Daniel Hannan Rips Gordon Brown a New One

Where is our USA Daniel Hannan today? We need someone like this here and now on the day the congress wants our debt ceiling to raise 1.8 trillion.

Yoi should make a collection amongst the folks in your town/city. You could then get Daniel Hannan to visit you on a special scholarship. After a few months of listening to him whinging, you could then learn how to whinge for the USA.

Well you've got Peter Schiff is running for the senate

@TheCassandraReview Yeah right. No one else in Congress or the Senate is capable of articulating a cogent opposition to the current incumbent of the White House. And my name is Flying Pigs.

Why would you want a British politician - with no experience of US politics - to orchestrate the opposition in the U.S. Houses of Congress. Are you mad? Or did your skip a few synapses when you penned your comments a week ago?

I see. The plan to shield British subjects from such an oppressive tax burden is to convince foreigners to accept Britain's tax burden as being less oppressive than that of France. Aim higher.

No you do not see, The French are already in the U.K. As explained in the Telegraph today, 10% of the people living in the U.K. were not born there. Applying that to the Hannan figures, it has a massive impact on the so-called 'average' figure allegedly owed by every British child. Hannan's figures are serously off the mark. Why can't you just accept that instead of speculating about the future. The French and other nationalities have already arrived in the UK.

British women already are having less than 2 children each (largely because of diminished economic prospects from the high tax burden and devalued pound). Immigration has become necessary for the UK to escape population loss. Many nations in Europe already experience net loss and Europe as a whole is at or near a population peak. As British families are under continued economic pressure, where will immigrants come from? poorer Muslim immigrants from North Africa and Middle East, more than Europe

Fine, but I reiterate what I said earlier about the less than impressive, eponymous host of the Steve Gill Show. He thinks that Gordon Brown's real name is Gordon Browning. Hardly a tribute to Hannan that Gill features Hannan's attack on Brown. In the final analysis, Gill seems to be a complete moron. He probably doesn't even know that Britain has a Prime Minister (as opposed to a President!). Spare us from provincial Americans like Steve Gill.

it's not very surprising that Americans don't follow European or British politics. His point was that Daniel Hannan is making the very points that all political leaders should be making: that government spending is excessive and harmful, that government sugar-coating our economic troubles does not help anyone nor even fool most people. Everything Hannan said to Brown should also be said to President Obama and his party in Congress. (forgive him if he didn't fact-check the details.)

No, I do not forgive him. Someone like Jeremy Paxman would have all of these facts at his fingertips. At a minimum, Gill should get the name of the British Prime Minister correct. George Bush was pistol whipped (verbally) every time he got the name of an obscure Eastern potentate wrong. Gill should not be in the business of news if he doesn't have a broader world view. Typical of the kind of sensationalist (and inaccurate) broadcaster produced by the Fox News Channel in the States.