Haider No More

[Jimmy Bignutz]

Haider No More

Lose the dot at the end.

[Brandenburger Toro]

Haider No More

Excellent, I've got it now.

Condolences have been extended to "Joerg Haider" on the occasion of his untimely death.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Haider No More

http://tcdphil.com/gallery/albums/Haider/04.jpg

This is the full sized picture.

[loose cannon]

Haider No More

Quick explanation of Haiders popularity - how come we have to wait till he's dead before this kind of information is provided?
(Damn liberal media, hidden agenda etc etc)

http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/

[Alderman Barnes]

Haider No More

It's also turned out that he was four times over the limit, trying to overtake at 85 mph on a B-road, and there are reports that he'd just been to a gay bar.

[loose cannon]

Haider No More

Ha! Damn liberal media didn't report that either!

(hidden agenda etc etc)

[ursus arctos]

Haider No More

The idiot fringe of Atletico Madrid's support is reported to have displayed a "Joerg Haider RIP" banner at the derby this weekend.

Perhaps they appreciated his fashion sense.

The question of just what happens in Austrian politics now is an interesting one. What seems clear to me is that the long-standing "red/black" patronage-based model that has been in operation since the end of the post-war occupation just doesn't work anymore, and that traditional politicians are finding it very difficult to come up with an alternative.

[hissing fauna]

Haider No More

damn liberal media gets its act together

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Haider No More

what is a cosmetics reporter?

Haider was pretty camp back in 2003 I'm surprised that people are pretending to be surprised that he was gay.

[loose cannon]

Haider No More

For the record, I don't believe that his popularity in Austria was attribuatable to his sexual orientation.

[beak]

Haider No More

'Haider is our Lady Di'

So many tasteless punchlines, so little time.

[ursus arctos]

Haider No More

Austria is a seriously f*cked up country.

[Ball Comrade]

Haider No More

Is this 'proporz' thing fairly common in Europe? I've been told to join a party if I want a job with a local council here, as you need someone to fight your corner in the selection process and the parties will always root for one of their own. It's not 'official', though.

[Ball Comrade]

Haider No More

One of Haider's last acts was the establishment of what he called a sonderlager - a special camp for old, sick, and criminal asylum seekers, set on an isolated, 1,200-metre-high alpine pasture. He told his voters he planned to "concentrate" Chechens there, enabling the "final goal" of their extradition to be carried out more smoothly.

Fucking hell

[ursus arctos]

Haider No More

Italy used to be an essentially "proporz" country; the reason why RAI has three channels is because one was given to each of the Christian Democrats, Socialists and Communists, and it isn't unusual to still see three people sitting in government offices where only one is really needed, but the system began to break down after the collapse of the old parties as a result of the corruption scandals in the 90s. Patronage continues to be a dominant force in all aspects of Italian society, however, it just isn't as closely linked to large political parties as it used to be.

The Austrian "system" was always remarkable for the degree to which it influenced purportedly private instutitions. For example, the major banks and insurance companies in Austria used to be clearly identified as being either "Red" (centre left) or "Black" (centre right). Mergers and globalisation have made that significantly less the case in recent times, however.