{"id":655,"date":"2018-12-31T22:16:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=655"},"modified":"2018-12-31T22:16:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:16:36","slug":"pannonian-pate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/31\/pannonian-pate\/","title":{"rendered":"Pannonian Pat\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pannonia\u2019s Poster-PM, Viktor Orban, has found <a>yet another scapegoat<\/a> to blame for Hungary\u2019s economic and social problems. <\/p>\n<p>No, it still can\u2019t be the fault of his own inspired policies of appropriating people\u2019s private pensions, imposing a flat income tax on the populace, inflating taxes on foreign companies and banks, dismantling the independence of the banks and the judiciary, punitive press control laws, government-side FUD campaigns against philosophers critical of Mr. O, crony political and commercial appointments, property appropriation, self-enrichment and corruption, self-perpetuating rigging of electoral boundaries, covert and overt support to irredentist and fascistic groups and sentiments and using his unearned but technical super-majority to ram through an undemocratic and self-serving new constitution designed to keep his party, appointees and sentiments in power for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p><img width='250' height='198' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/goose.jpg' alt='' \/>None of these are to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Now that it\u2019s not the Russians with their uniforms who are responsible for Hungary\u2019s malaise, but the Europeans with their suits (joining a long line of prior oppressors \u2014 Turks, Austrians, Reds, Whites, other political parties, foreigners, gypsies, and, of course, the Jews) \u2014 Mr. Orban now ascribes magyar malheurs to Europe\u2019s preoccupation with protecting geese and pigs from maltreatment. The lament will sell well with the ladies who spend their time with geese heads firmly wedged between their thighs, forcing food down their throats till their livers get sufficiently diseased to cater for the French appetite for pat\u00e9 de foie gras. Hungary is one of the last European pat\u00e9 suppliers \u2014 but the supply of putative perpetrators of Pannonia\u2019s problems (always excepting, of course, themselves) is inexhaustible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pannonia\u2019s Poster-PM, Viktor Orban, has found yet another scapegoat to blame for Hungary\u2019s economic and social problems. No, it still can\u2019t be the fault of his own inspired policies of appropriating people\u2019s private pensions, imposing a flat income tax on the populace, inflating taxes on foreign companies and banks, dismantling the independence of the banks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/31\/pannonian-pate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pannonian Pat\u00e9&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}