Fist of reason goes viral.

Posted by Bill on March 25, 2009, 06:43 PM | #

“When I woke up this morning, my phone was clogged with texts, my email inbox with messages. Overnight, the YouTube clip of my remarks had attracted over 36,000 hits. By today, it was the most watched video in Britain.

How did it happen, in the absence of any media coverage? The answer is that political reporters no longer get to decide what’s news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby”........

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/Daniel_Hannan

Posted by Fred Scrooby on March 25, 2009, 09:47 PM | #

That was so good I watched it twice.  At first I didn’t realize he was addressing Gordon Brown, as I didn’t expect the U.K. Prime Minister to be in the European Parliament chamber.

Brown of course, like Blair before him, is only a toadie of behind-the-scenes string-pullers who tell him what he must do at every turn.  We all have our idea of who those string-pullers are, in the main.  I certainly have mine.

Posted by Tanstaafl on March 25, 2009, 11:37 PM | #

My speech to Gordon Brown goes viral :: Daniel Hannan:

What caught their attention? To be honest, I’m slightly perplexed. I have been making similar speeches every week and posting them on YouTube for the past seven months.

It probably had to do with being linked from the top of Drudge.

Perhaps people felt frustrated about the way Gordon Brown had carried on without once asking for their votes. Perhaps they would have loved to tell him what they thought of him, but lacked the opportunity.

Of course. It’s refreshing to hear these things said, so eloquently, by someone with a modicum of power, in public and on the record.

Dare we hope that this man has or will also speak more directly for the interests of his people, against mass immigration for example, and that he isn’t simply a free marketeer whose concerns are purely economic?

Posted by Bert Rustle on March 26, 2009, 06:36 AM | #

I would hazard a guess that he would have to agree to being bound and gagged if he stood for the Establishment Party. If he was an Independent UK MP, would he receive greater Drive-By Media coverage than he currently achieves as an Independent Euro MEP?

The response of the Blogging Classes brings to mind that a .... candid [politician] should acknowledge that he is not very likely to have arrived at ultimate [pay dirt], but, in view of the incurable tendency to discipleship in human nature,[emphasis added] he will be thought to have done so unless he makes his failure very evident ...

Posted by gorboduc on March 26, 2009, 08:10 AM | #

Soren, Mr Scrooby, this was great. WHAT a clear and incisive speaker.

What a pity the vid. it doesn’t include Brown’s attempt at a response!

The PM seemed, in the 1. sec. shot of him, to be enjoying a little private smirk.

Both Samuel Johnson (passim Boswell’s ‘Life’) and T.L.Peacock (vide his amazing satirical novels) were worried about the traditional desire of so many Scotsmen to get at the UK’s controls.

Spread the word, support this man.

When the anti-banking riots kick off here,  I hope the protesters take in No.10 as well, and I hope they take this hint from the great radical Hilaire Belloc:

      THE REBEL

There is a wall of which the stones
Are lies and bribes and dead men’s bones.
And wrongfully this evil wall
Denies what all men made for all,
And shamelessly this wall surrounds
Our homesteads and our native grounds.

But I will gather and I will ride,
And I will summon a countryside,
And many a man shall hear my halloa
Who never had thought the horn to follow;
And many a man shall ride with me
Who never had thought on earth to see
High Justice in her armoury.

When we find them where they stand,
A mile of men on either hand,
I mean to charge from right away
And force the flanks of their array,
And press them inward from the plains,
And drive them clamouring down the lanes,
And gallop and harry and have them down,
And carry the gates and hold the town.
Then shall I rest me from my ride
With my great anger satisfied.

Only, before I eat and drink,
When I have killed them all, I think
That I will batter their carven names,
And slit the pictures in their frames,
And burn for scent their cedar door,
And melt the gold their women wore,
And hack their horses at the knees,
And hew to death their timber trees,
And plough their gardens deep and through—
And all these things I mean to do
For fear perhaps my little son
Should break his hands, as I have done.

Posted by Bill on March 28, 2009, 04:04 PM | #

America’s Daniel Hannan?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92999

Hat tip.  Lee Barnes 21st. Century British Nationalism.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on March 28, 2009, 04:24 PM | #

When you watch any of Hannan’s brief speeches on YouTube.com there is a whole slew of additional ones ready to click on in the sidebar to the right.  I’ve just watched a dozen or so, all lasting a couple of minutes or so, and every one a miniature gem.  Daniel Hannan and Nigel Farage are GIANTS of integrity over there in that den of iniquity, GIANTS.  Look at this next one I’ve linked just below:  the Germans, it looks like, cut Hannan’s microphone off in mid-sentence right when he’s making the most moving points and the best damned refreshing good sense ever heard in that hall (this pig Pottering does it maybe, but I can’t tell for sure), then when Hannan, realizing he’s had his microphone disconnected, begins to shout out his remaining words in order to be heard, the others actually shout him down, drown him out, and start loudly calling for his exclusion from the chamber!  Can these totalitarian swine be believed??????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceejnrM858k&feature=related

God bless you, Daniel Hannan.  God bless you, Nigel Farage.  You are fighting the people’s oppressors!  You are fighting for the people, two of the scant few who are!  The people thank you!

