Britain's radical right connections to Orban
Note: Page down to just below the blue box asking for donations for the article to begin. This was posted about 6 days before the Hungarian election but I thought I'd post it as it gives good insight into Orban's influence outside of Hungary using Russian money. If this is happening in Great Britain with Russian money, what is happening in the U.S.?
How Orban Built an Ideological Network in the UK
In June 2015, Hungary’s state-backed tech festival, Brain Bar, had a special guest speaker: British historian Niall Ferguson. But Ferguson wasn’t appearing in person. In a regional first, he beamed in as a hologram at a Budapest arts space.
Ferguson started to speak, but the volume stayed on zero. Worse, the world’s leading conservative historian was three feet tall. The hologram continued inaudibly until a panicked soundman appeared and “rewound” the mini-historian like a Betamax tap
Eventually, Ferguson began his speech. Hungary, he said, might have the answers to the West’s “institutional degeneration.” With a nod to the upcoming Brexit referendum in his native land, Ferguson wondered aloud whether Budapest was “the perfect place to ask the question: What is Europe in the 21st century?”
A decade later, Viktor Orbán has answered that question in ways Ferguson probably didn’t anticipate. Using Hungarian public money – funneled through legally insulated foundations partly funded by Russian oil revenues – Orbán has built a cross-border network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists.
Read More: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
= new reply since forum marked as read
