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You may remember that I thought it was a bad idea to base this campaign on not wanting to be stuck on an island with Boris and Nigel because, as little as I knew about Romanian politicians I still suspected that many of them would have been a much worse company to be stuck with than Nigel.

The city in the centre of that campaign is Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania's largest city, second largest city in Romania and home to Romania's largest university and student community.

Today I was told a little bit about Gheorghe Funar, mayor of Cluj-Napoca 1992 - 2004 and currently the General Secretary of the Greater Romania Party and an MP.

I will not bore you with the details of his ridiculous xenophobic policies as mayor (he also ran a huge Ponzi scheme on the side) and will just share a couple of his latest thoughts, which include "World's Jewish Government wants to move Israel into Romanian borders and is trying to exterminate Romanian people by using food additives" and "There are already more than 2 million Jews in Romania working for its destruction". Apparently he also claims that theory of relativity was developed by the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu and was stolen by Einstein (described by Funar as a "retarded individual").

Yeah...well...about being stuck on an island with Boris and Nigel....I think the Brits are probably fine for now.

Date: 2016-07-22 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sagittariusbun.livejournal.com
WTF? I am Jewish and I hope that Israel stays put. This is most disturbing,

Date: 2016-07-22 11:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
I would not worry about Israel in this case. The guy made it clear to us that the move would only happen once Jews exterminated Romanians with food additives ). I think it is bound to take a while )). He is just a clown.

Date: 2016-07-23 01:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sagittariusbun.livejournal.com
What the hell? Us Jews exterminating Romanians?! Uhh... wtf???? I think that Jews kill by food additives is hilarious! :P

Date: 2016-07-23 08:02 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com
Definitely the scary kind of clown though!

Date: 2016-07-23 08:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
What makes it scary is that people elected and kept re-electing him as mayor for 12 years. Someone told me "Oh it was not because of that but because of his economic policies, he could get stuff for the city" but it did not really work for me. I am still not getting "We voted for Hitler but only because he could get us stuff".

Date: 2016-07-23 08:17 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com
I used to think that Nigel was politically extreme but not ultimately that foul, but I think he has now demonstrated that he really is a racist bastard.

However, I will definitely take our little island where openly being a racist bastard is a severe limitation on electability, over most other places.

Boris is lazy and arrogant and has spent a lot of time as a journalist trolling for reactions. But I don't really mind sharing an island with him. There are worse people around than Boris. There are probably even lots of worse people to be foreign secretary of the UK than Boris, although I'm quite glad the spectre of him as PM has receded.

Date: 2016-07-23 08:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
I only mentioned Boris only because they used him together with Nigel in their "pitch" (and I still dropped him by the end). I actually agree with you on Boris. I also share hair colour with him, ha ha.

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