Why doesn't Daniel Hannan join UKIP? It seems his views are spot on with Nigel Farage and I think these two would make an unstoppable team of political orators..
@Midvinterblot542 Indeed, Daniel Hannan is wasted in the EU loving Tory party - he'd be an international sensation in UKIP. The EU is led by known criminals, liars and traitors. These EU criminals are currently blaming Greece for the problems they have caused throughout Europe with their corrupt and totally undemocratic EU project. In the prose of Oliver Cromwell - Britain's EU lovers are no more than de facto traitors that would sell their country for a mess of pottage.
All government is a few controlling the many and taking their energy/money. It's time to trash the idea of government altogether, the western hemisphere Natives (before the immense genocides) had no government and they got along swell.
@rich7831 What do you mean it is "bastardized?" It has a mother in Margaret Thatcher I beleive. It's no orphan. It can't be repeated enough in my opinion.
Daniel,our future prime minister and saviour of our people.The most outstanding politician and intelligent chap i have ever heard in my life.God bless you sir.
@IhatetheEU Do you think he's too divisive to win party leadership and a general election in the UK? I'd like to see him debate our economically illiterate president. Obama: "Oooh, er, well let me be perrrrrrfectly clear... um, uh, well now, let there be no doubt, that umm... my father was a subject of the Crown and I hold umm, err... deep resentment toward the Queen.. But let me clear: I am, errr, ummm. absolutely surprised that the English...umm, Scottish... err, ummm still love me.
The greatest reason that EU supporters seem capable of making for Britain staying in The EU seems to be based largely on our inadequacy in Britain to stand alone due to the MASSIVE and malign damage membership has already done to Britain.
If someone deliberately and sequentially cuts your fingers is it wise to remain as they cut your throat?
Leave-The-EU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE membership costs £48M a day!!
YOUR Politicians and Civil servants have betrayed YOU.
i am a Yank and I accidentially came accross some of these EU videos while looking for something else. There is a BIG problem with this setup...... I dont think most Americans really know what the hell is going on and what the EU is attempting to do. Be vigilant something stinks about this EU situation. I like this Hannan guy, didnt know who he is until tonight but I like what he says and damn it.... HE'S RIGHT !!
@arumdevil You would be surprised to learn that the majority of Americans believe in exactly what Hannan is saying. Witness the TEA party movement. Americans, like their European brothers can spot Tyranny a mile away. Do not believe what you see on CNN and MSNBC, they have the smallest viewing audiences. Witness the forthcoming revolution that you shall soon see as we take our country back. Europeans would be smart to follow our lead a second time (French Revolution). Arm yourselves now!
@daf867 I'm sure that some tea partyers are white bigots. But I'm sure that the Democratic party is also haven to black bigots as well, expecting special rights and privileges for being black, and automatically assuming that every white person they encounter is prejudiced until proven otherwise.
Racism is racism. There's no such thing as "reverse racism". Its just racism. And its not exclusive to whites.
@Jaspian Way to see through the stereotypes that Leftists use to avoid discussion. Know that Republican Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and the the slave states were all Democrats for generations. Racism is a sham that doesn't explain income disparities or anything else. It's simply a word for mindless leftists to scream and their allies in the biased media to repeat.
The European Union is unnecessary to begin with. The mere fact that dozens of countries must share the same monetary and similar fiscal policies is wholly damaging to the region.
Just as NAFTA has been wholly damaging to the United States, while helping Canada and Mexico. The European Union has bee wholly damaging to countries like the UK and Germany.
@HapaLife Only problem is that the UK is not part of European Monetary Union. It has retained sterling as its unit of currency and fiscal control in the UK resides in a Monetary Policy Committee.
But that's just one of those errors people who rely on the Internet as their sole source of information regularly make. You're not the first person to betray such an astounding lack of knowledge Hapa. And you will not be the last.
@1957Rotu And thank God that we have stayed out of the monetary union! It was only currency's ability to devalue during the recession that saved us from hitting the economic backwaters.
@theunderone1 Why would the Euro replace the Pound? The Pound is considered one of the world's major reserve currencies. Besides, the EU is just pathetic.
The german economy needs the european market. It's a massive market of 400 milj people buying german stuff with no import and export limitations. It doesn't damage germany it makes germany stronger and they know it.
@jacobmandley True, but the german goods would be more expensive and they would make less profit. It wouldn't be good for german economy, I can garantee you that.
@Napoleon501ste I'm all for free trade i just don't understand this political union , it would never work the citizens of Europe are so diffrent and it seems to me that the Germans and U.K seem to be proping up this E.U. Esp The U.K which in all fairness isn't a major exporting economy but yet we pay are exporters in which we already import more from ;to export to which is in my opionon crazy
@Napoleon501ste You can have free trade without a European Union. Europe doesn't have free trade though. It has managed trade just as we have here in the states. Germany has supported other EU members for quite some time. The currency is debased in order to monetize debts. Germans end up paying an inflation tax when the EU creates money out of nothing to bailout other countries. If it comes from direct taxes, it's just as bad. Germans have gone along because they still have guilt about WWII.
@g0twav Yes, I agree. The rest of europe is trying to suck every last ounce of production out of the German worker. They are using the European Central Bank to do it in many instances. If I were a German citizen, I would get out of the EU today.
There are some commerce benefits, but there are also protections, subsidies--direct and indirect--and Germans also have to worry about the numerous welfare countries in the EU.
They are trying to set up a North American Union over here. Ughh!
@g0twav Germany has no minimum wage laws? I'll have to look that up. I knew that Germany had less rigid labor markets than other european countries. I don't think it is just that though.
@domjuanify, why dont you shut up? Ironically i bet your also the sort of person that insists there should be incentives for people of minority's to enter parliament as well?
Daniel Hannan was born in Peru. He is not eligible to work in Europe or GB. He is an illegal immigrant! Repatriate him to Peru and lets keep Paddington Bear. He is from Irish background and we never vote Tory!
Daniel Hannan was born in Peru. He is not eligible to work in Europe or GB. He is an illegal immigrant! Repatriate him to Peru and lets keep Paddington Bear. He is from Irish background and we never vote Tory!
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Germans seem at least on the whole to be committed to the EU rather than working to undermine it like Hannan. Britain's interests are far better served by the EU than by trying to be the 51st state of the USA. The healthcare debate is one way in which this has become clear.
UKIP came second in the national share of the vote, and turnout across Europe was very low too. Virtually all the other major economic powers manage to trade with the world and make their own sovereign laws, control immigration etc, without being part of any economic or political union - USA, China, Japan, Canada, Australia, Russia, etc etc. We do NOT need to be part of the EU to prosper, quite the opposite really, when you think of what we put in and what we get back. LET'S LEAVE THE EU !!!
@daviduk40 Yes, it's curious that the British people vigorously opposed Phillip II, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin, only to blithely accede to EU tyranny.
Well, while, as always, he's right on the issue.... the poor fellow's obviously drunk and just started muttering something unintelligible at the end there.
