Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
I know Bulgaria has some bad problems with corruption, but the EU is starting to shine a light on these and force improvements.
Anyone worried about immigration to this country should be applauding the huge changes the EU is driving in the former eastern bloc countries, as improvements there will be a more effective barrier than anything we are likely to do under Brexit (with the possible exception of trashing our own economy).
Not that familiar with Japan, but certainly concerned with Brazil and the Philippines.
The changes in Hungary are particularly worrying though, and no dissenting voices being allowed is never a good situation whatever the leanings of the people in power.

Removing all dissent is one of the first steps in becoming a tyrant, I think we should all be worried about what is happening in Hungary.
If Orban becomes a tyrant then how will that affect you or me? We are leaving the EU and Hungary will be of no more import to us than Belarus, which is run by a “tyrant”. And that “tyrant” - Lukashenko - is having little to no effect on my life as far as I can discern.

I’d be more concerned with the imprisonment without trial of elected Catalan politicians by Spain, but even then I don’t think that it will affect me very much. I did email Theresa May last night (following Peter Hitchens’ tweet) to ask her not to attack any more countries unless they directly threatened or attacked the U.K. Hopefully she will listen to the dissenting voices as our “free” press don’t really seem to challenge our government, ever, when they announce plans to attack a relatively poor and defenceless country.