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A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

~Daniel Hannan

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You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

~Daniel Hannan

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When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.

~Daniel Hannan

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Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.

~Daniel Hannan

Topics: Ability Chamber Craft Different Different Thing Electorate Essential European Home Mastered Minister Namely One Thing Politician Prime Prime Minister Say See Thing Very You Your I See

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The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.

~Daniel Hannan

Topics: Around Born British Child Cost Country Debt Educating Equity Every Going Interest Minister Money More Negative Now Our Out Owing Pounds Prime Prime Minister Run Than Truth Whole You

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You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

~Daniel Hannan

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Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

~Daniel Hannan

Topics: Bingo Bloggers Briefing Day Days Decide Dictated Dozen Enough Gave Get Headlines Interesting Lobby Longer Minister News Next Now Over Political Reporters Them Themselves Then Thereby Thousand You

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The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

~Daniel Hannan

Topics: Allow Beauty Best Citizens Encourages Fewer Initiatives Laws Lower Lower Taxes Practice Spread States System Taxes Tend Than

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Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence.

~Daniel Hannan

Topics: About Brussels Budget Contributions Debate Deficit Dependent Economy Eu Europe Ground Hard Influence Moves Numbers Our Part Quickly Regulation Rest Sales Shift Start Subjected Surplus Tiny Vast Whenever World

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The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.

~Daniel Hannan

Topics: About Anecdotes Any Book Crack Entertainment Eu Fact Facts Open Page Particular Pursuit Rules System Us Virtually Which You

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: September 1st, 1971

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