
    unemployed tory says:

    you tube have stopped the view count. maybe it was zanu labour?

  9. 9
    Dan da man says:

    People are going on about the media not acknowledging Hannan’s speech but the official Conservative.com website also makes no mention. Cameron should show the Tories are a big tent and be proud someone like Dan Hannan is a conservative.

    • 95
      LOL from Planet Mad says:

      Ahem: Conservative Home 25th March: 6.30pm ToryDiary: Daniel Hannan MEP becomes a worldwide internet phenomenon
      Forget the other tis run by jobsworths…where’s Pickles when you want him?

  10. 10
    The Beast says:

    Been looking at some of his other speeches on youtube.
    He’s the business
    Shows Dave up for what he is.
    The square root of fuck all

  11. 12
    Anonymous says:

    It was truly a brilliant speech but let’s not forget Nigel Farage’s speech on the same day. Just as powerful and full of passion.

    • 56

      ermm…no, Farange’s attempt at a diatribe falls far short in the quality department, as do most speeches by wannabe midget Napoleons.

    • 61
      D says:

      Yeah but he was ranting about the UK being in the EU rather than his inept handling of the financial crisis. Good points but not really the big issue at the moment…

      • 89
        Lola says:

        It was clear to me that both Hannan and Farage, were, under their epic self control, very very angry indeed. Farage was just less good at hiding his anger. And for any lefties out there their anger is because New Labour has made everybody poorer, especially the those with the lowest wages and wealth.

      • 134
        Plato says:

        Got it in one Lola – he was seething. No faux rage for Dan Dare.

  12. 14
    Anonymous says:

    Britain can’t afford the luxury of having a man like Hannan in Europe, we need him back home.

  13. 15

    Fringe far-right loonies like Hannan, Farage and Kilroy-Silk will quite rightly be ignored by the people who matter: the movers and shakers at the BBC, Sky and major newspapers.

    The fact that you are now allying with Rush Limbaugh – an extreme Republican who said that he wants President Obama to fail – shows how low the Tories are willing to go. Limbaugh is so extreme even the Republican chairman (Michael Steele) is ashamed of him. You can judge a person’s character by the company they keep.

  14. 16

    Global warming will have catastrophic consequences on our children and grandchildren, and as usual it will be the poorest who are worst-affected. If we don’t do something fast it will become irreversible and utterly disastrous for the planet.

    We can all do our bit to stop global warming and reduce our carbon footprints – by recycling, eating greener foods, reducing our air travel and car use, and having fewer children.

    If people aren’t willing to cooperate then yes the government can and must step in. What is government there for if not to safeguard our children’s future. Or don’t you care about the poor and disadvantaged of tomorrow?

    • 31
      Gladstone Screwer says:

      The planet is cooling. Very little sunspot activity over the past couple of years, equals cooler temperatures here on earth. Sure, the climate IS changing, no argument there, just it ain’t an insignificant trace gas causing the problem, it’s that thermo-nuclear fireball called the sun calling the shots. Personally I am currently driving a Holden Commadore V8 HSV at full pelt using knocked off aviation fuel (no tax to Gordon teehee) and throw everything in the bin as recycling is bollocks – look it ends up in a Chinese landfill with a battery factory built on top anyway, and I travel by executive jet, with just me and the crew on the aircraft….I don’t give a shit.

      Try and stop me you tree hugging hoon…ha,ha,ha etc

    • 44
      H says:

      You really are a complete and utter fuckwit!!!!!

    • 47
      Anonymous says:

      Global warming is a load of Marxist bollocks—anti-science (despite the leftist pricks in the state science establishments who deceitfully endorse the shite), anti-human, anti-life. That you should justify the snooping tinpot tyranny of ZaNuLab is what one would expect. If marxist greenfreaks have their way humanity will be wiped out so there won’t be any poor and disadvantaged or any tomorrow.BTW It will be my pleasure, on the fortcoming “Earth Day” to turn on every light and electrical appliance I can.

    • 55

      The biggest contribution Harman Pride can make to the global warming problem is to pucker her ring piece and curtail the hot air until she knows what she is talking about.

    • 72
      fedup civilserf says:

      HP sauce, if the goverment are so concerned about global warming and carbon feetprints wtf are all the heads of british embassys and their wives doing in the uk now? how much did all that club or first class travel cost us and what is the point of travelling halfway round the world and back again just to get a pat on the head from millibrain for excellent boxticking last year?

    • 79

      Shame your parents were’n't a bit greener.

    • 140
      Doing the Gay Gordon says:

      HArman, you are a spoof.

      But yes, Britain needs to reduce its population. Free Abortions for Labour supporters and other Pro-Abortion Parties!

    • 141
      Anonymous says:

      It’s called weather you twat.

    • 164
      Frank says:

      I have paid a fucking fortune towards this global warming business and its still freezing.

      Does anyone know when it is expected in the Midlands?

    • 179
      The Man says:

      Harman, global warming is something for the men to discuss and sort out.

    • 182
      Anonymous says:

      When did you qualify in climatology? Was it at the same establishment as the benighted Prince and the Archbish?

    • 188
      Korky the Kat says:

      HP, Oooh you are saucy!

      Hmmm. Eat greener foods? Will Labour ban or tax the fast food outlets that churn out millions of tons of highly processed pap and waste packaging? You know, the one’s that fund seminars at the Labour conference? No, thought not.

      Hmmm. Reduce air travel? Didn’t Labour announce plans for the third runway at Heathrow, the massive expansion at Stansted and the development of old RAF bases as regional airports?

      Hmm. Reduce Car travel? Didn’t Mandelson say he was going to bail out Jaguar/Land Rover/whoever, so that they could keep making gas guzzlers and 4×4s?

      Hmm. Have fewer children? Haven’t Labour encouraged fecundity by introducing benefits that actually make it financially worthwhile to have a big family? There are ethnic groups that actually see this as a good reason to come to Britain. We mustn’t forget the prime example of this “baby farming” one Karen Matthews and her brood of state funded kiddies.

      Hmm. Recycle more? Speak to any five local authorities and you will get five different policies on recycling. Also, what happens when the value of waste paper, plastic and metals slump. Yes! That’s it HP, they can’t sell it so they landfill it!!!

      Tell me HP, do you want us to help get you out of there? It seems you need a few days in the real world, it will do you the power of good!!

    • 195
      Anonymous says:

      Harman, -Why do you support the Party which is doing its best to destroy this country by overpopulation due to mass immigration if you support the green agenda, ie having fewer children?

    • 232
      Adrian P says:

      Don’t worry about Global warming, gordon is commisioning Carbon Capture technology, ( paid for by more taxes on fuel and energy )
      These machines are going to suck all the CO2 out of the atmospehere.
      Sorted.

    • 269
      Greychatter says:

      It’s not Global warming that’s making everybodys temperature rise it’s the Hot air coming from all the deluded Labourites.

  15. 17
    Christian Kerr says:

    Is Dan Hannan now the most famous and best-loved Peruvian-Briton since Paddington Bear?

