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The author discredits himself by referring to Daniel Hannan as an "ignorant gobshite" on Marx or anything else; Hannan speaks French and Spanish fluently as wel
by wyclif 9y ago
The author discredits himself by referring to Daniel Hannan as an "ignorant gobshite" on Marx or anything else; Hannan speaks French and Spanish fluently as well as English, which, I suspect, is two languages more than the author does. Hannan studied History at...wait for it...Oxford University. So that 'ignorant' line alone made it difficult for me to take this blogger quite seriously (though I upvoted this story as I have no doubt the overall trajectory of Britain's intellectual decline is accurate as otherwise described, all things considered).
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoHannan might not be ignorant but he is definitely a gobshite. Everything I have heard him say comes through the lens of his dislike of the EU, there is little room for fact or even nuance.
- wyclif 9y agoDislike of the EU != "gobshite." Hell, if that were true then half the world might be classified by you as gobshite! Perhaps you'd be better off demonstrating what you find so objectionable about Hannan's view of the EU and which "facts" he's mistaken about (given that he speaks three of its languages fluently) instead of engaging in ad hominems.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoDislike of the EU != "gobshite." I never said that it does.