This coming from the Guardian is characteristically snide and
inaccurate.
Hannan is totally mainstream Tory except on the one
issue - the EU.
issue - the EU.
On that issue he is in line with the vast majority
of party members whose disagreement with UKIP is almost entirely rto
do with the crookedness and self-serving nature of that party whose
sole reason for existence is to deprive the Condservative Party of
power and to enjoy the 'goodies' of Brussels.
of party members whose disagreement with UKIP is almost entirely rto
do with the crookedness and self-serving nature of that party whose
sole reason for existence is to deprive the Condservative Party of
power and to enjoy the 'goodies' of Brussels.
That is why to most party members Dan Hannan, Roger Helmer, and a handful of others are
heroes.
It is a measure of UKIP's destructive success that the membership of
the party has failed ever to dislodge the europhile leadership.
xxxxxxxxxxxxx cs
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THE GUARDIAN 28.3.09
Over a million view speech by Tory MEP Daniel Hannan on web
. Julian Glover
There was no link yesterday from the official Conservative party
website to the internet sensation of the week:[actuasly not true! .
Cameron's weekly newsletter on the websiter calls it "Dan Hannan's
brilliant response to Gordon Brown in the European Parliament. It was
so effective" -cs] - a speech by the 37-year-old Tory MEP Daniel
Hannan denouncing Gordon Brown as a "Brezhnev-era apparatchik".
By yesterday the speech - which Brown had to sit through after his
own address to the European parliament - had passed 1.1m views.
[1.167.331 and counting! -cs]
For Hannan, it was a triumph. For David Cameron, a headache - proof
that not all parts of his party have changed.
Opinions vary as to why the speech was a hit. Hannan says it shows
how the internet is changing politics, since it was ignored by the
press and TV.
At just over three minutes it was perfect for the web, and its tone
caught the outrage of the right on both sides of the Atlantic,
convinced that it must stop the big spending Brown-Obama juggernaut.
Hannan's speech was linked to on the US Drudge Report website and he
was quickly interviewed on Fox News.
He has not arrived out of the blue. Elected to the European
parliament a decade ago, he irritated top Tories from the start by
speaking out critically at a joint meeting of MPs and MEPs - "Who is
this Hannan man?" one former cabinet minister asked angrily afterwards.
At Oxford in the early 1990s his fierce anti-Europeanism was
influential. When a bust of Ted Heath was due to be unveiled at the
Oxford Union, Eurosceptics hid it, and Heath was enraged.
"He's a free market nationalist and issue-for-issue agrees more with
Ukip than Conservative policies," says Mark Littlewood, an Oxford
contemporary who, like Hannan, now blogs for the Telegraph. The MEP
was once also a leader writer there.
Hannan is no typical little Englander. Born in Peru, he is multi-
lingual. Some find his style absurd: for a while he ended speeches in
Latin calling for a vote on the Lisbon treaty: "Pactio Olisipiensis
censenda est."
Others may dislike him quoting Enoch Powell last year - "we were a
nation once; we are not now."
It is certainly a long way from Cameron's compassionate Conservatism
[What a silly remark! Quite untrue! -cs]
heroes.
It is a measure of UKIP's destructive success that the membership of
the party has failed ever to dislodge the europhile leadership.
xxxxxxxxxxxxx cs
=============================
THE GUARDIAN 28.3.09
Over a million view speech by Tory MEP Daniel Hannan on web
. Julian Glover
There was no link yesterday from the official Conservative party
website to the internet sensation of the week:[actuasly not true! .
Cameron's weekly newsletter on the websiter calls it "Dan Hannan's
brilliant response to Gordon Brown in the European Parliament. It was
so effective" -cs] - a speech by the 37-year-old Tory MEP Daniel
Hannan denouncing Gordon Brown as a "Brezhnev-era apparatchik".
By yesterday the speech - which Brown had to sit through after his
own address to the European parliament - had passed 1.1m views.
[1.167.331 and counting! -cs]
For Hannan, it was a triumph. For David Cameron, a headache - proof
that not all parts of his party have changed.
Opinions vary as to why the speech was a hit. Hannan says it shows
how the internet is changing politics, since it was ignored by the
press and TV.
At just over three minutes it was perfect for the web, and its tone
caught the outrage of the right on both sides of the Atlantic,
convinced that it must stop the big spending Brown-Obama juggernaut.
Hannan's speech was linked to on the US Drudge Report website and he
was quickly interviewed on Fox News.
He has not arrived out of the blue. Elected to the European
parliament a decade ago, he irritated top Tories from the start by
speaking out critically at a joint meeting of MPs and MEPs - "Who is
this Hannan man?" one former cabinet minister asked angrily afterwards.
At Oxford in the early 1990s his fierce anti-Europeanism was
influential. When a bust of Ted Heath was due to be unveiled at the
Oxford Union, Eurosceptics hid it, and Heath was enraged.
"He's a free market nationalist and issue-for-issue agrees more with
Ukip than Conservative policies," says Mark Littlewood, an Oxford
contemporary who, like Hannan, now blogs for the Telegraph. The MEP
was once also a leader writer there.
Hannan is no typical little Englander. Born in Peru, he is multi-
lingual. Some find his style absurd: for a while he ended speeches in
Latin calling for a vote on the Lisbon treaty: "Pactio Olisipiensis
censenda est."
Others may dislike him quoting Enoch Powell last year - "we were a
nation once; we are not now."
It is certainly a long way from Cameron's compassionate Conservatism
[What a silly remark! Quite untrue! -cs]
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