    • 20

      LOL! But most ordinary British people don’t watch YouTube or Fix News or listen to Rush – only sad right-wing geeks.

      Most people in Britain rely on the BBC for objective news reporting. No amount of whining about “bias” will change that. The license fee is here to stay – if you don’t pay, expect a criminal record and your fingerprints collected! :)

      If we didn’t have the BBC we’d have to put up with Fix News and Rush Limbore providing us with our information!

      • 24
        Oscar says:

        Harman, they will have our fingerprints collected anyway remember and bbc still demand money even when you dont have a telly. Your brand of politics is about as popular as ebola as you will find out when Liebore dare to call an election.

      • 33
        Joe Gormley's Grandson says:

        Yes, Information, we want information, Harman. Not propaganda.

        Incidently, just about everyone I know looks at, or is shown YouTube. Hours of it, and its free, no licence fee, just free. No one watches the Beeb anymore, few read the Guardian which is why its going bust. They all got wise to crap wooden soviet reporting.

        Just how out of touch are you lefties?.

      • 83

        You prat – where’s your evidence for your assertions? “Most people”? Did poor Polly’s whining about newspapers going down the pan not reach your ears? Have you noticed how few adverts on the ITV channels are for real businesses and not government propaganda lately?

        YouTube and Facebook.

        Try and catch up, you are just making a fool of yourself.

      • 84
        Cassandra King says:

        Keep talking HP, you condemn yourself and your grubby,nasty and quite frankly fascist beliefs everytime you post, from finger printing and criminalisng the poor/OAPs who cannot afford the gross BBC extortion tax to denying free speech, its all acceptable to you and your party isnt it? From there to the re eductaion camps and onto the USSR.
        Keep talking HP, give us the full flavour of your nasty,corrupt and evil ideology and we will pass judgement come the election!

      • 170
        Voter says:

        Lol most people. Like most people want to kick Labour the fuck out of office according to every single poll!

      • 196
        Gloriana says:

        “You-Tube or Fix News” ?? I thought Fix News was what the BBC did.

      • 238

        I would never advocate avoiding the BBC license
        fee as that would be illegal and immoral.

        So I was shocked when somebody pointed out that
        they can only get you if you have a TV or a TV Card
        in your PC.

        The fact that you can now watch the main BBC channels
        live over the internet with neither means that
        unscrupulous individuals could easily avoid ever
        paying a license fee again if they so chose.

        I couldn’t possibly advocate that people consider such
        a thing, of course. That would be wrong.

      • 277
        unablogger says:

        Shows how far out of touch you are with modern Britain, carry on, the you tube generation are at voting age and very angry with being out of work or paying so much tax whilst in it. Even pensioners are online and they are voting age as well, you know the Nulabour forgotten indigenous population who NuLabour hope would pass away in the winter months..Roll on the election

      • 282
        Zed says:

        Only sad right-wing geeks watch youtube? You sure about that Harman? If that’s the case, then there are quite a lot of them out there. Daniel Hannan’s glorious speech has been viewed by over One Million people now.

        Whether or not the licence fee is here to stay depends entirely on how benevolent the Tory party feel when they triumphantly come back into power next year. The BBC has been extremely biased (whether you like to admit it or not) during Labour’s reign of terror. And no doubt Tories will want to dole out a little punishment to the socialist scum that inhabit the BBC’s corridors.

    • 30

      He gets my marmalade.

    • 94
      Lola says:

      Or Michael Bentine?

    • 191
      Faux Cul says:

      Michael Bentine?

      • 197
        Governor Hatton says:

        Yes indeed, the late lamented Michael Bentine was of South American lineage.

  16. 22
    Henry Sterling says:

    Has anyone else noticed in the Court Circular that on the same evening, straight after having had a private conversation with the Governor of the BoE, The Queen held a private meeting with none other than the Chief of the Defence Staff!

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article5970049.ece

    I think something is brewing behind the scenes whilst the Prime Minister is out of the country!!

    • 23
      Labour OUT says:

      Let’s hope a coup is in the offing.

    • 26
      Stunned says:

      An unprecedented meeting with Governor of BoE then a meeting with the Chief of Defence, looks like Her Maj is getting serious……….the estabishment are closing rank.

      • 239
        Katie says:

        From royal.gov.uk;

        “The Queen meets regularly with the Chief of the Defence Staff and the Single Service Chiefs.”

        Try not to get carried away.

  17. 28
    copydude says:

    He has filled a vacuum. It wouldn’t matter much what he said, except that we have all been starved of any opposition for so long, even though we pay dearly for MP’s two homes and their two days a week job in Westminster.

    I think it is a bit like the apathy before the Russian Revolution . . . remember that Trotsky said of Lenin at the time, ‘Power was lying in the streets, Lenin simply picked it up’.

    The media produced tailor’s dummies, Dave 1 and Dave 2, could be rolled over quite easily. The Lib Dumbs are still kicking themselves for Dave 2 and Hannan’s speech is another nail in his coffin.

  18. 29
    Hope on the horizon says:

    Let’s hope so. Just like when, three decades ago it was patriots within the Treasury civil service who massively overstated public spending, and told Healey that government debt was 60% of GDP in 1976. The real figure was 42% – but by the time Healey realised that the IMF had been called in and a cuts agenda started. Which eventually led to Thatcher being elected and Labour out for 18 long years. The establishment can be a wonderfully subversive, they are not going to let us go down Mugabe style.

  19. 34
    Jonista says:

    The interesting thing about the youtube clip of Daniel’s speech is that people are not just watching it for the entertainment value of seeing Gordon Brown get roasted, they are actually watching it for what Daniel has to say.

    Just look at the comments section (currently over 3000 in a single day) and you’ll see the discussion is actually about the issues that he raised.

  20. 35
    Anonymous says:

    If its not on the BBC its not worth a mention. Why does a little moaning right-winger deserve a mention?

    • 37
      Anonymous says:

      Agree. Hannans 30 second boat analogy had me pissing my pants. What a cock. I wouldn’t report that on CBeebies.

      • 40
        Absolutely loving it... says:

        My, the candles are burning late inside the bunker tonight…

      • 74
        Anon. says:

        You are a bit of a twat aren’t you.

      • 163
        fjw says:

        Hope you’re still wearing those pants.

      • 283
        Zed says:

        to Anonymous (aka Harman Pride)

        “30 second boat analogy had me pissing my pants.”
        I suspect showing you my finger would have the same effect. Probably has something to do with you being a simpleton.

        Personally I laughed my socks off when I heard the following line…

        “…and when you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way…”

        Classic.

    • 85

      It will be, simply by the sheer weight of interest. Just wait and see, and start looking for another job, Dolly won’t be in a position to pay your minimum wage soon.

  21. 36
    Cymro says:

    Let me see, Daniel Hannan’s little outburst and the fact that it’s going viral on YouTube has been featured on Fox News in the USA, yet there’s been absolutely NO mention of it on any of the news bulletins I’ve been keeping an eye on (BBC, ITV, Ch4). Errr???? As far as the Great British Public are concerned, it never happened, but the Yanks have seen it on the telly?? But regardless of that, it was wonderfully cathartic, and gave me a spring in my step for the rest of the day!

