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The 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_B
by adw 17y ago
The 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.