I have noted more than once in this space that Hungarian national attitude and culture is one of the wonders of the world (and don’t even get me started on the cuisine). More evidence, summarized in a leader in today’s Daily Telegraph:

“It may surprise electorates in western Europe that Hungarians should riot because their prime minister has confessed lying to them; this, after all, is what we expect of our politicians.
“But it is Ferenc Gyurcsány’s brutal candour that has caused outrage. Rather than trying to defend himself against accusations of dishonesty, as Tony Blair did over his claim that Iraq had WMD, he admitted that the socialist-led ruling coalition had consistently lied about the state of the economy since he became its head in 2004.
“‘You cannot quote any significant government measure we can be proud of,’ he told a closed session of his party in May. The country had been kept afloat by ‘divine providence, the abundance of cash in the world economy and hundreds of tricks.’”

[Derb] I could vote for a guy like that.