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A few inspirational words to American Conservatives from one of my favorite politicians anywhere - Daniel Hannan

Great as usual.

7 minute Video

Patients in Health Service hospitals are far more likely to go hungry than criminals in jail, scientists warned yesterday. They say frail and elderly patients do not get the help they need with meals, and nobody checks whether they get enough to eat. Despite years of Government promises to tackle poor hospital nutrition, food still arrives cold, and patients often miss out because meal times clash with tests and operations. The Daily Mail has been highlighting the scandal of old people not being fed properly in hospital as part of its Dignity for the Elderly campaign The latest figures show...

Health Care Reform: A study by the British Patients Association tells the true story about socialized medicine in Britain. It's one of willful and woeful neglect of millions, missed diagnoses, and elderly patients left in pain.BD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For FailureWhile reading this disturbing analysis of the pitiful state of medical care in Britain in the Daily Telegraph, the Vincent Price horror classic "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" came to mind. Price portrayed a man who used bizarre methods to dispatch his victims. The abominable British National Health Service, based on this report, is only slightly better. The...

Rationing: In the recesses of the House health care "reform" bill is a provision for end-of-life counseling for seniors. Don't worry, granny, they're from the government and they're here to help.At a town hall meeting at AARP headquarters in Washington, D.C., President Obama was asked by a woman from North Carolina if it was true "that everyone that's Medicare age will be visited and told they have to decide how they wish to die." At first, the president joked that not enough government workers existed to ask the elderly how they wanted to die. The idea, he said, was to...

Late last week, Conservative Member of the European Parliament, Daniel Hannan, appeared on Fox News. His statement that the US should not attempt to create a new health care system, based on the British model of the National Health Service (NHS), ignited a firestorm in England. On Friday morning, the British airwaves and print media, not to mention the blogosphere, went into overdrive with comments which amounted to a national self examination verging on a societal inquisition. Full marks to Steven Glover for his analysis in The Daily Mail. He wrote what most Brits would categorize as “the bleeding obvious.”...

Reform: If the world's most famous physicist, Stephen Hawking, is a shining example of British health care, how is it that others in the U.K. are repeatedly denied critical care and medicine?In commenting on efforts to overhaul American's health care system, we have tried to pull back the curtain and pay attention to those trying to clone the systems of Canada and Britain. But supporters of government-run health care frequently ignore some of the less-pleasant facts. Much has been made of this statement in one of our Aug. 3 editorials: "People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance...

David Cameron was fighting last night to prevent the Tories again being labelled the 'nasty party' after one of his Euro MPs denounced the National Health Service. The Tory leader slapped down Daniel Hannan after he went on U.S. television to brand the NHS a '60-year failure' that he 'wouldn't wish on anybody'. Hannan joined forces with U.S. critics opposed to Barack Obama's healthcare reforms. They have described the British system as evil, Orwellian and a breeding ground for terrorists. Mr Hannan said: 'I find it incredible that a free people living in a country dedicated and founded in the...

So Daniel Hannan attacks socialised medicine on American television, and immediately Dave slaps him down. Is it because of his criticism of the National Health Service, or because of the way he criticised it - that is, with an eloquence and forensic command of detail that makes most members of the shadow cabinet sound like jargon-spouting middle managers? For God’s sake, I don’t even agree with my old friend Dan on the desirability of dismantling the NHS. But the experience of hearing a Tory politician daring to present the third largest employer in the world as an ill-conceived mess was...

Bashing ObamaCare

Very intelligent.

Video of speech

Daniel Hannan Becomes Cult Hero March 27, 2009 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Daniel Hannan, the hero of the moment, the member of the British European parliament who really took it to the prime minister, Gordon Brown. Earlier in the week, we played the sound bites for you. He's been all over American media out there. He's become a cult hero, and a lot of people in this country are asking, "Why don't we have a Republican to stand up and say these kinds of things about Obama?""Why does it take this guy from the UK?" and I'm almost of the...

He talks about his speech last week in which he ripped UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Here is a speech brought to my attention by a Freedom's Lighthouse reader, ukipwebmaster, of a British Member of the European Parliament Nigel Farrage hammering British Prime Minister for his pro-European Union, Socialist policies on March 24, 2009. This speech reportedly preceded by a few minutes the wonderful speech by Daniel Hannan posted here and many other places across the internet. Farrage hammers Brown for his stewardship of the economy and mocks him for his tendency to constantly apologize for Britain on virtually everything, but his unwillingness to apologize for his own blunders. . . . . . (Watch Video...

Here is video of British Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan talking with Sean Hannity recently where he discussed the danger of socialized medicine. He said to Americans, "please do not make the mistake" of nationalized health care. He said it is bad for doctors, bad for patients, and bad for taxpayers. Hannan skyrocketed to fame this past week with a speech at the European Parliament stating conservative principles as he took Prime Minister Gordon Brown to the woodshed. . . . . (Watch Video)

Daniel Hannan's Speech to Parliament and appearance on Hannity last night.

This video has clearly been spreading around the internet like wildfire. This man is brilliant and exactly what American conservatives need So who is it over here that is our Daniel Hannan? And will we let him become a star if he isn't a SOcon first?