TakingABreak

I am taking a break from writing these articles for a few days, it’s a kind of a blog writers “gone fishing”. Except I can think of nothing I would like to do less. Actually I can. What would be worse is to attend the G20 conference in London next week to listen to the man who was created in a lab when Tony Blair took all the worst aspects of Socialism and conjoined these with the most scabrous parts of Capitalism to create a Frankenstein monster called Gordon Brown.

What did the UK do so wrong to deserve this man?

Brown’s week was enlivened when he delivered his speech to one of the most boring and creepy centers of world government, the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

In response to the Brown presence a British backbench Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England, Daniel Hannan delivered an eviscerating condemnation directly to Brown who can be seen trying to smile his way through the attack. In doing this the young Tory has touched a nerve around the world, with approximately a million hits on You Tube in just a couple of days.

Brown looked on helplessly while gritting his teeth, smiling mirthlessly, he shook his head as the Tory caricatured him as a 'Brezhnev era apparatchik' who is ' pathologically incapable' of accepting any of the responsibility for his role in the financial crisis.

The video of MEP Daniel Hannan delivering this no holds barred but measured verbal assassination of the Prime Minister and his gross mis-handling of the economic crisis instantly flowered into a surprise hit on the Internet.

The 37-year-old MEP, who was the youngest British member elected to the European Parliament in 1999, yesterday received plaudits for his tongue-lashing.

Major Broadcasters - including the BBC – totally and abysmally failed to report Mr Hannan's onslaught despite giving full coverage to Mr Brown's most pro-European speech to date and having been forewarned that Hannan was going to respond.

But the world of the old-fashioned broadcaster having the ultimate control over what we are allowed to see is now gone with the advent of almost universal access to the Internet, twitter and mobile communications.

So the speech by the young Conservative firebrand was quickly posted on You Tube and news outlets from Australia to America seized on his comments.

The clip lingers on Prime Minister Brown looking on with a frozen smile, while Hannan warned how Britain was entering the recession in a 'dilapidated condition' with an 'almost unbelievable' deficit.”

It’s time more responsible people took up this battle and said what needs saying. The Emperor, Gordon Brown, has no clothes, he is being transported around the earth in borrowed transportation, shouting to anyone who will listen, “look at my wonderful clothing!” but he is as naked and feeble as the day he was born and it is our duty to tell him until he is forced to listen.

In the meantime I shall be doing something completely different as the G20 convenes in London to the inevitable riots of protesters finding any excuse to misbehave like anarchists in the name of democracy. Whilst inside the hallowed halls of diplomacy a bunch of small well padded boys and girls pretend to be serious politicians and economists who know the economic answers and do their best to avoid another Great Depression.

Let’s just hope we get lucky because nothing, so far, makes me believe our leaders have a clue what to do.