Posted on 07/09/2010 5:51:40 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn
Dutch Queen Beatrix does not like Member of Parliament Geert Wilders, the winner of the recent elections in the Netherlands; she is attempting to prevent the formation of a right-wing coalition that includes him.
On June 9, 2010, the Liberal VVD became the largest party in the Netherlands. It won 31 of the 150 seats in the Dutch House of Representatives, compared to 22 in the 2006 general election. The largest winner of the election, however, was the PVV, the Freedom Party of Geert Wilders, which won 24 seats, compared to only 9 in 2006. The parties of the resigning center-left coalition of Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende suffered considerable losses. Mr. Balkenende’s own Christian-Democrat CDA fell to 21 seats from 41; the Labor Party fell to 30 seats from 33; and the Christian Union (CU) fell to 5 seats from 6.
Theoretically, the electorate’s major swing to the right allows VVD-leader Mark Rutte to form a government with Mr. Wilders’ PVV and the Christian-Democrats. This coalition would have 76 of the 150 seats and could count on the support of the small right-wing Protestant party SGP (2 seats) and perhaps even the CU (5 seats). Such a VVD-PVV-CDA coalition is that preferred by Mr. Rutte and also by the Dutch electorate.
By appointing Herman Tjeenk Willink as her informer and representative in the coalition talks, the Queen has made it clear that she wants Labor to be part of the coalition. Before the elections, Labor explicitly stated that it would not form a government with the PVV.
(Excerpt) Read more at hudson-ny.org ...
Queen Beatrix’s husband did have Nazi connections, so it’s not out of order to bring it up.
No, it’s not acceptable to toss “Nazi” around as your first post on a subject. It completely degrades the discussion to an unacceptable level.
She apparently does not have enough bees and the new worker bee does not plan to feed her.
IMO, there were Dutch people, quislings who made their nest with the occupation German troops, but that was also rampant throughout Europe, especially the French. But nobody ever points at them anymore.
We should indeed leave the past in the past. We have the new Nazis to deal with today, but they call themselves progressives now. The word meanings have been intentionally changed over time, but the goals and methods are still there. Fascism is still fascism, no matter the lipstick color.
If you’re referring to Europe during WWII, it’s hard to avoid. Why does it matter if it’s your first post or your 10,000? Is there some kind of rule about this?
This is a thread about election results this week.
Not about WW2.
See Dutch News:
Thursday 17 June 2010The CDA made a ploy where the other two parties (VVD and Wilders' PVV) had to first lay on the table what compromises they would make with each other before CDA would even come to the table. This was a ploy to stall for time, and to screw VVD and PVV by having them make compromises that would necessarily alienate some of their core, and then CDA would pull the rug out from under them.Talks on forming a right-wing government between the VVD Liberals, anti-Islam PVV and Christian Democrats stranded on Thursday morning, sending negotiator Uri Rosenthal back to queen Beatrix to discuss what to do next.
'My conclusion is that a cabinet with a parliamentary majority made up of the VVD, PVV and CDA is not possible,' Rosenthal told reporters on Thursday afternoon.
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There is also strong opposition within the CDA to joining a coalition with the PVV because of its anti-Islam stance. A number of prominent party members threatened to quit if the CDA joined a government which included Wilders.
“Considering how readily the Dutch collaborated with the Nazis genocidal policies”
Source ?
If the roots of what occurred are in WWII or even in The Hundred Years’ War, why not mention it?
You are being dense. Making a modern event into something related to WW2 to to justify using a tired and unimaginative “Nazi” metaphor/insult drags down the level of the discussion.
The current elections do not have roots in WW2.
The current thread is not about WW2.
You have tried. You have failed to make this into a WW2 thread in order to justify an out of control rant by another poster.
Give it up.
Me, I blame Martin Luther and his merry band of apostate heretics. But then that is just me.
Thank you
The CDA illustrate the old saying "If voting could really change anything, it would be illegal too".
Socialists haven't changed anything other than their image.
instead of being nationalist they are worldly. Instead of hating groups they pity groups and so on.
My point:
Personally I love to point out who the socialists really are as much as possible.
In other words, I don't agree with your statement that bringing up old history is irrelevant to this discussion or most discussions, Because the socialists haven't gone away.
The Dutch resistance was stronger then the French resistance(mostly made up of Communist which was a very small minority) but nothing held a candle to the Serbian resistance.
So if the Serbian resistance is the bench mark the Dutch were at least complacent with the NAZI's in general.
This is not a thread about Serbian resistance in WW2. What you are doing is called thread-jacking.
This is a thread about modern-era elections. Stay on topic.
Lighten up. We are here to discuss a great deal of ideas.
If the thread was busy I would take it someplace else out of respect for others.
Nebuchadnezzar.
Th' bastard is the root of all of this.
Yep!
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