"The New Road to Serfdom" Daniel Hannan

What?

"A Letter of Warning to America"

What?
More like

"A Letter of Wingeing to America".

I struggled to finish this book.
Tedious, painful, specious, facile, badly argued rot.
For example on pages 131 and 132.

"I can perhaps summarize what's wrong with European gesture politics by adapting a famous observation by P.J.O'Rourke, who wrote that the only political observation he could confidently make was that God was a Republican and Santa Claus a Democrat. By the same token, then I suspect that God is a Euro-skeptic and Santa Claus a Euro-enthusiast."

What?
WHAT?
Anyway, some more God based rubbish follows for a few paragraphs and then this:

"Santa Claus, in short, is preferable to God in every way. Except one. There's no such thing as Santa Claus."

WHAT?
So there is a God?
And, of course, he's a Republican.
My gasts where completely flabbered at this point and I determined not to read one more line of this complete horse-sh*t.

After calming down and picking the book up from the corner of the room where I'd thrown it in disgust, I forced myself to wade through what in all respects seemed to be a mealy mouthed European Parliamentary Members painful prognostications.
I managed to get through the remainder of this complete crap so I could at least write up this review.
Done.