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A great EU stitch-up that demeans democracy | Daniel Hannan

It's not often that the front pages of the Daily Mail and the Guardian have identical headlines. Still, both newspapers are right: it is a great EU stitch-up, this back-room installation of favoured placemen. Saying so doesn't make you rightwing or ...

From DANIEL HANNAN, Guardian Unlimited,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Daniel Hannan,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  Gordon Brown,  Tony Blair

UK and Ireland have never been closer

One more word before I leave the topic of Ireland’s referendum. A happy consequence of the “No” vote is that the relationship between the UK and its neighbour is warmer than at any time since the foundation of the Irish Free State. Brian Cowen may ...

From DANIEL HANNAN, The Telegraph,  20 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Brian Cowen,  Peter Mandelson,  Nicolas Sarkozy

For any insomniac Eurosceptics...

This post is aimed at the tiny number of people who a) get the BBC news channel; b) have nothing better to do tonight; and c) still haven't had enough of talking about the Irish referendum. At 11.35 tonight, when Question Time finishes on BBC1, you ...

From DANIEL HANNAN, The Telegraph,  19 Jun 2008

Irish Europhiles play the blame game

Ah, so it’s all the fault of the Brits. Irish Europhiles can’t bring themselves to admit that 862,415 of their countrymen might have made up their own minds about the European ConstitutionLisbon Treaty. No one could independently have reached the view ...

From DANIEL HANNAN, The Telegraph,  19 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Nigel Farage,  Avril Doyle (politician),  Jean-Marie Le Pen,  UK Conservative Party,  Brian Cowen

Lisbon Treaty: Eurocrats start to panic

Demonstrating  in Strasbourg with my fellow Tory MEP Roger Helmer “We pro-Europeans have lost our passion,” lamented the Socialist leader, Martin Schulz, in the chamber this morning. “It has all migrated to the other side”. He sounded so forlorn, so ...

From DANIEL HANNAN, The Telegraph,  18 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Roger Helmer,  Martin Schulz,  Brian Cowen

Parliamentary debate is as dead as Dido

Eurosceptic members of the European Parliament The short answer to this is: watch a parliamentary debate. When the House of Commons discussed the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty, it became evident that not a single MP had read it. I don’t blame ...

From DANIEL HANNAN, The Telegraph,  18 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Bill Cash

Please support the democratic Czechs

It’s Munich all over again. The plucky Czechs are on their own, let down by those on whom they had relied — above all, and most painfully, by the British. Since Ireland’s “No”, the other governments have queued up to announce that implementation of the ...

From DANIEL HANNAN, The Telegraph,  18 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Mirek Topolánek (politician),  Mirek Topolánek,  U.S. Democratic Party

Exposed as a football ignoramus

Do you recognise him? Switzerland's Pascal Zuberbuehler Almost at once, I got a jubilant text from Martin Callanan, the gritty and patriotic Tory MEP for the North East. It is worth quoting in full: Ha, finally got u on football, knew it was only a ...

From DANIEL HANNAN, The Telegraph,  17 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Martin Callanan

Why MEPs don't like me

I have become even less popular in Brussels. We were in the middle of voting this afternoon — the one time of day when all MEPs have to be in the chamber, so as to qualify for their allowances — when I felt this frivolous idea welling up inside me. ...

From DANIEL HANNAN, The Telegraph,  17 Jun 2008

Are Rightists nicer than Leftists?

What does giving to charity say about you? Lefties, in my experience, are likelier to excuse cock-ups that were attempted in the right spirit. Children suffering in care because of spending cuts? Unforgiveable! Children suffering because of the ...

From DANIEL HANNAN, The Telegraph,  16 Jun 2008
Related Topics: UK Conservative Party

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