The Weekly Forum - 23 August

Thierry Baudet visited Budapest again recently, a city which has welcomed him repeatedly over the last year. He was there to discuss the foundation of the new pan-European political party, Europe of Sovereign Nations, which will be based on the newly created group in the European Parliament. He also gave a speech at the offices of our sister party, Mi Hazank (Our Homeland) about his book, the Covid Conspiracy, which was translated into Hungarian last year and which has been a roaring success. Thierry mainly focused on what the Covid crisis tells us about politics – that politicians are in office but not in power and that politics therefore has only limited possibilities for changing things for the better. Instead, meta-political activity – setting up businesses, founding schools and universities, publishing books – is the essential pre-requisite for the re-establishment of our ancient freedoms and values.

Watch Thierry's Budapest speech here

FVD International’s director, John Laughland, was interviewed on the independent French TV station TV Libertés this week, about the race riots which took place recently in Britain. The broadcast and the interview are in French. John emphasised two issues: first, the fact that the initial riots were an understandable expression of anger at the murder of three little girls by the British-born son of immigrants, but that they elicited a brutal reaction from Keir Starmer, a former chief prosecutor who spectacularly failed to ‘read the room’ and whose authority is now severely undermined by his reaction. Young Englishmen have been given long prison sentences for Tweets, while Pakistani gangs roam the country with knives, largely unpoliced. The second is that Bossy Britain is unfortunately very likely to adopt the same authoritarian controls on free speech which we see on the continent, British society being very largely left-wing (especially the middle classes).

Watch the interview with John here

Our recent guest on The Forum, Maike Gosch, has written an update, which we are publishing for the first time in English, on the Compact Magazin affair. The German government tried brutally to close this important alternative news outlet (40,000 copies sold in kiosks every month, millions of viewers on Youtube) by using the law on associations which allows clubs to be closed down. But Compact Magazin is a commercial company and a media company at that. Luckily, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig threw out the government’s emergency measures (scores of policemen turned up at the editor’s house at 6 o’clock in the morning) and the magazine can start operating again, while the government’s substantial case against it will take years to hear. Maike Gosch says that this whole business should give West Germans an unprecedented opportunity to start fighting for their freedoms, as their compatriots in East Germany did thirty years ago.

Read Maike Gosch's article here

We were delighted to have our friend Nicolas Rimoldi as our guest for The Forum this week. Nicolas is the founder and leader of an anti-globalist party in Switzerland and we discussed mainly the new United Nations treaties which are being drawn up, whose goal is to establish what amount to world government.

Watch The Forum & Friends here

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John Laughland,
Director FVD International