Dateline: London, December 6th 2009

At 13:00 GMT in Kentish Town London, at the Gloucester Arms public house, a meeting will be held by the Jobbik Friends of Hungary (UK).

This society, not a branch of the Hungarian political party Jobbik, the Movement for a Better Hungary, is now one of many international associations that sympathise both with the objectives of Jobbik, and the concerted efforts being made in Hungary to oppress supporters of the Radical Nationalist movement.

This oppression now takes the form of show trials and arbitrary arrest for the public utterance of phrases. And is the desperate act of an incumbent MSZP government deeply concerned about being made politically irrelevant by the 2010 General Elections, which are likely to return Jobbik as Hungary’s party of official opposition.

The publicity element of the MSZP’s campaign involves intensive and persistent efforts to slander Jobbik with ridiculous terminology internationally, that bears up to not even the shortest actual scholarly or factual scrutiny.

It is precisely such realities, entirely unreported by the media, that make JFH associations such an important source of information to diaspora Hungarians. Such is the partisan unreliability of political reporting in, or about, Hungary.

The Movement for a Better Hungary is a principled, conservative and radically patriotic Christian party, whose fundamental purpose is the protection of Hungarian values and interests. Yet following a concerted smear effort both by the Nothing British organization and the London Times’ Fiona Hamilton, the location hosting the meeting has received threats to destroy the venue, the number of such calls now near a hundred.

On the first receipt of such threats on Friday afternoon, the Metropolitan Police were immediately informed. This fact, added to the close proximity of Kentish Town Road police station to the Gloucester Arms’ location on 59 Leighton Road (500 metres), leads Jobbik to have every confidence in the Metropolitan Police’s abilities to ensure Jobbik’s total determination to conduct the meeting incident-free, is achieved.

However, the desire by some to prevent this entirely lawful meeting from taking place is clear. Such individuals’ patent intent is to deny immigrants to the UK the ability to exercise their rights under Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights [Article 11: Human Rights Act (1998)]. Hungarians already face such a denial in their homeland.

Furthermore, the reckless and inflammatory behaviour of Nothing British, Fiona Hamilton and others have prompted Jobbik to make a detailed examination of their falsehoods and hypocrisy, contrasted with the verifiable realities of contemporary Hungarian politics. It is coupled with an insistence that the international media finally take seriously its duty to factually report events in Eastern Europe in general, and Hungary in particular.

The article may be read here:

The Western media should take the time to stop and think, before they thoughtlessly go along in assisting the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) in its objective: the use of the international press to undermine the Hungarian democratic process. They should moreover have the self-assuredness to actually use words that have honest validity, not ones that are used solely for their ability to tarnish: and bear no relationship to the facts.