“Tinpot dictatorship” fumed one of the National Conservatism Conference organizers.
Police in Brussels moved on Tuesday to shut down an ongoing gathering of Europe’s hard-right elite.
The National Conservatism Conference was set to welcome Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán and U.K. politician Nigel Farage over the next two days, but law enforcement arrived two hours into the event at the Claridge venue, near the European Quarter, to inform organizers that the event would be terminated.
“The authorities decided to shut the event due to possibility of public disorder,” a police officer heard by POLITICO told one of the organizers. The shutters had already come down on the venue where Brexit architect Farage was due to give a keynote speech at 11 a.m.
One of the writers is not native English speaker, maybe she chose the word? Here where I live we use the word pejoratively for circlejerk gatherings like this one, maybe it’s also common in other parts of Europe.
It’s pretty effective since it really implies a childness to the whole thing.
That’s a good point, although that’s unfair to scout jamborees. I wasn’t a boy scout, but it’s my understanding that they learn a lot of useful skills at jamborees. I’m guessing no one will learn anything useful at this event unless people walking by learn what assholes these people are.