    I don’t know about the rest of you, I’m actively spreading the link around, hoping it’ll go far and wide. Oh, and Harman_Pride, I think you need to appreciate that one of my dearest friends thinks that what Hannan said was “splendid,” and felt the same way as I did about what he said. That in itself won’t mean much to you. What will mean a lot to you is that this friend of mine I’m referring to is very much OLD Labour, a true Socialist, someone who worked in international banking before the fall of Communism, and as such did as much work in Moscow as he did in the City. And he utterly, utterly despises New Labour and that pathetic excuse of a PM we allegedly have, and his Government of no talents.

    While I’m at it:

    “I hope you realize that in the current climate of the War on Terror, such talk could get you monitored or even arrested?”

    Way to go. East Germany here we come, except we’re already there. What are you going to do? Report Labour OUT to the Stasi? A nice dawn raid on those of us who are openly critical of the Party? In which case you’ll have to find room to incarcerate tens of millions of people in the UK alone.

  22. 39
    Jaden says:

    Here in USA Fox news is lauding Hannan as a voice of sanity, mind you they liked Blair. Yup they’re still gullible retards.

    • 129
      Doing the Gay Gordon says:

      They like blair because (in words) he backed them to the hilt after 911. Its what they needed at a very particular time when countries like France were criticising them.

  23. 43
    Hurr Durr says:

    Looks like Hannan’s raised the butthurt factor of our resident Leftards. Perhaps a run for PM in ten years time for Mr Hannan? I’d love to see the look on Harman’s face, only after she’s done scrubbing the deep fryer at her local chip shop though.

  24. 45
    Non-Sassenach says:

    Do we really want to be dragging Rush Limbaugh into this??! He is opposed to so many of the civil liberties we across the board now accept as a basic right in this country. We may agree on somethings, the disagreements are so great and so fundamental any agreements that may arise are just a fluke.

    *Deep breath*

    He is just utter disgusting, festering, vile, hateful scum who believes that personal freedom extends to only his reading of the bible, fuck him the septic-tank for a brain c.unt. He regards the sheer notion of a health service as some sort of Stalinist work camp designed to enslave people, that gay couples shouldn’t be afforded any rights at all and that children should be made to say prayers is schools. Fuck him, fuck him, fuck him.

    He doesn’t want a small government, he wants a big government. A big government that enforces that only allows one opinion that is his alone. He isn’t a Conservative, he is a wannabe dictator and a amoral fucking c.unt who would be happy as a pig rolling in his own waste matter if he was able to enforce his morals on his pathetic subjects who would look to him for guidance. Pathetic fucks treat him in that way already and he has grown vastly wealthy reguritating endless streams of bile to fucking idiots who view him with the same idolitry and devotion as the SS afforded Hitler.

    And we talk here about BBC bias, ha! At least we who read this blog actually fucking bother to read around news sites, think about issues ( ;-) ) and form our own opinion, his pea-brained, cretins for followers use him as THE source of knowledge and wisdom because it saves them the time to fucking think for themselves. Stalin had less control over what people thought than Rush Limbaugh currently holds in his sweaty, putird, puss covered talons.

    He is everything Conservatives should not be. Hannan showed intelligence, skill, precision and care in what he said. Limbaugh just spews vomit and shit from every fucking hole is his digusting body and all it does it create division because that is all he cares about as that is how he gets his money.

    We get fucking nowhere with division. We have to move forward by winning rational, cohesive arguements that create a long lasting and meaningful consensus and Hannan will hopefully prove to be a key figure in such debates.

    Want a long-lasting and productive Conservative government with public support? Have no association in any way with Limbaugh and his ilk. He gets as many people to hate Conservatism as he does to agree with it – what is the fucking point in doing that? All it means is that down the road we face another election, get kicked into the wilderness again and the whole cycle starts afresh. As a country we can and must do better than ever sinking to the levels where something like Limbaugh will be able to reach any sort of prominance.

    • 50
      Coniston says:

      Non Sassenach – Good golly. It is apparent that you have never listened to Rush Limbaugh. However, I think it telling that YOU spill venom out of all orifices. You are swallowing the ravings on blogs indeed, almost verbatim, instead of going to the source material. Rush supports small government, he has no interest in running for office and is an entertaining political and social commentator. Given that he is on 15 hours a week, no, not all programs are great, but I suggest that you listen to the whole of the speech he gave to CPAC and I think you will be surprised. Also he was very much against the spending under Bush and said so, consistently. It is disappointing that those who claim to support rational, cohesive arguments seek to demonize Limbaugh, and, by their words and acts become that which they purport to criticize so vehemently.

      • 240
        Non-Sassenach says:

        Coniston, you indeed raise fair points.

        I totally accept that maybe I let my arguement down in that post by letting rip on my feelings about the man in a way that goes contary to my main point. I just had to get out my feelings on the man as I find him morally repugnant and that I feel he and his ilk are truelly damaging not only to Conservatism but politics as a whole.

        I have listened to him. Many, many times. I have even heard the CPAC speech. It would ludicrous to have such opinions about a person and only have second hand knowledge of his style and beliefs. For better or for worse my post was my opinion created by my own cognitive capabilities. It is a result of doing so that has led to my hatred of the man with the views of left-wing blogs not entering into it.

        But if you strip away the bile I spewed towards the man there is a point I was trying to make. Look at the division inherent in the US news media and then the division politically in the country. Do we want that in the UK? I truely hope not. People like Rush, Malkin, Coulter, O’Reilly, Hannity, Inghrams etc. all play a destructive, pot-stirring, division creating role in US politics. The same is true of broadcasters on the left also. You get two camps who hate each other and as a result you get a country that is constantly going back and forth across fundamentally different political opinions that gets us nowhere fast.

        To hate someone on the grounds of their political beliefs in terms of their views on big/small government, taxes etc is not something I support, but I reserve the right to hate someone who is bigoted and I find it greatly worrying that such a person would have a large, dedicated and paying audience. He isn’t an entertaining political or social commentator, he is a self-publicist who promotes division for his own gain who is more in love with himself than his country.

    • 105
      Sarah says:

      Hannan – yes, Limbaugh – absolutely fucking not, he is a pus-filled syphilitic sore on the rotting penis of a corrupt, redundant ideology.

      Totally agree, non-Sassenach, we need “winning rational, cohesive arguements” not Sturmer-style rants which play to every crypto-Nazi in the UK.

      • 161
        Frank says:

        Oh Sarah, what a sweet turn of phrase you have I bet this is how you talk to mummy, isn’t it?

    • 243
      Rush-is-Right says:

      (Yawn). You’re an asshole & I bet you’ve never heard his show. He is a small-government conservative to the core of his being.

      • 250
        Non-Sassenach says:

        See my follow up post, yes I have heard his show many times. He wants a small government in so far as it does only what a interpretation of Christianity agrees with and that involves passing moral judgements and laws that no government should ever involve themselves with. A belief in small government should never involve imposing moral values on other people. Taxes and regulation is one thing, moral regulation is something else.