Gordon Brown is the one who CAUSED the financial mess (by totally encouraging financial deregulation and a very light touch by the FSA, to allow the unsustainable credit upon which his 'boom years' were built) - and now he wants us to believe he is the big hero coming to fix it all? I can't stand him.
Allowing Gordon Brown to try and fix the financial mess is about as sensible as employing Josef Frtizl as a babysitter!
He speaks eloquently -- but he represents misguided ideas that have left Britain in ruin. Industry was deemed unimportant and dismantled in Thatcher's brave new world. Now, Countries with their industrial base intact will weather this recession/depression best.
Fox likes him because he's an articulate Brit, whom they believe adds some class to their mindless programing. Perhaps, but it was conservative laissez-faire philosophy that produced this disaster -- this point should be remembered.
how was less tax and less government intervention the problem? when you lose jobs in the private sector you cannot just have the government create them in the public sector and make the people foot the bill. Government intervention was what got us to this place. If government, in the U.S, didn't lower interest rates and encourage the borrowing then people wouldn't have borrowed money that the banks were getting at ridiculous amounts for free. How can you dig your way out of a hole?
I understand your concern bu the fact is - capitalism, not government. The free market, not politicians is responsible for the creation of the modern middle class. Industry and increased productive capacity raise the real wages of all members of a society.
Saying it's disingenuous for a politician to advocate small government is a bit silly. He's not an anarchist; if that were the case you would have a point.
Remarkable that someone can say that "conservative laissez faire" caused the problem, when anyone with half a brain knows that government screws up everything it does, except to concentrate power and wealth, then abuse it .
The US government made our banks give risky loans that later collapsed in the name of "fairness", and now they want to control those banks and more. This is a very, very bad time in western history.
I can't speak for FOX News, but only for why i sallut people like him!.
For one thing he actually know, a thing or two about economics.
Secondly there is no such thing, as a war for profit. If there were, maybe the USA wouldn't be up to their necks in debt?.
Third why shouldn't doctors, and medical staff earn a profit?. Your and my work make us a profit, why should it be any different for the people serving our health?.
Fourth schools don't become cheaper, from being run by the government. Marketcompetition where good schools make money, and bad schools go out of business, will make education far cheaper.
Fifth the environment is best protected, by private ownership. If everybody owns a piece of land, then nobody owns it. And if nobody owns it, nobody really cares.
So what is socialism?.
SPEND other peoples money, CONTROL grown peoples lifes, and TAX away all incentives. Profits is a good thing!.
Not always, there is a balance that can be obtained. Fair reward for fair work. It is only when these things are given too high a priority that the system falls down.
Of course there is war for profit. It's just not the US government or the populace at large that benefit -- Americans have given over 4K lives as well as tax money that could have been spent on infrastructure, social services, health care, etc
The war profit is "earned" by the miliary contractors who produce weapons systems. Extrodinary profits are also "earned" for the rebuilding ashattered Iraqi economy. Halliburton and Bechtel are doing very well. This war has produced tremendous wealth
With all due respect, you are disconnected from reality. A free market society, left on it's own course, creates work & money and takes care of people by it's own nature.
And just in case you haven't already noticed, war is always about those who seek someone else's money.
Health and illness do make people profit, that's why people decide to find cures.
Education is available to all, but it's what you do with it that counts.
A treaty that if ratified will pass remaining sovereignty from the member states to the EU, creating a United States of Europe. The people of Europe do not want this. Only Ireland has held a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and they voted "no". The New World Order is not a conspiracy theory in Europe. It's real.
in america our constitution begins with "we the people."
how does the european constitution begin? something about the king of belgium?
Why would europe make its capital in a nation that can barely maintain a unity government?
Also to all the EU-philes, I assume you will join an EU Army and fight and die to defend, say France's possesions in Africa? The EU won't work because the Germans won't fight for French interests. The Brits won't fight for Irish interests, etc etc.
Let's let Daniel Hannan come over to the U.S. as a Senator for a few years.
I'll betcha he'll saying roughly the same things he's saying here.
The Government has gotten too big for the its britches, and they're screwing things up for everyone by spending our tax dollars on things they shouldn't be.
There needs to be some revolutionary changes to the tax laws.
What a silly and sycophantic argument--even if it is in jest. Mr. Hannan can stay in the UK (no one wishes to wage a war to retain his intellectual services) Let him continue to represent south-east Britain in the EU, where he rails against the institution that employs him. I certainly do not trust a politician who claims that govt. is always the problem and that the solution is to let the private sector have free rein. This is a recipe for all wealth to unnaturally run up hill--as indeed it has
you are so incredibly wrong... stop just saying things you THINK are right and start checking your facts... if you take people from the lowest income bracket and FOLLOW those same people, you will see that THEY DO GET RICHER and at a faster pace than the richest people... the argument from people against this comes from flawed data that doesnt realize new people continuously immigrate to countries and START at the bottom, but they have more likelyhood to climb up in the more private economies.
Exactly why every nation would be smart to maintain its sovereignty until its dying breath. When you chain yourself to another nation you are basically tying and anchor around your neck.
The EU has always been about the redistribution of the wealth of Western Europe to the poorer countries of Eastern and Southern Europe. Now they're willing to speak out about this. FAIR ENOUGH.
`Taking money from the taxpayer ´...according to an EU commissioner in this week's Der Spiegel magazine, `Europe's capital city ´ will be getting a facelift !
The EU plans to spend billions of OUR money on huge new complexes in Brussels. Included in the plans are an extra 300,000 square metres of office space for the un-elected commission !
`There are no plans for a European super state ´ and `The commission respects the Irish NO vote ´.
we don't need the EU. They are mark of the beast '666'. The root of the problem is the Banking Cartel and the FRAUDULENT MONETARY SYSTEM. ! i.e. money issued as debt backed by thin air, no good. Lord rothschild & his empire are the ultimate benefactors of the lie of the global "recession". We need to reclaim our stolen funds en masse from Rothschild and his hierarchy of 3% of the world population who have collared the assets from the 97%. Why is no one addressing this ? CAUSE
However there is a difference between public spending of money that we have got one the one hand and on the other spending money we have'nt, and need to borrow from banks at interest.
the world would be a better place if the US paid more money to the UN?? Over 20% of its budget isn't enough?
Investing in the UN is like investing an a bankrupt company, only the bankrupt company isn't complicit in Genocides, Religious Hatred, the cutailing of free speech and human rights, nuclear proliferation, the raping of women by it's "peacekeeping" soldiers, among other things.
We would be better off sending our money to the defunct League of Nations, it would do about as much good
Well I am German and of course flattered by most what he is saying. Still I want to emphasize my strong belief in the EU.
I welcome open und controverse discussion, but I have to say referendums for the Lissbon treaty would be a farce. We have 27 members. What would happen if we do vote and only Luxenbourg opposes? Would that be democratic?
yes, actually it would be. Every vote counting is democratic. You elected people who decided the Lisbon Treaty had to be passed unanamously, so you have to follow the rules set out by your democratically elected officials don't you?
Also it's not Luxembourg you would have to worry about its major countries.
The Lisbon treaty won't be passed in a lot of countries if everyone is allowed to vote on it.
