Hannan and Slating Gordo

Daniel Hannan on the reasons for the success of that speech about Gordon Brown:

I think it has to do with pent-up frustration. People feel ignored, ripped off, lied to, taken for granted. No one asked them whether they wanted to run up the biggest deficit in the world. No one asked permission before seizing their money in tax and giving it to the banks, only for the banks to lend it back to them at interest. The whole thing was done without so much as consulting Parliament. And there was I thinking that we had come through a civil war in order to establish the principle that only the House of Commons might raise revenue through taxation

Quite. I don't think I will ever tire - or should ever tire - of reminding the readers of this blog that Gordon Brown was never elected as Prime Minister. No-one outside of his inward looking cadre have ever given their approval to his insane plan of saving this nation by bankrupting it. No-one voted for him; no-one has approved his plans. His ascension to power has all the hallmarks of a third-rate coup.

Hannan's speech epitomises the zeitgeist, and the rage many people feel in this country to our unelected and incompetent Prime Minister. If the success of his speech shows anything, it is that there is a real appetite right now for those who wish to maul the Prime Minister. And the rest of the Tory party could do far worse than heed the lessons of the success of this speech, and start to demolish this excerable excuse of a Prime Minister properly.