Or, if the number of BIJ1 voters that went to back to the PvdD is any indication, BIJ1 lost their seat because they made an absolute hash of things in the past year or so, and voters just lost confidence due to the various internal conflicts, Sylvana Simons leaving, and so forth.

There’s no real way to tell based on the data that I have available, really, but I do hope they get another shot at it again in the future. Sylvana Simons was a valuable opposition voice, and we were better off with her there.

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#NLpol

Speaking of which; any party which has been reported as cheering when the exit polls showed BIJ1 would disappear from the Dutch parliament, which I've heard about PVV, VVD, and NSC so far, should not be trusted 😒

Also, fuck any claims of any of these right-wing populist assholes being 'socio-economically left-wing’. Even if that were true under some definitions of ‘left-wing’ in the past, it is certainly not true today, under any sort of definition that includes a woman's right to choose, equal rights for all, and so forth 🚮

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#NLpol

Meanwhile, NRC just published an article about Gom van Strien, the PVV senator who was just assigned the role of coalition scout, being involved in fraud and bribery that yielded about two million euro in dividend payments for a company in which Van Strien's wife, friend, and sister were shareholders.

Kind of unsurprising at this point, isn't it? 🙄

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/25/universiteit-deed-aangifte-tegen-pvv-senator-van-strien-vanwege-oplichting-a4182283

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Update: A second article, with more detail. It's not a problem for Geert Wilders, of course.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/26/pvv-senator-van-strien-deed-ook-zaken-met-zichzelf-a4182340

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#NLpol

Linking to various bits of coverage, mostly so I can find it again later, and compare if and how it shifts in the coming months and years.

First, in Dutch, from NRC;

"De NPO heeft Wilders salonfähig gemaakt”

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/24/de-npo-heeft-wilders-salonfahig-gemaakt-a4182155

"Zelfonderzoek en in dialoog gaan met elkaar, dat is nu de opdracht”

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/25/zelfonderzoek-en-in-dialoog-gaan-met-elkaar-dat-is-nu-de-opdracht-a4182222

"De verkiezingswinst van Wilders is een test voor het politieke midden”

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/24/de-verkiezingswinst-van-wilders-is-een-test-voor-de-democratie-a4182230

"De rechtse kiezer, óók die van VVD, switchte op het laatst massaal naar Wilders en bezorgde de PVV de grote winst”

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/25/de-rechtse-kiezer-ook-die-van-vvd-switchte-op-het-laatst-massaal-naar-wilders-en-bezorgde-de-pvv-de-grote-winst-a4182241

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#NLpol

Continued from the previous post;

"Hoe de PVV deze week niet alleen groter, maar ook breder werd”

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/25/hoe-de-pvv-deze-week-niet-alleen-groter-maar-ook-breder-werd-a4182245

"Hoe de VVD de rode loper uitrolde voor Wilders’ enorme winst”

https://stukroodvlees.nl/hoe-de-vvd-de-rode-loper-uitrolde-voor-wilders-enorme-winst/

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It's the usual bullshit. The myth of a political center when it's right-wing views that are mainstream. A call for self-reflection that very weakly hints at equal rights, rule of law, and so forth, but still completely manages to miss the mark when it comes to any sort of actual dealing with white supremacy, racism, and our colonial past.

And somehow we're still surprised that Wilders has broad appeal?!

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#NLpol

Meanwhile, while our local media are hemming and hawing about whether Wilders and the PVV can be classified as 'far right’, foreign media is not having any of the denial.

