POLITICS CAN BE DIFFERENT: YOU MUST BE JOKING!

30 January 2013

The damaging split in the LMP has punctured their much-vaunted image and slogan ‘politics can be different’. In fact the political rupture in the LMP resulting from the incompatibility of the positions of senior party members Schiffer and Jávor simply demonstrates that the LMP leadership was no better and quite evidently worse than the average Hungarian politician.

 

POLITICS CAN BE DIFFERENT

6 April 2011

Perhaps it was not surprising that the LMP found Daniel Cohen-Bendit.  After all, being a party of protest is no fun in a parliament where the recently-elected government has a super-majority and intent on using it.  So what does a liberal-Green party do when it struggles to be heard in the domestic politic arena?  Of course you bring in a foreigner!