Thanks for the post, Red.
What Wilders is asking isn’t much. Basically, tightening rules for asylum-seekers.
People granted asylum status are put on welfare and do not have to assimilate (e.g., learn the national language and get a job). Perhaps, in an emergency, a small number of persons displaced by war or natural disaster might be accommodated as asylum-seekers. But, asylum-seekers have become permanent and a big business (e.g., for the Catholic Church in this country).
As for another snap election: the upstart parties of the prior election (BBB and NSC) have fallen to trivial status in the polls. The CDA (traditional partners of the center-right VVD) have revived. And, the Forum for Democracy and J21 have continued to grow.
(Sorry for the shorthand. The Netherlands has many parties that gain representation in its parliament.)
Bottom line: the right of center parties continue to have something a two-thirds majority among them, although the specifics have changed. And, among the populists, conservatives, market-oriented liberals, libertarians and others of our coalition, there’s plenty of room for disagreement. Wilders should be willing to bargain with the members of the ruling coalition to avoid a snap election.
The big winner of a snap election would be the VVD + CDA faction. Those two parties could form or come close to forming a majority coalition with Wilders’ Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) or with a combination of small center and right of center parties.
The big losers would be BBB and NSC, whose time looks to have come and gone.
It appears to me that people all over the globe are tired of Liberalism’s false promises and want to return to traditional conservative values.
Lazy ass welfare leeches had better get their butts off the couch and put down the video game controllers and get a job!..................