The Enabling Act enabled him to do as he pleased and to become dictator. The rest, as they say, is history.
For those who had not picked up on this, the LISBON TREATY contains an 'enabling clause'.
Please do NOT think that those of us who attack the EU do so on spurious grounds.
"The president of the European Parliament has acquired the powers to arbitrarily override the limitations upon his power, the authority to crush dissent and silence those who oppose the creation of a totalitarian European empire. And according to Dan Hannan MEP, the stifling of free expression is so outrageous that he was ‘almost tempted to compare it to the Nazi Ermächtigungsgesetz - the Enabling Act of 1933’ which granted Adolf Hitler unlimited power....." [Only 'almost', Dan?]
If the best Labour democrat is Frank Field, then surely Daniel Hannan MEP must be vying with Philip Davies, the Shipley MP, as the best Conservative.