I am the European Campaign Director of the UK Independence Party. The long hours are to blame for my lack of posting here. I work closely with Nigel Farage who is enormous fun and a great guy. I would describe Nigel as paleo-libertarian as he admires Ron Paul like many Ukippers. There is a profile of Nigel in the latest GQ, May edition, in which I get a mention. The magazine also named Nigel as Britain's 49th best dressed man.

There is no doubt that David Cameron loathes libertarianism and individualism as he has attacked both in speeches. Dan Hannan was first elected in 1999 and enjoys the protection of incumbancy. He was lucky to get in when Hague was leader. I have heard that Cameron has blocked Dan's attempts to be selected for a safe Westminster seat.

You can follow me on Twitter - http://twitter.com/UKIPCampaigns.

This guy is on Glenn Back again tomorrow. Mark Steyn is on Hannity.

Around about the time Chavez-Obama will be endorsing a global currency. Ugh!

...as probably the first Objectivist British politician!

I wonder how Daniel Hannan got through. He seems to say openly that he is a Libertarian, and Cameron has stated now categorically that he is NOT a supporter of any type of Libertarian thinking.

And initially supported Ron Paul for President - see his interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox. He is signed up to the Freedom Association's Better Off Out (of the EU) campaign. I am the grassroots organiser of TFA and we have launched around ten new branches in the last year. At least five more will be launched this year.

Should I forgive Dan for persuading me to vote for David Cameron in the Conservative leadership election? As a European Parliamentary candidate, I openly admitted to being an Objectivist. I was booted off the Candidates List the week after Cameron was elected leader.

His article is economically illiterate.

That is the stupidest piece I've ever read from a president, until his next one.

What a disaster is Jimmy with rhythm!

It's all blah-blah, except this one sentence...

"We must crack down on offshore tax havens and money laundering."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...

I don't know about the US, but in the UK this rumour of closing down tax-havens has been flying around in the media for a long time.

This is scary shit! Obama and Brown want to kill off the geese that lay the last golden eggs so that they can knaw on their dead carcasses!

I'm aware of that. I read the source description. But from where else would such behavior be inspired?

Please give the Colonies one more gift, Britannia--the gift of public, erudite scorn.

For once, Gordon Brown had to sit and listen

Daniel Hannan is staggered by the huge global reaction to his home truths about the PM

By Daniel Hannan
27 Mar 2009

"...No doubt you can imagine how Mr Brown reacted; you might have watched him do it week after week at Prime Minister's Questions. He chatted ostentatiously to his neighbours; he pretended to doodle; he pulled his face into that grin that makes us think of the cold glint of moonlight on a silver coffin plate. Not for the first time, it struck me that the PM won't listen to criticism. I don't mean that he won't respond to criticism; I mean that he literally won't listen to it.

Afterwards, I posted my speech on my blog, as I often do, and emailed it to a couple of journalists. They, unsurprisingly, ignored it: "Conservative politician attacks Gordon Brown" is hardly front-page stuff. Then I went to dinner with the leader of the Icelandic anti-EU campaign and forgot all about it.

When I got into my office on Wednesday, it was clear that something was up. My phone was clogged with texts, my inbox silted with emails. Overnight, 36,000 people had watched my clip on YouTube. By lunchtime, it was up to 170,000, and the film was the single most watched video online. Then the American bloggers, The Drudge Report foremost among them, picked it up. The clip was played on Rush Limbaugh's radio show, and I was interviewed on Fox News. When I last looked, roughly three quarters of a million people have watched the speech..."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/com...
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Questions for BBC and ITV over Daniel Hannan speech coverage

The BBC and ITV are facing questions over their failure to screen an MEP's blistering public attack on Gordon Brown which has become an internet sensation.

By John Bingham and Anita Singh
27 Mar 2009

Daniel Hannan, the Conservative MEP for South East England, topped international viewing figures on the video sharing website YouTube after he lambasted the Prime Minister as a "devalued" leader who sounded like a "Brezhnev-era apparatchik".

The speech, his official response to Mr Brown's address to the Strasbourg parliament on the financial crisis, was initially ignored in the main British television bulletins in reports about the visit.

But a clip posted on internet was picked up by overseas media, including US networks, and was on course to top one million viewers on YouTube last night.

The speech has since been featured on programmes such as the Daily Politics on BBC Two following its success on the internet.