The rights of minorities(luxembourg in your example) is essential to a democratic system.
I am sorry, but you got it all wrong. Democracy respects the rights of minorities. But minorities also have to bow to the will of the majority. That`s how it works. A referendum over all of Europe would kind of make sense, but in that case Polish people would be overvoted by the Germans. British by the French. Austrians by the Italians. It would be a nightmare.
Referendums are not the way to do politics. Nowhere, especially not in a such a complex structure like the EU.
Ataraxion simplified: "the EU is too complicated to be democratic". Exactly. The EU is not how European Integration will happen, the EU is a process gone wrong. It must be stopped.
I guess you have a right to your own opinion. But let me just make this clear. I don't like the European Commission with its ludicrous drive for ever more regulations. It's just stupid. That's precisely why I support the treaty in which the role of parliament wil be augmented.
But in the end the EU will profit from these discussions. It's this very diversity that makes us strong and endurable, since nobody has a monopoly on truth and we all learn from each other :-).
About 2-3 years ago I would have shared your opinion, but not any more. I don't like the E-Commission, I don't like the E-Parliament, I don't like what the national governments put together in the name of Europe. Why? Because they have all proven again and again that they will go at great length to ignore the peoples will. These are deeply undemocratic institutions. I have stopped believing they will mend the democratic deficit with the Lisbon treaty, it was never meant to.
Yes, but the EU still and with the Lisabon treaty further so, is far from a democratic or republic nation! They are an artificial elitist construct that sits apart and unaccountable (even through elections) in media black hole...
It's a bit like being ruled by a king who commands at a whim, just substitute the King with hundreds of delegates.
What you can observe, though, is that every single time the EU, the Lisbon treaty, the constitution where put to a vote, the people voted against it. In Ireland, in France... Everywhere they asked the population, they voted against it.
if you look to the opinion polls, it's the same in German. It's the same in Britain, Austria and so on. Everyhwere, only a small group is in favor of larger and larger EU powers and a majority is against it.
Gisela Stuart UK labour MEP who took part to the drafting of the "constitution"says that Lisbon Treaty is a 96% carbon copy of it. Therefore there is no need for a referendum in my eyes: the French, the Dutch and the Irish have each already rejected the different incarnations of this document. It 0% democratic legitimacy!
The EU is the grandest idea of the last century. But unfortunately there will always be morons like the people writing here that don't see that. We can all thank God that the Euro was introduced prior to the financial crisis. Otherwise inflation would be just skyrocketing all over Europe. But you don't want to here this, do you?
I dont deny that a trade federation/union is good but i think its gone past that now. And its selfgrowing which is dangerous. And why the heck cant we have referendums in all the countries about the lisbon accord?
How many members of the House of Commons could hold a light to Mr Hannan? Not many I fear. Amazing how the BBC do not put this on the their 6 o'clock news.
Spot on! Great speaker, great man! That's why we Swiss never joined and never will join the EU. No interest in being the net payer to socialistic EU countries incapable of getting their act together.
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But yeah, it would be nice if there were more folks with a Liberty message in the system fighting the real fights, cutting through the fat and right to the bone.
If only your concise and intellectual acuity could be imported to the US. We are spiralling out of control into the cesspool of Socialism and are desperate for someone like you, here, to come out as a new leader for our country. Common sense.
He's referring to the fact that EU states should be offering referendums on the Lisbon Treaty (aka the EU constitution which is set to transform the EU into a European super-state).
as far as i can tell it literally means the "Lisbon Treaty must be put to a vote." this is hannan imitating Cato the Elder who ended every speech with "Carthage must be destroyed." apparently hannan finishes every speech with this phrase regardless of whatever the rest of his speech is about.
If he should become Prime Minister and is able to do what he says, then we can get on the plane together. Norwich anytime of the year is a beautiful place to live. I live in California so you can see where I'm coming from.
Not the Treaty...I want to see a referendum on our status as a member state. I think we can get by as a part of EFTA - free trade and friendship, not domination by EU regulation.
He's saying "Pactio Olisipiensis censenda est" that means "The lisbon treaty must be put to a vote. This is inspired by a notorious phrase by a Senator in Ancient Rome that, during the Punic Wars (Rome vs Carthagins) said "Carthago delenda est" which means "Carthagins means be destroyed"
Yeah, EU's not perfect, but it is still the best system trying to seat on the same table more diversity than anywhere else in the world? But then, if we don't give it a chance, what is realistically the alternative? Caving back into nationalism? Accept diminishing world importance? No thanks!
It is interesting to notice that the countries who have fared better from EU integration are usually the ones that most stir the waters against it...Ireland went from poor to rich and votes NO, the UK & Netherlands got access to wider markets escaping the decline their economies were heading off to, France is the single largest benefiter from CAP, Italy would be doing Argentinean Tango if it was not in the EU. What the hell are all these people barking at then?
Yeah, bring on the referendum! This time i'll get off my confy couch and will campaign and vote YES! Enough with the backwards politicians that do no good for our children's sake!!!! I say EU referendum in all countries all in the same day! Vote YES and lets built a confidant future together for our children to enjoy, vote NO and pls go happy fully on your own and out of our way!!
I am absolutely sick of these small minded politicians always bashing out the EU and never actually giving any alternatives, except the return to the disastrous nationalism of the past!
Hey Mr. Hannan, I'd like to see you explain to your son and daughter that they can't go to a university in France, work in a company in Germany or take a vacation in Spain freely because you and a bunch of small-minded creeps alike did not have the balls & courage to build and leave them the legacy of a common space where their lives can become a far richer experience!
Btw, Mr. Hannan et all, if your idea of EU is just having a common market let's imagine how well off would Britain be if we restrict people and capital movements in the EU but still allow the UK to be inundated by cheap eastern European goods...interesting economic nightmare haa?
As German taxpayer I wholeheartedly express my gratitude to MEP Daniel Hannan for stating the obvious within the walls of the European "parliament". May his position become the majority's.
You know, I was in favour of the so called "constitution" back then. After it collapsed with the French and Dutch referenda, the arrogant "never mind the people" attitude that led to the Lisbon treaty convinced me that the real question is not whether I agree or not with the treaty's content, but who effectively rules the EU: us, the people or the European political cast. They are not willing to respect the will of the people, we will have to force them to.
Get on with it, and get out of Europe its been a great big con game!
genwrian 2 months ago
The EU as an institution acts like a sponge sucking up ever more funding and staff and privileges.
Even as someone who's relatively supportive of the EU as an idea I'm dissapointed with its functioning.
promisedeyes 6 months ago
Why doesn't Daniel Hannan join UKIP? It seems his views are spot on with Nigel Farage and I think these two would make an unstoppable team of political orators..
Midvinterblot542 7 months ago
@Midvinterblot542 Indeed, Daniel Hannan is wasted in the EU loving Tory party - he'd be an international sensation in UKIP. The EU is led by known criminals, liars and traitors. These EU criminals are currently blaming Greece for the problems they have caused throughout Europe with their corrupt and totally undemocratic EU project. In the prose of Oliver Cromwell - Britain's EU lovers are no more than de facto traitors that would sell their country for a mess of pottage.
