Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan@respublicae.eu

@JohnGPeet @GeorgeTrefgarne @johnmcternan @greenmiranda @iainmartin1 @johngapper @lionelbarber @FT I would have preferred the Swiss model. But I was boringly consistent throughout.
Part of being in politics is people assuming that you must think something, and then accusing you of wobbling when they learn that you don’t. This was my hierarchy of preferences throughout:
RT @DanielJHannan: My order of preference on Brexit outcomes:…

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I see Boris as a huge electoral asset, and I trust him to fix the Northern Ireland Protocol. But he HAS to change direction on tax-and-spend. It is insane to leave the EU only to become less competitive, more regulated and more highly taxed than the bloc we have just quit.

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RT @DanielJHannan: Never mind creating a skeletal, Randian government. Just going back to the relatively paunchy state of the Gordon Brown years would be a huge improvement on where we are.

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Never mind creating a skeletal, Randian government. Just going back to the relatively paunchy state of the Gordon Brown years would be a huge improvement on where we are.

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Is anyone - anyone at all - prepared to screw the spending taps shut? It’s unpopular in the short term, but inescapable in the long term.

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RT @DanielJHannan: This story shall the good man teach his son.
#Normandy #DDay75

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@iainmartin1 @johngapper @lionelbarber @FT @GeorgeTrefgarne I looked for support for EFTA from Remainers. I did get some from Tory MPs, but almost none from Europhile commentators. I’m afraid it is @lionelbarber who is giving us a masterclass in rewriting history.

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So the question for Conservative MPs is a simple one. Who is likeliest to deliver reductions in spending and taxation? Might Boris change tack? If not, who would do better? Would this putative small-stater be likely to become leader? And, if so, to win a general election? Hmmm.

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I don’t think today’s ballot was triggered by cake allegations. They were (so to speak) baked in, and the investigations were over.
No, the real trigger was the budget statement. After all the promises of using future surpluses for tax cuts, many MPs felt badly let down.

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RT @tomhfh: Strongest card the PM has is there has not yet been an electoral test.

May went after her disastrous European Elections.

Cameron went after losing the referendum.

Major went after losing ‘97.

Thatcher was removed without an electoral test & the party descended into civil war.

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You don't lower the cost of living by raising taxes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogo_Kx1KU_4

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The BBC just described Lady Godiva as "a symbol of social justice". Well, OK. But she might just as accurately be called "a champion of tax cuts".

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@lifesabitch_2 No, Corbyn ended up arguing precisely the opposite from me - that we should stay in the customs union but leave the single market. And there is no "now" about it. Unlike Jezza's, my stance did not shift.

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@simonmedhurst Yes, I'd have a democratic second chamber.

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To be clear, I have no doubt that leaving was the correct decision. It may not have been done precisely as I'd have done it, but it's far better than staying in a fundamentally anti-democratic polity.

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Amazing how quickly anti-Brexit commentators have gone from "You wanted to stay in the single market, Hannan!" to "shamelessly rewriting history!" I was an EFTA man all the way through. I continue to think it would have eased the transition, though that moment has passed.
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A century after independence, the Queen has a higher approval rating in Ireland than any party leader.
RT @AlanEnglish9: Sunday Independent P1
- Exclusive opinion poll. 70% braced for recession. SF up to 35% as FG falls three points to 20%. Queen has higher approval rating than every party leader. 53% say DAA boss should have resigned. Many more questions on the state of the nation
- Lots more

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@GavNewlandsSNP It can sometimes be an idea to read the article before you comment on it, Gavin.

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Final preparations for the street party.

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RT @K_Niemietz: "[B]ack in the first half of 2015, almost no one was talking about leaving the single market.
The long-standing Eurosceptic complaint was that “we voted to join a common market, not a common government”.
Once the campaign got underway, positions hardened"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/04/should-have-stayed-single-market-rejoining-now-would-madness/

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