  25. 48
    Anonymous says:

    Hannan has ZaNuLab rattled. That is why Dolly has his half-wits burning midnight oil (Think they are getting double-time?).

    • 99
      Lola says:

      Mr Draper’s apparathiks are tribal. They don’t get it. I would be on here trying to get up the nose of any government – Tory, Labour, Libdum (no, sorry of course not) that persisted in policies and actions that either don’t work or destroy freedom. Dolly’s lot just use this to try and support a failed government and philosophy. Their comments are just not crdible.

  26. 51
    D says:

    To be fair, I don’t think that guy interviewing Hannan quite understood how our electoral system works. Even if the entire population LOVED the guy and thought he was the best thing since sliced bread, we would only get a chance to vote him in if one of our political parties let us.

    Next PM? No way in hell. Next Tory leader after Cameron? No way in hell. Next one after that? …maybe, ish.

  27. 54
    Tyler Norris says:

    As an American and a Limbaugh listener, It was very entertaining to see Hannan get so much attention, his speech was excellent, but not out of the ordinary to what most of us would say to the PM or President Obama, understand, we Americans are very mesmerized by British Accents (except myself, with Welsh parents)

    And I apologize for our ignorance on the differences between MPs and MEPs, we’re learning.

  28. 58
    Archie says:

    Any truth to the rumour that the terminal trolls, ie Baron de Quetzapple and Johann de Muellemeister, on the intelligent blogs are in fact Ali C? Just curious.

    • 97

      Quietzapple, Bob Roberts from Worcester and Charles E Hardwidge are one and the same, I know that. Probably Campbell yeah. Sometimes they post under the chavvy name “Darren” in hope of fooling the plebs.

      • 116
        pp says:

        Given the predictability of their output – when I see some of those names, I see their writing as ‘blah blah blah blah’ – do you really think anyone serious would be wasting their time writing it?

        Aren’t they just as likely to be plants by blog authors to keep their blogs busy with argument?

      • 138
        Plato says:

        Mr Hardwidge = tim on political betting too?

        Someone who seems to spend at least 12hrs a day posting risible pro-Labour nonsense.

      • 211
        Anonymous says:

        I always thought it was Jacqui Smith’s husband Richard Timney. Strange how CEH’s posts on toenails blog dried up within a day of so of the story breaking regarding his letters to the local press. CEH still posts occasionally on other non-political blogs.

      • 219
        anon says:

        that’s a well known trick on Conservative Home too – if you spot a troll called “Kelly” or some other chavvy-type moniker you’ll know its the Number 10 Spin Machine!

      • 231
        Cicero says:

        I was sure Andy G in the Telegraph was really Ali C..

  29. 60
    Gazza! says:

    You know folks i listen to Daniel Hannah on Cavuto, and was very impressed with him saying he would have let the Banksters fail with no bailout from Mummy(taxpayer),he also liked Ron Paul and his policy’s on small government the gold standard instead of the ponzi fiat system etc…..

    I just thought he was another greedy politician funded from lobbyist Banksters but he seems to have principles i was wrong about him being a parasite feeding of the taxpayer, he spoke a lot of sense slagging of politicians in general and the greedy moneylenders and corporations.

    I would vote for this guy as leader even if he is a Tory, he might rein the rest of the bastards in with his strong anti establishment views.

    I’m a Political ethicist at that but this guy Daniel Hannah gets my vote.

  30. 62
    denverthen says:

    Yes, America craves leadership (from honest men) as much as we do. We knew that.

    And now they’ve hooked on a decent bit of oratory from one of our most precious rising stars (he’s my age, so he’s very precious).

    Fuck the Yanks. Let them find their own champion of rhetorical language, logic, truth in the splendid context of the (erstwhile) British way.

    What has definitely emerged from this “phemomenononononon” – what? – “ononon” (orders and retraining) is two things: 1) The English bit of the world is absolutely desperate (quietly) for genuine leadership during this floating paradigm shift and 2) Seeing as everything is up for grabs and the bastard Brown still wants to be head of our country, isn’t it time to acknowledge the legitimacy of DIRECT ACTION?

    See you on the streets, then, possibly, if you need me. (Won’t see you if you don’t).

    Weather permitting, naturally.

  31. 71
    Mitch says:

    Views: 521,123 , poor old snotty the only thing people want him for is humiliation.

  32. 73
    Archie says:

    Fewer children? Yeah? Who’s going tell the Islamists”?

  33. 88
    The Two Minute-Hate says:

    “It is the speech that many Republicans wish they had someone to deliver to Obama”.

    Might be a bit hollow coming from the republicans considering their input to this mess.

    if only your beloved Progressive Democrats still existed you and the beautiful Harney creature, could have brought justice to ireland and the world

  34. 96
    Obama Mesianic Complex says:

    I am a bit crap really.

  35. 98
    Scallywag says:

    Check this out too…

    Enjoy.

  36. 102
    Bob Bob says:

    As a Old Labour supporter, I do pity the likes of Harman_Pride who are upset that their much-fabled New Labour project is as fucked as the British economy.

    The sooner that Chairman Brown and the rest of his fucked-up cabal of unelected tools and thieving reptiles get out of office, the better.

    Even it means being out of office for a decade or so. At least then, Labour will return to its roots and not have sold its soul down the river to some war-criminal – Harman_Pride must realise that her hero has a great deal of responsilbilty for alienating the public towards the Labour party.

    The problem is for her is that she does not live in the real world. We do, and we are paying for her and her Supreme Leader’s ineptitude.

    Brown better not try any dirty tricks, if G20 turns into the farce that I expect it to be. I would expect it to be more like Seattle, if anything…

    • 104
      Eddie Waring says:

      Like Seattle? I hope it will be like It’s a Knockout, they can all wear fucking ridiculous outfits and bash each other with giant cotton ear buds.

      • 116
        Gladstone Screwer says:

        Watching C4 news last night, they did a piece on some of the protesters. They’re always the same types, and this lot were no exception. Earnest young women with John Lennon glasses and severe haircuts and young men either with loads of 1970’s hair or skinned, you could see one of them in the background adjusting his hairdo – well you have to look good for the telly don’t you?
        Without exception all middle class student back packer types. You just know that in ten years time a goodly proportion of them will be lording it within those very skyscrapers whose windows they will be smashing next week.
        Putting a brick through McDonald’s windows does not make anyone a folk hero, it’s just vandalism, and the poor sods that work within MaccyDees will have to clear the mess up, they actually need their jobs, and don’t have the luxury of daddy’s allowance to go around being all wadical and cool.
        Rick from the Young Ones was not a fiction, we will will see him and the rest of the cast again next week.
        I have no time for McDoom and the rest of the hoons in the G20, but I object to being lectured to by a bunch of layabout faux revolutionaries: Lesbian single mothers agains neo-nazi marketing practices etc…

        Go play with your toys.

  37. 107
    Shropshire Lad says:

    Now the Prime Mentalist has visited, it’s now
    “Brazil – where the nuts go to!”