Some English-language coverage;

"Wilders’ win means giving a medal to the bully”

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/wilders-win-means-giving-a-medal-to-the-bully/

“Wilders’ win: what it means for NL and what happens next”

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/wilders-win-what-it-means-for-nl-and-what-happens-next/

"Far right’s Geert Wilders seals shock win in Dutch election after years on political fringe”

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231125-far-right-s-geert-wilders-seals-shock-win-in-dutch-election-after-years-on-political-fringe

"Geert Wilders vows to become Dutch PM by compromising with other parties”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/25/geert-wilders-vows-to-become-dutch-pm-by-compromising-with-other-parties

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#NLpol

Continued from previous post;

“The Observer view on Geert Wilders’ win: far-right victory is a warning to the rest of Europe”

This is a pretty good read, if you need a summary on the current state of fash trash parties in the Netherlands and throughout Europe.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/26/observer-view-geert-wilders-far-right-victory-warning-to-europe-editorial

"Success of Geert Wilders’ far-right PVV raises fears for Dutch climate policies”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/26/geert-wilders-far-right-pvv-dutch-climate-policy

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#DontPayTheGuardian
#NLpol

Meanwhile, there's news of Blud, Boden & Beyond being under investigation for accepting improperly declared gifts from one of its founders, who also runs the marketing agency that billed his party over €200K for services rendered.

Their accountant refused to sign off on their yearly report over 2021 because of this, and they have already been reprimanded for this by the watchdog that keeps track of the financial reporting submitted by Dutch political parties.

Dude left the party in 2021, and is now thinking about launching a public broadcaster 🙄

Same playbook, over and over 😒

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10532718/ministerie-onderzoekt-donatie-aan-bbb-door-oprichter

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#NLpol

By the way, that PVV senator Wilders selected as the coalition scout, who turned out to be under investigation for fraud? Yeah, he stepped down this morning, before he even got started.

Which of course is all due to the left-wing mainstream media who are trying to bring him down, not because he's an asshole who thought he could enrich himself without consequence.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/pvv-verkenner-van-strien-steps-down-over-fraud-claims/

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231127-dutch-govt-talks-in-chaos-as-wilders-appointed-scout-quits

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/27/van-strien-niet-verder-als-verkenner-vanwege-twijfels-over-zijn-integriteit-a4182375

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10532785/pvv-verkenner-van-strien-stapt-alweer-op-integriteit-in-twijfel-getrokken

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/internationaal/10532755/partijen-hopen-op-snelle-opvolging-van-strien-buitenlandse-media-spreken-van-chaos

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#NLpol

Meanwhile, there's a rash of stories about white folks being absolute assholes because they think they can now be openly hateful bigots again, all because Wilders' PVV party got the most votes.

Including this example where locals intimidated staff and temporarily occupied the front desk of the Atlantic Hotel in Kijkduin when they discovered that asylum seekers were being housed there for a short time.

They literally cited the PVV win as the reason for why that should no longer be allowed, and local politicians from various parties, including the VVD and PVV, showed their true colours 😒

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/27/kijkduin-boos-over-komst-asielzoekers-wilders-heeft-toch-niet-voor-niets-gewonnen-a4182420

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#NLpol

Looks like that fucker Plasterk is Wilders' next choice as coalition scout. Wonder if Bergkamp thinks he has 'sufficient distance’ as well, despite basically being a populist pundit these days, with clearly stated opinions about what the next coalition should be 🙄

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/former-labour-minister-is-wilders-new-choice-as-scout/

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10532893/pvv-wil-voormalig-pvda-minister-plasterk-als-nieuwe-verkenner

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/27/geert-wilders-admits-bid-to-form-netherlands-coalition-not-off-to-dream-start

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/27/voor-wilders-had-de-formatie-niet-slechter-kunnen-beginnen-a4182425

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10532999/wilders-had-de-situatie-rond-van-strien-kunnen-en-moeten-voorkomen

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#NLpol

Paraphrasing someone else's post I saw earlier; “Plasterk is as much a socialist as Yesilgöz”.

Plasterk used to be PvdA, Yesilgöz used to be SP. Both have since moved to the right, and are in no way ‘left’ or ‘socialist' any longer, if they ever were to begin with.

Keep that in mind when you read coverage like this, especially where selecting Plasterk is presented as part of Wilders’ ‘more moderate' stance.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/wilders-appoints-former-socialist-minister-as-new-coalition-scout/

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#NLpol

Meanwhile, the fucker who left us with this mess, Mark Rutte, who claimed he would be leaving politics and become a teacher or something, is now conveniently available for the role as the next head of NATO 😒

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231128-rutte-favourite-to-be-next-nato-boss-despite-dutch-vote-shock

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#NLpol

One of the consequences of the whole “the party is the man, and the man is the party” bullshit is that Geert Wilders basically just doesn't have enough of a party to pull from to fill all 37 seats, or at least not without cannibalising the party's presence elsewhere, such as in the Dutch senate, and local and provincial governments.