RedGoblinus 7 months ago
All government is a few controlling the many and taking their energy/money. It's time to trash the idea of government altogether, the western hemisphere Natives (before the immense genocides) had no government and they got along swell.
mark32811 8 months ago
Ending in such a way is just strange. Glad he's dropped it.
thepenguinmafia 9 months ago
UKIP eurobores! If they hate Europe so much then fuck off to the US!
userfile007 9 months ago
factio ollo sipiensis sensendias? 1:10
m4rkyboy 10 months ago
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."-Jefferson
tigerhop 10 months ago
The only problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money to spend. A bastardized quote
rich7831 1 year ago 3
@rich7831 What do you mean it is "bastardized?" It has a mother in Margaret Thatcher I beleive. It's no orphan. It can't be repeated enough in my opinion.
joepeeler34 9 months ago
Daniel,our future prime minister and saviour of our people.The most outstanding politician and intelligent chap i have ever heard in my life.God bless you sir.
IhatetheEU 1 year ago 5
@IhatetheEU Do you think he's too divisive to win party leadership and a general election in the UK? I'd like to see him debate our economically illiterate president. Obama: "Oooh, er, well let me be perrrrrrfectly clear... um, uh, well now, let there be no doubt, that umm... my father was a subject of the Crown and I hold umm, err... deep resentment toward the Queen.. But let me clear: I am, errr, ummm. absolutely surprised that the English...umm, Scottish... err, ummm still love me.
shocker147 10 months ago
Germany should dump the EURO and go back to the german mark.. They would be better off..
xMaXiMuSx 1 year ago 5
@xMaXiMuSx
The biggest mistake they've ever made, by far.
ElDuorPaso 1 year ago
@ElDuorPaso
yeah no kidding they are stuck bailing out all the crappy countries..
xMaXiMuSx 1 year ago 3
The greatest reason that EU supporters seem capable of making for Britain staying in The EU seems to be based largely on our inadequacy in Britain to stand alone due to the MASSIVE and malign damage membership has already done to Britain.
If someone deliberately and sequentially cuts your fingers is it wise to remain as they cut your throat?
Leave-The-EU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE membership costs £48M a day!!
YOUR Politicians and Civil servants have betrayed YOU.
Demand the PROMISED REFERENDUM
Greg260146 1 year ago 4
The more I watch the videos of Daniel Hannan (and read his blog) the more impressed I become. England is very lucky to have someone like him.
mamme88 1 year ago
hear! hear! well said sir...
88conservative 1 year ago
i am a Yank and I accidentially came accross some of these EU videos while looking for something else. There is a BIG problem with this setup...... I dont think most Americans really know what the hell is going on and what the EU is attempting to do. Be vigilant something stinks about this EU situation. I like this Hannan guy, didnt know who he is until tonight but I like what he says and damn it.... HE'S RIGHT !!
legithater 1 year ago 4
@legithater if only more americans where like you.
arumdevil 1 year ago
@arumdevil You would be surprised to learn that the majority of Americans believe in exactly what Hannan is saying. Witness the TEA party movement. Americans, like their European brothers can spot Tyranny a mile away. Do not believe what you see on CNN and MSNBC, they have the smallest viewing audiences. Witness the forthcoming revolution that you shall soon see as we take our country back. Europeans would be smart to follow our lead a second time (French Revolution). Arm yourselves now!
Ninevolt69 1 year ago 3
@Ninevolt69 i think some tea partyers are white bigots that is waht scares me another civil war
daf867 1 year ago
@daf867 I'm sure that some tea partyers are white bigots. But I'm sure that the Democratic party is also haven to black bigots as well, expecting special rights and privileges for being black, and automatically assuming that every white person they encounter is prejudiced until proven otherwise.
Racism is racism. There's no such thing as "reverse racism". Its just racism. And its not exclusive to whites.
Jaspian 1 year ago
@Jaspian Way to see through the stereotypes that Leftists use to avoid discussion. Know that Republican Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and the the slave states were all Democrats for generations. Racism is a sham that doesn't explain income disparities or anything else. It's simply a word for mindless leftists to scream and their allies in the biased media to repeat.
jkirk1626 1 year ago
@Jaspian I got news for you: there are a lot of white bigots in the Democratic party. I know more than one.
joepeeler34 9 months ago
The European Union is unnecessary to begin with. The mere fact that dozens of countries must share the same monetary and similar fiscal policies is wholly damaging to the region.
Just as NAFTA has been wholly damaging to the United States, while helping Canada and Mexico. The European Union has bee wholly damaging to countries like the UK and Germany.
HapaLife 1 year ago
@HapaLife Only problem is that the UK is not part of European Monetary Union. It has retained sterling as its unit of currency and fiscal control in the UK resides in a Monetary Policy Committee.
But that's just one of those errors people who rely on the Internet as their sole source of information regularly make. You're not the first person to betray such an astounding lack of knowledge Hapa. And you will not be the last.
1957Rotu 1 year ago
@1957Rotu And thank God that we have stayed out of the monetary union! It was only currency's ability to devalue during the recession that saved us from hitting the economic backwaters.
benjiebr0074l 1 year ago
@1957Rotu
The British people don't want the Euro, so why should we have it?
Even if we would be better off with it, as long as we live in a Democracy, it shouldn't replace the Pound.
theunderone1 1 year ago
@theunderone1 Why would the Euro replace the Pound? The Pound is considered one of the world's major reserve currencies. Besides, the EU is just pathetic.
rtgoodson 1 year ago
The german economy needs the european market. It's a massive market of 400 milj people buying german stuff with no import and export limitations. It doesn't damage germany it makes germany stronger and they know it.
Napoleon501ste 1 year ago
@Napoleon501ste Yes but people would still buy German Goods with out being a member of the E.U they dont need to be look at Norway and Switzerland
jacobmandley 1 year ago
@jacobmandley True, but the german goods would be more expensive and they would make less profit. It wouldn't be good for german economy, I can garantee you that.
Napoleon501ste 1 year ago
@Napoleon501ste I'm all for free trade i just don't understand this political union , it would never work the citizens of Europe are so diffrent and it seems to me that the Germans and U.K seem to be proping up this E.U. Esp The U.K which in all fairness isn't a major exporting economy but yet we pay are exporters in which we already import more from ;to export to which is in my opionon crazy
jacobmandley 1 year ago
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@jacobmandley I don't get your point... What does " yet we pay are exporters in which we already import more from" mean??
Napoleon501ste 1 year ago
@Napoleon501ste You can have free trade without a European Union. Europe doesn't have free trade though. It has managed trade just as we have here in the states. Germany has supported other EU members for quite some time. The currency is debased in order to monetize debts. Germans end up paying an inflation tax when the EU creates money out of nothing to bailout other countries. If it comes from direct taxes, it's just as bad. Germans have gone along because they still have guilt about WWII.
joepeeler34 9 months ago
@joepeeler34 Germany has been suffering through this since 1918.
g0twav 6 months ago
@g0twav Yes, I agree. The rest of europe is trying to suck every last ounce of production out of the German worker. They are using the European Central Bank to do it in many instances. If I were a German citizen, I would get out of the EU today.