    • 109
      Parish Councillor says:

      Gone to meet Mandy’s boyfriend and family?

      • 198
        Dirty Rat says:

        No, he’s ditched him having first got him a work permit and job in the UK. He is now being buggered by an Italian youf – Mama Mia!!

  38. 108
    Parish Councillor says:

    Move over Cameron, Tory voters see a true Tory with true principles & leader in the making. Well done Dan the Man. Keep it coming. Zanu, be afraid, be very afraid.

  39. 110
    Gordon's Farewell World Tour says:

    Me, bothered by this speech? I’m too busy telling everybody what to do to save global capitalism – it’s the right thing for a socialist to do.

  40. 111
    Noeal Edmonds says:

    Fuck Rush Limbaugh he is a heroin addicted paedophile. Guido if you are hitching you coattails to the this fat arsehole you really are fucked

    • 122
      vlad the pimp says:

      He is funny though. And excellent value for winding up the bed-wetters. My favourite Limbaugh quote (to wind up environmentalists…)

      ‘The best thing about a tree is what you use it for after you’ve cut it down.’

      Hahahahahahahaha.

    • 142
      Plato says:

      That’s a little harsh.

  41. 112

    Dan’s speech was just the sort of plain language bulldozing that used to be delivered by the likes of Norman Tebbit and dare I say it Margaret Thatcher.

    Like both those people he has the fire that comes from conviction, not ambition.

    David Cameron has said that some times he would just like to shake the Prime Minister - well Dan Hannan just did.

    Its that sort of plain speaking that got him thrown out of the EPP.

    • 125
      Doing the Gay Gordon says:

      It does make you wonder what Cameron has been up to over the past year.

      Still, Cameron is leader. Lets not undermine his position. Hannen must be brought in to the front bench team – where he can maximise his talents and coach his peers. We need his caliber to save our country.

      • 190
        Anonymous says:

        To be fair to Cameron, the EU Parliament allows Hannan this sort of opportunity. Cameron has said some very good stuff about Brown at the Conference etc; but if he tried it in the Commons a dour man would shout “orrudurrrrr”, and he’d have to stop.

    • 220
      let's get this straight says:

      No, it was his calling the leader of the EPP group a Nazi that got him thrown out.

  42. 113
    Crackers says:

    Harman_Pride Notice

    H-P is pulling your collective pissers. He is not serious. He is a blogging Henry Root posing spurious positions to incredulous bloggers who keep taking his bait – hook line and sinker.

    Ignore the fellow. There is no point to dancing to his tune. Unless of course you enjoy the two step tango.

    Harman_Pride ask Dolly for a raise – you are doing a good job.

    • 120
      vlad the pimp says:

      Naaaaah. Harman_Pride is a Tory. What would be the motivation of a Nu-Lab troll to come on here and post such arrogant, condescending lies which can only serve to redouble everybodies resolve to spread the word about what a bunch of evil bastards this Labour government is?

      Tory central office more like. Reminding us that while Harman_Pride is a spoof the next election isn’t in the bag. The polls show that 30%of the electorate are still so blind to reason that they will vote Labour.

      Now I accept that a core will simply always vote Labour because that’s what they do. End of discussion. ‘We vote Labour. My grandad did the thinking for my dad and my dad did the thinking for me. In fact we haven’t had an original thought between us in three generations. Because we always vote Labour.’ Depressing but there it is. Still, I don’t believe that that proportion is 30% of the electorate. Probably closer to 20%. It’s those 10% we need to go after. Get them to vote LibDem. Make Labour third.

      Oh, for sure Harman and Galloway (if they’re not one and the same) are on a wind-up but it’s a committed Tory making sure complacency doesn’t set in. Look what complacency did for Kinnock.

      Prepare for power!!!

      Ho ho. Imagine that jackass had got in.

      • 123
        Gladstone Screwer says:

        That would have ended up with tanks in Whitehall. Kinnock has to be THE most ridiculous figure ever, and considering the competition that’s one hell of an achievement.

  43. 115
    Anonymous says:

    Dismissive & condescending Michael White article about the Dan Hannan video in 3..2..1..

  44. 118
    Doug says:

    How many of those on the American tight know that Hannan supports Obama like a lot of fellow British conservatives who feel the Republicans are a busted flush? Dan’s speech is simply not applicable to the US considering that Obama has only been in power for under two and half months.

    I think Dan is a good politician and he writes coherently and he is a moderate. It’s totally hypocritical for the devoted right winger to think Dan is their saviour (considering his Obama support) and the moderate views he holds.

  45. 124
    Doing the Gay Gordon says:

    The UK media – bar the Telegraph – is completely ignoring Hannan.

    Guido, the Hannan video IS the reason why bloggers are needed. The mainstream media try to manipulate the news for the sheeple.

    That is why you MUST raise it on the politics show.

  46. 126
    i like gold says:

    I like GBP

    The crew is taking over the ship, Captain Brown is about to be put in a boat and cast out to sea.

    I like Gold

  47. 127
    Danny Boy says:

    Dan’s The Man!

  48. 128
    City of Vice says:

    It’s better that Hannan’s vital message gets through to the British public, undiluted, and unencumbered by any association with foreign commentators of dubious provenance. Let there be no free shots for the Guardianistas.

    So forget about Limbaugh, Ron Paul, Fox News and all those other US politicos – we don’t really care what they think.

    What matters is that Hannan has eloquently articulated the views of millions of people in THIS country about Brown. We need to force the BBC to run Hannan’s speech by weight of comment and complaint. We pay their wages, on pain of criminal sanction, yet the BBC are always up Brown’s arse regardless of his serial dishonesty and incompetence. It’s a fucking disgrace.

  49. 130
    Dino says:

    Views: 637,625 !!

  50. 131
    king chillout says:

    Where can I get the stats for Obama’s lack of popularity compared to Bush’s ?

  51. 135
    pp says:

    Its destiny.

    Blogs make an international political superstar of Hannan – leading to US MSM news coverage; meanwhile BBC hides the story.

    And all just as the BBC have a live blog-off scheduled.

    To borrow a phrase…

    Fucking delicious.

    • 139
      pp says:

      ps. Yes I withdraw any earlier comment I made saying that GF was selling out and shouldn’t do it.

      pps. You didn’t blow up the HoC – but now you get a crack at the BBC – don’t muff it this time :-)

  52. 137
    Desperate Dan says:

    The Telegraph describe it as a “surprise” hit. But there’s nothing surprising about it at all unless you’re an out- of- touch journalist who’s not plugged in to the Zeitgeist.

    • 143
      vlad the pimp says:

      I’m surprised the BBC haven’t mentioned Farage’s little gem too. Sure it shows the Maximum Idiot in all his leering, sneering nastiness but a high profile UKIP slap-down might encourage a high UKIP turnout. Split the right-wing vote, shore up the Labour losses.

      The BBC, telling you what to think. To save you the trouble.

  53. 144
    Plato says:

    Here’s the latest Honours roll for Dan Dare

    He makes it into the Top 5 or better in 37 out of 67 categories he’s polling in.

