Hungary pulls the latest brick out of the EU dam

Here is the latest gloss on democracy from the European Union. A national referendum was held yesterday in Hungary on the question of accepting quotas of immigrants imposed by the EU (aka Angela Merkel).

The Hungarian electorate voted 3,253,290 (98.32 per cent) to reject immigrant quotas and 55,598 (1.68 per cent) to accept them. So, we’ll take that as a Yes, then, according to the Brussels apparatchiks. If you find that puzzling, you are outside your frame of reference, as the Marxist dictators who formerly ruled Hungary used to phrase it.

Because the referendum carried a minimum 50 per cent turnout requirement to make it binding and only 42.7 per cent of eligible voters turned out, the plebiscite was invalid, according to the dwindling number of desperate apologists for the EU who are still prepared to advance such arguments in the teeth of democracy. That means the gates of Hungary should be thrown open to every variety of bogus asylum seeker and potential jihadist, on the say-so of 1.68 per cent of the Hungarian electorate.

Does that seem entirely democratic? It did not to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán who has claimed victory (with only 98.32 per cent of the vote, scream pro immigration objectors) in the referendum. By every consideration of equity and natural justice he is right to call upon the Hungarian parliament to ratify the result.

Of course it would have been more satisfactory if this massive majority had been won on a turnout exceeding 50 per cent. But the dogs in the street know the reason for the limited turnout was weeks of opinion polls accurately forecasting a landslide victory for the government, leading lazy and complacent voters to leave it to the family next door to register the national will at the polling station.

The bottom line is: there is nobody, of any persuasion, in Hungary who believes for one moment there is not a massive majority against Angela Merkel’s arrogant quotas. In that universally acknowledged situation, what alternative does the Hungarian government have? Could it reject the clear will of an unprecedented majority of its citizens and, in deference to a trifling 1.68 per cent of the electorate, surrender Hungarian sovereignty over the most basic aspect of nationhood – the country’s fundamental demography – to Brussels, or more accurately Berlin?

The present government in Hungary is rapidly emerging as the saviour of Europe, ably supported by the Polish administration. The new Hungarian constitution is unique in modern Europe: a Burkean conservative reassertion of traditional Christian and pre-Marxist values. In partnership with the other nations of the Visegrád bloc, Hungary is consciously leading a “counter-revolution” against dogmatic liberalism in Europe.

This is the most interesting and significant development since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Cultural Marxism is on the defensive: its paradigm, the European Union, is now facing an existential threat it is increasingly unlikely to survive. Britain, the strongest EU economy after Germany, a nuclear power with a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, has left. It is now clear that even the Single Market cannot be salvaged from Brexit.

Lunatics in Luxembourg are demanding the expulsion of Hungary from the EU for “hostility” to migration. Since when was supine acceptance of a tsunami of immigration, on the whim of the German chancellor, a condition of EU membership? If it now is – good, it will give the EU a shelf life of two years.

There is no longer the slightest prospect of Brussels continuing to enforce its will on EU member states. The Visegrád nations are rejecting every unacceptable restriction and the rest of the continent is stirring. Eurosceptic Norbert Hofer is almost certain to be elected president of Austria next month. Next year could see successes by Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and Marine Le Pen in France.

The narrative of Cultural Marxism is now no more acceptable to the peoples of Europe than political Marxism was 27 years ago. As with the Soviet Union, the jig is up for the EU. Viktor Orbán and his allies will win their European counter-revolution and that liberation will be a moment of enormous spiritual, political and economic liberation for our continent. The pygmy tyrants of cultural Marxism sought to reconfigure Europe’s demography, liberties and political culture. Their day has passed.