There are some commerce benefits, but there are also protections, subsidies--direct and indirect--and Germans also have to worry about the numerous welfare countries in the EU.
They are trying to set up a North American Union over here. Ughh!
joepeeler34 6 months ago
@joepeeler34 Germany has no minimum wage laws or price controls which is why they are so successful whereas the rest of Europe is falling apart.
g0twav 6 months ago
@g0twav Germany has no minimum wage laws? I'll have to look that up. I knew that Germany had less rigid labor markets than other european countries. I don't think it is just that though.
joepeeler34 6 months ago
@domjuanify, why dont you shut up? Ironically i bet your also the sort of person that insists there should be incentives for people of minority's to enter parliament as well?
jamiejohnson1611 2 years ago
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Daniel Hannan was born in Peru. He is not eligible to work in Europe or GB. He is an illegal immigrant! Repatriate him to Peru and lets keep Paddington Bear. He is from Irish background and we never vote Tory!
domjuanify 2 years ago
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Daniel Hannan was born in Peru. He is not eligible to work in Europe or GB. He is an illegal immigrant! Repatriate him to Peru and lets keep Paddington Bear. He is from Irish background and we never vote Tory!
domjuanify 2 years ago
It creates publicity where there would be none: not much, but some.
fullel 2 years ago
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I wish he would stop with the Latin phrase it is getting as old as the dead language it came from and most people cannot undertand it anyway.
DumblyBrilliant 2 years ago
He explained what it meant: it's a call for the Lisbon Treaty to be put to the vote: "Pactio Olisipiensis censenda est"
Anteater1234567 2 years ago 2
thank you, missed that. Stll silly and pretentious though
DumblyBrilliant 2 years ago
Who cares about the rest or whatever MEPs say we all want OUT OF THE EU !!!!
soundnicetome 2 years ago 8
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Germans seem at least on the whole to be committed to the EU rather than working to undermine it like Hannan. Britain's interests are far better served by the EU than by trying to be the 51st state of the USA. The healthcare debate is one way in which this has become clear.
ferihegy 2 years ago
Pactio olisipiensis censenda est!
ScilusVacilius 2 years ago
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NEWSFLASH ! A poll released this week shows that a massive 77% of Germans want a referendum on the Lisbon treaty/constitution...will they get one ?
Anyone want to demonstrate against the un-elected commission in Brussels ?
Think again and google :
EUROPEAN GENDARMERIE FORCE (EGF)
5,000 Gendarmerie
the EU's Paramilitary
coming to a street near you and me
in the last days of democracy.
Spenner56 2 years ago
UKIP came second in the national share of the vote, and turnout across Europe was very low too. Virtually all the other major economic powers manage to trade with the world and make their own sovereign laws, control immigration etc, without being part of any economic or political union - USA, China, Japan, Canada, Australia, Russia, etc etc. We do NOT need to be part of the EU to prosper, quite the opposite really, when you think of what we put in and what we get back. LET'S LEAVE THE EU !!!
daviduk40 2 years ago 58
@daviduk40 Yes, it's curious that the British people vigorously opposed Phillip II, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin, only to blithely accede to EU tyranny.
RenShiWu 1 year ago
@daviduk40 Exactly
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PleaseDoNotClick 2 years ago
pactio olisipiensis censenda est
songratingaccount 2 years ago
thanks, what does it mean, please?
johnisfun 2 years ago
pactio olisipiensis censenda est =
the treaty of lisbon must be put to the vote. roughly.
songratingaccount 2 years ago 3
thank you!
johnisfun 2 years ago
Well, while, as always, he's right on the issue.... the poor fellow's obviously drunk and just started muttering something unintelligible at the end there.
sonever1 2 years ago
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Hannan may have some good arguments.
Never-the-less there is not a single video I've seen so far where there is any counter argument. He might make things up.
ProdioLoLo 2 years ago
the reason there is no counter-argument is that his arguments are irrefutable....
xXU2BerXx 2 years ago 52
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daviduk40 2 years ago
NOW WE WANT TO KNOW THE EU EXPENSES!!!
The accounts of the EU have NEVER been signed off by accountants because even THEY do not believe them!!
How can we vote for the EU when they vote to keep their expenses secret!!
PORK BELLY POLITICS. We the people count for nothing. we are simply the proletariat.
MORE PLEBS PLEASE!
Judep22 2 years ago 2
Wish we had a Daniel Hannan in America. Closest we come to it is Mike Pence.
dz2ny 2 years ago 3
Recent polls have shown the following :
70% of Austrians want the EU to be a loose grouping of national states that trade together with no further integration.
74% of Germans think the EU has too much power.
84% of Brits would like the EU to remain a trading block only.
Neither the un-elected commission nor the EU parliament speak for us.
Don't give the EU `parliament´the legitimacy it craves...
either don't vote at all or vote for UKIP .
Spenner56 2 years ago 4
Gordon Brown is the one who CAUSED the financial mess (by totally encouraging financial deregulation and a very light touch by the FSA, to allow the unsustainable credit upon which his 'boom years' were built) - and now he wants us to believe he is the big hero coming to fix it all? I can't stand him.
Allowing Gordon Brown to try and fix the financial mess is about as sensible as employing Josef Frtizl as a babysitter!
daviduk40 2 years ago 8
He speaks eloquently -- but he represents misguided ideas that have left Britain in ruin. Industry was deemed unimportant and dismantled in Thatcher's brave new world. Now, Countries with their industrial base intact will weather this recession/depression best.
Fox likes him because he's an articulate Brit, whom they believe adds some class to their mindless programing. Perhaps, but it was conservative laissez-faire philosophy that produced this disaster -- this point should be remembered.
somersetdc 2 years ago
how was less tax and less government intervention the problem? when you lose jobs in the private sector you cannot just have the government create them in the public sector and make the people foot the bill. Government intervention was what got us to this place. If government, in the U.S, didn't lower interest rates and encourage the borrowing then people wouldn't have borrowed money that the banks were getting at ridiculous amounts for free. How can you dig your way out of a hole?
SilencerRPMs 2 years ago 2
I understand your concern bu the fact is - capitalism, not government. The free market, not politicians is responsible for the creation of the modern middle class. Industry and increased productive capacity raise the real wages of all members of a society.
Saying it's disingenuous for a politician to advocate small government is a bit silly. He's not an anarchist; if that were the case you would have a point.
iamacyborg 2 years ago
Remarkable that someone can say that "conservative laissez faire" caused the problem, when anyone with half a brain knows that government screws up everything it does, except to concentrate power and wealth, then abuse it .
The US government made our banks give risky loans that later collapsed in the name of "fairness", and now they want to control those banks and more. This is a very, very bad time in western history.
VAspeed3 2 years ago
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There's a good reason FOX NEWS worships this idiot!
If the extreme right wing Fox & Mr Hannan had their way, everything would be up for sale.
Wars would be executed for profit.
Your level of health or illness would make somebody a profit.
