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Before y'all go celebrate the mainstreaming of copyright reform, keep in mind that the white-only British National Party won two seats in the same election (htt
by jacobian 17y ago
Before y'all go celebrate the mainstreaming of copyright reform, keep in mind that the white-only British National Party won two seats in the same election (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8088607.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8088607.stm).
So neo-Nazis are twice as well represented in the European Parliament as copyright reformers.
Sigh.
- adw 17y agoThe Hungarians got three neo-fascists in too (this mob: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_a_Better_Hungary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_a_Better_Hungary, who have some particularly scary ideas about a "Greater Hungary"). Geert Wilders' list in the Netherlands are close to as extreme, and they got 17% of the vote. And we've not even mentioned the Austrians. Oh, the Austrians. Or Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National. Neofascism is Europe's dirty little secret. It's just this is the first time in maybe thirty years it's had significant electoral success in the UK. I would say the Anglosphere, but there's Australia's Pauline Hanson, and apartheid-era South Africa...
- adw 17y agoShouldn't really reply to myself, but: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/08/far-right-european-parliament http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/08/far-right-europe... summarises the situation pretty well.