Far be it for me to speak for Hungary. But there is a central point that even Mr. Kovatch misses in this ‘dialogue’ with UK’s notorious HARDtalk program.
Hungary’s democratically elected government passed an emergency measures bill in the parliament granting Viktor Orban powers of fiat rule to deal with what was sold as an existential threat to us all at the time. All leftist nations are pounding Hungary for that, while they simultaneously set security forces, armed forces and all branches of police and regulatory enforcement against their own citizens for social distancing violations with exactly ZERO law, acts of parliament or constitutional justifications whatsoever.
In Canada, where locals love to attack Orban with no knowledge of him or his policies other than what the NYT makes up about him, is issuing fines around the one THOUSAND dollar mark for being out with your own children and not even near other people. And there was no legislation passed to justify this whatsoever.
So whatever else one may say about Hungary’s response to this, it is far more democratic than that of it’s critics. Is there even any point in talking about the UK? Well before the Wuhan Flu hit, they were sending police to people’s doors for jocular tweets about men who imagine themselves to be women. I would like to see the legal justification for that which wouldn’t be out of a Fabian Society ops manual.
Good point that maybe only Hungary bothered to consult with parliament before taking the action western commies did unilaterally!
The typical BBC Oxbridge know-all gets my goat – if I was Hungarian I think I’d just tell him to stuff it and that the EU ‘leaders’ are a waste of space.
That is exactly what we doing… Telling them where to shove it and how…
On the right wing we are a bit frustrated with the patient voice, when the government officials explain it to the neo-commie bastards, what is the real situation in Hungary. The average people are not that diplomatic. Most right wing people are more harshly express their opinion, both about the left wing henchmen and their banker-mafia owners.
Why don’t the Hungarians slam the door of the European Union? This is a fighting and intelligent people. They don’t need a Moscow02.
One of the key words here: the “feeling” of unelected EU bureaucrats. Yeah, right.