Screeching Toward the Cliff
Daniel Hannan, Member of the European Parliament, representing South East England for the Conservative Party looks on during a fringe meeting on the second day of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, north-west England on October 6, 2009 (ANDREW YATES / AFP / Getty Images)
Saturday afternoon at CPAC, Daniel Hannan, a member of the European Parliament, noted in his speech how Europe was slouching toward statist overreach and that America was not far behind:
We are screeching toward the cliff, and a couple of us…are trying to jam the brakes on while there’s still time. And we look up into the rear-view mirror, and what do we see? We see you! Trying to overtake us!
As a Euroskeptic Brit, his speech was particularly popular among conservatives gathered at CPAC because it was a confirmation of their own right-wing echo chamber. America really is becoming Europe! Even a European says so!
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