Thread by @hopenothate

Tomorrow, @BorisJohnson will be hosting Hungarian PM Victor Orbán in Downing Street. This week Johnson said, “where we have concerns about human rights we do not shy away from raising them”. Here's just some of Orbán's views he should raise...

Orbán’s illiberal, repressive and authoritarian brand of politics has won himself and his party admiration from across the global radical and far right scene, many of whom laud him as a ‘strong leader’ who understands the threat of ‘Islamisation’
hopenothate.org.uk/2018/01/18/vik…

Orbán has seemed happy to have far right support, writing to a Greek Nazi MEP in 2018, he expressed: ‘gratitude for your support’ and ‘wish you ... much success in your highly responsible duties’
hopenothate.org.uk/2018/10/09/vic…

Orbán’s assault on democracy and the rule of law in Hungary, most recently by passing laws to rule by decree without a time limit, has led many to question whether Hungary still remains a true democracy
hopenothate.org.uk/2020/04/03/eu-…

Orbán has statements about Muslims that are disgustingly hostile and extreme and are indistinguishable from those of ‘counter-jihadists’. He has said: 'I don’t even want to think about the integration of Muslim people in Europe.'

Orbán’s hatred of refugees is visceral. He condoned violence against a guesthouse owner who offered to host refugee children for short vacations saying ‘I cannot find anything wrong in this’ after the owner’s tyres were slashed and death threats were sent.
hopenothate.org.uk/2018/01/18/vik…

Last year, Orbán made a series of provocative broadcasts to the nation, stigmatising the Roma community as violent, worksky and unruly, stoking ethnic tensions having lost a Supreme Court case
hopenothate.org.uk/2020/05/19/orb…

Orbán’s hatred doesn’t stop there. His antisemitic hate campaign against George Soros, including large government propaganda billboards played into clear antisemitic tropes.
hopenothate.org.uk/magazine-3/hnh…

Orbán on Soros: "[He is] not open, but hiding; not straightforward but crafty; not honest but base; not national but international; does not believe in working but speculates with money; does not have its own homeland but feels it owns the whole world.”

Orbán’s hatred of Muslims and refugees, his dismissal of democracy and rule of law and antisemitic hate campaigns should be enough to take up a whole agenda for Boris Johnson to raise tomorrow. Will he?