Hannan Gets The Boot
It appears that very soon two Conservative MEPs will reside outside the European People’s Party grouping in the European Parliament. The first being Roger Helmer in 2005 while the latest looks set to be Daniel Hannan.
Dan explains his imminent expulsion on his blog on the Telegraph website and how the EPP leadership have not taken kindly to his consistent calls in Parliamentary debates for a referendum to be held on the EU Constitution.
Mr Hannan’s latest remarks in the EU Parliament, in which he compared the voting of increased powers for Parliamentary President Hans Gert-Pöttering to Hitler’s Enabling Act in Germany of 1933, was the final straw for EPP Leader Joseph Daul who had by that point completely lost patience with Daniel’s admirable filibustering and democratic principles in calling for a referendum.
A decision on Mr Hannan’s membership of the EPP is to be made next week, but I think that we all know that somebody somewhere has already made that decision and therefore any public consultation will just be for show. So much for supposedly democratic practice in the European Union.