You would only get educated if you could afford to make fat cats more profit.
The environment would only be protected if it was profitable to do so.
THIS is what conservatism is.
SPEND nothing, DO nothing, and squeeze you dry for private PROFIT!
janebusby 2 years ago
I can't speak for FOX News, but only for why i sallut people like him!.
For one thing he actually know, a thing or two about economics.
Secondly there is no such thing, as a war for profit. If there were, maybe the USA wouldn't be up to their necks in debt?.
Third why shouldn't doctors, and medical staff earn a profit?. Your and my work make us a profit, why should it be any different for the people serving our health?.
kjakobsen 2 years ago
Fourth schools don't become cheaper, from being run by the government. Marketcompetition where good schools make money, and bad schools go out of business, will make education far cheaper.
Fifth the environment is best protected, by private ownership. If everybody owns a piece of land, then nobody owns it. And if nobody owns it, nobody really cares.
So what is socialism?.
SPEND other peoples money, CONTROL grown peoples lifes, and TAX away all incentives. Profits is a good thing!.
kjakobsen 2 years ago
Profit is not a good thing. When profit is your goal, it leads of corruption, and profit always comes before people...
robitsme 2 years ago
Not always, there is a balance that can be obtained. Fair reward for fair work. It is only when these things are given too high a priority that the system falls down.
perfacetus 2 years ago
War is profitable, just not for the nations involved. It is very profitable for the companies who supply the war effort.
LonestarDeTimberland 2 years ago
Of course there is war for profit. It's just not the US government or the populace at large that benefit -- Americans have given over 4K lives as well as tax money that could have been spent on infrastructure, social services, health care, etc
The war profit is "earned" by the miliary contractors who produce weapons systems. Extrodinary profits are also "earned" for the rebuilding ashattered Iraqi economy. Halliburton and Bechtel are doing very well. This war has produced tremendous wealth
somersetdc 2 years ago
With all due respect, you are disconnected from reality. A free market society, left on it's own course, creates work & money and takes care of people by it's own nature.
And just in case you haven't already noticed, war is always about those who seek someone else's money.
Health and illness do make people profit, that's why people decide to find cures.
Education is available to all, but it's what you do with it that counts.
novusord 2 years ago 2
Wars would be executed for profit. -- this already happens
Your level of health or illness would make somebody a profit. -- consider it already done
You would only get educated if you could afford to make fat cats more profit. -- It's called Private school?
The environment would only be protected if it was profitable to do so. -- All these 'green' products sure are popular.
Liberal idiot...
Peeler255 2 years ago
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo way,, it,s greedy people with too much power who have cause the economic meltdown in the 1st place,,
The world would be a much better place if there were more D Hannan,s
drfarenheight 2 years ago
Daniel Hannan is part of the Ron Paul Revolution... which is nothing more than the continuation of the original American Revolution.
It's a world revolution now.
Carlitos1010 2 years ago 4
thanks, you answered question 1, now, if it's possible to be short?... what is the treaty of Lisbon?
umtali65 2 years ago
A treaty that if ratified will pass remaining sovereignty from the member states to the EU, creating a United States of Europe. The people of Europe do not want this. Only Ireland has held a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and they voted "no". The New World Order is not a conspiracy theory in Europe. It's real.
rudeboy80 2 years ago 4
thanks
umtali65 2 years ago
in america our constitution begins with "we the people."
how does the european constitution begin? something about the king of belgium?
Why would europe make its capital in a nation that can barely maintain a unity government?
Also to all the EU-philes, I assume you will join an EU Army and fight and die to defend, say France's possesions in Africa? The EU won't work because the Germans won't fight for French interests. The Brits won't fight for Irish interests, etc etc.
Monty1994 2 years ago 6
Let's let Daniel Hannan come over to the U.S. as a Senator for a few years.
I'll betcha he'll saying roughly the same things he's saying here.
The Government has gotten too big for the its britches, and they're screwing things up for everyone by spending our tax dollars on things they shouldn't be.
There needs to be some revolutionary changes to the tax laws.
jbadyna 2 years ago 8
If he comes here, he'll start another 'War Between the States' (Civil War for you folks in Boston and Berkeley).
Every state will want him as their senator and use their state militia to get him.
I say we give Her Majesty the two esteemed senators from New Jersey, one of whom is alive, the other, Lautenberg, is a cadaver!
QE II will then beg to be the final signatory to the Declaration of Independence and apply for US citizenship. God save the Queen!
Shooter1001 2 years ago
What a silly and sycophantic argument--even if it is in jest. Mr. Hannan can stay in the UK (no one wishes to wage a war to retain his intellectual services) Let him continue to represent south-east Britain in the EU, where he rails against the institution that employs him. I certainly do not trust a politician who claims that govt. is always the problem and that the solution is to let the private sector have free rein. This is a recipe for all wealth to unnaturally run up hill--as indeed it has
somersetdc 2 years ago
you are so incredibly wrong... stop just saying things you THINK are right and start checking your facts... if you take people from the lowest income bracket and FOLLOW those same people, you will see that THEY DO GET RICHER and at a faster pace than the richest people... the argument from people against this comes from flawed data that doesnt realize new people continuously immigrate to countries and START at the bottom, but they have more likelyhood to climb up in the more private economies.
areosis 2 years ago
Exactly why every nation would be smart to maintain its sovereignty until its dying breath. When you chain yourself to another nation you are basically tying and anchor around your neck.
2100km 2 years ago 4
What does he say at the very end?
RowBadMovies 2 years ago
Check the comments (it's Latin btw)
"pactio olisipiensis censenda est.
The Lisbon treaty is to be thought of worth or valued.
In other words, the people must be allowed to vote on whether the Treaty of Lisbon ought to exist or not. "
anon2999 2 years ago
"The Germans have seen through the EU racket."
Do they?
Between Merkel, Schultz, and Pottering I can't see that they are anything but at the center of the racket.
Unless the German people are not behind them but I see no evidence of this.
CRAPCANNONS 2 years ago
The EU has always been about the redistribution of the wealth of Western Europe to the poorer countries of Eastern and Southern Europe. Now they're willing to speak out about this. FAIR ENOUGH.
TheSilvaBuIlitt 2 years ago
TheSilvaBuIlitt
Perhaps but is anyone listening?
Are there even any truly wealthy people left in Europe?
Weren't the G20 pseudo-protests all about not taxing people enough?
CRAPCANNONS 2 years ago
Peole will listen to what is being spoken. The game of people like you is to make believe that no one listens to anything.
TheSilvaBuIlitt 2 years ago
TheSilvaBuIlitt
I'm not playing any game.
I hope people in the EU are listening. But i know EU socialists and they are hopelessly stubborn.
And i get the impression that this MP is getting more play in the US than the EU.
Am I wrong?
Is this guy a rockstar in the UK now?
CRAPCANNONS 2 years ago
`Taking money from the taxpayer ´...according to an EU commissioner in this week's Der Spiegel magazine, `Europe's capital city ´ will be getting a facelift !
The EU plans to spend billions of OUR money on huge new complexes in Brussels. Included in the plans are an extra 300,000 square metres of office space for the un-elected commission !
