I was hesitant about posting this since it strays into political territory and I am conscious of the importance of being free of party political allegiance here. However, a video clip of Daniel Hannan, a Member of the European Parliament for South East England, giving a speech at the European Parliament, has been speeding round the internet (especially thanks to Gerald Warner's Telegraph blog "Is it just me?")
The clip in question is an attack on Gordon Brown so I won't embed it but if you want to see it, I will give the link since it is a fine example of modern British political oratory and worthy of consideration for that reason alone.
Browsing YouTube, I found another speech from Daniel Hannan regarding the Lisbon Treaty. Again, I cannot take a position on his political views but I was delighted to hear another speaker alluding to Cato (near the end of this speech.)
"We should have a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty; Pactio Olisipiensis censenda est."
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It makes you wonder why someone can't get to his/her feet in the Commons and make a similar three minute speech. I would say, Fr Tim, that anyone with common sense, of whatever political persuasion would applaud Hannan's speech (and its superb delivery - only a few notes).
Instead of advertising "Pregnancy Advisory Services" on TV as the DoH has recently decided to do, it should be teaching people how to grow their own vegetables.
Hunger, I find, is usualy a good Community Cohesion tool.
I have put in some potatoes, carrots and onions this week to see how they do. My neighbours are trying out some other things. Gordon is sleep-walking us into starvation.
I know this is going off at a seemingly unrelated tangent, but Daniel does hit on it. Parishes need to start thinking about farming their "land" between them and feeding everyone. A few hours hard graft on the veg patch will leave a lot less time for Justice n Peace committees. heh heh.
here is Alisdair MacIntyre in Dublin earlier this month. I can't embed it on our blog (wordpress) and in any case it is deserves a bigger audience than we have!
Thanks for this, Father. Especially for the cautionary way you have linked to political affairs. The last thing anybody wants is for the hermeneutic of continutity (the principle, not the blog) to be considered the property of right-wing Euro-sceptics. Such a label would give those who are bent on rupture a real reason to associate continutity with the political 'right'. A total nonsense, of course, but in the interests of unity, best avoided.
As an American I can only express admiration for Mr. Hannan. I saw him interviewed on Fox News by Glenn Beck. After Beck asked him a question he prefaced the answer with, "A very good question. You'd never get that kind of a question from the BBC."
I only wish we had such a pain speaking politico in out Congress in the United States in either of our political parties.
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