Thursday, Mar 26, 2009
Youtube Hannan speech video blogged here first causes news sensation
Telegraph: For once, Gordon Brown had to sit and listen
Hannan video posted over 2 days ago on this newsblog becomes most watched video on youtube yesterday. In 24 hours, 380,000 people had watched a video before a word appeared on the BBC or in any newspaper. The days when political journalists got to decide what was news are over.
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1. sold 2 rent 1 said...
From the truthseeker:
"Two blistering attacks launched on Gordon Brown in the European Parliament become huge Internet hits. Leaving the mainstream media to either ignore them or take its cue from the Internet’s independent news"
BTW the number of Views: 818,271 (at 21.20 Thursday) has been severely rigged. The number of comments is now (6,230).
The comments counter is rocketing but the views counter is static.
2. bidin'matime said...
Reported / interviewed on C4 news - good to see them taking note, though it's a shame it has to be on the basis that they are reporting an 'internet sensation' and not a sensational speech..
Will it make the Beeb at 10pm - I doubt it somehow...
3. Quietregular said...
YouTube only updates its views counter perhaps every 24 hours - not in real time
4. sold 2 rent 1 said...
Just like Fred the Shred, Gordo is the next patsy in the chain.
This is classic NWO "now you have done your job, you are no longer needed" stuff.
Blair was clearly much higher in the pecking order than Brown, but he too will be shafted by his masters.
5. inflation is eating my savings said...
s2r1, I suspect Brown is likely to be more resilient. If, as you say, his job is to act as an off target for flak, then there have been others in lower positions who have taken much much more- Stephen Byers? Mandy is Mr. there and back again he is so good taking it (no pun). And shafted, if that includes a "job" at Morgans, is not the worst shafting in the world.
6. crunchy said...
3. sold 2 rent 1
If you look at Brown at the end of the utube attack clip it's like he's saying to himself... FU I have done my job I know where this is going and you son are on the outside! That's why he can't really say sorry because he might then have to explain why he and Bush let this chaos rip.
Of course this is just pure fantasy and is highly unlikely! Wondering how long the Dollar has left.
7. Davidsmithseatingmysavings said...
http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/the-magazine/cartoons/12658/blueeyed-sheikhs.thtml
"Icelandic entrepreneurs have expanded into neighbouring countries. In Britain alone they have bought, among other things, Hamleys, Somerfield, Oasis and Karen Millen. Icelanders now enjoy the highest life expectancy in the world. And — here’s the thing — they have achieved all this while remaining outside the EU. In the ten years that I have been travelling to Iceland, I have watched an economic miracle unfold there. "
Hannan is a waste of organic compounds and his speech is as convincing as Hitler's take on the Weimar republic. Empty headed rhetoric for empty headed people seeking simple solutions.
These are dangerous times we live in, when people start listening to the likes of Hannan. Why don't we all become like Iceland then - the man's a fecking genius.
8. flintster1994 said...
Ok.
The guy spoke eloquently and said what every other opposition politician could have said a year or two ago on many occassions.
Why now?
Why does brown get such an easy ride in the commons and the media?
Why is he allowed to say continuously, unchallenged, global, America, sub prime, better placed to weather the storm blah blah blah?
We all know he is talking s*hite but he is still allowed to treat the populous as retards; unchallenged.
And yet it is the conspiraloons that are constantly challenged!
No amount of intellectualism will convince me that the place that we find ourselves now is purely down to incompetence or greed or human nature..........
I feel that I am being played and I can only hope that I am ahead of the game.
Bastar*ds!
9. crunchy said...
I feel a shift in the tide : )
Another little detail Bush vanishes at this point and the great saviour appears from NOWHERE.
Kids Uncle Boo Boo stuff! If it looks like con talks like a con steals like a con and u turns like a con it is a con.
10. Inflation Is Eating My Savings said...
>If it looks like con talks like a con steals like a con and u turns like a con it is a con
Or it is doing its job as a propagandist.
if Brown said, sorry people, everything's awful, best run to the hills or buy gold, then things would be much much worse, unless you own hills or gold.
11. Davidsmithseatingmysavings said...
Hitler was a good orator too.
12. flintster1994 said...
And another thing,
Mr King & the Queen!
This is 200 and F*cking 9!
Monarchy, Royalty what the F*ck?
I can't seem to get my head round it.
We live our normal lives the best we can and yet in this day and age we still have unelected "human gods".
It's a dreadful state of afairs that badly needs to be rectified.
Rant over!
13. inflation is eating my savings said...
"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents ... to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
Perhaps the above posters would prefer the maintenance of the nation state?
The last 100 years have given us the nation state. they have also given us the most barbaric phase of human history. Good if you hold gold, I guess. What would the effect of a single world currency be on the price of gold?
With respect.
14. Sneaker said...
As a teenager, I was a Socialist and hated Thatcherism. It was trendy at the time and I swallowed it whole. But it's a truism that the more Socialism you experience, the more of a Capitalist you become.
Socialism is a wonderful, gorgeous but ultimately utterly naive theory. It runs aground on the rocks of reality, because it looks after society so much that it actually forgets to let the individual have a good time, and its illusions of plenty are grounded somewhere in outer space.
The practical, real world is much grittier than the dreams on which Socialism is built. Socialism would work in Elysium only. The stark truth is that life is tough, resources are not endless and that we need risk, competition and reward as an essential catalyst of progress. It's not the perfect system, but it's the best we've got. Socialism was feted as Capitalism's replacement, but turned out to be even worse. Maybe one day we'll have something better, but until then Capitalism is my thing.
