Nathan Ngumi: Nat-C fan.

Thank you.

@@DanHannanMEP Hi Dan! what's it like being a lying idiot traitor?

"It is very difficult to make a man understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it". Upton Sinclair

we should leave the un and all international institutions post haste.

Depends which Edmund we're talking about. Edmund Burke, I'm pretty sure, would have disliked referendums. He might very well have taken the view that there had been too much immigration too quickly, but he'd want Parliament to address the problem. But Edmund Blackadder or Edmund from the Narnia stories? Who knows?

@@DanHannanMEP Other Edmunds perhaps had more practical experience of the dangers of mass foreign migration: Edmund the Martyr, Edmund I, Edmund Ironside, etc. What Burke would have made of the idea that the matter should reside exclusively at the discretion of a political order which has - with a resolution that it has shown in no other regard on its listless watch over the last 2 generations - pursued an extremity of policy seeking the revolutionary transformation of the ethnography of its own society, in the face of what it knows is general public disquiet and unease at its actions which it ignores or dismisses with disdain, is a more doubtful proposition Lord Hannan.

Thank you, Andrew.

That is very kind. I'm Scottish on one side and Irish on the other, but I accept the compliment gratefully!

Thank you. I agree!

His arguments and speeches were a big part in advancing the cause of Euroscepticism in the Conservative Party. The 2016 EU referendum and therefore Brexit may well not have happened were it not for him.

@BrianT Quoting Edmund Burke is at odds with the ideals of the Edmund Burke Foundation?

@@zonianfjb His idea of Brexit was diametrically opposed to what most voters wanted

Done absolutely nothing? A really strange comment, but not an uncommon one levelled at people who dare to speak up and apply some principled and historically aware thinking to today's challenges. What exactly do you expect Hanna to "do", in addition to energetically bringing very useful insights and suggestions forward (apart from his Ukraine/Russia views, which I leave aside), as he has been doing for decades?

@@hintersland7262 Thank you. Talking is underrated. It is how we persuade people to change course.

Am aware.

@@DanHannanMEP it’s why you use him. Because you want to conserve absolute nothing. Your god is the GDP and your life is dedicated to free trade.

@@DanHannanMEP So you should be.

@@paulhwbooth That sort of thing continues. There's a number of Tories, Burke admirers, on the Labour benches, sadly.

And what ought to keep Burkeians around the world supporting it.

“Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the Single Market” - Daniel Hannan

Hush up, Nat-C.

@@SkageXL5 are you a 6 year old?

The Anglo-sphere Right needs to understand it got the economics wrong. If the nation state doesn't control international finance capitalism, international finance capitalism will control the nation state.

@@evolassunglasses4673 Why, do you want to "do" things to one and hope I'll agree? Disgusting Nat-C, stay away from kids!

@BrianT You're right. the BNP in 1972 is a much more accurate representation of where this lot are.

What a pathetic socialist chancer

Hi, Afifah.

A good case in point. Britain first tried to make a multi-national state work but, when it became clear that neither side would accept it, it proposed a partition. Had its plan been accepted by the Palestinian leadership at the time, a great deal of pain and loss might have been averted. Even now, a two-state solution is the only viable answer.

I can't think of many libertarian businesses. Almost all businesses would be monopolists if they could get away with it.

@@DanHannanMEP don't they campaign for libertarian policies? Deregulate industry open trade with sweat shops lower taxes smaller government?

“Socialists would be against competition between countries”. Rather depends what you mean by “socialists”. For decades, British socialists were very much protectionists and anti-foreign competition - their whole ethos was the protection of the British working class against anything that had the potential to undermine its power and earning ability. That was a thread all the way from Keir Hardie (a hero of the left) who campaigned against the importation of Polish miners in Scotland over a century ago, all the way through to Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn - both of whom regarded the EU as an anti democratic capitalist club and favoured a closed economy “socialism in one country” approach. And nationalism rarely results in a “free market between nations” - often quite the opposite because nationalism is, by definition, protective of the “nation-state” and therefore tends to the protectionist in economics and trade. You can see that in recent years - Brexit is essentially a nationalist movement and has resulted in eg more restrictions and bureaucracy on trade between the U.K. and its neighbours. Or think of Trump’s approach to NAFTA - America First does not equal “free market between nations”.

@BrianT that's true only the working class are punished by the market, socialism for rich!

Sadly, my mother is no longer alive to ask. But I'm pretty sure not.

@@DanHannanMEP A mere baron, then, your lordship. Sorry.

Daniel Hannon....maybe, but Daniel Hannan, no

Daniel is an intellectual aristocratic in the best sense. Thoughtful speech.