VIDEO: Tory MEP savages Brown

A TORY Euro-MP has become an overnight international hit on the internet after delivering a withering denunciation to Gordon Brown at the European Parliament.

MEP Daniel Hannan rips into the Prime Minister MEP Daniel Hannan rips into the Prime Minister

Daniel Hannan, Conservative MEP for South-East England, bran­ded Mr Brown a “devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government” and a “Brezhnev-era apparatchik” in a scintillating three-minute tirade.

“The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money,” Mr Hannan said.

With a limp smile, Mr Brown fidgeted uncomfortably in his seat through­out the lambasting at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday.

Brown grimaced throughout the speech Brown grimaced throughout the speech

Like most speeches in the EU Parliament the event went virtually unnoticed at the time.

But a clip of the entire address – a bravura display of old-fashioned tub-thumping oratory – has become cult viewing on the internet video site YouTube.

VIDEO: SEE HANNAN LAYING INTO BROWN

It attracted 90,000 viewings within a few hours and rapidly became the talk of US political internet blogs and website.

By yesterday afternoon the video had been viewed about one million times.

Westminster insiders are now tipping the 37-year-old rising Tory star for a glittering political career. And fans were imploring him to “come home and speak for England”.

Mr Hannan’s own website was swamped with favourable comments about the speech last night.

One contributor wrote: “Bravo Mr Hannan.”

Another said: “Thank you Daniel. Exactly what he needed to be told. It’s hard to believe it’s taken someone this long to do it.”

The writer said of Mr Brown: “He has the smirk of the class bully, laughing at the teacher as he is rightfully told off, thinking this whole thing is a joke. The truth is it is he who is the joke.”

Another contributor wrote: “For the first and probably the only time I envy you your position as an MEP. You had a wonderful opportunity and boy did you grab it with both hands.”

VIDEO: SEE HANNAN'S RANT HERE!

The clip even featured on the US television show of Rush Limbaugh, one of America’s leading political pundits. Mr Limbaugh said: “Repub­licans in Washington could take a les­son from the bravery of this man.”

Mr Hannan was surprised that his ambush of the Prime Minister had become an internet phenomenon.

“When I woke up this morning my phone was clogged with texts, my email inbox with messages,” he wrote on his internet blog. He said he was motivated to launch the ­attack because “there were a couple of things I wanted to tell him on behalf of my constituents.”

Mr Hannan’s speech was cheered by Euro-sceptic MEPs in the European Parliament, although pro-Euro­pean Left-wingers listened in polite but frosty silence.

In the most hard-hitting passage of his speech, Mr Hannan told Mr Brown: “You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.  And 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, you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.  You know and we know, and you know that we know that it’s nonsense!”

Mr Hannan also accused the Prime Minister of being “pathologically incap­able of accepting responsibility”.

The onslaught proved an embarrassment for Mr Brown at the start of his week-long international tour to build support for his global economic rescue ideas ahead of next month’s G20 Summit in London.

VIDEO: GORDON BROWN GETS SAVAGED BY HANNAN

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