`There are no plans for a European super state ´ and `The commission respects the Irish NO vote ´.
Liars.
Spenner56 2 years ago 3
Is is time once again to read Gary Allen's book, "None Dare Call It Conspiracy".
jeffersonianideal 2 years ago
we don't need the EU. They are mark of the beast '666'. The root of the problem is the Banking Cartel and the FRAUDULENT MONETARY SYSTEM. ! i.e. money issued as debt backed by thin air, no good. Lord rothschild & his empire are the ultimate benefactors of the lie of the global "recession". We need to reclaim our stolen funds en masse from Rothschild and his hierarchy of 3% of the world population who have collared the assets from the 97%. Why is no one addressing this ? CAUSE
discoveriesintl 2 years ago
the eu make way for the nau cause i know its comming weeewhooo i can taste it i hate america well no not my land but the dumb fools in it pfffft
hiphopper420w 2 years ago
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It's sad but true. I'm american and I can tell you first hand my country men are fools.
Don't be fooled Hiphipper, it's this wave of political corruption and economic downfall is coming your way as well.
US is done for. Your Constitution is no longer valid or lagitimate in the eyes of your Federal Government.
Jsimp0487 2 years ago
Recent polls have shown the following :
70% of Austrians want the EU to be a loose grouping of national states that trade together and no further integration.
74% of Germans think the EU has too much power.
84% of Brits would like the EU to remain a trading block only.
How DARE Hans-Gert Pottering accuse the Czechs of `holding up ´ the will of 490 million Europeans concerning the lisbon treaty/ Constitution !
Either he is poor at maths...or a liar !
Spenner56 2 years ago 3
I lean towards Social Spending.
However there is a difference between public spending of money that we have got one the one hand and on the other spending money we have'nt, and need to borrow from banks at interest.
GolderWalter1999 2 years ago
please be conservative, but not so bloody fucking ignorant...you owns billions to the UN and this world would be a better place if you pay...!!!!
a liberal muslim...ha ha...
koldorika 2 years ago
the world would be a better place if the US paid more money to the UN?? Over 20% of its budget isn't enough?
Investing in the UN is like investing an a bankrupt company, only the bankrupt company isn't complicit in Genocides, Religious Hatred, the cutailing of free speech and human rights, nuclear proliferation, the raping of women by it's "peacekeeping" soldiers, among other things.
We would be better off sending our money to the defunct League of Nations, it would do about as much good
Monty1994 2 years ago 2
I prefer to flush my money down the toilet personally than have a government do it for me.
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DishwallaCandle 2 years ago
Well I am German and of course flattered by most what he is saying. Still I want to emphasize my strong belief in the EU.
I welcome open und controverse discussion, but I have to say referendums for the Lissbon treaty would be a farce. We have 27 members. What would happen if we do vote and only Luxenbourg opposes? Would that be democratic?
Ataraxion 2 years ago
yes, actually it would be. Every vote counting is democratic. You elected people who decided the Lisbon Treaty had to be passed unanamously, so you have to follow the rules set out by your democratically elected officials don't you?
Also it's not Luxembourg you would have to worry about its major countries.
The Lisbon treaty won't be passed in a lot of countries if everyone is allowed to vote on it.
The rights of minorities(luxembourg in your example) is essential to a democratic system.
Monty1994 2 years ago
I am sorry, but you got it all wrong. Democracy respects the rights of minorities. But minorities also have to bow to the will of the majority. That`s how it works. A referendum over all of Europe would kind of make sense, but in that case Polish people would be overvoted by the Germans. British by the French. Austrians by the Italians. It would be a nightmare.
Referendums are not the way to do politics. Nowhere, especially not in a such a complex structure like the EU.
Ataraxion 2 years ago
That's why you need a democratic republic.
bighitter42 2 years ago
Ataraxion simplified: "the EU is too complicated to be democratic". Exactly. The EU is not how European Integration will happen, the EU is a process gone wrong. It must be stopped.
depronlover 2 years ago 5
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I guess you have a right to your own opinion. But let me just make this clear. I don't like the European Commission with its ludicrous drive for ever more regulations. It's just stupid. That's precisely why I support the treaty in which the role of parliament wil be augmented.
But in the end the EU will profit from these discussions. It's this very diversity that makes us strong and endurable, since nobody has a monopoly on truth and we all learn from each other :-).
Ataraxion 2 years ago
About 2-3 years ago I would have shared your opinion, but not any more. I don't like the E-Commission, I don't like the E-Parliament, I don't like what the national governments put together in the name of Europe. Why? Because they have all proven again and again that they will go at great length to ignore the peoples will. These are deeply undemocratic institutions. I have stopped believing they will mend the democratic deficit with the Lisbon treaty, it was never meant to.
depronlover 2 years ago
Yes, but the EU still and with the Lisabon treaty further so, is far from a democratic or republic nation! They are an artificial elitist construct that sits apart and unaccountable (even through elections) in media black hole...
It's a bit like being ruled by a king who commands at a whim, just substitute the King with hundreds of delegates.
moddy82 2 years ago
Because that would not happen.
GolderWalter1999 2 years ago
yes!
bigfootuk82 2 years ago
What you can observe, though, is that every single time the EU, the Lisbon treaty, the constitution where put to a vote, the people voted against it. In Ireland, in France... Everywhere they asked the population, they voted against it.
if you look to the opinion polls, it's the same in German. It's the same in Britain, Austria and so on. Everyhwere, only a small group is in favor of larger and larger EU powers and a majority is against it.
NewSeattle 2 years ago 3
Gisela Stuart UK labour MEP who took part to the drafting of the "constitution"says that Lisbon Treaty is a 96% carbon copy of it. Therefore there is no need for a referendum in my eyes: the French, the Dutch and the Irish have each already rejected the different incarnations of this document. It 0% democratic legitimacy!
depronlover 2 years ago
"Bureaucracy exists to support the expanding bureaucracy". The European Union in a nutshell. Essentially a stupid idea.
oskais 2 years ago 3
only if you are not part of it.
the men and women that gain profits from it,see it diffrent.
if you want power and money,it`s a damn good idea.
for a few,not the people.
the rich are´nt rich because their are stupid.
marine76er 2 years ago
The EU is the grandest idea of the last century. But unfortunately there will always be morons like the people writing here that don't see that. We can all thank God that the Euro was introduced prior to the financial crisis. Otherwise inflation would be just skyrocketing all over Europe. But you don't want to here this, do you?
Ataraxion 2 years ago
I dont deny that a trade federation/union is good but i think its gone past that now. And its selfgrowing which is dangerous. And why the heck cant we have referendums in all the countries about the lisbon accord?
oskais 2 years ago
He could say the same thing about the US giving money to the UN...what a waste!!!
brainards1 2 years ago
wow how to promote yourself? you shameless whore, who are you? who are you? who are you?
eltopo2 2 years ago
How many members of the House of Commons could hold a light to Mr Hannan? Not many I fear. Amazing how the BBC do not put this on the their 6 o'clock news.
trevorsmagic 2 years ago 5
Spot on! Great speaker, great man! That's why we Swiss never joined and never will join the EU. No interest in being the net payer to socialistic EU countries incapable of getting their act together.
