A gigantic new carpet for a hall in Hungary’s parliament building is being made in Békésszentandrás on Europe’s largest loom by old ladies who will probably not see much of the Ft 47 million (€175,000) it is expected to cost when completed. According to RTL Klub, the 37 meter-long, 300 kilo carpet is a replica of the one currently in the stately Vadászterem (“Hunter’s Hall”), and contains a (probably literally) blinding 100,000 knots per square meter. The hall is used by visiting heads of state and government, and otherwise by lunching parliamentarians.
Work of aged peasants to be trod on by gluttonous politicians
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The women are probably all paid a pittance under the
government’s “work for dole” scheme, at least Ft 20 million has
already disappeared in “consulting fees” to shell companies run by
state/government thieves, and it will be thrown out and burnt in 2
or three years and replaced with an identical carpet costing three
times as much. Next.
Ohhh…an interesting new poster.