Eyewitness:
Budapest protests
Friday
22 September 2006
From
Matt, our Hungary correspondent:
"The
whole political situation has been quite fascinating.
I've been down to Parliament the last two nights.
It's an amazing sight to see 10,000 people standing
in the rain refusing to move and singing songs
in unison (badly).
"It's
not my country, I'm not involved and I'm usually
very cynical about 'spontanous' protests - but
still it is a moving experience to be there.
"In
the UK when the prime minister ***** up, everyone
says he should go, and then switches on a TV and
watches a game show. Here they march down to Parliament
en masse and say, "Are you not listening?
We said go! And we will be here every night until
you do!".
"The
biggest difference with protests at home (UK)
and this event is that these people are not crusty
students with anarchy t-shirts who will be merchant
bankers 20 years from now, (the footage CNN keep
showing of burning police cars and stone throwers
involved only 200 people in one street), they
are ordinary people of all ages who aren't gonna
budge."
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