2. hpwatcher said...

And what makes it far worse, is that the attack is applauded.

4. Jimmylad said...

the arrogant b'stard just sits there smirking - HE IS LAUGHING AT US !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I bet he cant believe just how stupid we have been to let him get away with everything

quite why he should find it funny is beyond me - it's like when you tell a school kid off & they just laugh in your face - utter contempt

6. enuii said...

Superb piece of oratory - love the way he stares at Brown.

Also it is wonderful that the bloke can actually say his piece without being shouted down by rabid backbenchers and Brown has to sit and quietly take it.

8. mym said...

Typical UKIP ranter. He has nothing to offer but invective - satisfying for a moment though that may be.

10. enuii said...

Mym; don't care what side of the fence the bloke is on, he made his point and it is valid.

12. Iblewitlasttime said...

He made some points quite well I thought, with conviction.
Is what he said right? Are we the worst prepared? Is it wrong to increase the public sector in a recession? Is it right to bail out the motor industry? Legitimate questions, and Brown laughs.

14. it_is_going_with_a_bang said...

Nice to see someone allowed to say something without the bleating of the house of commons drowning out serious debate.
No matter what party he represents.

16. icarus said...

Not sure how servicing £20k (£20k, not £20k a year) is more than the cost of an education.

18. mym said...

"I take it Gordon Brown doesn't have "form" then !"

Brown's a dangerous man, and an enemy of freedom.

Are you incapable of reading someone saying something about X without assuming they must believe Y? Try being less binary.

20. Ong said...

"Typical UKIP ranter. "

He'a a TORY MEP

22. crunchy said...

Nice one hpwatcher.....I have been waiting for clips like these for a very long time.

Worth the wait. More, more, more.

24. davecrash said...

Really excellent clip.

I just wish they would show stuff like this on the TV.

26. str 2007 said...

Wow

This guy is so much better than Cameron, this is who we need to get Brown out and tell some home truths.

And yes as one poster said, how refreshing to listen to a (justified) attack without a bunch of back benchers interrupting.

Who is he anyway and why haven't we heard of him before.

Excellent Speech.

I'd be proud if he was an HPCer.

28. bystander said...

Interesting that both sky and BBC covered crash's jaunt to Strasbourg, but both failed to mention this speach and chose,instead, to dwell on King's comments regarding government stimulii. Deliberately missed opportunity I guess, shame.

30. Grumpy Middle-aged Git said...

This is a rare treat to see such oratory - shame it was not covered on mainstream news bulletins. It is clearly in the public interest (his points may be party political-nuanced but they are still valid) so why the editorial black-out? Cameron and Osbourne would say much the same thing if they ever got 3'28'' of uninterrupted, undivided attention in the Commons. To continue Hannan's analogy this speech deserves to hole the good ship Gordon below the waterline.

32. night said...

For those who can't hit YouTube....

Daniel Hannan MEP:
The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government!

Prime Minister, I see you’ve already mastered the essential craft of the European politician: namely the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. You’ve spoken here about Free Trade – and amen to that. Who would have guessed, listening to you just now, that you were the author of the phrase ‘British jobs for British workers’ and that you have subsidised, where you have not nationalised outright, swathes of our economy, including the car industry and many of the banks? Perhaps you would have more moral authority in this house if your actions matched your words? Perhaps you would have more legitimacy in the councils of the world if the United Kingdom were not going into this recession in the worst condition of any G20 country?

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around £20,000. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child. Now, once again today you try to spread the blame around; you spoke about an international recession, international crisis. Well, it is true that we are all sailing together into the squalls. But not every vessel in the convoy is in the same dilapidated condition. Other ships used the good years to caulk their hulls and clear their rigging; in other words – to pay off debt. But you used the good years to raise borrowing yet further. As a consequence, under your captaincy, our hull is pressed deep into the water line under the accumulated weight of your debt.

We are now running a deficit that touches 10% of GDP, an almost unbelievable figure. More than Pakistan, more than Hungary; countries where the IMF have already been called in.

Now, it’s not that you’re not apologising; like everyone else I have long accepted that you’re pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things. It’s that you’re carrying on, wilfully worsening our situation, wantonly spending what little we have left. Last year - in the last twelve months – a hundred thousand private sector jobs have been lost and yet you created thirty thousand public sector jobs. Prime Minister, you cannot carry on for ever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. And when you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we’re ‘well-placed to weather the storm’, I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line. You know, and we know, and you know that we know that it’s nonsense! Everyone knows that Britain is worse off than any other country as we go into these hard times. The IMF has said so; the European Commission has said so; the markets have said so – which is why our currency has devalued by thirty percent. And soon the voters too will get their chance to say so. They can see what the markets have already seen: that you are the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government.

34. Enough Already said...

Why wasn't this reported on the BBC? It's about time that the general public saw what people think of Brown - and what Brown is doing to the UK - without having to search youtube or 'specalist' websites for snippets.

36. george monsoon said...

Night..

Thanks for the post, I am one of those unfortunates who cannot view youtube at work, so your transcript was very entertaining.
It is a real shame that this confrontation is not shown on the wider media, for all to see. Does anyone have Jeremy's email?

38. mym said...

Yes, tory not ukip, my mistake - (very) easy mistake to make though. Not even all his fellow tories voted for him when he was expelled from their group in the EP.

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