    I’ve put the list here – top ratings in red

    Clocking 4528 comments – seem to be new ones about every 60 seconds right now.

  54. 145
    Albert Hall says:

    Views: 637,625

    Three cheers for Mr. Hannan!

    .

  55. 146
    rRrick the people's poet says:

    Wevolution wright onnn! Let’s storm the barricades, wave papers around and like be weally anarchists for the day. Tarquin and Jocasta are going to be there and sand so am I. Like the Clash said, baby Rock the Casbah. I’m going to compose a radical poem about it all for the student paper, yeah!

  56. 147
    Frank says:

    What a fucking great politician. Smithsonian Mysonian and just showing that there are a lot of people out there that agree. Fucking bloody marvellous, I almost climaxed

  57. 148
    The Phantom Raspberry Blower says:

    Fuckinghell a modest politician!
    What next a catholic priest that isn’t a kiddy fiddler??

    PLLLLUUUUUAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRPPPP

  58. 149
    TPR says:

    BBC Breakfast, this morning, featured a You Tube story presently topping the charts – not Hannan but a lion reunited with its keepers!!!

  59. 150
    Anon. says:

    McNumpty to be investigated (then cleared) by the PSC.

  60. 152
    Sarah says:

    Childish I know, but why don’t we pile over to Labialist and just put a two-word comment whereever we see fit – “Daniel Hannan”.
    ‘Course it would just up their views…..
    Advice please.

  61. 153

    [...] Rushies, Co-Conspirators: “Hannan is Our Leader” [...]

  62. 155
    Fenman says:

    Have just finished reading Chris Mullin`s newbook and comments therein-on the `Great Scottish Sulk`. Dan Hannan`s Strasberg address must have hit in a place that really hurts-His credability-What gave extra pleasure was Nigel Farage`s adding insult to `injury`. Brown`s sublime grinning and scribbling was a joy to behold.

    • 160

      I too have noticed snotty’s mad scribbling when being made to hear unpleasant things. It is merely nervous displacement activity in an attempt to cover up his many mental failings. Even in this activity he is a fucking disaster.

    • 199
      Aberdeen Angus McDayie says:

      It can’t be scribbling. So he can read his e-mails they have to be in type that’s half an inch high. His writing can’t be smaller. Either he scribbles on his scribbles or it’s for show.

      I say he’s playing hangman with himself.

  63. 159
    Anonymous says:

    Rush Limbaugh is a snide, manipulative nasty shape-shifting cu.nt.

  64. 162
    Anonymous says:

    What a historic day for democracy, as one of the many who sent it to my mailbox, and in turn ask them to foward it to their mail box, I am delighted

    This is a defining moment for democracy

    This is what the media and the Government don’t want us to know, but the power is the Bloggers is unstoppable

    They will be very very afraid
    but dont stop here

    This could be a defining day for democracy
    keep up asking questions, and today your task is to air this

    let them quiver in their superannuated, golden pension towers at Al Beeb

    good luck old boy

    you can do it

  65. 166
    Taxfodder says:

    Not taking it away from Dan, but G.Brown is not exactly the hardest target to hit especially when he is a captured audience.

    What really surprises me is why the Tories tolerate newsworthy stories like Dan’s speech not making National TV.

    Or is the BBC and others (MSN) more akin to the club hostess that goes down on the club management whenever and whoever they might be at the time.

    So are we to expect more of the same dumming down if the Tories win the next election?

    • 173
      pp says:

      Its easy to say that G.Brown is an easy target – but in that case why has it taken this long for a serious blow to be struck?

      I think the tories are happy about its low profile – else their front bench may have some questions to answer about what the f*ck they have been playing at since blair stepped down.

      • 228
        Taxfodder says:

        I’m not at all convinced the Tories have a handle on things anymore than NuLab. Paul (Guido) said that he thinks they (the Tories) are playing safe.

        I’m not so sure I think they (Tories) are part of the same problem i.e. nothing new same old same old that wants me to trust them to sort it out after they are elected, so give me your vote in the meantime.

        My vote has to be earned! To get me out of my chair on election night will take a bit more than playing safe, I need to see proactive new ideas, for a start a war on those among us that think this country owes them a living!

        Starting with MP’s allowances and expenses!

      • 284
        Zed says:

        I’m hoping that the Tories are just keeping their cards close to their collective chests until nearer election time. There is absolutely no way we’ll be out of recession by the time of the next general election. So with the economy in even worse condition than it is now, they’ll be able to hit Labour with all they’ve got, and hopefully, totally annihilate the bastards.

  66. 168
    Delphius1 says:

    Good luck on the Daily Politics Guido. Give Draper the slap he needs.
    If you can wriggle the Dan Hannan speech and its non-inclusion in British mainstream media into the mix, because its a classic example of why people are turning to the net for news and comment.

    And scarily, the reason why the government seems so intent on increased surveillance of new forms of media, I suspect.

  67. 172
    Anonymous says:

    “The nation had the lion’s heart, I had the luck to give the roar.”

  68. 174
    JH says:

    Predictable rebuttal on Labourlist. Have fun, here’s my response in case it is censored:

    **

    Ha! You lot can only dream of one of your number making a speech this scathingly accurate and popular. Then again, the ‘accurate’ bit doesn’t bother you too much, does it? As long as you would get your mits on another couple of levers of power to jiggle about at random – unlike those do-nothing tories – who cares?

    Hannan rails against the ludicrous bail outs of banks and favoured companies which will make us last, if ever, out of recession.

    The leadership in Iceland had the grace to step down. We can only dream of the current cabal and their apparatchiks having such humility.

  69. 176
    Anonymous says:

    So are we to expect more of the same dumming down if the Tories win the next election?”

    Listen, me morris dancing chums- YOUR country has been one of the most heavily censored countries in the world for god knows how long!

    Its been WELL understood on the continent and the states that this is so.

    Your govt , knowing the power of the press, have always lavished titles and favours on your press barons-it should be bleedin obvious WHY!!

    For heavens sake!!

    And yet…….you lot think you are STILL the land of the free!! and Land of hope and glory!!

    For F k sake-WAKEN UP!!

  70. 181
    Anonymous says:

    There have been at least 5 threads on Hannan on

    http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1

    and it seems the Americans approve – so much so that an old thread “Was John Smith murdered?” has reappearred in first few pages!

    • 201
      Bybeiev Rhibodie says:

      We should have a vote on ‘old threads we would like to reappear’.

      Forget John Smith – overweight Scotchlandic cholesterol junkie, focus on Kelly, and anyone else who went out walking and never came back during Ali C’s reign.

  71. 184
    Anon says:

    Harman_Pride 12:49am ‘Global warming will have catastrophic consequences on our children and grandchildren…….What is government there for if not to safeguard our children’s future. Or don’t you care about the poor and disadvantaged of tomorrow?’