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NewChristianSoldiers 2 years ago
Another brilliant speech from Mr Hannan. I saw him on Fox with Neil Cavuto and if I remember right he did align himself with Ron Paul.
What we need now is for Ron Paul to come out and make similar speeches in the US.
rexeric 2 years ago 9
He does, that's why he is viewed as "crazy". The truth is caraaazy.
spraynpray 2 years ago 4
Ron has been..for about 15 years or so.
But yeah, it would be nice if there were more folks with a Liberty message in the system fighting the real fights, cutting through the fat and right to the bone.
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carlsbadtuber 2 years ago
The European Ron Paul, Britain make him your next prime minister!!!!!!!!!
LBRTRN89 2 years ago 6
Finally - a leader emerges!
601SQNRAF 2 years ago 6
Well said..
We were promised a referendum and have been cheated
by the unelected Traitor.. brown.
sidensvans54 2 years ago 8
Wow. What a speaker, what clarity. Very pleased he's there.
Too few people like this in the world where it matters.
plarkmoby 2 years ago 8
If only your concise and intellectual acuity could be imported to the US. We are spiralling out of control into the cesspool of Socialism and are desperate for someone like you, here, to come out as a new leader for our country. Common sense.
sbgardner1 2 years ago 7
Listen to him Europe and America. What he says, is truth/music to our ears.
wildhorses0 2 years ago 7
what does the latin phrase mean at the end??
bigfootuk82 2 years ago
He's referring to the fact that EU states should be offering referendums on the Lisbon Treaty (aka the EU constitution which is set to transform the EU into a European super-state).
rudeboy80 2 years ago 2
pactio olisipiensis censenda est
as far as i can tell it literally means the "Lisbon Treaty must be put to a vote." this is hannan imitating Cato the Elder who ended every speech with "Carthage must be destroyed." apparently hannan finishes every speech with this phrase regardless of whatever the rest of his speech is about.
lhs04 2 years ago
good guy
LeamingtonSteve 2 years ago
If this guy becomes Prime Minister, I will move from from the USA to England!
C128D 2 years ago
If he should become Prime Minister and is able to do what he says, then we can get on the plane together. Norwich anytime of the year is a beautiful place to live. I live in California so you can see where I'm coming from.
zeekwolfe 2 years ago
Put the treaty of Lisbon to a vote..............a referendum, as simple as that!!
marrow777 2 years ago
Not the Treaty...I want to see a referendum on our status as a member state. I think we can get by as a part of EFTA - free trade and friendship, not domination by EU regulation.
silverhawks 2 years ago
If this were an African State being propped up by European taxpayers money, wed be outraged !
Why should it be OK because it's the EU ?
1. It has an unelected legislature.
2. Plans to install an unelected president.
3. Ignores the voting rights/referendums of its citizens.
4. Refuses to fight its own rampant corruption.
5. Gains power through deceit not the ballot box.
6. Ignores the UN Covernant on Civil & Political Rights.
Spenner56 2 years ago 3
He is like the UKs Ron Paul!
soladragon 2 years ago 2
What was this latin phase at the end.
bicnarok 2 years ago
in the end, he said something in what i believe to be latin. Can anyone elaborate?
3rdutubeusernamee 2 years ago
He's saying "Pactio Olisipiensis censenda est" that means "The lisbon treaty must be put to a vote. This is inspired by a notorious phrase by a Senator in Ancient Rome that, during the Punic Wars (Rome vs Carthagins) said "Carthago delenda est" which means "Carthagins means be destroyed"
CaesarAugustus1987 2 years ago
*carthagins must be destroyed . sorry
CaesarAugustus1987 2 years ago
The cost of EU membership is too great and a single currency is proving a disaster for many of the members. We need out and fast.
brokenbriton 2 years ago
This guy is totally friggin awesome!
daughterrevolution 2 years ago 7
Yeah, EU's not perfect, but it is still the best system trying to seat on the same table more diversity than anywhere else in the world? But then, if we don't give it a chance, what is realistically the alternative? Caving back into nationalism? Accept diminishing world importance? No thanks!
gringotuga78 2 years ago
It is interesting to notice that the countries who have fared better from EU integration are usually the ones that most stir the waters against it...Ireland went from poor to rich and votes NO, the UK & Netherlands got access to wider markets escaping the decline their economies were heading off to, France is the single largest benefiter from CAP, Italy would be doing Argentinean Tango if it was not in the EU. What the hell are all these people barking at then?
gringotuga78 2 years ago
Yeah, bring on the referendum! This time i'll get off my confy couch and will campaign and vote YES! Enough with the backwards politicians that do no good for our children's sake!!!! I say EU referendum in all countries all in the same day! Vote YES and lets built a confidant future together for our children to enjoy, vote NO and pls go happy fully on your own and out of our way!!
A proud European :-)
gringotuga78 2 years ago
Ohhh yeah, bring on the referendum!
I am absolutely sick of these small minded politicians always bashing out the EU and never actually giving any alternatives, except the return to the disastrous nationalism of the past!
gringotuga78 2 years ago
Hey Mr. Hannan, I'd like to see you explain to your son and daughter that they can't go to a university in France, work in a company in Germany or take a vacation in Spain freely because you and a bunch of small-minded creeps alike did not have the balls & courage to build and leave them the legacy of a common space where their lives can become a far richer experience!
gringotuga78 2 years ago
Btw, Mr. Hannan et all, if your idea of EU is just having a common market let's imagine how well off would Britain be if we restrict people and capital movements in the EU but still allow the UK to be inundated by cheap eastern European goods...interesting economic nightmare haa?
gringotuga78 2 years ago
As German taxpayer I wholeheartedly express my gratitude to MEP Daniel Hannan for stating the obvious within the walls of the European "parliament". May his position become the majority's.
depronlover 2 years ago 13
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I'm a German taxpayer aswell and I hope you're aware that the majority of people here do support the Lisbon Treaty and would ratify it.
sueddeutsche. de/politik/196/445932/text/
ttx09 2 years ago
You know, I was in favour of the so called "constitution" back then. After it collapsed with the French and Dutch referenda, the arrogant "never mind the people" attitude that led to the Lisbon treaty convinced me that the real question is not whether I agree or not with the treaty's content, but who effectively rules the EU: us, the people or the European political cast. They are not willing to respect the will of the people, we will have to force them to.
depronlover 2 years ago 3
Too bad this man can not run for President of the United States.
zeekwolfe 2 years ago 10
Completely Agree!
Bokababe 2 years ago
pactio olisipiensis censenda est.
The Lisbon treaty is to be thought of worth or valued.
In other words, the people must be allowed to vote on whether the Treaty of Lisbon ought to exist or not.
fredquimby42 2 years ago
What does that latin translate to that he says at the end of every speach?
Catster00 2 years ago
Literally, the Latin means "The Lisbon Agreement must be judged/assessed"
AnimusFerrus 2 years ago