Posted on 06/05/2009 1:19:04 PM PDT by BP2
A Dutch MP banned from Britain for his anti-Islamic views has won more than 15 per cent of the vote in Holland's European Parliament elections, exit polls have shown.
Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party are to take four of the 25 Dutch seats in the European assembly as right-wing and fringe parties were set to gain all over Europe.
The results are giving credence to the theory that the economic downturn, cynicism over the union's eastward expansion and worries about relations between Muslims and non-Muslims are fuelling a voter backlash against mainstream politicians.
Wilders was barred from entering Britain by former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in February after it emerged he planned to show a short film he had made linking the Koran to terrorism.
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Wilder's right wing party aren't the only right-wingers who are set to gain all across Europe. Rightwingers will fill more than 4 seats.
Turn out was respectable for a European election -- about 40 percent.
The pendulum back to the Right is swinging hard and fast!
Yes, I believe this is a very good sign. The fog is lifting and Reality is setting in. Obummer quoting the Koran helped folks see clearly, too. As did his blowing off QE2 and Sarkozy. Choose your sides.
take that and stuff it up your arse, you pansy Gordon Brown
Very good news! Thanks for posting.
hopefully the backlash in Europe will be liberty loving and morally based
15% doesn’t seem like much.
They seriously need to do something over there, or they have about 30 years left to exist.
Everyone aware of the youtube “demographic” video showing the Muslim birthrate is 8.1 children per family, as compared to 1.9 down to .8 for the native Europeans?
“15% doesn’t seem like much.”
Maybe not, but the most popular party in Holland (CDA) received 19% of the votes.
Dutch anti-Islamic party makes gains in EU poll
A shell-shocked Brown reshuffled his cabinet and said his party had suffered a “painful defeat” after British voters cast their ballots on Thursday in both EU and local elections.
While he gave no indication of exactly how badly Labour had fared in the European polls, a pre-vote survey predicted the ruling party would finish third or fourth behind the opposition Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and maybe even the fringe anti-EU UK Independence Party.
Reviled and adored alike for his anti-Islamic rhetoric, the 45-year-old firebrand has made deep cracks in a long tradition of Dutch consensus politics, declaring himself on a mission to fight the “Islamisation” of the Netherlands. The Christian Democrats (CDA) of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende lost over four percentage points compared to 2004 to finish with less than 20 percent, according to results released with 99.7 percent of the vote counted.
Over 375 million people are eligible to take part in the elections rolling out across recession-hit Europe. Most of the 27 EU nations will vote Sunday, and the conservatives are expected to return as the largest bloc.
Release of the Dutch results broke European rules banning their publication before polls close across Europe Sunday night. The European Commission sought an explanation and mulled possible action.
Now europe has decided to grow a spine while America votes for a marxist/islamist quisling. Yikes.
Wilders even came first in Rotterdam, whose mayor is a muslim dual Moroccan-Dutch citizen.
Yeah, for the first time in my life I might not mind becoming more like the Europeans.
[I can’t believe I just said that.]
“Wilders was barred from entering Britain by former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in February after it emerged he planned to show a short film he had made linking the Koran to terrorism.”
Geert Wilders, Mike Savage ... who next is banned from Sharia-England? Salman Rushdie?
Not quite.
Europe has gone far further down the slippery slope of Islamic dhimmitude, and the election results are the reaction to that and to the complete and utter failure of the mainstream politicians to acknowledge that.
“Europe” as far as its institutions is still spineless, but at least now they have some Tancredo types in the lege to speak truth to power. But it wont be a majority by a long shot.
True, but the appeasers in Italy, Britain, and now Holland are getting beaten. its a start.
Yup .. pleasing to see Labor Party in UK implode on this as well.
Eurabia Ping
how did the UK elections go?
I think UK elections are today. They have them spread out over 4 days with different countries on different days.
I just saw the local elections map at the Guardian website.... looks like the tories won HUGE. I mean HUGE.
The people that voted for Geert and his party are just regular folks who have gotten Islam stuffed down their throats by the left in the government and they are sick and tired of it. The Dutch know more about Islam than they care to and as a result people have finally figured out what they are dealing with.
