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"Mr President, Mr Orbán, not for the first time you sit here as the democratically elected leader of a great nation, and you stand up and make a reasoned argument as to how the Hungarians do things and how there are different cultures within Europe. You are prepared again and again to come back here and to be attacked and abused by non-entities who want Hungary to bow to their will, and not to the will of the Hungarian people or its leader. I am beginning to wonder: at what point, sir, do you – as an intelligent man – stop banging your head up against a wall?
You spoke today and you behaved today as the leader of a nation, but is it not becoming obvious that, as a member of the European Union, you are actually not a nation? Just as we are seeing in France at the moment, with huge interference in the French presidential election, even with the unelected Commission now coming out and backing this godlike creature called Macron. No, you are not the leader of a nation, and these people will go on interfering in the lives of Hungarian people, and you will never be forgiven. You are a sinner in their eyes, not just because you want to close down George Soros’ propaganda machine that masquerades as a university – nothing to do with that. It is because you will not pay the price for Ms Merkel’s supreme folly and sign up to migrant quotas, and they will never, ever forgive you for it.
Surely, since you yourself have said in the past that we need to get rid of a utopia called supranational Europe, it must become clear to you – as it became clear to eurosceptics in the United Kingdom – that this set of organisations, bound by their Treaties, are not open to reform. Institutions like this are led by fanatics. They are turning this into a state, and the nation state cannot coexist alongside.
Now you were bold enough to call a referendum on the migrant quotas, and 88% of those that voted agreed with you. Surely logic says it is time for you to give the Hungarian people a referendum on whether they stay part of the European Union or not. Who knows, you might come and join the Brexit club, and then we could fight for a nation of democratic states working together, trading together and put this nonsense behind us."@en1
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