The Bulgarian ambassador Konstantin Dimitrov was interviewed on the Today programme this morning.
I was disappointed that Sarah Montague did not ask him about the self-immolations in Bulgaria.
The situation in that country is so bad and the conditions so intolerable that individuals are choosing to burn themselves alive rather than tolerate what they must presumably regard as a living death.
And yet Sarah Montague and the Today team did not think it a suitable subject to raise with Konstantin Dimitrov.
During the interview Konstantin Dimitrov lectured us that various comments made by Nigel Farage were "unacceptable". I have no time for Nigel Farage, nor Paul Nuttall. But perhaps I can tell Konstantin Dimitrov that self-immolations are also "unacceptable".
Is it not the case Mr Dimitrov that you represent a gangster administration that is looting the national finances of Bulgaria and oppressing anyone who tries to protest against this? Is it not also the case that ordinary life in Bulgaria is so awful that most people would escape if they could? As a European partner in the great European family of nations (sic) do you not owe us an explanation as to why our fellow Europeans are setting fire to themselves?
For some reason the BBC is choosing not to report these self-immolations in the mainstream news reports (unlike the Prague self-immolations they reported in the late 1960s).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s0qmg/live
I was disappointed that Sarah Montague did not ask him about the self-immolations in Bulgaria.
The situation in that country is so bad and the conditions so intolerable that individuals are choosing to burn themselves alive rather than tolerate what they must presumably regard as a living death.
And yet Sarah Montague and the Today team did not think it a suitable subject to raise with Konstantin Dimitrov.
During the interview Konstantin Dimitrov lectured us that various comments made by Nigel Farage were "unacceptable". I have no time for Nigel Farage, nor Paul Nuttall. But perhaps I can tell Konstantin Dimitrov that self-immolations are also "unacceptable".
Is it not the case Mr Dimitrov that you represent a gangster administration that is looting the national finances of Bulgaria and oppressing anyone who tries to protest against this? Is it not also the case that ordinary life in Bulgaria is so awful that most people would escape if they could? As a European partner in the great European family of nations (sic) do you not owe us an explanation as to why our fellow Europeans are setting fire to themselves?
For some reason the BBC is choosing not to report these self-immolations in the mainstream news reports (unlike the Prague self-immolations they reported in the late 1960s).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s0qmg/live
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