Just remember the BNP is left too, except on immigration and Islam
Labour lost control of every single local council
Local election results in full 2009
Full list of all the latest results for the local council elections 2009, updated as results are released.
Published: 3:02AM BST 05 Jun 2009
LATEST LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS:
Warwickshire - Conservatives win from no overall control
Lancashire - Conservatives win from Labour
Derbyshire - Conservatives win from Labour
COUNCIL BY COUNCIL:
Bedford - No overall control (no change)
Bristol - Lib Dem win from no overall control
Buckinghamshire - Conservatives retain overall control
Cambridgeshire - Conservatives win from no overall control
Central Bedfordshire - Conservatives win from no overall control
Cornwall - No overall control gain from Lib Dem
Cumbria - No overall control (no change)
Derbyshire - Conservatives win from Labour
Devon - Conservatives win from Liberal Democrats
Dorset - Conservatives retain overall control
East Sussex - Conservatives retain overall control
Essex - Conservatives retain overall control
Glouestershire - Conservatives retain overall control
Hampshire - Conservatives retain overall control
Hertfordshire - Conservatives retain overall control
Isle of Wight - Conservatives retain overall control
Kent - Conservatives retain overall control
Lancashire - Conservatives win from Labour
Leicestershire - Conservatives retain overall control
Lincolnshire - Conservatives retain overall control
Norfolk - Conservatives retain overall control
North Yorkshire - Conservatives retain overall control
Northamptonshire - Conservatives retain overall control
Nottinghamshire - Labour lose to no overall control
Oxfordshire - Conservatives retain overall control
Shropshire - pending
Somerset - Conservatives win from Lib Dems
Staffordshire - Conservatives win from Labour
Suffolk - Conservatives retain overall control
Surrey - Conservatives retain overall control
Warwickshire - Conservatives win from no overall control
West Sussex - Conservatives retain overall control
Wiltshire - Conservatives retain overall control
Worcestershire - Conservatives retain overall control
For Britain, they seem pretty conservative.
IMMIGRATION - time to say ENOUGH!
On current demographic trends, we, the native British people, will be an ethnic minority in our own country within sixty years.
To ensure that this does not happen, and that the British people retain their homeland and identity, we call for an immediate halt to all further immigration, the immediate deportation of criminal and illegal immigrants, and the introduction of a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin assisted by a generous financial incentives both for individuals and for the countries in question.
We will abolish the ‘positive discrimination’ schemes that have made white Britons second-class citizens. We will also clamp down on the flood of ‘asylum seekers’, all of whom are either bogus or can find refuge much nearer their home countries.
EUROPE - back to British independence!
We are opposed to the Single European Currency, and support the overwhelming majority of the British people in their desire to keep the Pound and our traditional weights and measures. At the same time, we are for the best possible relationship with our European neighbours and believe that the nations of Europe should be free to trade and cooperate whenever it is mutually beneficial, though without being forced into a political and economic straitjacket - political unification. Accordingly, we stand for British withdrawal from the European Union. In place of the EU, we intend to aim towards greater national self-sufficiency, and to work to restore Britain’s family and trading ties with Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and to trade with the rest of the world as it suits us. Following our withdrawal from the EU, the BNP will use the £43 million per day net contribution Britain at present makes to the European Union to fund many far more useful projects at home.
LAW AND ORDER - crack down on crime!
The BNP will crack down on crime and restore public safety and confidence. We will free the police and courts from the politically correct straitjacket that is stopping them from doing their job properly. The liberal fixation with the ‘rights’ of criminals must be replaced by concern for the rights of victims, and the right of innocent people not to become victims. We support the re-introduction of corporal punishment for petty criminals and vandals, and the restoration of capital punishment for paedophiles, terrorists and murderers as an option for judges in cases where their guilt is proven beyond dispute, as by DNA evidence or being caught red-handed.
ECONOMY - British workers first!