As much as I hated the nasty social policies, in hindsight Thatcher's economics and constitutional position looks better and better with every year that passes. I suppose that actually makes me somewhere between a Gladstonian Old Liberal and a One Nation Tory.
Yet I am what Europhiles would call a Eurosceptic, a term that denigrates the clear majority who are against the EU in its current form, or even anti-EU in totality.
The EU project started out as a means to prevent war. It was never sold to the people as a means to complete political and economic integration. Yes, I'm anti-war (a sworn pacifist, in fact) and we certainly need friendly neighbours with whom we trade, but really what does a Portuguese have in common with a Lithuanian, or a Scot have in common with a Greek? Not a lot, because despite our intertwined history, the Latins, the Slavs and the Nordics are quite different. The difference is what makes Europe great. No need to erect barricades or become protectionist if we recognise this.
So it warms my heart that not only is Hannan making waves at the European Parliament, but so also is Nigel Farage. These people may be a minority in the European Parliament, but they for sure represent the majority view of the countries they come from - perhaps, with the crisis, even Europe as a whole, which illustrates precisely why this voice is needed even if it is unpopular within the walls of Strasbourg, where the political elite tries to impose its own smug delusions on an increasingly resentful populace.
Enjoy....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDwQEEAZhWM
15. sneaker said...
As a teenager, I was a Socialist and hated Thatcherism. It was trendy at the time and I swallowed it whole. But it's a truism that the more Socialism you experience, the more of a Capitalist you become.
Socialism is a wonderful, gorgeous but ultimately utterly naive theory. It runs aground on the rocks of reality, because it looks after society so much that it actually forgets to let the individual have a good time, and its illusions of plenty are grounded somewhere in outer space.
The practical, real world is much grittier than the dreams on which Socialism is built. Socialism would work in Elysium only. The stark truth is that life is tough, resources are not endless and that we need risk, competition and reward as an essential catalyst of progress. It's not the perfect system, but it's the best we've got. Socialism was feted as Capitalism's replacement, but turned out to be even worse. Maybe one day we'll have something better, but until then Capitalism is my thing.
As much as I hated the nasty social policies, in hindsight Thatcher's economics and constitutional position looks better and better with every year that passes. I suppose that actually makes me somewhere between a Gladstonian Old Liberal and a One Nation Tory.
Yet I am what Europhiles would call a Eurosceptic, a term that denigrates the clear majority who are against the EU in its current form, or even anti-EU in totality.
The EU project started out as a means to prevent war. It was never sold to the people as a means to complete political and economic integration. Yes, I'm anti-war (a sworn pacifist, in fact) and we certainly need friendly neighbours with whom we trade, but really what does a Portuguese have in common with a Lithuanian, or a Scot have in common with a Greek? Not a lot, because despite our intertwined history, the Latins, the Slavs and the Nordics are quite different. The difference is what makes Europe great. No need to erect barricades or become protectionist if we recognise this.
So it warms my heart that not only is Hannan making waves at the European Parliament, but so also is Nigel Farage. These people may be a minority in the European Parliament, but they for sure represent the majority view of the countries they come from - perhaps, with the crisis, even Europe as a whole, which illustrates precisely why this voice is needed even if it is unpopular within the walls of Strasbourg, where the political elite tries to impose its own smug delusions on an increasingly resentful populace.
Enjoy....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDwQEEAZhWM
16. Tartaglia said...
Will Brown become a latter day "Rathenau"
17. David said...
Seperated at Birth? The Accidental Angler and Daniel Hannan?
18. Hoddoi said...
Risk, competition and reward with finite resources. That will give an equitable division of resources to those that are deserving? Unlikely. Socialism is essentially a moral standpoint, as is Thatcherism.
19. alan said...
I liked this bit:
"I think it has to do with pent-up frustration. People feel ignored, ripped off, lied to, taken for granted. No one asked them whether they wanted to run up the biggest deficit in the world. No one asked permission before seizing their money in tax and giving it to the banks, only for the banks to lend it back to them at interest. The whole thing was done without so much as consulting Parliament. And there was I thinking that we had come through a civil war in order to establish the principle that only the House of Commons might raise revenue through taxation"
20. bluebeach said...
Hey Flintster.....keep on ranting....it all makes perfect sense to me...yes, we are being played
21. lierbag said...
Sneaker, I think you're conflating ideas of Socialism (which is adaptable and often pragmatic) with repellent hardline Communism. Modern interpretations of Socialism, based on historical experience, allow for the element of individuality and personal atainment in society - but not at the cost of surrendering a nation's common-wealth (i.e. its indigenous resources and critical infrastructures) to the control of non-elected, often foreign, business interests. Private enterprise has no place running society - entrepreneurs belong on the High St, not dipping their fingers into areas such as the healthcare system, or selling our gas and oil off to the highest international bidders, while we institute supply cuts at home - although there's no reason why the best minds operating in business couldn't apply their skills via government departments, given that higher salaries would need to be paid to match what they might otherwise have commanded in the private sector. In short, we need a society where we collectively own and administer our own fundamental resources; where individuals can progress to as high a level as their abilities are able to take them, but with safety nets in place to offer support to those who may fall by the wayside. Of which, thanks to the failure of unfettered Capitalism, there are now going to be many.