Hungarians have had it with those Piresian immigrants. New poll results released by the Tarki polling company and published in the national daily newspaper, Nepszabadsag, yesterday showed that the majority of Hungarians would reject giving asylum to Piresians – despite the fact that the particular ethnic group doesn’t even exist.

However, the Piresians shouldn’t feel too bad compared to Tarki’s June 2006 poll, xenophobia has intensified. Rejection of Arabs has grown to 87 percent from 82, Chinese to 81 percent from 79, Russians to 80 percent from 75 and Romanians to 77 percent from 71.

Commentary: “Piresians” sounds suspiciously like “Parisians” to us. Perhaps just some honest confusion?