Hungarian Politics

[Tamas]

it will be forbidden to publish polling data, half year from election day.

Wait, what? 

It is not yet in the law, but they are planning it.

[Tamas]

Why are Hungarians so contrarian? All the world is going in the right direction except Hungary.

WE WILL PISS AGAINST THE WIND JUST TO PROVE THAT WE CAN ALRIGHT?!!!!

[Tamas]

Apparently, there are harsh debates between two factions on how the "ancient" Hungarian runes (most of which, IIRC, were created in recent decades based on archeologic finds in Transylvania) should be entered into the Unicode standard.
One faction wants it as "Old Hungarian", but the other argues that this implies it as a dead form of writing, which is not (on that they have a point, this lunatic bastards have town name signs in runes erected at basically every town, including mine. One of my days will be bad enough to hit it with my car). That second faction wants it to be entered as "Rovash" resembling the pronounciation of the Hungarian word for the signs.

Funniest thing for me is that what they do with their "rovash" writing is to replace letters of the latin ABC with these signs. And they consider that ancient.

[Tamas]

Oh no, so basically, most of this stuff is from the 15th-16th century Transylvania, allegedly.

[Tamas]

Next target: the Red Cross 

They shall only be allowed to have an account with the state, not with private banks.

[The Brain]

Crisis brings out the beet in people.

[Tamas]

There are more and more articles about such a rise in emigration that could soon only be compared to the trends a century ago.

Allegedly, according to German statistics, about 120 000 Hungarian citizens settled in Germany (officially) during the last 4 years, around 46 000 just this last year.

And London is already the "5th biggest Hungarian city in the world", meaning of course that there are only 4 Hungarian cities with a bigger Magyar population than London.

[Tamas]

Also there is a new bill, which would basically create a separate "anti-corruption" police under the command of the Prime Minister's office.
They would have the right to get access to the books and contracts of every company who has ever had any contact with the state or state-owned companies (meaning just about every company in the country). They shall, among other things, make mirror copies of servers and data storages of target company.
They would have the right to have any contracts cancelled without giving a reason.

And the criminal cases they launch would be classified as priority ones, which means a lot of special circumstances applying. Like that they don't have to notify the company they launched the proceedings against.

In other words, if this bill passes, the PM will have EACH AND EVERY company and business grabbed by the balls.

[Tamas]

Have any non-Gypsies emigrated yet? Gypsies are all over Stockholm, begging and acting like retards.

barely any gypsies left from here Those are mostly Romanians

[The Brain]

Also there is a new bill, which would basically create a separate "anti-corruption" police under the command of the Prime Minister's office.
They would have the right to get access to the books and contracts of every company who has ever had any contact with the state or state-owned companies (meaning just about every company in the country). They shall, among other things, make mirror copies of servers and data storages of target company.
They would have the right to have any contracts cancelled without giving a reason.

And the criminal cases they launch would be classified as priority ones, which means a lot of special circumstances applying. Like that they don't have to notify the company they launched the proceedings against.

In other words, if this bill passes, the PM will have EACH AND EVERY company and business grabbed by the balls.

Oh my. How the feeble have fallen.

[Martinus]

They would have the right to have any contracts cancelled without giving a reason.

Que? 

I did not find the rest of it too egregious but this is either some oversimplification or a total puzzler. Could you give a bit of a background. 

[The Brain]

They would have the right to have any contracts cancelled without giving a reason.

Que? 

I did not find the rest of it too egregious but this is either some oversimplification or a total puzzler. Could you give a bit of a background. 

Trianon.

[Tamas]

Today the new law regulating elections have been passed, by individual voting (or however else you call it when each MP votes openly by name), on request of the Socialists.

Orban was not present. What a coward.


Also I guess a historic moment in this century: a Jobbik MP asked the government, based on the "current events in Gaza", to provide a list of jews in Parlaiment and in the government.

[Sheilbh]

I was speaking to my Hungarian colleague today.  He bemoaned what was happening to Hungary and mentioned the Jobbik MP who wanted a list of Jews as a sign of how bad things are back home.  Then he started mentioning Ayn Rand and said 'politicians are the worst everywhere'.  I replied that our journalists are at least as bad.

He said he liked British politics.  It was better here.  British politicians weren't anywhere near as bad as they are in Hungary.  His theory as to why this is is that we've got more Jewish politicians

[Martinus]

Well, Disraeli was good.