Farage will likely be addressing the identical convention at which Orban spoke and on the identical theme of ‘saving the West’.
Former UKIP chief Nigel Farage is because of communicate at a convention of US Conservatives tomorrow, the place pro-Putin Hungarian chief Viktor Orban additionally spoke.
The autocratic Orban has already made headlines for his opening speech, telling the convention that Christian nationalists in Europe and the US needed to “unite our forces”.
Orban was additionally condemned final month after he railed towards Europe changing into a “mixed-race” society, feedback that one among his closest aides in comparison with the Nazis earlier than resigning in protest.
Orban claimed throughout his speech that Western civilisation was beneath siege from progressives and urged a battle again as he railed towards unlawful immigration, same-sex marriage and “leftist media”.
He has beforehand made reference to the ‘nice substitute’ conspiracy concept which claims that there’s a liberal elite plot to switch the white populations of Europe and the US by way of immigration and demographic progress with non-white individuals. Throughout his time as chief of Hungary, Orban has additionally attacked and undermined democratic establishments and attacked the rights of LGBT and minority communities.
Now Farage will likely be addressing the identical convention at which Orban spoke and on the identical theme of ‘saving the West’.
The truth that Farage is a speaker on the occasion is but extra proof of how snug he’s with the corporate of the likes of Orban, in addition to the contempt through which he too holds free, open and democratic societies.
Farage has beforehand celebrated pro-Putin Orban’s election victory. A reminder that the European Fee additionally launched a rule-of-law disciplinary process towards Hungary over the nation’s democratic backsliding.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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