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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Daniel Hannan Day celebrates his chronicle of Brexit idiocy foretold

Daniel Hannan is inducted into the House of Lords
Dan is living proof that even halfwits and liabilities need not be excluded from the upper chamber. Photograph: House of Commons/PA

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be Dan was very heaven! O wondrous day. One of which dreams are made. Especially if you’ve been taking large quantities of hallucinogenics. The day forever named Daniel Hannan Day. We will never see his like again. With any luck. The Man with a brain the size of a Higgs Boson particle. You know it must be there somewhere but only the Large Hadron Collider can conjure it into existence for a nanosecond.

Yet in that fleeting moment, Dan can achieve great things. Can share the marvels he has seen. For Dan’s unique ability is to be wrong about almost everything, all the time. Failing is his niche talent and his fans applaud his every disaster. Triumph and recognition are his alone. For Dan has long since been rewarded for being the dimmest man alive with a peerage. Living proof that even halfwits and liabilities need not be excluded from the upper chamber. And where Dan leads, Toby Young and others follow.

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