Posted by Fred Scrooby on March 28, 2009, 04:45 PM | #

The video in the log entry, Daniel Hannon’s speech titled “The Devalued Prime Minister of a Devalued Government,” which was first posted on YouTube either on 2-26 or 2-24 (I can’t tell which from the sidebar), has logged a million-and-a-half visits and generated seven-and-a-half thousand comments.  That’s astounding.  I’d bet it’s close to a YouTube traffic record.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on March 28, 2009, 04:58 PM | #

What’s so great about Daniel Hannan’s speaking?  He’s speaking with sincerity of feeling, true feeling.  It’s that simple.  He’s speaking from the heart.  So we listen with our hearts, and our appreciation goes out to him.  The man’s an orator.  Did Tony Blair, George Bush, Slick, or Gordon Brown ever sound like that?  How could they when not a shred of integrity, honesty, or heart is to be found within a single one of them?

Posted by Mentious on March 28, 2009, 08:00 PM | #

It’s incredible how unaccustomed Americans are to this sort of honest, articulate, and impassioned debate in their own governments. By comparison our politicians are muttering drunks. How refreshing to hear incisive, masculine, sincere, and honest words in politics. The fellow is brilliant. I would love to see an American speaker of that caliber go up against America’s vaunted speaker Obama. Obama would absolutely fall apart.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on March 28, 2009, 10:46 PM | #

(When I said some sort of traffic record, above, I meant of course a traffic record reached in just the two, three, or four days the video has been up.  Obviously all sorts of music videos have millions of hits but a million-and-a-half hits in just 48 hours?  Gotta be a record.)

Posted by Fred Scrooby on March 28, 2009, 11:49 PM | #

In the following video, at the 1:27 mark, Nigel Farage comes out explicitly against open borders, making the first time I’ve seen him do so.  He’s always been excellent; now with this explicit attack on open borders he’s near-perfect.  In the same video’s second half, MEP Daniel Hannan exposes the hypocrisy of MEPs who express sympathy for Tibet’s struggle to survive as a nation while not only doing their best to assure the opposite for the nations of Europe, but denying the populations of the nations targeted a referendum on their dismantling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2_ddK0Kuew&feature=related

Also, don’t miss Vladimir Bukovsky’s video linked below:  as a veteran of the Soviet Union’s Orwellian abuses and Kafkaesque unreality, one who spent twelve years in the gulag including prisons, labor camps, and psychiatric “hospitals,” after he got out of the Soviet Union he took one look at the E.U. and how eerily familiar it all seemed, and said No thanks! — Been there, done that!  Here he explains why the E.U. shows all the signs of shaping up to become another Soviet Union:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM2Ql3wOGcU

Posted by Fred Scrooby on March 29, 2009, 12:01 AM | #

Here, for any not already aware of it, is Paul Belien’s interview with Vladimir Bukovsky in which the former Soviet dissident warns of the danger signs pointing to the E.U.’s impending transformation into another USSR:

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865

Posted by weston on March 29, 2009, 01:55 AM | #

Dare we hope that this man has or will also speak more directly for the interests of his people, against mass immigration for example, and that he isn’t simply a free marketeer whose concerns are purely economic?

  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2008/05/07/stop_banging_on_about_the_bnp 

  Summary: The BNP is left-wing, the left obsesses over the BNP in an attempt to discredit conservatives, Hayek showed that fascism and communism are cousins, blah, blah, etc. 

Stop banging on about the BNP

Here’s your starter for ten: do you know how many Conservatives have just been elected to the London Assembly? How many Lib Dems? Or how many Greens? I’ll bet you know one thing, though: that the BNP won a seat, taking 5.03 per cent of the vote (they needed 5 per cent to get representation).

Why does this titchy party get so much attention? There are around 21,000 council seats in England and Wales. The BNP says that it now holds 103 of them, up ten from last week. Anti-BNP groups give a much lower total. Even if we accept the higher figure, it still represents less than 0.5 per cent of the total. Listen to the way some politicians talk, though, and you’d think Hitler had just been elected. 

Something similar happened in the European Parliament. When a tiny group of boneheads called “Identity, Sovereignty, Tradition” got going, MEPs from all sides demanded that their own rules be disregarded so as to deny the new group recognition. As regular readers of this blog will know, this is not the first time that the European Parliament has behaved arbitrarily but, in the event, MEPs were spared the trouble: the Romanian fascists couldn’t stand the Italian fascists, and the group fell apart. Still, why so much fuss about a bloc that represented less than 3 per cent of the Parliament?