Globalisation, with its export of jobs to the Third World, is bringing ruin and unemployment to British industries and the communities that depend on them. Accordingly, the BNP calls for the selective exclusion of foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign imports. We will ensure that our manufactured goods are, wherever possible, produced in British factories, employing British workers. When this is done, unemployment in this country will be brought to an end, and secure, well-paid employment will flourish, at last getting our people back to work and ending the waste and injustice of having more than 4 million people in a hidden army of the unemployed concealed by Labour’s statistical fiddles. We further believe that British industry, commerce, land and other economic and natural assets belong in the final analysis to the British nation and people. To that end we will restore our economy and land to British ownership. We also call for preference in the job market to be given to native Britons. We will take active steps to break up the socially, economically and politically damaging monopolies now being established by the supermarket giants. Finally we will seek to give British workers a stake in the success and prosperity of the enterprises whose profits their labour creates by encouraging worker shareholder and co-operative schemes
EDUCATION - discipline, standards, achievement!
We are against the ‘trendy’ teaching methods that have made Britain one of the most poorly educated nations in Europe. We will end the practice of politically correct indoctrination in all its guises and we will restore discipline in the classroom, give authority back to teachers and put far greater emphasis on training young people in the industrial and technological skills necessary in the modern world. We will also seek to instill in our young people knowledge of and pride in the history, cultures and heritage of the native peoples of Britain.
AGRICULTURE - quality before quantity!
We see a strong, healthy agriculture sector as vital to the country. Britain’s farming industry will be encouraged to produce a much greater part of the nation’s need in food products. Priority will be switched from quantity to quality, as we move from competing in a global economy to maximum self-sufficiency for Britain. We will ensure a major shift to healthier and more sustainable organic farming. We are pledged to ensure the restoration of Britain’s once great fishing industry with the reimposition of the former exclusion zones around our coast.
HEALTH - first-class healthcare for all!
We are wholly committed to a free, fully funded National Health Service for all British citizens. We will revitalise the Health Service by boosting staff and bed numbers, slashing unnecessary bureaucracy and by addressing the root cause of low recruitment and retention - low pay. We will see to it that no money is given in foreign aid while our own hospitals are short of beds and the staff to run them. More emphasis must be placed on healthy living with greater understanding of sickness prevention through physical exercise, a healthier environment and improved diets.
TRANSPORT - time to invest!
Increased investment is needed in Britain’s public transport system to bring it up to the highest standards in the world. The fiasco of rail privatisation with different companies running services and track leading to higher fares and lower safety also needs to be resolved. Congestion of our towns and cities must be eased by the provision of greater incentives to use rail and bus transport instead of private cars. The first step is to end the crime and squalor that puts so many people off public transport. Motorists must not be made the scapegoats for government failure. Fuel tax should be cut, motorway speed limits raised, and hidden speed cameras should be banned. Far more must be done to encourage the development and use of cleaner fuels.
ENVIRONMENT - a cleaner, greener future!
Our ideal for Britain is that of a clean, beautiful country, free of pollution in all its forms. We will enforce standards to curb those practices, whether by business or the individual, which cause environmental damage. “The polluter pays to clean up the mess” must become a fact of life, not an electioneering slogan. In towns we would work to replace the brutalist modernism of 1960s-style-architecture with a blend of traditional local styles and materials and ensure that developments take place on a more human scale.
FOREIGN AID - time to spend our money on our own people!
We reject the idea that Britain must forever be obliged to subsidise the incompetence and corruption of Third World states by supplying them with financial aid. We will link foreign aid with our voluntary resettlement policy, whereby those nations taking significant numbers of people back to their homelands will need cash to help absorb those returning. The billions of pounds saved every year by this policy will also be reallocated to vital services in Britain.
PENSIONERS - pensioners before asylum seekers!
The conditions in which many of Britain’s old people are forced to live are a national disgrace. We are pledged to ensure that all our old folk are able to live in comfortable homes, and will restore the earnings link with pensions. Elderly people who have paid a lifetime of taxes and reared families should not have to sell their homes to pay for care.
NORTHERN IRELAND - an end to sectarianism!