    Personally, fuckwit, I’m more concerned about the poor & disadvantaged of today – which include most of us since that knobhead Gordon got his hands on our money (budget last balanced in 2002 – after that he’d run out of the money the Torys had saved while in power – what an economic genius – not). Also your govt seems to give fuckall concern to the poor of tomorrow by allowing Gordon to spunk all OUR money up the wall bailing out the banks, thereby putting our children & grandchildren into poverty & debt before they’re even born. And if Gordo’s so concerned about global warming (which is merely an excuse to rip us off with more taxes) why the fuck is he flying all round the world at the moment? Saw your comments on free speech, surveillance & terror laws – typical student union tactics – bully & threaten – threaten & bully – you are Dolly Draper & I claim my £5 – now just go back to Berkeley. Good luck today Guido – get the bit about Dan Hannan in at the beginning before Pravda get their act together.

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    Occam says:

    This should have a ‘Biased BBC’ tag

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    I've Shagged Darling's eyebrows says:

    Sorry, I just find it impossible to say something nice about thank junky, Limbaugh, having lived in the States just over a decade.

    Brown is a one-eyed wanker though.

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    Guido’s going down today! Draper will wipe the floor with him, it will be painful to watch but at least Guido and his fellow right-wingers will never dare to show their ugly face on the web again.

    Over at LabourList there’s a brilliant rebuttal of Hannan’s rant btw.

    • 230
      Frank says:

      Oh my god Harperson do you never give up. Hannan has now got over half a million shows and has just been released on to the USA and you tell us that over at Labour list……………….

      Why don’t you go off like a good person and do something useful in your life, like wash the dishes or go do some ironing.

      And dolly doesn’t even stand a chance, not even on the socialist beeb

    • 261
      dolly p says:

      Wow, I suppose Labourlist has got more visitors than Youtube, Drudge and Fox News put together.

    • 285
      Zed says:

      I visited LabourList. Brilliant rebuttal? LOL! Not even one line of Hannan’s speech was countered. There are a total of 33 comments (clearly a popular site), and not one of them supports the author of the “rebuttal” In fact, all the comments savage the author lack of comment regarding the content of Hannan’s speech. These comments prompted an additional statement from the author, which again failed to address the content of the speech.

      If this is the best that Labour can do, they’re going to be overtaken by the Lib Dems, and end up the third largest party in Parliament (with the Tories in power – obviously)

  76. 193
    Anonymous says:

    Fox and Friends doing Hannan section now – said trashtalk eviscerated Brown and that USA’s policies mirror UK’s and it will be difficult for BO to avoid the same criticism as Brown got.

  77. 194
    PrivateSchultz says:

    I’d like to add my congratulations to Don too – but Nigel Farage’s tirade deserves wider publicity too – includes a good ticking off about selling all that gold. Iain Dale has that as well as Hannan here: http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2009/03/hannan-tells-brown-like-it-is.html

    OT – Could anyone explain how the Royal Fail can justify the huge price hikes that take effect on 6 April? – only just found out about them today. If my sums are right, small 1st up by 6.7%, small 2nd up by over 11%, large 1st up by over 17%! Totally unacceptable in the current climate.

    • 212
      Anon. says:

      You must get out more. It is to beef the finances up a bit before selling off the ‘plum’ bits.

  78. 202
    Michael Sweeney says:

    I just want to jump in and praise the interviewer, Neil Cavuto, in this clip – we heard a bit of a serious, respectful discussion here, and it was strangely compelling. Funny how Fox news is the bete noire for ‘liberals’ – this was the most rational news broadcasting I’ve seen in ages.

  79. 203

    *Stop Press* The speech has just been played in full on LBC 97.3fm and even though the presenter (James O’Brien) is an avowed Lefty he’s praising it to the skies. msm waking up.

  80. 204
    Aberdeen Agnes McDayie says:

    It is to discourage use of snail mail.

    It takes so much more time to steam open the envelopes, read the contents, then seal them up again, compared to having a computer scan all e-mails automatically and divert the interesting ones to some Stasi dolly’s in-box.

  81. 206
    Ambrose Silk says:

    Guido, Remember to use lots of powder you sweaty pig

    Tra laa!

    • 216
      Biffo the Bear says:

      Oh Ambrose, really!! Guido did use plenty of powder, the problem is they discovered it in the cellars the night before and foiled the plot.

  82. 210
    Verticalwater says:

    Sorry O/T.

    My plumber just left after fixing my boiler.

    As I waved good-bye to him and my my £180.00 cash,
    I noticed he had a bumper-sticker on his van, which read;

    “DON’T STEAL. The Government don’t like competition”.

    Worth every penny…..

  83. 213
    Anonymous says:

    Hannan speech will be discussed on Daily politics today – see Andrew Neil’s blog

    • 217
      Delphius1 says:

      Its about bloody time. I emailed them yesterday about it, then another today pointing out the MSM/Online divide was a significant political issue and especially relevant given todays topic.

  84. 215
    Comical Gordon says:

    Will someone not rid me of this turbulent Tory MEP?

    PS…can’t see what I’m friggin’ typing in the lefthand column!!!

  85. 222
    Anonymous says:

    blimey; the BBC actually published my blog comment about Brown being bonkers; is this a first? or was there just a rebel moderator in place? bet it won’t last long.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2009/03/pm_chooses_his.html#P77711042

    I love the way that 6 months ago there were about 2% of postings on the BBC blogs which slagged off the BBC for bias, and now there’s about 70% of postings saying they’re biased (ie on their own blogs). The volume of people slagging of both labour and the BBC at the same time is so huge that they can no longer moderate them all because they’d lose their flimsy illusion of “balance.”

    If 70% of your own blog comments tell you that you’re a stupid corrupt fuckwit spinning nothing but lies, then maybe it’s time to start listening.

    Their days are numbered.

    Roll on 2010.

  86. 223

    [...] conservative MEP, Dan Hannan, exposes Gordon’s policy to ridicule, and gets worldwide respect for doing [...]

  87. 224
    GO DAN, . . . . GO!! . . . . ONWARDS + UPWARDS - WE'RE WITH YOU!! says:

    At last! Oh joy beyond compare (in this area).

    Someone who says something worth saying to the pilfering grinning loon – and in clear unambiguous words.

    There – something worthwhile has, at long last, come from Strasbourg!

  88. 225
    Republicans are not Tories says:

    Guido,

    I know that Drudge makes you come in your pants, but keep that fucking prick Limbaugh OUT of British right-wing politics.

    We are not America and we do not need that kind of ideological madman sticking his oar in over here

  89. 226

    [...] Rushies, Co-Conspirators: “Hannan is Our Leader” [...]

  90. 227
    Simon says:

    This speech and how it has been ignored by the MSM is terribly depressing. I feel like we are on train tracks laid down by Blair and we have a one-way ticket to a federal socialist Europe.

    I have no expectations of Dave doing anything significantly different from what Blair would have done were he were still in power.

  91. 229
    Wakefield Lad says:

    Draper has blocked all email connections to any of his siters? I don’t wonder why

  92. 234
    the worm turns here... says:

    681,000 and counting….

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    Dino says:

    Make sure you make lots of comments on the dailymail story, as this will help up its profile in the MSM.