... Two reasons. First, because all politicians like to show what nice people they are by attacking the bogeyman. Never mind that, by doing so, they keep the bogeyman on his feet. As so often, their concern is with how they are coming across, not with the practical consequences of their actions.

But there is something else going on too. You will have noticed that the BNP is almost never mentioned without the soubriquet “far Right”. The BNP doesn’t call itself Right-wing. On the contrary, it favours nationalisation, higher taxes, protectionism and (though it keeps quiet about this) republicanism. It markets itself as “the Labour Party your parents voted for”. Its manifesto calls for “the selective exclusion of foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign imports,” and promises to “restore our economy and land to British ownership” and “to give workers a stake in the success and prosperity of the enterprises whose profits their labour creates by encouraging worker shareholder and co-operative schemes”.

As Hayek wrote in 1944 in his brilliant chapter on “the socialist roots of Nazism”, the dispute between fascists and socialists is a dispute between brothers. Labour and the BNP are, in a sense, competing for the same sort of voter: one who believes in the power of the state. The one kind of voter whom both fascists and socialists regard as beyond persuasion is the small-government liberal.

The real purpose of banging on about the “far-Right BNP” is to damage, by association, the mainstream Right. Critics of the BNP are using the word “Right-wing”, not as a description of the party’s policies, but as a term of abuse, a synonym for “wicked”. Their real target, in other words, is not the BNP, but the Conservative Party. And if hurting the Tories means giving the BNP enough free publicity to keep it alive, it’s a price they seem happy to pay.

  That should settle the question, no?

Posted by weston on March 29, 2009, 02:02 AM | #

He’s a monarchist and a Whig.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on March 29, 2009, 09:15 AM | #

Weston, I haven’t browsed his blog yet but my feeling about what you’ve excerted there is, sort of, “Very well ... but stay tuned” — if anyone has potential to “grow in office” it is he.  He’s got notions in place in his head that ought to make him evolve.  BUT:  even if he doesn’t, do you see this man fighting for insane open borders, backing evil suppression of the nation’s preferences in regard to their own demographic replacement, shipping willy-nilly their industries overseas to the lowest Third-World bidder so Jews and crony capitalists can stuff their pockets and private bank vaults with yet more gold?  No, even if he doesn’t “grow in office” he’s already probably closer to our side than any Tory leader certainly, as is Farage as well.  That said, the BNP (which Farage also noisily claims to abhor, by the way) is for any sane man the only way to go in the voting booth, no question whatsoever.

Posted by Armor on March 29, 2009, 02:55 PM | #

He’s speaking from the heart.  So we listen with our hearts, and our appreciation goes out to him.  The man’s an orator.

His memory must be good, he hardly looks at his notes.

Posted by John on March 29, 2009, 06:55 PM | #

Weston, I haven’t browsed his blog yet but my feeling about what you’ve excerted there is, sort of, “Very well ... but stay tuned” — if anyone has potential to “grow in office” it is he.  He’s got notions in place in his head that ought to make him evolve.  BUT:  even if he doesn’t, do you see this man fighting for insane open borders, backing evil suppression of the nation’s preferences in regard to their own demographic replacement, shipping willy-nilly their industries overseas to the lowest Third-World bidder so Jews and crony capitalists can stuff their pockets and private bank vaults with yet more gold?  No, even if he doesn’t “grow in office” he’s already probably closer to our side than any Tory leader certainly, as is Farage as well.  That said, the BNP (which Farage also noisily claims to abhor, by the way) is for any sane man the only way to go in the voting booth, no question whatsoever.

If I were on the other side, I could not be happier than to have him as a wedge to hack off some of the growing support for the BNP. Steam release valve for both nationalists and those natives who (in varying degrees from indifferent to antipathetic) are unsympathetic to the nationalist cause who are starting to get pinched by the ever tightening economic screws is an extra added bonus. Unless he changes parties, he might turn out to be (unwittingly, I assume, but you never know) the Glen Beck of the English.

Posted by John on March 29, 2009, 07:00 PM | #

Addendum to the above: If he did change parties to the BNP, he’d be either Haidered or Lewinskyed in no time flat.

Posted by the Narrator... on March 30, 2009, 06:03 AM | #

Here is an interview he did with Vox Day in which he states why he dislikes the BNP (other than calling them a left wing movement),

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2009/03/interview-with-daniel-hannan.html

...“there is a line, a very important line in politics, between being anti-immigration and anti-immigrant. And they’ve crossed that line.”
-Daniel Hannan

So much for Daniel Hannan.

...

Posted by weston on March 30, 2009, 12:41 PM | #

Well, good luck getting the negros and the subcons to join your Whig movement.