Gordon Bajnai, the disgracefully unelected yet reassuringlytemporary Prime Minister of Hungary, has departed on his first foreignstate visit.
His choice of destination comes as little surprise toJobbik, neither should it shock those who heard Shimon Peres’ speech on the 10th May 2007 in which the Israeli President admitted that his country had succeeded in “buying up Hungary.”
Those of a humorous disposition could be forgiven for thinking thatthe currently assigned custodian of Israeli business interests inHungary had been summoned to Head Office to receive his instructions.
But even putting partisan politics aside, given the frequentreporting in Hungary of Mr Peres’ ill-judged remarks, and that thenation is facing the most unprecedented economic crisis in livingmemory, with an entire generation of Hungarian small business ownersand smallholders fearing for their livelihoods and independence likenever before: who could possibly question that Mr Bajnai’s choice ofdestination is anything other than indicative of a scandalous lack ofjudgement on his part?
The Prime Minister’s disregard for his people is furtherdemonstrated by his continued blissful refusal to face the mostpressing concerns of his nation. For as his countrymen are crushedunder the weight of the calamitous economic disaster that he himselfpresides over and that his predecessors orchestrated, Mr Bajnai and hisilk, have judged in their wisdom that it is the struggle against“extremism” that will be their administration’s “first priority;” andnot the spiralling fiscal black-hole of debt into which their ownsignatures have propelled the millions of a once solvent nation, whichused to be the economic envy of Eastern Europe.