  95. 244
    Curly says:

    Tom Harris seems to think that Hannan was a disgrace, he need to be told otherwise.

  96. 245
    IRB says:

    Now on the BBC news site. Apparently it is an Internet phenomenon.

    • 246
      simon r says:

      Still not good enough, Nick Robinson should have mentioned it.

      I have sent a complaint via the BBC website ( very easy to do so ). I suggest anyone else who feels as angry as me about the blatent biased corporation send their complaint in also. Let us overload the fuckers with it.

      This is what I said to them…

      Why has their been absolutely no mention of Euro MEP Daniel Hannan’s speech to Gordon Brown in the Euro Parliament earlier this week. Nothing on BBC news, nothing by Nick Robinson, nothing by Mark Mardell. Surely you cannot be ignorant to this story as so many people have left comments on the blogs of Robinson & Mardell. This was an explosive speech and not the only criticism of Gordon Brown’s solution to solving the economic crisis after his speech in the Euro Parliament this week. What makes it even more newsworthy than just another political speech amongst many is the reaction around the world in political blogs, on Fox News in the US plus the fact that it is one of the most watched clips on YouTube this week – more than 600,000 views. Surely that is newsworthy in itself, showing the power of the net over non traditional ways of getting the news to an audience ? As a public service broadcaster you should be reporting this, we don’t expect you to show the whole clip on the news but to make no mention of it and to have no comment from your political reporters undermines your reputation as an impartial broadcaster.

  97. 248
    Desperate Dan says:

    Whereabouts. I can’t find it.

  98. 249
    Anonymous says:

    Well he could start by admitting that times change, and the Financial Services Industry is now a utility, and not the Global Government.

    All politicians have missed a massive opportunity to change the industry while it’s in such a mess.

    I would love to think it’s a turning point in history – Western Society has all it needs, it’s done with consumerism.

    Trouble is, it means change all round, and big scary problems, too hard for anyone to contemplate, and the establishment, threatened, will just try and retreat into more of the same.

    We await the next distracting media story, financial crisis, terrorist attack and/ or regional war….

  99. 251

    [...] of YouTube’s "most viewed" section, with 712,860 "hits". It’s been described as "the most viewed political speech in the fastest time in internet history". The speech was picked up in the US, where it has featured on the Drudge Report, Fox News and the [...]

  100. 253

    [...] wave on the internet, and comes just days before the G20 summit, but the attention it has drawn in the US comes just as the gloss has come off Obama’s presidency – yet before the fawning mainstream [...]

  101. 254
    Grumpy Old Sod says:

    Having seen that scrote Draper slouching in the BBC chair with his distended gut and/or badly fitting trousers on show, I have realised why his missus never got the top job at GMTV. Fancy having to endure his gob schpeiling crap at 19 to the dozen whilst looking ,ike something that will be spending the night at Rowton House.

    Where are our standards of general behaviour gone…

  102. 255
    IRB says:

    The Gruaniad believe the success of the video is because it is the right length for YouTube. And nothing else.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/mar/26/danial-hannan-youtube

  103. 256

    [...] "most viewed" section, with 712,860 "hits". It's been described as "the most viewed political speech in the fastest time in internet history". The speech was picked up in the US, where it has featured on the Drudge Report, Fox News and the [...]

  104. 259
    McMad says:

    I really must try this truth shit.

  105. 263
    The Director of Politically Correct 'n Convenient Truth at AlJaBeeba, says:


    In reviewing my pathetically lame excuses for not giving full coverage to the Hannan speech in which he lambasted the Glorious and Beloved Leader, the Great Helmsman who, even as we speak is meeting with that other World Leader, Comrade Chav, to learn how we can work closer together and get cheap petrol for Government and AlJaBeeba Limos, I can only say that I was at a Dinner Party with other Progressive and Cross-Cutting Shampagne Show-slist Sheeple in Islington, the Centre of the Intellectual Universe.

    We, as trained coprophiliacs, are only drawn to ordure from the Beloved and Glorious Leader and his comrade apparatchiks, and therefore anything that has even the slightest tinge of plain speaking or criticism of our Leader is anathema to us.

  106. 265

    [...] lots of people who are not Tories, Tom. ‘His Prime Minister’? Oh please. No one voted for Brown to be leader [...]

  107. 266

    [...] eloquence to stand up to Obama. You can watch Dan’s appearance on the channel courtesy of Guido. The mainstream media here are curiously [...]

  108. 267
    Jethro Crudge says:

    It just goes to show that not all euro PMs spend 2 hours at lunch and the next 2 sleeping off the wine in the Strasborg debating chamber.

    I advise the Daily Mail to replace their correspondent there with a teetolaler. Such an excellent speech ought to have made the first edition of the “daily’s”. It’s bad enough that the BBC supresses such pieces of news.

    (same comment made on Daily Mail page – at least you can read it here)

  109. 270
    City of Vice says:

    Channel Four News have just run the story, followed by a studio interview with Hannan and that fat oily wanker Draper. The C4 reporter in Brussels was clearly a Nu Labour lickspittle, raising trifles and nonsense, however Jon Snow gave Hannan a reasonably fair whack. Hannan was perhaps a little too modest for my liking, having delivered Brown a stunningly effective blow, but I guess he’s under orders from the Tory Party not to take too much of the spotlight off Cameron (note to Cameron: up your game,now you’ve seen how it’s done!).

    Draper was just shit. Why the hell does the Labour party let Draper anywhere near a TV studio? Oh yes, it’s because they’re incompetent.

  110. 271
    Dick Scratcher says:

    Yes Draper (as usual) came across as a tit – twice in a day. What does Kate see in him? Could have done a lot better luv.

    Maybe Cam will realise what has been missing from politics. The public have an acidic hatred of Broon and politicians more generally. Until someone seizes the opportunity of nationalist populism, there will be no progress. So Cam, less middle class metropolitan liberalism and more Oi! Whatever happened to Garry Bushell?

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    Anonymous says:

    Neil Cavuto has just sang the praises of Mr Hannan so highly that he stuck his neck out to say that he will be Prime Minister one day.

    Based on not just that speech but how he has conducted himself in every interview I have seen him in and what he says and stands by his principles since I dearly hope so.

    Take a note Mr Cameron of what Hannan had to say as it has certainly struck more of a chord with people than all of his wishy washy twadlle he espouses regularly.

  113. 278
    Joe Public says:

    “You have run out of OUR money”

    Candidate for quote of the decade?

  114. 279
    Joe Public says:

    It’s now at 818,000 views.

    For a political speech, by an “unknown”, minor politician ffs!

  115. 280
    neil says:

    Harman_Pride says:
    March 26, 2009 at 1:07 am

    I hope you realize that in the current climate of the War on Terror, such talk could get you monitored or even arrested?

    fuck off you bastard !!

  116. 281
    Northern Monkey says:

    It was (extremely briefly) mentioned on This Week – Hannan was referred to as a ‘right-wing MEP’. They might as well have said he goes home and eats babies. What absolute hoons.

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