Post Tagged with: "Daniel Hannan"

November 16, 2011 07:06

MEP Hannan: European coup de grâce in Greece and Italy

British MEP Hannan says the governments in Greece and Italy have been taken over by “technocrats” committed to the European union and the Euro. The new leaders include a former VP of the European Central bank and a former European commissioner.

October 10, 2011 06:17

British MEP Hannan warns against Obama spending polices

“Stop printing money. Start living within your means.” – “It is calamitous here.” – “The world is going to turn into a very much colder and darker place if the United States and Western Europe are no longer the dominant powers.” Hannan is also the Secretary General of the AECR an alliance of conservative political parties in Europe.

October 6, 2011 08:29

We can learn from Lilliputians – Daniel Hannan

MEP Hannan reminds us that the Lilliputians had a rule that no law should be so long or complicated that a common man can’t understand it. Hannan notes that the European Parliament votes daily on so many complicated bills that no person could possibly be on top of more than two or three of the documents they vote on. “What does it tell you about a political system when it dare not express its purposes. How can it expect loyalty from its citizens when it won’t express itself clearly?”

September 29, 2011 14:11

Teaparty caucus in Europe?

The love of freedom knows no boundaries. They are not all “European style socialists” in Europe.

September 29, 2011 08:36

The EU robs our children – British MEP

And the Debtocrats led by Obama are robbing American children. British MEP Daniel Hannan on the lunacy of borrowing yet more money on the backs of future generations.

September 28, 2011 10:14

Britain to get bill for propping up euro

Financial transactions tax plan for bailing out the Euro. “Where in the EU do most financial transactions take place? The City of London. As with the Common Fisheries Policy, Britain will be disproportionately filling the pot from which others draw.” – Daniel Hannan MEP

September 15, 2011 08:59

British MEP says this is the end

“Its not just the European assumptions that are crumbling its the whole Keyensian edifice on which they rest. All those men who think think of themselves as practical but are in fact slaves to some long defunct economist are now finding that their belief system is in ruins. You cannot spend your way to growth. You cannot increase consumption without producing something at least not in the long term. and you cannot debase a currency without consequences and you cannot keep borrowing forever. And if you try to do those things what happens? You are about to find out.” – Daniel Hannan MEP for southeast England

September 12, 2011 07:34

Half-educated economics graduates are leading us to ruin

You don’t see how governments can borrow their way out of debt? You’re just revealing your ignorance! You’ve had to cut back on your own spending, and you think the public sector ought to do the same? You know nothing about economics! You worry that we’re leaving our children with an unprecedented debt level? Go away and do GCSE history!

August 10, 2011 10:56

Brit warns America against ruin of socialism in new book

European Parliament Member Daniel Hannan warns Americans to veer away from the ruinous path of socialism. John Stossel interviews Hannan on his new book “New Road To Serfdom – A Letter of Warning to America”

July 6, 2011 04:20

British MEP: Climate change bills don’t do anything except raise costs

The less it does the more the greens want it. British MEP Daniel Hannan speaking in Parliament lays out why climate bills are useless and taxpayers should not have to foot the bill.