As soon as I saw it, I also posted the clip onto ourPlayPolitical site and just a day later - with a little help from a Drudge Report link - nearly 80,000 over 260,000 (as at 10pm Wednesday) people have watched it, making it the most viewed YouTube clip in the world today. I have known Daniel for a decade and apart from being a robust eurosceptic who is fluent in a number of languages, he is an extremely articulate Conservative. His exposure on the web over the last 24 hours will have won him some new fans, and I imagine that they, like those of us who have known of his abilities for rather longer, would join me in hoping the party makes the best use of those talents in the months and years ahead. You can relive yesterday's speech again below. Jonathan Isaby Daniel Hannan MEP becomes a worldwide internet phenomenon
About 25 hours ago, Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan posted onto YouTube the video of speech he delivered yesterday afternoon in the chamber of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, during which, for want of a better phrase, he well and truly monstered Gordon Brown.
Comments
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Posts
True brilliance. Really. It was amazing.
Brown is our own Comical Ali.
Posted by: ToryBlog.com - The usual health warning about me to keep the Editor happy :-) | March 25, 2009 at 18:38
Dan should be given a slot at Party Conference.
All those in favour say "aye"...
Posted by: Tim Montgomerie | March 25, 2009 at 18:47
Och aye.
Posted by: Tom Greeves | March 25, 2009 at 18:50
Aye to that Tim
The video is totally addictive. I just watched it again. The irony of course is that he only got to reply to Brown because he got kicked out of the EPP.
He's put up 2 more vids today. His YouTube channel is better than telly.
Posted by: Conand | March 25, 2009 at 18:51
A master class performance and a lesson to the totally ineffective conservative opposition, if you can call it an opposition, in the HoC. This man should be leading a new and reformed party at Westminster. Such energy and conviction is so lacking there. For eleven years the tory party has wittered along while their mates of the NU Lab party have destroyed British education, the NHS, police, and the armed services as well as the economy. Quite an achievement in such a short time. Only with a supine opposition was this possible.