A lot of his loyalists who would get a seat already have several jobs within the party, and that's just the ones who don't already have a known history of problematic behaviour, such as nazi fanbois.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/27/pvv-speelt-op-safe-met-loyale-leden-a4182480

https://kafka.nl/extreemrechtse-activist-wordt-pvv-senator/

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#NLpol

Couldn't find English-language coverage of this, but apparently the German defence minister, Boris Pistorius, called Wilders a wolf in sheep's clothes, and compared the PVV to the AfD, because of its nationalist nonsense, and pro-Kremlin stance.

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10533514/duitse-minister-geert-wilders-is-wolf-in-schaapskleren

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#NLpol

And speaking of that sort of nonsense, of course the fucker went to Kijkduin to encourage the assholes who intimated staff and occupied the front desk of the Atlantic Hotel, because asylum seekers are being temporarily housed there.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/raised-eyebrows-at-geert-wilders-kijkduin-refugee-visit/

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/30/het-is-hier-geen-politiek-circus-a4182911

See also upthread;

https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/111483625744550003

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#NLpol

At least coalition talks are not going well so far, with even the likes of Omtzigt (NSC) ruling out a coalition unless Wilders ‘clarifies’ the more extreme parts of his manifesto;

https://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/huge-blow-for-wilders-as-major-party-snubs-coalition/

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/omtzigt-puts-policy-before-partnerships-in-coalition-talks/

Yesilgöz seems to be succeeding in her “no coalition but will condone” stance that is opposed by some in her party, so far;

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/has-yesilgoz-convinced-the-vvd-to-back-her-pvv-position/

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/30/de-vvd-top-is-al-dagenlang-aan-het-bellen-met-leden-om-de-onrust-niet-uit-de-hand-te-laten-lopen-a4182830

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10533583/vvd-bijeenkomst-koude-douche-voor-fractie-en-yesilgoz

Blud, Boden & Beyond just 'wants to talk like adults’, in the meantime, just like she didn't when it wasn't convenient for her Big Ag masters;

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/right-wing-coalition-plans-adrift-we-need-to-talk-says-bbb/

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10533489/bbb-ga-praten-met-elkaar-we-zijn-allemaal-volwassen

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#NLpol

As another example of the toxic mess that is the VVD party, the guy who suggested that the only woman in the local Amsterdam section of the party 'make up a MeToo accusation' to discredit a another local politician and then stepped down when this came to light in February, just got promoted again.

The woman is leaving the party, the second person to do so after one of her male colleagues did so this summer.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/30/amsterdams-deelraadslid-mulder-splitst-zich-af-van-vvd-om-partijcultuur-a4182832

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/02/09/kun-jij-geen-metootje-verzinnen-a4156725

Imagine how garbage your local VVD party must be if you lose two of your three seats due to 'party culture’ complaints 😒

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#NLpol

Final tally was confirmed this afternoon;

"The confirmed figures give the PVV 37 seats, followed by the GroenLinks/PvdA alliance on 25, the VVD on 24 and NSC on 20. D66 remains in fifth place with nine seats, failing to take one from SP by just 160 votes.”

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/electoral-council-finalises-vote-d66-has-nine-mps-not-10/

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231201-wilders-vote-win-confirmed-coalition-talks-tricky

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/first-round-of-coalition-talks-will-take-longer-than-planned/

https://www.kiesraad.nl/actueel/nieuws/2023/12/01/kiesraad-stelt-uitslag-tweede-kamerverkiezing-22-november-2023-vast

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#NLpol

Meanwhile, research showed that few muslims actually voted for the PVV, despite what Wilders claimed. Article in Dutch;

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11/29/onder-moslims-is-de-pvv-onverminderd-onpopulair-a4182743

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#NLpol

Huh, today I learned that Wilders spent time as a settler colonist in the occupied territories in the West Bank, which makes total sense in context.