Both the BBC and ITV News defended the decision not to include the speech in their original coverage of Tuesday's visit saying that they were concentrating on the Governor of the Bank of England's warning about the level of Britain's debt.

But Conservative MPs attacked the decision, describing the YouTube clip by contrast as the "ultimate in public service broadcasting"...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
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EU speech is an internet phenomenon

Thursday, 26 March 2009

"Top bloggers Guido Fawkes and Derek Draper were in the Daily Politics studio to discuss a story the mainstream media ignored."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/pro...

that was in the European Parliament. PMQs don't get that good as far as I've seen.

Jason, Hannan is great again there. No doubt Gordon Brown's Labour is on its way out, we know it and they know it. As is Obama.

I read somewhere that if McCain had been elected, he swore to enact a session similar to the PMQs in Congress. Every American I've ever spoken to about Parliament has emphatically told me they wish our President had to sit for a public grilling as the British PM does. I would certainly tune in each week, and in fact do whenever I catch the PMQs on C-SPAN.

Encore!

Obama's rescue plan is 'road to hell', claims EU president

Czech prime minister Mirek Topolanek adds to transatlantic friction over plan for global economic recovery

Ian Traynor in Strasbourg
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 March 2009

Topolanek's criticism flatly contradicted Brown's comments, delivered in his first speech to the European parliament on Tuesday, in which the prime minister talked of a "new era" of transatlantic cooperation on the financial crisis.

Topolanek, who is a lame duck prime minister after a vote of no confidence in his government in Prague on Tuesday evening, was speaking not as the Czech government chief, but as the chair of last week's EU summit of 27 governments. He warned that the Obama administration's opting for massive stimulus programmes, amounting to almost $1tn, risked destabilising global financial markets.

"The US treasury secretary talks about permanent action and we at our [EU summit] were quite alarmed by that. He talks about an extensive US stimulus campaign. All of these steps are the road to hell."...

[And some good news...]

The power vacuum in Prague strengthens the hand of the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, the most Eurosceptic leader in Europe. He is an ardent opponent of the Lisbon treaty streamlining the way the EU is run and is the continent's leading climate change denier. Both issues, Lisbon and global warming, are at the top of the EU's agenda...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...

Outstanding!

Enjoy it while you have it eh Hilton!.

our pragmatic Mr Turnbull could so eloquently upend our talented Mr Rudd like this!

A Treasury spokesman said: "It would be wrong to read anything into the results of one auction event, which depends on the gilt on offer, demand and market conditions on the day."

Means: "We are fucked but I'm not saying so."

He said King had signed up to the G20's communique earlier this month in which finance ministers and central bankers promised to "take whatever action is necessary until growth is restored".

I await their en masse resignations.

...Gordon Brown's ears.

Unfortunately, smugness is no consolation. Brown is going to drag us all down with him.
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Gordon Brown retreats on spending as market sounds warning

• PM says no plan for more stimulus
• Government bond issue fails

Heather Stewart and Nicholas Watt in New York
The Guardian, Thursday 26 March 2009

Gordon Brown last night backed away from plans for a recession-busting spending spree in next month's budget, after City investors delivered a stern message about the health of the public finances by shunning a sale of government debts for the first time since 2002.

In New York to canvass support for a deal at next week's G20 London summit on a worldwide economic rescue package, the prime minister said he had no plans to add to the £20bn fiscal stimulus announced by Alistair Darling last autumn, saying there were other "effective and quicker ways" of kick-starting demand.

Back in London, investors sent shockwaves through financial markets by shunning a £1.75bn auction of government IOUs - gilts - amid mounting fears about the Treasury's ability to pay for its bank bailouts and fill the hole left by collapsing tax revenues. "This is a bit of a shot across the government's bows," said Jonathan Loynes, of Capital Economics...

The apparent volte face added to the impression that the government's management of the economic crisis is descending into chaos, after Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor, who is overseeing the drastic policy of quantitative easing, raised doubts on Tuesday about whether another fiscal boost could be afforded...

Yesterday's failed auction was of a relatively unusual 40-year gilt, not covered by the Bank of England's quantitative easing buyback, and the government can return to the market with bonds of a different duration. But Wraith said it showed investors were spooked at the scale of funding required. Markets fell in New York after weak demand for a sale of Treasury bonds also raised fears that investors were shying away from US government debt...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/poli...

Invigorating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KASS to the core. Marcus, get him into the House of Commons!