Tory speech is YouTube sensation

A Tory MEP who verbally attacked Gordon Brown has become an internet celebrity after footage his speech was uploaded to YouTube and watched more than a million times.

Daniel Hannan, Conservative MEP for South East England, said Brown was "pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility" for the financial crisis during a speech in Strasbourg on Tuesday.



Hannan said Brown was a devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government and compared him to a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.

Criticising the PM's oratory skills during his three-and-a-half minute speech Hannan described Brown as wooden.

The video has been watched more than 1,116,258 times on Hannan's YouTube channel and generated more than 7,000 text comments at the time of writing.

Comments range from congratulatory to others which denounce him from scaring investors.

"Pathetic, all he is doing here is worrying investors, and scaring away potential business for Britain. He really hasn't thought this through," wrote one.

Another compared Hanna to Obama: "Wow, you could replace him with Obama and nothing would be different."

In his blog for the Daily Telegraph, Hannan said: "The internet has changed politics, changed it utterly and forever."

However, Hannan wrote that he was surprised by the reaction to this speech oon the web.

"What caught their attention? To be honest, I'm slightly perplexed. I have been making similar speeches every week and posting them on YouTube for the past seven months."

Earlier this year a Brown-bashing web game was launched where competitors were invited to throw wads of cash at the PM.