D Hannan MEP: Complete Idiot on Europe, Deregulation, Iceland

Labour List presents Fabian and Next Left blogger Sunder Katwala's debunking of the Tory muppet boy Dan Hannan (above with other would be badger-bating ultra Tories) HERE.

Now, it was obvious to me all along, I sensed it in my waters, that with the only serious Tory economy examples being Bush's Tory USA and Tory-led Iceland, that rabid Dan was holed below the waterline when he used his best student union sophistry to attack any other party or approach to the current unprecedented global banking crisis.

Ken Clarke - dubbed the Shadow Chancellor - by Harriet von Longford at DPMQs - is openly laughing behind the leadership's backs (left). They're trying to pretend that under Tory free market economics we wouldn't be in a far worse state than we find ourselves.

Sunder has gone beyond the lower gut feeling and provided the nitwit Hannan's previous on Iceland and de-regulation.

"Icelanders understand that there is a connection between living in an independent state and living independently from the state. They have no more desire to submit to international than to national regulation. That attitude has made them the happiest, freest and wealthiest people on earth."

There you go. Gordon's mistake was not following the brilliant Tory brilliant Euro-outside Icelandic/Hannan model!

The MSM in the UK have been right to ignore this dribbling fool. It was inevitably Andrew Neil's Daily Politics who first ran some of Dan's drivel. Though Neil did mention that this had been blanked by the media as Hannan is a nonentity and said nothing surprising, for a right-wing, anti-Europe, anti-EPP even, anti-regulation flibbety-gibbet.

Interesting of course that Hannan supported Cameron for the leadership on the grounds that on the QT Cam is and was a fellow traveller. Anti-Europe and anti-regulation. The price extracted was a cosying up with sub-fascist right-wingers in Europe, leaving the EPP. A party that had kicked Hannan himself out for comparing a German colleague to Adolf Hitler and the enablement of Naziism.

Sunder awards Dan with the accolade of "Tory trot". About right. But he may be going a bit far in expecting Luke Akehurst to tolerate any glimmerings of non-Lukeian thought in our party.