Victor: 'Alexander, you are a good, diligent pupil, but perhaps you are learning too slowly. Look at Hungary. We have it all sewn up ! We really have: the opposition doesn't have a chance. Sure, we have elections, but they're a Potemkin village. Behind the facade, democracy is dead in Hungary. You could say that it was never really alive: Admiral Horthy, the Communists .... Still, we do enough to bamboozle the EU. We're still in: they haven't expelled us. They really do let us have our cake and eat it. (Laughs). 'Cakeism', that is what you call it ? That is truly your original contributiuon to political philosophy, Alexander. But I would give you one piece of sound advice. You are perhaps a bit too slow on the uptake. The explicit use of racism as a political weapon: that is really effective. That really divides people. Channel your inner statesman, Alexander ! You can do it ! I know that the British pride themselves on their long democratic and liberal tradition, and so on, but you have one very big advantage, Alexander. The British people are very docile. They may grumble, but they always give in. Look at queues: the gratuitous infliction of misery on oneself for no good reason. If a people can so ingeniously make itself so unhappy, they have more or less done the job for you. Piece of cake ! as you British like to say.'
Alexander: 'The abolition of democracy and pluralism. That's one area, at least, where we haven't completely messed up.'