Britain has shamefully allowed the terrorists in N.I. to come close to winning when the IRA could have been destroyed years ago. Government weakness has led to hundreds of deaths and given those same terrorists a share in government. We would end all attempts to force the people of Northern Ireland to accept foreign interference in their affairs and deal with terrorism - from whatever side - once and for all. No one with links to a terrorist organisation that refuses to lay down its arms should be allowed to enter government. We would abolish state-supported segregation in education. In the long run, we wish to end the conflict in Ireland by welcoming Eire as well as Ulster as equal partners in a federation of the nations of the British Isles.
DEFENCE - no more cuts!
Successive cuts in defence spending have left Britain’s armed forces perilously weak. We will boost Britain’s armed forces to ensure that they are able to deal with any emergency, and defend our homeland and our independence. We will bring our troops back from Germany and withdraw from NATO, since recent political developments make both commitments obsolete. We will close all foreign military bases on British soil, and refuse to risk British lives in meddling ‘peace-keeping’ missions in parts of the world where no British interests are at stake - a position of armed neutrality. We will also restore national service for our young with the option of civil or military service.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS - Britain’s interests first!
Britain’s foreign relations should be determined by the protection of our own national interest and not by our like or dislike of other nations’ internal politics. We would have no quarrel with any nation that does not threaten British interests. We will maintain an independent foreign policy of our own, and not a spineless subservience to the USA, the ‘international community’, or any other country.
DEMOCRACY - letting the people decide!
The British people invented modern Parliamentary democracy. Yet in recent years the British people have been denied their democratic rights. On issue after issue, the views of the majority of British people have been ignored and overridden by a Politically Correct ‘elite’ which thinks it knows best. On immigration, on Capital Punishment, on the surrender of British sovereignty to the EU and in numerous other areas, democracy has been absent as Labour, Tories and Lib-Dems conspire in election after election to offer the British people no real choice on such vital issues. The BNP exists to give the British people, that choice, and thus to restore and defend the basic democratic rights we have all been denied. We favour more democracy, not less, not just at national but at regional and local level.
Power should be devolved to the lowest level possible so that local communities can make decisions which affect them. We will remove legal curbs on freedom of speech imposed by successive Governments over the last 40 years. We will implement a Bill of Rights guaranteeing fundamental freedoms to the British people. We will ensure that ordinary British people have real democratic power over their own lives and that Government, local and national, is truly accountable to the people who elect it.
Great News! Made my day, thanks for the ping.
“Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party are to take four of the 25 Dutch seats in the European assembly as right-wing and fringe parties were set to gain all over Europe.”
AND TORIES WIN BIG IN UK!
I’ve been praying for this, what took them so long?
“...and hidden speed cameras should be banned.”
Good enough for my vote...even though a bit schizoid on other stuff.
In related news, the Tories gained over 200 seats in Parliament. Great Britain is heading in the same direction.
Heah heah! Sod those bleedin' Yank Bah-studs!
had I a vote, I would absolutely support Geert
And isn’t the CDA center-right?
I think Wilders’ party got more seats than the Socialist party did.
If you were a conservative Brit, would YOU want to follow Obama's lead?
A Dutch MP banned from Britain for his anti-Islamic views has won more than 15 per cent of the vote in Holland's European Parliament elections, exit polls have shown.The miserable cur who wrote this used the terms "right-wing" and "fringe", and should be fired and blackballed. The UK election should be fun to watch. :'D
Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party are to take four of the 25 Dutch seats in the European assembly as right-wing and fringe parties were set to gain all over Europe.
The results are giving credence to the theory that the economic downturn, cynicism over the union's eastward expansion and worries about relations between Muslims and non-Muslims are fuelling a voter backlash against mainstream politicians.
Wilders was barred from entering Britain by former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in February after it emerged he planned to show a short film he had made linking the Koran to terrorism.
HAIL NO! But I think that goes without saying.
Kind of funny though, as it seems to be a total echoing of America's attitude towards the British, back around 1776.
I’m not going to be too desirous of emulating them while they still are subject to weapons bans.
Yeah, I know. I typed that before thinking too hard.
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