Sipsey Street Irregulars: Brilliant speech by (now former) MEP Daniel Hannan.

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Brilliant speech by (now former) MEP Daniel Hannan.

This is the exact opposite of the last post.

Two quotes I thought were expressly poignant.

"10 Years ago the EU was taking 55% of British exports. Last year it was taking 45%. Where is it going to be in 2030? Where is that figure going to be in 2050? How low does it have to go before we drop this bizarre idea that we have to merge our political institutions with those of neighboring countries in order to have a minority say in a declining block?"

"Being a nation means that we are not just a random set of individuals born to another random set of individuals. It imposes on us a duty to keep intact the freedoms we were lucky enough to inherit from our parents and pass them on to securely to the next generation."

And one more:
"We are a great country and our song is not yet sung. We still have more to give. Though much is taken. Much abides. And though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: And MPs within the Labour Party are now saying Parliament should disregard the will-of-the-people vote and decide for themselves to remain or leave. Labour has at least one thing in common with Dem/Liberals - they're always for the people. Unless the people have a different set of ideas than them, then the people are just a stupid lot who don't know what's best for them...Just one more reason for us to never, ever disarm...; June 26, 2016 at 9:00 AM
PO'd American said...: The next sentence out of their mouth's will be, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" Marie Therese.; June 26, 2016 at 9:54 AM
Chiu ChunLing said...: The auto-caption couldn't handle "Eurocrats" and turned it into "uric rats".

This was even more hilarious because otherwise the excellent diction resulted in a pretty reliable captioning.

As for the content itself, well reasoned and concisely expressed. A bit overly optimistic, the global economy has structural problems in addition to being under deliberate attack by several powerful factions. But Britain won't be better off going down with the EU.; June 26, 2016 at 5:51 PM
Anonymous said...: Where is our Daniel Hannan?; June 27, 2016 at 5:45 AM
Derald Yancey said...: I'm sure he has benefitted from college debate classes. His manner shows it. I was favorably impressed by this speech because it appears to come from his heart, not from a list of "talking points" such as our politicians so frequently use. He must have learned his speaking skills from the same school Winston Churchill did.; June 27, 2016 at 11:56 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Brilliant speech by (now former) MEP Daniel Hannan.

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