“A senior Downing Street adviser in the run-up to the election was accused by Labour on Monday night of making ‘despicable’ comments after he said Boris Johnson wanted to forge a ‘special relationship’ with Viktor Orban, Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a highly useful ally and deserves praise from other Western leaders. Of course the complaint about him comes from the Labour party, the leader of which, Jeremy Corbyn, is an antisemite who glorifies jihad terror.
Orban has protected his country from the jihad and the disastrous conditions seen across the EU stemming from vast, unvetted Muslim migration. His government has also poured millions of dollars into helping the forgotten persecuted Christians in the Middle East, particularly in Syria and Iraq. What offends globalists and Islamic supremacists is Orban’s consistent view that “Europe can only be saved if she returns to her Christian identity.” Yet even the Dalai Lama agrees!
“Boris Johnson adviser under fire for praise of Hungary’s Viktor Orban,” by George Parker, Financial Times, January 6, 2020:
A senior Downing Street adviser in the run-up to the election was accused by Labour on Monday night of making “despicable” comments after he said Boris Johnson wanted to forge a “special relationship” with Viktor Orban, Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister.
Tim Montgomerie, Mr Johnson’s social justice adviser until last month’s election, praised Hungary’s “interesting early thinking” on “the limits of liberalism” and suggested the two prime ministers shared a populist agenda.
Mr Orban has been criticised by other EU leaders for undermining his country’s courts and media and for criticising minorities. He has referred to “Muslim invaders”, called migrants “poison” and been accused of anti-Semitism.
But Mr Montgomerie, a former journalist brought into Downing Street in September, suggested Mr Orban was tapping into the same popular mood identified by Mr Johnson, Donald Trump and Brexit party leader Nigel Farage.
BuzzFeed News uncovered the remarks in a video of the event posted by the Danube Institute, the think-tank that hosted the event on December 17.
“Budapest and Hungary have been home, I think, for an awful lot of interesting early thinking on the limits of liberalism,” Mr Montgomerie said at an event in Budapest last month.
“I think it’s still consistent with traditional conservatism, I think we’re still the party that believes in the individual, but it’s a greater idea of individualism.
“It’s an idea of the individual where the individual prospers with good public services, strong family, strong community, a nation that sees them as the priority rather than perhaps an immigrant from abroad.”
Mr Montgomerie said that Mr Orban and his rightwing Fidesz party “have stated that the nation matters and that globalisation is often a threat to that”.
He added: “Why are people voting for Boris and Viktor and Nigel [Farage] and Donald? Those questions aren’t asked enough. And so whatever populism is, it isn’t really about any of the people on the stage, it is about long-term trends in economics and culture that are changing how people align themselves.”….