For the Dutch hearies among us, this week’s ‘Haagse Zaken’ podcast episode is a retrospective that dives into this and other details;

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/02/alles-wat-je-moet-weten-om-de-pvv-te-begrijpen-a4183076

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#NLpol

For those of you following along in English, Dutch News has a summary of Geert Wilders, his background and history.

Pretty good even if you're already familiar, like when you're a local, because it sums up everything you may have forgotten about, including Henk and Ingrid, Fitna, and so forth.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/dutch-election-2023-what-you-need-to-know-about-geert-wilders/

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#NLpol

In another example of far-right bigots feeling empowered by Geert Wilders' PVV becoming the biggest party in this year's Dutch national elections, Civitas Christiana is rearing its ugly head again, this time sending a package with a plastic foetus to all members of parliament;

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/mps-condemn-anti-abortion-letter-with-plastic-foetus/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitas_Christiana

Part of TFP;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradition,_Family,_Property

Ultra-conservatives who are basically against anything that isn't cis, het, and white. Pro-blackface, transphobes, homophobes, forced birthers, strong ties to nobility, etc., etc.

Dutch profile by Follow The Money, from 2020;

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/civitas-christiana-terug-naar-middeleeuwen?share=npBg7Vj1YbBQMd38LWBtAFHtWOG9LsrNPKDwIADoWluepCA8t6t0QZqOOBvF

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#NLpol

“New coalition scout Ronald Plasterk has told reporters he now ‘knows enough’ about the position of the four parties which may go on to form a right-wing coalition and will now spend the next few days writing his report.”

Which basically means that Omtzigt has shown no backbone, and will likely compromise, as expected.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/coalition-talks-move-towards-next-stage-plasterk-knows-enough/

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#NLpol

NRC has a nice map showing the votes per individual polling station, which is a nice proxy for how your neighbourhood voted;

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/08/uitslag-op-stembureauniveau-a4183705

There's some really stark differences between neighbourhoods, and, in a town that actually bucked the trend overall and made GroenLinks/PvdA the biggest, with PVV a distant third, there's some areas in which almost one-third went PVV, well above the national average.

At least we know where to paste our ‘FCK PVV' stickers, if we want to go for maximum impact on assholes 😒

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#NLpol

Meanwhile, Lilian Marijnissen, after basically losing every election that took place in the six years since she became the leader of the Socialist Party (SP), is finally taking the hint, and handing over the reigns.

Now let's see if whoever follows in her footsteps is willing to admit that it's time to stop trying to appeal to white folks who want to be racist, bigoted assholes.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/lilian-marijnissen-stands-down-as-sp-leader-after-election-loss/

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10534482/lilian-marijnissen-stapt-op-als-fractievoorzitter-van-sp

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/09/binnen-de-sp-kwam-steeds-meer-druk-op-marijnissen-die-nu-zelf-zegt-dat-er-behoefte-is-aan-een-nieuw-gezicht-a4183805

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Updated with English-language coverage.

#NLpol

Coalition scout report is in, the process now enters into its next phase. Looks like Omtzigt has some backbone after all, though, as he has apparently stipulated that he won't join a coalition with Geert Wilders unless VVD actually takes part, instead of being a 'gedoogpartner’.

And apparently VVD is having doubts, too.

But this is still not an outright ‘no', which what they should have done from the start 😒

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231211-stumbling-blocks-for-wilders-to-form-dutch-govt

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/plasterk-right-wing-quartet-can-and-must-settle-differences/

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10534655/omtzigt-legt-bal-terug-bij-vvd-dankzij-vasthouden-aan-principes

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10534615/principiele-bezwaren-bij-vvd-tegen-samenwerking-met-pvv

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10534565/verkenner-plasterk-adviseert-benoeming-pvv-informateur

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/11/plasterk-pvv-nsc-vvd-en-bbb-gaan-onderhandelen-over-mogelijk-coalitieakkoord-voor-meerderheidscoalitie-a4183926

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#NLpol

New leader for the Socialist Party (SP); Jimmy Dijk. He led this election’s campaign effort for the SP, though, so I suspect it will just be more of the same ‘class struggle for white people’ that has lost them seven elections so far.

