Daniel Hannan

The Telegraph feature writer, blogger and Euro MP, who is generally speaking on the side of the angels, goes so far over the top on his blog that it has to be challenged. He reports that the estimable Richard North has given up on his campaign for a referendum on the EU Constitution, saying ‘we end on a note of abject failure’.

Daniel recalls previous times when the game seemed to be up, such as 1992 ‘I campaigned frenetically....I remember feeling utterly alone..’

What you should have done, Daniel, is what I and thousands of others did (you were far from alone) and resign from the Conservative Party. I too had hopes of a career in Tory politics but this was a point of principle, too important to be ignored. Not for Daniel, though. Hannan, as we know, became a Conservative Euro MP, accepting a decent salary for ditching everything he purports to believe in, accepting the Conservative line whatever it may be. This is why the cause has failed: the Conservatives don’t need to be eurosceptic when they have soi-disant eurosceptics who are ready to toe the line.

He goes on ‘This blog, for one, plans to stay in business. Now who will stand on either hand and keep the bridge with me?’

You are not keeping the bridge, Daniel. You surrendered long ago. But some of us remain.