Wants to make the SP the biggest party 🤪

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/street-fighter-jimmy-dijk-succeeds-marijnissen-as-sp-leader/

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/13/fel-volks-en-activistisch-nieuwe-sp-leider-jimmy-dijk-mikt-op-de-proteststem-ik-wil-al-die-mensen-terug-a4184197

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#NLpol

Looks like we’re getting more Plasterk for the next phase of coalition talks.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/wilders-nominates-plasterk-to-lead-next-stage-of-coalition-talks/

Some Dutch coverage of the debate about the report for the first phase, which was rather unsurprising in that Wilders is still an arse, with his Plasterk Pals happily backing him.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/13/wilders-biedt-nergens-excuses-voor-aan-wil-wel-premier-voor-alle-nederlanders-worden-a4184156

Yesilgöz is already playing games too, supported by the rest of the Plasterk Pals, fielding a proposal that would put new asylum legislation, already approved by the previous House, on hold at a time when arrival facilities are overflowing again.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/13/rechtse-meerderheid-roert-zich-al-a4184245

It’s populist bullshit 😒

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#NLpol

“Far-right MP Martin Bosma has been elected chairman of the lower house of parliament after a secret vote involving 145 out of 150 MPs.”

"Bosma received 75 votes in the second round of voting, while Tom van der Lee, from the PvdA-GroenLinks alliance, polled 66. Voting was anonymous and in writing.”

It's interesting how Wilders insists the parliamentary chairperson should be from an opposition party until he's no longer an opposition party, isn't it? 🤔

This guy is full-on fash trash who insists that Hitler was a 'socialist’.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/pvv-mp-martin-bosma-is-new-dutch-parliamentary-chairman/

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10535213/bosma-pvv-verkozen-tot-nieuwe-voorzitter-tweede-kamer

https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/vergaderingen-in-hart-van-de-democratie-voortaan-voorgezeten-door-rechtsextremist-die-soms-ook-lollig-kan-zijn

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#NLpol

Some more coverage of Yeşilgöz playing political games with refugees yesterday;

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/right-wing-majority-asserts-its-authority-in-dutch-parliament/

She's basically contradicting her own government's policy, in which she is still the minister of justice and security.

And some more coalition formation coverage, in Dutch;

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/politiek/10534780/plasterk-wordt-informateur-commotie-in-de-kamer-het-is-echt-een-puinhoop

https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/vvd-pvv-bbb-en-nsc-gaan-zich-te-buiten-aan-staatsrechtelijk-vandalisme

Including how Yeşilgöz is basically already acting like there is an ultra-right Wilders-led coalition, with the moving of the Overton window having already started;

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/14/de-pvv-heeft-de-grenzen-van-de-rechtsstaat-al-verlegd-zonder-er-veel-voor-te-hoeven-doen-a4184364

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#NLpol

And if all of this was not enough yet, the most recent I&O poll shows us once again what the tacit approval of Wilders and his programme of hate leads to; he's currently polling at 43 seats, up from the 37 he has now.

https://www.ioresearch.nl/actueel/io-zetelpeiling-groei-pvv-zet-door/

I could swear I can see it in some people's eyes, too. Assholes walk taller now 😒

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#NLpol

Kudos to Joop for coining the term ‘Cruella coalition’.

https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/de-cruella-coalitie-pakt-de-macht-en-het-wordt-gruwelijk

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#NLpol

Even eentje in het Nederlands, aangezien het hier om taal gaat;

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/15/een-duivels-taaldilemma-a4184466

Dit slaat de spijker op z'n kop. Wilders wint in een debat omdat hij de aanval niet schuwt, en altijd op de persoon speelt.

De enige manier die werkt is het keihard terug slaan met woorden. Maak ‘m belachelijk, haal alles wat hij zegt onder uit met soundbites of visuals die gedeeld kunnen worden op social media. Maak er genadeloos memes van.

Opmerkingen over de omvang van Timmermans? Trek 'm een zelfgebreide trui aan met 'onderbuik’ er op. Maak er zeven, één voor elke dag van de week, gemaakt door mensen door het hele land.

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#NLpol

Als je dat goed speelt gaat het minstens een week lang over wat Timmermans vandaag aan heeft. De media kunnen interviews doen met de mensen die de truien gebreid hebben, enzovoort.

Oh, en uiteraard van Nederlandse wol. Kriebelig, maar gewoon over het overhemd, dus dat kan ‘ie best wel hebben, 'vroeger droegen ze dat ook’.

Maak er eentje voor Limburg. Eentje voor Maastricht, z'n geboortestad, met het stadswapen er op. Eentje voor Heerlen, etc.

“Heb ze allemaal met kerst gekregen, moet ik ze toch echt minstens één keer dragen, toch?”

Of, zoals Chiwetel Ejiofor zegt in ‘Red Belt’ 👇🏻

Pak Wilders' sterkste wapen af.

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#NLpol

“More than 30% of voters would back the far-right PVV if an election were held now, according to the first opinion poll since the new parliament was sworn in.”

Polling is basically bullshit right now, but it does provide an interesting look into people shedding their inhibitions about voting for Wilders now that the barriers against it have largely been removed.

They basically gain from VVD, NSC, SP, and JA21.

This is why you don't platform fash trash.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/new-poll-puts-geert-wilders-pvv-on-30-as-voters-desert-vvd/

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“The researchers found that the PVV voters rarely mentioned money worries as an issue and housing was only included when linked to immigration, the Volkskrant reported. But migration and refugees were ‘very clearly’ the most common motives, researchers told the paper.”

Meanwhile, research shows the thing we already knew; PVV voters are racist assholes who cast their vote because they finally feel free to be openly hateful of foreigners.

Oh, and 'anti-woke', of course. That's what their strategic vote is about 😒

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/pvv-win-was-down-to-support-for-own-people-first-survey-finds/

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/21/hoe-de-pvv-met-een-eindspurt-de-verkiezingen-won-anti-migratiestem-gaf-de-doorslag-a4185046

https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/kiezersonderzoek-afkeer-van-migranten-belangrijkste-reden-om-op-wilders-te-stemmen

https://stukroodvlees.nl/ook-de-nieuwe-pvv-stemmer-stemde-vooral-tegen-migratie-en-uit-politiek-protest/

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Also, in related unsurprising news;

"The UN special rapporteur on the right to housing has said that the Dutch housing crisis is not caused by immigration, but migrants are among its victims.

Balakrishnan Rajagopal, also associate professor of law and development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has spent two weeks investigating the causes of the crisis and reported initial findings to press in The Hague on Thursday.”

Not that it’ll convince anyone who wants to believe foreigners are to blame, of course.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/un-rapporteur-on-housing-says-crisis-is-not-caused-by-migrants/

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/21/vn-rapporteur-woningnood-komt-door-de-overheid-niet-door-migranten-a4185032

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Meanwhile, Geert “People Cannot Wait!” Wilders is taking a break for the holidays;

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/formation-talks-on-hold-until-january-everyone-needs-a-break/

While being nowhere near forming an actual government, because they're still talking about which parts of the constitution should be considered optional;

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/21/geert-wilders-is-in-coalition-talks-but-far-from-forming-dutch-government

And speaking of taking a break, all three remaining FvD MPs got suspended for a week, which is essentially a slap on the wrist, because they are continuing with business as usual, with business being their grift;

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/12/all-three-fvd-mps-suspended-for-breaking-transparency-rules/

PVV and BBB voted against the suspension, of course.

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It's kind of amazing how the 'duiders’, who are almost all white men, still want to excuse Wilders' newer voters, because theirs was a protest vote or something, even though they overwhelmingly came from the right, and basically only voted something else because Wilders was being locked out.

It also ignores the fact that, if they wanted to vote in protest, voting for a (different) far-right party when we've had right-wing governments for years isn't going to solve the actual problem.

They voted in protest because there was a chance that we might get a left-wing government otherwise. They voted fash trash on purpose.

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